"Unlocking Cities"

This would be less of a help to smaller players, but it would be a help.  It's not just rebuilding a lost city that's impacted; if you don't immediately settle cities when you're eligible and happen to get into a war or decide to exodus for whatever reason, your growth will be delayed.  Players of any size who have put in their time and suffered loss as an active participant shouldn't be unnecessarily discouraged by the effort of rebuilding.

Edited by Silverlake - 30 Dec 2011 at 17:14

I understand you are playing devils advocate - guess we all like to start a good debate...

The proposal removes no risk though - seige will still be just as devastating, and players will still stand to lose their buildings, their research, their units, their commanders, their discoveries, any mysteries... essentially MANY things that can take a long long time to build up.

But who is this person that will not benefit?

The game is designed to allow everyone to build up a certain number of cities to a certain level - in the long-term everyone stands to benefit from this level of "city destruction" help when it comes to chosing whether to rebuild or not.

Fact is - the consequence for picking on weaker players is still potentially the complete destruction of a player's account - exactly the same as it was before - all that changes is a player getting a slight leg-up for reconstruction - so that higher-level players can enter into some good PvP combat safe in the knowledge that if they do lose, they WILL lose ALOT, but they WILL NOT be demoted to 100% newb status.

Can you honestly envisage a league of advanced players suddenly deciding to risk farming all the newbies near them because now if someone takes revenge on their with their big buddy, they still lose ALL their construction micromanagement + research + units + commander exp + discoveries... but that is ok because they can place their cities again afterwards more quickly?

Honestly you need to see the bigger picture here Rill - you have ended up taking an extreme view point to stick by your tireless and honorable campaign to wrap new players in cotton wool - a view I believe that can get so extreme it is to the detriment of every other player.

I remember you making some post about asking for new guys to have protection (in the game mechanics) for their caravans in tournament squares... it is the same problem... new players should be helped and encouraged by the wider community - but they should NOT be shielded from the realities of Illyiad, which I believe are some of the elements that make it most fun - implementing the suggestion of yours I mentioned here would again be a wonderful example of putting the requirements of brand new accounts miles above the needs of every other account in Illy.

Please try and remember that Illy is essentially a war game.

I have a mixed feeling about this. It was fun building till my 8th city and I stopped there. I did not build any structures for the sake of population and decided not to build something only to demolish later - that is not what I like to do in a sandbox.