Some speculation and napkin math on how many freeholds can be in the game.

That raises a REALLY interesting question for me at least.

If I get my freehold 'permit' from my region's Metro but my plot is all the way out past a Town...

And the Metro gets destroyed but the City between me and it is still standing...

What happens to my Freehold?

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That's a really interesting outcome since that might mean 'different Random freeholds are in danger and others aren't' based on where the owner is a citizen of or got their plot registration from.

I don't think we actually had citizenship and Freehold Placement tied together, but that's another solution.

Considering that family members can pretty much do whatever on the freehold, I now choose to see them as party content rather than a solo one. Obviously there'll be solo players that manage to get their hands on one, but I think that majority of freeholds will be bought by groups of people pooling some money together.

And with the general design being skewed towards parties and close-knit communities, I think that we can count 1 freehold per ~8 people on a server. So if there's ~1k freehold spots (my current theory) that'd mean ~8k people will have a freehold to use and benefit from.

The remaining however many people will have to either deal with apartments or lay siege to some nodes in hopes of grabbing themselves some land. Which seems to be "working as intended", in terms of everchanging node life on a server.

Splitting the costs (both of purchase and of taxes) between 8 people would also lessen the shock of loss, in case their node does fall and the freehold gets destroyed. Which could potentially increase the player retention in the long run.

Intrepid just gotta find a way to push people towards socializing in a positive way rather than a "you either party up or you can't play".

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I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying here. Are you suggesting freehold instances?

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Steven said on discord that it's both a bid and a direct sell, sellers choice. So definitely RMTable and Intrepid will have to somehow track that and prevent it.

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Starts as a bid. And you can only bid if you've done a quest (no info on that quest).

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You should include the message that people will be able to process stuff in nodes as well. Not master lvl+ stuff, but still. Cause I've seen some people assume that literally the entire processing profession is locked behind a freehold.

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You should include the message that people will be able to process stuff in nodes as well. Not master lvl+ stuff, but still. Cause I've seen some people assume that literally the entire processing profession is locked behind a freehold.

Piggies?

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Lex is sick now so probably didn't have enough energy/time to update everything on the wiki.

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He likes to change it quite often. Last time we heard about freeholds - we couldn't even sell those fuckers Oh and btw, the time before that time - WE COULD I had a mighty roflcopter about that when I learned about it after the stream.

The sandal lord is very flip floppy