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The side effect of freeholds being family only in relation to very large guilds is that said guilds would then want more freeholds.
Guilds of 80-100 would probably still be able to get freeholds, but guilds around the 70-80 range would then be mostly locked out, and any smaller would be completely locked out.
Obviously this depends on how many very large guilds you have on your server.
You dont get it.
People wouldnt join zerg guilds because they would get locked out of FH access. Without people zerg guilds weaken. They dont have the same potential of wealthy to big for multiply FHs.
It isn't that "I don't get it", it is more a case of I see freehold access being a requirement for guilds to function if they want to be competitive.
A guild - any guild - would want it's members to have access to a freehold.
Also, imagine you are running a zerg guild. I know it isn't your thing, but just imagine you found yourself in that situation.
In order to survive, your zerg guild needs a constant supply of new recruits. However, you find that you aren't able to get new recruits without being able to provide them access to a freehold. You want the guild to survive.
Keep in mind, even though the numbers are going down, you still have over a thousand players at your disposal - what do you do?
While you and I have differing opinions on many things, I think we would both come to the same conclusion here.
Zerg guilds will need more FHs.
That's all. Gz, you solved a mystery.
Yeah, they will.
And as I am sure you will agree, if that is what they try to get, that is what they will get.
Which was my point - if freeholds are family access only, larger guild will want more freeholds. If larger guilds want more freeholds, there are less freeholds for everyone else.
Is there some part of that you disagree with?
Here read some, because I know you read what you yourself typed (twice I bet) more that what the others wrote in their entirety.
RESULT: zerg-guilds with lower numbers wont' have as much money to bid
RESULT: zerg guilds, since they dont have people to contribute won't be able to successfully steal all the FHs
RESULT: zerg guilds lose members, more and more independent guilds are formed with EX-ZERG GUILDIES.\
RESULT: the family capping of FH permission access weakens zerg-guilds numbers as well are their poket.
You made an obvious statement "zerg guilds will want more FHs" and now you repeatedly tell me to agree to it, then you made a false claim that zerg guilds will steal FHs from some pedantic-for-argument-sake 50-80 guild (just for the sake of being a contrarian), even though I just told you that zerg guilds that lose members also lose money.
I disagree with what you said "zerg guilds that lose members (and money) will manage to steal FHs." I disagree with your whole premise based on that, that FHs being capped at family membership only, doesn't combat zerg guilds. It does. What's your contribution except for "zerg guilds will want (they wont get to...)"
"agree to my obvious statement"? What's your contribution?
I'm not sure what your problem here is, my dude.
You seem to be triggered just because it's me posting.
You seem to think that people can't or won't adjust to the game around them.
I disagree, I think players will.
That seems to be about it.
I agree, they will.
As such, if a large guild is having recruitment issues due to not having enough freeholds for it's members, they will adjust and get more.
More likely though, such guilds will realize right from the start that they will need many freeholds (assuming freeholds are family access only). As such, it is likely that they will work to have many freeholds right from the start.
I'm still not sure which part of that you are disagreeing with.
Look at how much you have typed just to say "Zerg guilds will want more FHs. Agree. Now!" I am not here to agree with you buddy or exchange many words with you.
FHs being capped to family members only, is a boon to proper guilds and a disadvantage to zerg guilds. This is my feedback for the devs.
I don't find value in any of your posts. I am not your audience and I am not " triggered " . I just don't like talking with certain people I see as time-wasters, know-it-alls and contrarians, and I am not hiding the fact; plain and simple.
"They will adjust" means nothing. Hold on to your fallacies. I am here to give solid concepts. Take that bait of yours and you know what to do with it.
Adapting is adjusting - I am not sure why you think adjust is a magic word but adapting isn't.
As I said, you seem to think they will not adapt - you may think they will try, but you are saying they will fail at adapting. Those large guilds realizing that they need more freeholds bot not actually getting them is literally those guilds not adapting.
It's great that your feedback is that you think limiting access for freeholds to 8 people instead of a potential 100 or more would be a good thing. Really, great feedback my dude.
My feedback is that the more people Intrepid allow to access a freehold, the more people will have access to freeholds.
Yes, but a "guild" in a social sense does not need to be contained within a "guild" in the mechanical sense.
All one needs to do is have [guilds 1], [guild 2], [guild 3] etc, and the size of a guild as a social structure is limited only by the population willing to join.
and boring lol
I mean, we could.
The thing is, there are already guilds out there of a few thousand players wanting to play Ashes. Guilds as in plural.
All I am saying is that the guild cap isnt really a cap at all. It does add a slight complication to managing a much larger guild, but that is about it.
Is there a test that would output a numerical scale of aggression, so we could start reporting that like our Bartle scores?
I keep seeing stuff like this and I do believe it will happen. I guess managing a guild broken down into smaller guilds will be FAR more difficult for guild leaders to manage/hold together than one big guild.
There will need to be a guild leader and officers in each guild... they will start to think they are providing more than the other alliance guilds, therefore deserve more, etc. Visibility into the goings on will be more difficult. People get ideas.
I have never been in a MEGA guild before, if you have (or even if you have not), do you agree?
didnt steven imply that crafting will yield adventure xp.
Is that a thing?
Unless IS will make good PvE dungeons and bosses.
