About the control of the world, I am thinking it will be more like in EvE online 0.0 space. You have clans ( corporations ), you have alliances between clans who are supported and builtin in the game mechanics ( examples from EvE are BoB, Goonswarm, Red Alliance, Morsus Mihi, etc ) and then you have Alliances between Alliances, not supported by game mechanics, but just 2 or more alliances that make an agreement, these agreements can vary from not attacking eachother to comng together to attack another alliance, examples from EVE are : The Alliance, The Northern Coallition and the Southern Coallition in EVE.
ATM, because The Alliance is so big, The Northern Coallition and the Southern Coallition fight against The Alliance. But meanwhile there are still alot of corps and alliances that go their own way and watch the big war from the sideline, sometimes with no problem, sometimes forced into the war with the rest.
It is almost impossible in EvE to control everything, cause once there would be 1 force to contoll all it would slowly fall apart, have seen this in many of the big DAoC alliances too.
In EVE there are regions tightly controlled by alliances, but other regions are in a state of constant conflict.
So I am thinking Darkfall will be similar to EVE in regards of territorial control.
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I agree, with the way that Darkfall is set up a small clan could easily wear down a big alliance if they were organized enough, especially since I've seen on the forums that there will be climbing involved as a skill, all sorts of ambushes and attacks will be able to happen that it will be impossible to control everything at once.
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Darkfall will probably become a sandbox game like EVE and you will see the same processes as in EVE. Everyone wants to be Top Dog and ally others to get there. It will work a little different because you can hire NPCs in Darkfall that will do tasks for you and protect your areas. I imagine that a powerful guild can buy powerful NPC's. That said, step on enough toes and you will go down in the end
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I'm pretty sure that even if some 2 clans ruled over less than half the parts of of the world they wouldnt be able to take over the whole map since it so huge. Not to mention 1 small clan could just cut the supply routes to the major clans off therby making it easier to sige a city or destroy it completly. Also ambbushes will be easy to take place since you have no warning when another player is closing in on you (i.e. no mini map with dots as players) . All in all even if a clan controls the majority of the kown world, They wont last long on the top since players hate being limited, not to mention players like me who just like to kill stuff somtimes lol.
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About the control of the world, I am thinking it will be more like in EvE online 0.0 space. You have clans ( corporations ), you have alliances between clans who are supported and builtin in the game mechanics ( examples from EvE are BoB, Goonswarm, Red Alliance, Morsus Mihi, etc ) and then you have Alliances between Alliances, not supported by game mechanics, but just 2 or more alliances that make an agreement, these agreements can vary from not attacking eachother to comng together to attack another alliance, examples from EVE are : The Alliance, The Northern Coallition and the Southern Coallition in EVE.
ATM, because The Alliance is so big, The Northern Coallition and the Southern Coallition fight against The Alliance. But meanwhile there are still alot of corps and alliances that go their own way and watch the big war from the sideline, sometimes with no problem, sometimes forced into the war with the rest.
It is almost impossible in EvE to control everything, cause once there would be 1 force to contoll all it would slowly fall apart, have seen this in many of the big DAoC alliances too.
In EVE there are regions tightly controlled by alliances, but other regions are in a state of constant conflict.
So I am thinking Darkfall will be similar to EVE in regards of territorial control.
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I agree, with the way that Darkfall is set up a small clan could easily wear down a big alliance if they were organized enough, especially since I've seen on the forums that there will be climbing involved as a skill, all sorts of ambushes and attacks will be able to happen that it will be impossible to control everything at once.
Quoting people doesn't make you clever, in fact, it makes you all the more stupid for not bothering to read the quotes you post in the first place.
Darkfall will probably become a sandbox game like EVE and you will see the same processes as in EVE. Everyone wants to be Top Dog and ally others to get there. It will work a little different because you can hire NPCs in Darkfall that will do tasks for you and protect your areas. I imagine that a powerful guild can buy powerful NPC's. That said, step on enough toes and you will go down in the end
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And when we got more women on the team, it was like No, no, no. We need puppies and horses in there.
John Smedley, SOE
I'm pretty sure that even if some 2 clans ruled over less than half the parts of of the world they wouldnt be able to take over the whole map since it so huge. Not to mention 1 small clan could just cut the supply routes to the major clans off therby making it easier to sige a city or destroy it completly. Also ambbushes will be easy to take place since you have no warning when another player is closing in on you (i.e. no mini map with dots as players) . All in all even if a clan controls the majority of the kown world, They wont last long on the top since players hate being limited, not to mention players like me who just like to kill stuff somtimes lol.