Questions about the new Metafactions
-
As I understand it, the metafaction has 2 levels
DM Factions
and
"The Help"The Help is application-less, and easy to join. It will come with some VERY minor perks, or none at all, and that is it. The Help is a stepping stone to greater things. I believe The Help is going to replace all mini-factions and watch deputies, but thats up for IC to sort out.
Basically, a means to get people who aren't in the faction involved without each faction making its own sub faction which just further divides everything when we have a small player base to start with.
-
A joint forum for the metafaction (Council of Houses) will be of great use to consolidate efforts.
-
Four from Cormyr!
(Deschurr, Marlirr, Wyvernspur, Maleen)
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Four_from_Cormyr -
A joint forum for the metafaction (Council of Houses) will be of great use to consolidate efforts.
I would say that is a terrible idea.
In the past, there were close-allied factions that had IG meetings and such. It promotes IG play as opposed to forum-play, and also allows the possibility of spying. -
Not everyone can be online the same time for a meeting, a forum makes life a little simpler. We'll probably set that up.
-
I feel that the joint meta faction forum would be better than the individual forums, since the factions are all fairly small anyway.
-
I feel like this could be a good idea; I'm not at all opposed to having a place to 'idle' with a mercenary character, soaking up the news and making him useful and interesting to the factions he would hope to get some stable work out of, not having to 'hunt around' for retainer somesuch whenever he wants to get a foot in with a noble house etc.
Metafactions/overfactions generally sound like a good idea, reformatting the old PC faction lines a bit without completely scrapping their individuality. And, of course, some noble houses might end up migrating between metafactions if the plot warrants such a move, I'd wager?
-
We need a second metafaction nods nods
-
I don't mean to sound negative or bitter but this means a large number of players will share a forum while the rest of the server is "left out" of all that shared plotting and recruiting.
The Houses, spies for Cormyr, potential recruits etc could number into half the server in the same forum eventually…
How will this encourage unique, oddball and non-House and non-human concepts?
-
Give us time Khamal, there will be more Metafactions but we can't unleash all three at once.
-
How much time?
Looking forward to a new faction a.s.p. please. -
When we have time and get people use to the idea of these things.
-
I could definitely get used to a "Custodians/Pilgrims/NoWhere" type meta faction :)
Or a "Druid/Nature/Malarite" one. A "Thayan/Merchant/Foreigner" type even better.
-
@Khamal:
I don't mean to sound negative or bitter but this means a large number of players will share a forum while the rest of the server is "left out" of all that shared plotting and recruiting.
The Houses, spies for Cormyr, potential recruits etc could number into half the server in the same forum eventually…
How will this encourage unique, oddball and non-House and non-human concepts?One of the reasons I mentioned a metafaction forum is not so good. Perhaps include the actual retainers and wyrmguard if you want, but don't include the "unofficial ones". or have a forum for the unofficial ones also, that only includes a single liason from each subFaction.
Seperating out the Official Cormyrites from the UnOfficial Cormyrites also makes it easier to keep sensitive information away from the UnOfficials.
to list out what I mena, so theres nmo misundersting:
House Marlirr
House Wyvernspur
House Maleen
Wyrmguard
Official COrmyrians - includes all retainers, all wymrguard
Cormyrian Wannabees - includes accepted wannbes, and one liasion from each house and wymguardWe are talking ONE extra forum - instead of "Cormyrians" we have "offical COrmyrians" and "Wannabees".
It allows the official ones to have a place to discuss what they want to do with the unofficial ones in private.
A place to keep sesitive information they dont want unofficial ones to see.
Reports from Spies that other Unofficials shoudlnt see, because their might be spies.
And, as mentioned earlier, If it -Was- just one forum, for all houses/guard/wannabes then there will be a tendency for all information to just be dumped in there, and we'd have half the server gaining access to everything. -
I disagree completely with games.
Anything that promotes communication with a large number of people and includes them in more plots is good. But the Wyrmguard isn't going to be a part of this meta faction afaik.
I know that isn't what the retainers think or want at least
-
if it is ONLY for the Houses, not the Wyrmguard, then it's fine. My concern was Houses+Wyrmguard+HouseWannabes+WyrmguardWannabes would be far too large a sub-set of the active characters. Houses+HouseWannabes should be okay though.
-
Im looking forward to seeing how the idea works and introducing more later on.
Ive only played with the traditional faction model some years ago
-
I made a visual to help people understand this, as some are really struggling to grasp the idea. So maybe a different way of trying to communicate it.
-
Isn't Wyrmguard a part of that metafaction?
-
nope