castle choice

[Chris Byler]

Originally posted by apoger:
There is absoutely no reason why all forts should be one type.

I suggest that players should be allowed to purchase as many fort types as they like, using the current system. Add in a selector so you could chosse which will be the capital fort.

When building a fort, let them get a choice from the forms chosen at nation build time. This way if a player wanted more choices, they could get them at the expense of nation points.

For example: If we generating a nation/god I choose fortified city (as capital), wizards tower, and hill fort. This costs 280 nation points (more than enough to balance the advantages). When a character attempts to build a fort, this nation would get the choice of making one of the three forts. That way you could choose between a fast build (WT), best admin (FC) or high defense (HF).

Frankly I've always been surprised that Ilwwinter has stuck with the simplistic one fort theme in such an otherwise complex game.

Interesting suggestion.

I think that "extra" fort types should cost reduced points though. Part of the reason for the point costs of some forts (especially the high gold ones) is that you start with one for free.

Maybe extra forts should cost half+10, half+20, etc. so that everyone doesn't take the 0 point fort in addition to whatever other fort they were taking (and also to impose some cost on too much fort flexibility) - but still charge a reduced point cost for forts that you can build later but don't start with a free one.

Of course, it will still be cheaper in design points to have only one fort type.

This is a really good idea - it would allow Man (for example) to have a fortified city capitol, but also have a more reasonably priced fort to build elsewhere (where admin isn't as much of an issue because they can't get wardens/KoA there anyway).