Discord Lands (EE Only Lands)

Discord Lands

With the introduction of lowland wars we have seen that it is possible to have only a specific set of lands and builds be used in wars. This overall has seen a better turnout than primal war did and has allowed a larger range of players to take part in these wars. The issue that these wars still have is that in order to remain competitive towers are required and honestly low tier towers are not very popular when you are looking for plunder.

My suggestion is that a set of lands will be dedicated purely to a specific set of EE wars. The Discord Wars. In these wars only the buildings built on the Discord Lands. Already I can tell that people will be wanting to know what is so special about these lands over lowland wars.

Why Bother?

The answer is fairly simple. These new lands will allow the majority of players (excluding the newest of players) to take part in EE wars similar to Lowland Wars without having to worry about their war build ruining their plunder and slowing down their progress to becoming build complete. All buildings on the Discord Lands will only be used in Discord Wars. This will mean that no increase in plunder will be present in the game and players won't have to sacrifice their plunder in order to become competitive in wars.

Costs

There needs to be a cost to these lands in order to help remove some of the excess gold from the game however that doesn't mean that they need to be so expensive that you can't possibly afford them. What I propose is that the lands cost a similar amount to the highlands overall in order to remove a large amount of gold from the game but without it being so highly priced that only players who are nearly build complete and up can afford them.

The buildings should be similarly priced to those of tier 4 builds from the lowlands. This allows players to mess around and trial out new builds with some cost but again still reasonably cheap. New buildings could potentially be introduced here, potentially attack strong spy builds or defence heavy spy builds that generate larger plunder. Perhaps new forms of towers could be introduced that perform like towers but increase offensive stats instead of defensive ones.

Future Developments?

As the majority of KAW will have access to these lands this opens up a whole range of ways that wars can be developed. Perhaps introduce an individual prestige system that matches players to clans in an Indi War style way based upon their current rating. This would make wars overall fairer as well as more interesting as you would more often than not be warring players with a similar skill level to you.


To summarize;

• Caters to a larger amount of players
  No plunder gain or loss based on your build outside of war
  Potential for further development in the future with newer game mechanics

 

This wouldn't prevent them from learning how to war. As the prices would be similar to that of the highlands most players who have been playing under a week would only be able to get a land or two in the Discord Lands. This shouldn't be a priority early on as they should work themselves up to a point where they have some income first.

Even with a land of two they would be able to take part in the wars although they would be at a disadvantage unless the prestige system was brought into place in which case after a couple losses they would be placed in a tier where similar sized builds are present with people also lacking in war experience.

This is why I suggested that the buildings are cheap to buy although personally I would love to see them made completely free in order for players to test around with builds first. Free buildings however lands that cost gold sounds like a nice trade off to me honestly.

 

Having some sort of cost is needed to prevent abuse from statless alts. Also it helps serve as a small gold sink which is needed right now.

 

The thing is the same thing was said when Lowland wars were introduced. The same argument is true that people can get a decent war build for Lowland wars whereas the BC tanks get screwed over. The funny thing is it's these people who complain when they war with people who have "awful builds" or "leaky builds". This way they get to enjoy proving they are great warrers and it's not just their build winning them the war.

Their tank build would still be useful for PvP as well as Indi wars. Also Think about it this way. How many BC tanks complained that they use their lowlands as a way to make them hybrid? Quite a lot honestly. With these lands those your build won't be changed at all.

There needs to be a cost even if it's a small cost in order to remove some gold from the game. Sure one or two trillion doesn't seem like a lot for one person. If you multiply that out by a few thousand players it starts to add up. The costs can be adjusted and could also change based on your size in a similar way that mith does if the devs wanted to add it. They could make the Discord Lands cost mith as well as gold in order to make mith more useful.