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| − | ;So will I be able to recruit NPCs to fight another's NPCs?
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| − | :A player will be able to form a [[Noble Houses|Noble House]]. Each Noble House will have both a guild stone in UO as well as a team of players in the web-based RPCSS. Orders to your house armies are given in RPCSS, but the armies show up in game as mobs. You can direct your armies to engage other house armies. RPCSS, using "board game" logic will determine who the winner is of each encounter. Controlling an area (a map hex) will give the noble house (aka guild leader) certain powers over that area.
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| − | ;Does each "House" Have a unique set of NPC's they can recruit.
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| − | :When we go live, everyone will have access to the same set of "basic humanoid infantry and knights". However, we have a number of plans for later release that will let you "skin" the mobs with other UO Graphics, as well as "dress up" your guards with custom livery. Please note that we are talking about '''appearance''', not game mechanics. All armies have equal game mechanics, it is the guild leaders tactics and allies that will win or loose encounters.
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| − | ;What resources will I need to build an army, and with those resources can I effectively have a larger army.
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| − | :Noble Houses can have a ranking of 1 to 10. Gaining rank is a function of gold and land. As you gain more land, you get more taxes, as you get more taxes you can upgrade your level and recruit a larger army. We hope to implement other types of in game resources, such as food, ore and artifacts that will allow you to "buff" up your forces in one way or another. Details not available until we see some in game play.
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| − | ;How will you effectively stop a player who has been playing a while, from just wiping out newer players?
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| − | :We won't. The responsibility is on the new player to establish role-play relationships with existing players who are motivated to gain and protect new noble houses. This game requires allies, not just for new house, but for existing houses. When we play tested this last year it worked out like this just as we had hoped. Remember the goal is to generate role-play interaction, not build a sim game -- you can get that on a dozen world builder browser games.
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| − | ;Will ig (character uo) actions like resource gathering have any effect on the GOT overarching game or is it entirely separate as in the resources associated with the GOT aspect will only be acquired by occupation of map areas?
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| − | :This was asked early, by you in fact Virgle. I brought it to my husband and we have an idea that we think will work, feel effective and yet not unbalance the play. The idea revolves around players completing BODs, which we are lucky enough to already have as a bulk order craft system. Kingdoms will be able to release requests for BODs, that are separate for each kingdom. As crafters complete BODs points will be awarded to each Noble House in that Kingdom. These points will impact initiative at the beginning of each weekly turn. Initiative is a crucial element of the game play.
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| − | ;Will there be in game resource nodes that can be claimed, controlled and defended?
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| − | :Yes, that is a goal of this system, but how that will be actually implemented has not yet been designed. Keep an eye out on the forum RPCSS board for new designs as we work them out.
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| − | <I>One thing to keep in mind for you while brain storming ... we have to be realistic about the potential size of the player base, and how many people will want to lead their own house. It could go either way. Lets say we have 5 houses, one per each kingdom, and thus 5 leaders, and everyone else is happy playing being "in the guild". If we get that structure we can implement more "TIMELY in game" connections between game and RPCSS.
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| − | However, if we get 30 players all wanting their own noble house, then there won't be a huge resource for those leaders to rely on players to "do things". If we have to much dependant on players one of two things happen. Large power broker cliques form and one or two houses dominate and no one can break in, or two, players get really sick and tired of running mules day after day or week after week.
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| − | Finding that sweet spot between involving players in the minutia of the process, and keeping that stuff in the hands of NPCS that characters DIRECT is going to be important.
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| − | ;In an example, relevant to this cautionary point, was players running mule trains or interrupting supply lines.
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| − | :With out further play testing, I would say something like ... Team A, plan an event to run supplies, do that as a RP event, have a great time running it as an event, and I as a staffer will give your team a bonus for creating in game role-play scenarios. Because we couldn't script that in the other alpha test, we did it this way, and it worked out really well and generate a ton of RP</I>
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