"Community Realm" Feature is a-go! Pilot starting ASAP

Hail Warriors!

A few days ago, we've asked the player community if you want to be able to design and launch your own realms.

Basically, you will be able to decide on all parameter of the realm (speed, handicap, morale, duration, ages, age of cities, start date, end date, win criteria etc) and everyone will be able to join and play on your realm.

We had a positive response, and we've decided to give this a shot! Implementing this fully, is a significant investment on our end, so we will begin with a pilot program, where we will test the waters a bit. We will begin by allowing you to design the next RXs.

List of options for RXs is much more limited, but we hope it will be a good try!

Unfortunately, we have only 7 realms currently to work with. So only 7 people can build the realm in the first round. So the natural question is, how to decide which 7? Survey certainly hinted there are way more players interested in doing this.

Idea 1: first idea, was to allow you to add your name to the list of interested, and then have player community vote on the people they feel are the best to create a realm. This seems like the best option but was rejected due to complexity and would require development, which defeats the purpose of a pilot

Idea 2: allow you guys to bid on the 7 realms; top 7 bids win. We are afraid this would seem like a many grab, which is not the intention so we rejected this.

Idea 3: allow everyone to bid a small amount of servants, and randomly select 7 players from top bidders.

That last idea is was we decided to go with, as having some monetary skin in the game, will result in only more serious submissions, a very rich player cannot outbid you since there is a max you can bid, and if money is an issue, you can get a group of friends, transfer servants and thus poll resources together. We hope the latter case will naturally allow us to select players with biggest community backing.

We are setting the maximum bid at 300 servants

5 comments:

Unknown said...

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G. said...

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greg said...

Why not just do a list like your first idea. Have the list be 21 players long. Instead of voting who... first come first serve. A player can not add their name again for 72h. With 7 realms to work with and 21 sign up slots. That would give you 3 rounds to see if it worked or was popular.

Unknown said...

the purposed ideas, are these for the RoE community to vote for? And if so where do i view the purposed realm ideas? Or will bala and devs pick from the assorted ideas and share those to the RoE community? Very interested in these custom realm ideas.

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