[Feedback Request] Alpha Two Freehold Preview Shown in June Livestream

Actually I guess I should additionally note that I don't think my group much likes the 'bidding on Freeholds' and similar things either.

The thing is, obviously we're closer to the type that might succeed than solo early backers.

But aside from that, it's maybe that we've become too 'used to Intrepid making decisions that are explicitly meant to be pain points for certain types of player in order to achieve the 'winners and losers' distinction'.

So in a way it's 'fatigue' combined with 'respect for Steven's goals despite not understanding some of them'.

Making Freeholds bigger, and more important, but also making them less accessible and more economic to everyone falls under this. This is the vision of the game and seems to be core, but we don't like it either, we just 'are past bothering to note strong negative feedback on things that are meant to reward our playstyle at the expense of others'.

Since so many others are now saying that they don't like this, this is me explicitly 'bandwagoning'.

Making Freeholds Bigger is unnecessary.
Making Freeholds harder to get is bad.
Making Freeholds too easily open to economic factors is very bad.
Making 'People at Processing Stations' easily gankable is terribad.

Thanks for your time as always.

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Wait seriously? Are these numbers correct?

85 nodes. 50 apartments (hell, let's say mayor builds double: 100 apartments). That's 8,500 people with housing. 50,000 registered accounts per server. Hell let's double it again. 17,000. And again. Every mayor in every possible node builds 7 extra apartment buildings instead of something else. 34,000. At 50,000 registered accounts per server, that's 16,000 homeless people without even instanced housing.

The 8*85=680 (or doubled 1,360 (or doubled-doubled 2,720)) non-instanced node houses aren't even gonna make a dent.

(16,000-2720)/85=156.

Are there gonna be 156 freeholds at every single node? I really hope you did the math, Intrepid, cause it seems like you're gonna have a homeless problem even on a very well-developed server.

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He was very clear in today's stream that that applies only to your house. Your fields and processing stations have no protection. You can absolutely be ganked while processing, and have all your goods taken.