Final mod poll

[_Tristan_]

Voted DLV if only for the "character age limit" reason... I think it will had some "piquant" to some situations and will prevent us from meta-gaming, by estimating the probable deaths of the principal characters... And it leaves a Damocles' swords over the heads of all avatars that want to make something of their lives...

[Zim]

New posts in the prior mod poll thread that perhaps were meant to be posted here.

In looking over DLV, the economics are such that it would be very important to have some uber-governors to keep the cash flow going in the right direction early on. Is there a feeling that there are players who would be comfortable playing out those roles? Considering how we got into that downward cash spiral in LOTR at the end, it seems just as easy to do the same thing if not easier with DLV. Is this something that will be an issue, especially with the lack of collective experience with the mod?

In all fairness, the crash at the end of LotR was more or less on purpose, but it does seem we would need governors. I for one would not mind playing one, but I suspect I'm in the minority.

[mini]

if using DLV, maybe we can work with the governor/general thing in the rules set?

For instance: Dukes are best to be governors, governing their capital city.
They then attrack other governors to their house, which they make counts to govern other cities in their territory.
They can also attrack other players which are generals, who can do the fighting for them, and whom they can make counts of castles in their territories...

Something like that, just brainstorming. if we use that piece of gameplay, we must consider incentives for choosing either path for any player who stands before the choice.

[Cecil XIX]

The issue of needing to have govenors will only exist if we choose it. It stems from three features:

1. Settlements cost an extra amount of money each turn, larger settlements cost more.
2. Generals and agents cost various amounts of money each turn they are outside a friendly settlement. (Every time we besiege a settlement it could cost us 2000 extra florins a turn!)
3. Govenors allow the build up of govenor-points, which are necessary in order to build the buildings necessary to upgrade cities.

Each of these three features can be deactivated at the start of the campaign. I would, in fact, reccomend doing so, especially with the second feature I outlined. These features work great when it's just one person playing a campaign, but a ampaign played by several people simulataneously has different recquirements. The best to play DLV normally would be too restrictive for a WOTS-style campaign.

Fortunately the game allows us to customize how much of the script we want to run. Even apart from that, I am quite confident I can edit the traist and ancillaries files in order to eliminate other features we decide to exclude, such as the civil war system. I am confident this will make DLV the mod with the best net contribution to LOTR's successor.

[Zim]

Seeing how close this was when the poll was closed after two days, I sent a pm to a mod to see if they're able to reopen it. If not maybe people who haven't gotten a chance to vote could pm me their choices? Or pm them to a mod who could send them on to me so it would remain anonymous?