Exploration will also yield some Adventurer xp.
how was dance?
The problem you're having is that you seem to be under the impression that for someone to understand you they must agree with you and that just isn't the case. Everyone here understands what you are saying. Not everyone agrees with what you're saying.
Here is the bottom line: If GiantMegaGuild only needs 5 freeholds to run their machine then 5 freeholds are all they're going to put any effort into getting. If MegaGiantGuild needs 20 freeholds to run their machine they will get 20 freeholds.
By allowing GiantMegaGuild to do more with less they will leave more for everyone else.
Your point is that limiting freehold access to "not the whole guild" will severely limit GiantMegaGuild's ability to recruit, but I disagree with that. They will just get more freeholds if it reaches that point.
That said, whether or not family permissions only is a good idea in the context of limiting mega-guilds comes down to how it affects players' decisions. Will it make players less likely to join a mega guild because they may not have full/any access to freeholds? Or will they join anyway for the other benefits a mega-guild provides and the hope that they'll get access or permissions to a freehold eventually?
I personally lean towards the latter. Not everyone even cares to have a freehold in the first place and will be content if the mega guild just equips them with end products and makes them feel like a part of something big. People love being told what to do and winning, so a mega guild with the potential to rule sections of or entire servers with an iron fist will still appeal to the masses who are typically inclined to join them in the first place. I don't think limited access to freeholds will stop it, maybe just reduce their numbers slightly. Predicting behavior is difficult though so who knows?
I think there should be some openings for others outside of guilds/family, but not unconditional(doubt the freehold owners would ever let strangers use their facilities for free anyway). Opening it up unrestrictive would lead to alot more processing materials from master and grandmaster in the market and i'm not sure if that is even in the interest of the owner/guild in the first place.
But if i were a freehold owner and i know none in my guild are to use it that day and i open it up to the public for that day(if i were to open it for the public i would probably only open it those that are citizen in the node) i definitely ain't doing that for free.
Let's say that someone want to use the hideworks and he crafts 100 leather and i receive 3g in exchange of him using that hideworks. if 99 other people do the same that day i would receive 300g that day doing nothing(they would have to use their own fuel for the record). Would i do it? It would be alot of money. But what i'm certain of is everything has a price, including granting access to freehold processing
But regardless what i would do, i too don't like the idea that there isn't a pathway for people outside of the social structures(family or guild) to have access to freeholds for any reason unless they own a freehold themselves, even if it costs them more then it's worth.
Anyway that's my take on this issue.
This keeps freeholds reigned into a family orientation but allows for some engagement with others that come by, most likely others that live in the node. With a limited amount of vouchers per week, it cant be widely used by guild members, but is still there as a limited option.
It could also open up interesting social options like creating tournaments and such where the reward are vouchers to use the freehold.
I bet we will see quite some Cases, where completely normal, casual People own a Freehold. At least for a short while or so.
Simply because of the fact that i don't think everywhere will be huge Hardcore Guilds.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
✓ Guild is " Balderag's Garde " for now. (German)
We know that their are 85 Nodes, each node then has Barony, looks like 6 which would make 510, each Barony can then support multiple Freeholds if its 6 each then that makes 3060 which is consistent with the statement of "low thousands" made by IS. Divided by the expected 50k registered players per Realm and you get a ratio of just 16.33:1. So if 16 players share each Freehold everyone can have some, but I doubt that level of density would be common.
But this ignores the in Node player housing, at 100 instanced apartments per node average (50 minimum but higher on big nodes so average) this is 8,500 so Apartments are 1 per 5.88 players. The Static Houses start at 8 for village but increese in count with node level, lets estimate 16 average which yields 1360 which is 1 per 36.76 players.
Assume 2 occupants per Apartment and 4 per Static House and we have 22,440 players living in Node Housing of some kind, which leaves 27, 560. If each Freehold has 5 residents then 15,300 are living on Freehold and the remaing 12,260 are Homeless. Convert everything to percentages and we have from most elite to lowest
10.8% Static Housing Residents (2.7% Owners, 8.1% Roommates)
30% FreeHold Homesteaders (6% Owners, 24% Roommates)
34% Instance Apartment Dwellers (17% Owners, 17% Roommates)
24.5% Homeless Hoboes
This seems very reasonable to me as a design goal and both Instance Apartments and FreeHold residency would be common. Most organized groups of friends could could secure a Freehold by simply being in the more active third of players, hardly elite. Only actually owning a Freehold might be considered elite as would being a resident or even Owner of static Housing (particularly the top tier static housing).
Lets also look at what type of player wants each type of Housing, Gatherers will want Freehold for proximity too and productio of natural resources and to utilize their Freeholds strong resource processing potential, with trips to Nodes for bulk sale of refined materials and purchases from markets. Crafters of finished goods will likely prefer to utilize the Node houseing options to be closer to the markets they are selling to and might occasionaly visit Freehold to try to directly buy the most desirable materials 'direct from the farm'. Guild leaders and members are likely to gravitate to the Static housing as it is most elite and it puts them in the ideal position to rally themselves for defense of the node in a war. PvE players are most likely to go homeless as they wander broadly in search of new Dungeons, worldbosses, raids and monsters content which is poping up. Some kind of 'Inn' or Tavern is likely to be where they end up as they don't spend more then a week in one location.