If I have a guild then we all just march across each other’s builds for footfall. It is no real measure of player interest in the build it is just who you know.
Edit: to be honest I am not happy with prestige being used by the game the way it is, but until a very comprehensive and probably programming significant solution is found, it is what it is.
Oh you mean to determine viceroy? I presume you typoed then and meant visitors to determine viceroy?
If so you have a good point. Still though, harder to “cheat” than prestige. And it could be unique visitors per month, perhaps - harder to abuse.
Can the spaces in a settlement be filled with an alts or friends plots or do they have to all be filled by on player?
I think this is the bigger issue, We need to be able to out out of a forced merges first, they will become more common because of this change.
I don’t feel prestige should be removed personally. I think for those that like it - they should have it. What I feel is a better option is to remove it from the linking to footfall and city size, mayor, viceroy, etc. Basically make it only a ranking metric for a leaderboard that has no value beyond the ranking. If it has some other value that is fine as long as it isn’t designed in a way to adds conflict or creates scenarios that we see now.
Footfall should be a flat rate per person per day - that is it. Or fix the economy and provide other coin options. We cannot continue to keep this game going in ways that hurt it just because of people refusing to change the sytems.
I like my idea of removing the leaderboard but keeping prestige as-is otherwise.
Yeah this is a good idea, get rid of the stupid capital city which is going to cause issues with players that cant become a capital and the players that absorb everyone else just to become capital…
that would probably get rid of some of the sprawl that happens on all the planets, there would be less reasons to be a planetary road network if you were actually doing it to help people and not just to connect…
yah know in a game with portals… that teleport you faster then running.
Also get rid of the popup. I don’t even like the pop ups at MY OWN city. Much less other people’s. It already says it at the top of the screen. Everyone hates the popup, right? Does anybody like it?
At this point, prestige & footfall should remain in the game. It helps newer players gain some coin and people are used to it.
Removing it won’t solve anything.
If it’s removed, it will feel like another nerf. Enough of the nerfing. We need positive things added.
I’m only calling for removing the leaderboard, not removing footfall. I love footfall! Hehe
@majorvex
Wait, you dont like having to 15 seconds for the pop up to clear after you just exited a portal, when all you wanted to do is see how much fuel was left in that portal?
Thats like my favorite part of the popup on entering a beacon… . (/s no not really)
Yeah the worst part is how it prevents interaction. Other than the OTHER worst part where it makes the community tear itself apart fighting
I know some would like them removed. However, I think it’s fun to see leaderboards - we should have some that pertain to characters too so that more people can get on them:
Top 10 XP gainers
Top 10 Most Meteors
Top 10 Steam Achievement gainers
Top 10 Wildstock Hunters
Top 10 Crafters
Top 10 Defeated
…
This would be accessible via the website or different hotkey…
I’m all for leaderboards. But yes, please make them for fun things that help the community.
I wish the game tracked things like times you swung a hammer, pies eaten etc. I love that screen on GTA.
Maybe every month the game could pick three random leaderboards from a list. And the winner gets a cosmetic prize!
Make it fun! Currently I would argue it does NOT add to fun.
Maybe the Town leaderboards could be moved to a page on their website or wiki?
What was the issue with seeing places leaderboards? Doesn’t that help new players?
We have that on the beacon list itself
lol Yes, I know.
People compete for most prestige and fight.
And the fighting is more negative (for new players and old players too) than the positives of being able to find big cities.
This is a human/society thing. Removing those will not stop this behavior. People will make manual lists somewhere and still compete.
It will be harder to do and less prestigious if it is purely an out-of-game thing. If there are new, fun leaderboards added at the same time, people would care less IMO.