A few Suggestions for Play

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So, I get really into things...and I was hoping to offer some suggestions which may suck or be ok or be awesome, so here it goes because I'm insanely bored and looking forward to this community!

Lurking around the forum, it seems like the Battle/War side has been well thought out, but I was wondering if there were any other plans to upgrade other aspects of the Westeros life. So, I compiled a few suggestions, as an outsider and hopefully new player, about a few things I'd like to see/hope to be able to do and be a part of if it were deemed worthy by the populous.

Going to make a few posts by concept, I think. So I'll start here.

Economy

Right now the economy is really straight forward, and it's pretty capped. You can have a port, a mine, then castles, and whatever you take over. There doesn't seem to be much skill economically to growing your funds. It all goes back to war. But what about the Free City Spice Lords?

Was thinking if possible, the economy aspect of the game could be vamped up in a few ways.
Units for purchase:
What if you could purchase merchant type units/buildings
Units:

• Merchant Crew (9 Sailors, 1 Captain): 250 Dragons/week, must be paid even if not active.
  
• Merchant Brig: 1,000 Dragons
  
• Must be manned by a merchant crew, must be on a "Trade Route."
  
• Every pay period provides 1,500 Dragons
  
• Vendors (3 Vendors): 100 dragons/week even if inactive
  

Buildings:

• Marketplace: 5,000 Dragons
  
• Must employee at least 3 vendors
  
• Provides 750 Dragons per week per Vendor Employed
  
• Bank: 1,000 Dragons
  
• Allows you to loan or take loans from other players at a set interest rate.
  
• Store Dragons in bank. Can only receive Dragons by withdrawing from the bank (ie: must travel to the bank and risk losing your Dragons traveling wherever you go)
  
• Farms, Fishing Boats -- Same as mines
  
• Shoppes( Tailors, Ironmongers, Apothecaries, etc.): 3,000 Dragons
  
• Rent/Tax: 0-100% of Incomes as determined by the land owner
  
• May only be built if a Marketplace exists
  
• Must be run by a PC character
  (give some kind of benefit to owning a shoppe. either can sell certain goods or maybe get an income based on a determined population or activity in that location? So, opening a shoppe in Kingslanding is desirable with the amount of traffic, but also would have the most competition. Income split between competition through some formula.
  

Maybe each region can actually produce certain types of goods you need to trade with other people in order to produce buildings and units instead of just being able to collect dragons and buy things every week.

Example, the north has woods, so they can produce lumber to trade with the south for wins and foods and such. Maybe there are requirements to being able to sustain large armies like food stores? Iron for weapon depreciation. Wood for ships. etc. I know it's a complicated idea, but just hoping to spark something from everyone else. I think adding another strategic element to play can definitely make the role play and relationships more interesting.

Also, all the buildings above should be conquerable. You take a region, you can assign the buildings how you like to whomever you like and they would receive the incomes.

Trade Routes:
Trade route is a route between one port and another. Two player run ports can agree openly to be in trade with each other. Each player must have an active Merchant Brig on the trade route. The trade route, in addition to Merchant Brig Incomes, generates an additional 2,000 Dragons per week for the port.

Restrictions on Trade Routes:
Players who are "At War" may not trade with one another
Trade Routes whose ports are "blockaded" may not collect incomes until the port is freed from blockade
Merchant Galleys may be attacked by player controlled naval forces, in the event they are, it is considered an act of war against that house

Anyway, these are just ideas. Feel free to ignore, shred, or make better! Hope someone likes something.

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Minor "Map" suggestions:

Would it be possible to keep a current "Location Map" where every player's whereabouts are located/where they have stationed troops? I'm a little torn on this myself, but I think thematically, each house would have their spies and such to figure out if they were able to march on a location anyway. I just think it would make things easier for everyone. Especially when it comes to troop movement/plot line character movements. I think I saw a thread kind of like this, though wasn't updated. I'd be willing to take responsibility if something like this were requested.

Also, since we are pretty different from the book, could we make a "Political Map?" Something to show the alliances, warring, and neutral houses and freemen? Same with mercenaries if they are hired? It's all OOC info that I think could make the game much more in-depth especially for a new player who may not immediately know where to hunt down all the up-to-date info that is spread across the forum, and a quick handy cheat-sheet for everyone on the go to get caught up if they MIA for a bit. Idk just a suggestion.

[Tobias Snow]

I actually do like some of the ideas here. Take Toby for example he really isn't a soldier he is an metal worker. He can make weapons and armor better than he can kill a person. And the map idea i think is great also as it gives an idea of where everyone is and what is happening without needing to ask everyone or dig through each and every thread on the site. That is just me though.

[Torin Lannister]

There's some genuinely very interesting idea's here. Some of which are idea's I've wanted to bring in for some time, but with our story being set during 'The War of Five Kings' staff felt it was more appropriate to lean our current system in that direction.

The issue with implementing a lot of this would simply be, who's going to moderate it all? Staff are doing as much as we can right now so we'd need to take on extra people to assist in moderating it all.

While the obvious solution would be to take on more staff, most members aren't super active, which is fine for being casual members (this is a hobby after all, not a second job). If you look at the top ten accounts by post, 8 are staff characters are the other 2 belong to the same member. If member's increased activity we'd know they are around reliably and can commit to assisting the site in a staff role. Once we had additional staff we could implement some of these idea's.