Why should I siege other metropolis?

(Edit: I have added some other motivates what I find among the comments.)
The siege mechanism sounds great. Prepare for the siege, participate in a battle with hundreds of people.
But what will motives people to start a siege. The only thing I found yet is that it is fun. Actually there are other one as well, but this is not what I support: jealousy. So ruin someone's work just because they can.
Motivates:
-fun
-hatred
-steal/loot for warmongers (edited)
-individually started siege to delevel the parent note to make our node as leader (edited)
-open content (edited)
Demotivates:
-there are no factions what dedicates the enemy, in default everybody is friendly
-cost much resources
-there are enough space for everybody. The world will be about 480 km2. A metropolis size is about 0,2 km2. (0,25km radius) If a node has total ZOI is 100 times greater than itself it is still 20km2. If we calculate with the radius and we multiply it with 20. In this case it is still 78,5km2. In one server there can be only 4-5 metropolis. If we calculate with 5 we still have 80km2 what is free from the metropolises.
-you are free to relocate to another metropolis, if you need what can be find only there, you can go there or became citizen there
-in one metropolis there can be multiple guilds
-form the above, you win nothing from the siege.

At the beginning of a server, there can be rival developing nodes, close to each other, but if they are too close to each other, the automatic vassal system block you to siege your parent node. So we can talk about war regarding the nodes what are medium range from each other, but not so later everybody will see who is more powerful and they can start a new home a little farther from them and peace and prosperity. Probably after a lost siege. So we can talk about a few siege in a whole server.

What are your thoughts? What did I miss?

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bloodprophet

Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Alfred

georgeblack

My friend, a node it's nobodies work that is ruined.
It's a game and a team game at that.
If a guild (team) wants to persue their own interests and war is one of them they will go and destroy some other team.

Azathoth

I would want to Siege a metropolis for a variety of reasons:

1) Someone in that node royally pissed me off. I am the type that would be willing to burn the world to get back at a single individual.

2) They continually prevent my node from getting anywhere. This could be do to the type of node attracting more players, a node that benefits from more random resource spawns, a node that has a guild house I don't like, or a node that has a religion opposed to mine,

3) Because I am not a fan of the architecture in that node (racial). Not that there is an in game mechanic that says are two species/races/whatever naturally don't get along. Just that I might particularly not like their aesthetics.

4) The Loot. Yeah, it might cost resources to siege them, but they might have a relic I really want for my node. Or maybe I just don't want that particular node to have it related to reasons 1-3.

5) Because a buddy asked me to and I am on a bender.

6) For no reason at all besides I walked close enough by and thought for a split second. Let's siege this mother...

But, I play for role play more than anything and I love playing emotionally irrational characters.

EvoW

ghoosty wrote: »

nagash wrote: »

to kill everyone in the city and then raise them as a new army of the undead? or is that just me

Actually, I vote that you should be lead an event where an ancient necromancer is raised and he will siege the city. If he won the city will be an undead land, until some brave adventurers kills the necromancer.

That would be so cool!

Makinoji

pro= time online spent not around real people
con= time online listening to mouth breathers claiming to have the best strategy

Nagash

EvoW wrote: »

ghoosty wrote: »

nagash wrote: »

to kill everyone in the city and then raise them as a new army of the undead? or is that just me

Actually, I vote that you should be lead an event where an ancient necromancer is raised and he will siege the city. If he won the city will be an undead land, until some brave adventurers kills the necromancer.

That would be so cool!

no, no it would not

Undead lives matter!

Gimlog

I m pretty sure that some server will after time see big group of powerful players starting a content run ...
Because content is unlock once a node is metro, they will need to evolve every node to metro to get access to all the content of the game ...So lots of siege will happen for sure

(I m hoping it never happens on my server but I fill sad for the developers who work hard for content that may never be unlock ...)

And it make me thing of something more depressing... It's very likely that new content from update will rework all the map.

So let say I have a mansion and the update make my node uninteresting, I'm going to lose everything I work hard for during month no ?

Tell me if I lost my self some where

GregoryRumm

Your comment about no factions is an interesting point. I think a good countermeasure would be a citizenship of some kind which you can pledge to a certain region. I actually thought I read somewhere quite a while ago something about this, though I could be wrong or thinking of another game.

akabear

I think they are expanding on the Lineage 2 model of ownership and bringing more scope and benefits to the owning party.

Makinoji

FAT LOOTS!!!!!!

Damokles

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BATH IN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS!

Nagash

Damokles wrote: »

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BATH IN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS!

see if I was uncivilised I would say BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!!! but im im not that type of person

Damokles

Nagash wrote: »

Damokles wrote: »

BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BATH IN THE BLOOD OF INNOCENTS!

see if I was uncivilised I would say BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!!! but im im not that type of person

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

Ravudha

Why siege? Maybe you just put down a deposit for a beautiful freehold and some selfish conglomerate of guilds has the audacity to build an eyesore of a Metropolis that blocks your view of the ocean. It's a legit reason, I swear.

Nagash

I still stand by killing everyone and making a army of the dead and then move on to the next node

Dygz

Gimlog wrote: »

I m pretty sure that some server will after time see big group of powerful players starting a content run ...
Because content is unlock once a node is metro, they will need to evolve every node to metro to get access to all the content of the game ...So lots of siege will happen for sure...

Tell me if I lost my self some where

We would have to advance each node to Metro with reach race being dominant... and also build every building...

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