Greetings Lokans!
We have casually spoken about some changes to towns we've wanted to make for some time, but due to priority shifts and wanting to gather the right data, we've put off announcing some of these changes for awhile.
When it comes to Towns on Loka, we have some concerns about things in general:
Town Pricing Changes
Cost Breakdown:
New Town Base Cost will be 300 shards per day (currently 50).
This is probably the less controversial change, many players have noted the ease of owning towns with regards to how cheap it is. Simply put, you should have to do some level of work/grinding to keep a town going for long periods of time. Right now, many towns have extremely large balances that can keep them going for months without ever needing to refill.
As we prepare to advertise Loka and bring in some new blood, new people will need space and places for new towns and it's not scalable if everyone can own towns with very little work.
Town Sale Changes
We want people to care about their towns and giving ownership away should be a big deal, not just "hold my town for a month". What's more, a lot of people are scammed through town sales and while this is legal, it is no less fun for people to lose a bunch of money. We considered adding a feature to handle town sales safely, but that means we'd be straight up supporting town sales, which we are not fond of.
The main reason for this change is to reduce the number of towns on the server. We believe that if towns are more difficult to transfer to others then they have less value and therefore players are less incentivised to hold onto towns keeping them on life support.
The third option we had, which we have chosen not to move forward with is increasing the number of actives required to run a town as we think this would be the least popular change to manage the number of towns on the server. It also directly harms new players the most as it makes it very challenging to get a new town off the ground.
Personal Vault
This isn't strictly related to the above changes, but it's coming now as a result of these changes and having new folks join the server. It is legal for town owners to kill new members and take all their things. This obviously sucks, but it has to be legal and will remain that way. Admins have no desire to decide what "felt fair or not" and that's why many of our rules try to remove admins' personal opinions from any judgements.
We will be soon launching a Vault at spawn to augment Ender Chests and give players a permanent, safe storage inventory to put their things. Enderchests are often used like shulkers in battle for various reasons, so it's not always viable to use an echest for long term storage. If you have a place to store your very most valuable lores, artifacts, items, and such, then at least if you do get scummed by an evil town-owner, you haven't lost your most valuable items.
Raiding hasn't been super viable on Loka for a long time; so we don't feel the Vault is really going to make an actual difference in the ability for people to raid towns and get valuables (it practically never happens anymore), especially since the space in the vault is so limited.
Ok, that's all! Feel free to ask questions as you'd like, but we hope these changes will grant a bit of dynamism to the landscape of Loka, leading to better towns, not just "more" of them.
Go Forth!
We have casually spoken about some changes to towns we've wanted to make for some time, but due to priority shifts and wanting to gather the right data, we've put off announcing some of these changes for awhile.
When it comes to Towns on Loka, we have some concerns about things in general:
- It's almost comically cheap to own a town with few to no territories.
- Towns are kept alive eternally, often by the smallest numbers of players possible just as holders for whenever Conquest shifts continents
- Town sales are volatile and rife for scamming opportunities
Town Pricing Changes
- We will be significantly increasing the cost of owning towns.
- This won't be a paralyzing change, but there is an extreme delta between how much it costs to town and how easy it is to get shards on Loka.
- The cost for owning territories will increase as well but not nearly at the same level.
- We don't want to scare off new players from owning towns but we also want to make it appropriately costly to own a high/max level town.
Cost Breakdown:
New Town Base Cost will be 300 shards per day (currently 50).
| Territories Owned | Cost per Territory | Total | Radars Owned | Cost per Territory | Total | |
| 1 | 8 | 308 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 2 | 16 | 324 | 2 | 4 | 8 | |
| 3 | 24 | 348 | 3 | 6 | 14 | |
| 4 | 32 | 380 | 4 | 8 | 22 | |
| 5 | 40 | 420 | 5 | 10 | 32 | |
| 6 | 48 | 468 | 6 | 12 | 44 | |
| 7 | 56 | 524 | 7 | 14 | 58 | |
| 8 | 64 | 588 | 8 | 16 | 74 | |
| 9 | 72 | 660 | 9 | 18 | 92 | |
| 10 | 80 | 740 | 10 | 20 | 112 | |
| 11 | 88 | 828 | 11 | 22 | 134 | |
| 12 | 96 | 924 | 12 | 24 | 158 | |
| 13 | 104 | 1028 | 13 | 26 | 184 | |
| 14 | 112 | 1140 | 14 | 28 | 212 | |
| 15 | 120 | 1260 | 15 | 30 | 242 | |
| 16 | 128 | 1388 | 16 | 32 | 274 | |
| 17 | 136 | 1524 | 17 | 34 | 308 | |
| 18 | 144 | 1668 | 18 | 36 | 344 | |
| 19 | 152 | 1820 | 19 | 38 | 382 | |
| 20 | 160 | 1980 | 20 | 40 | 422 | |
| 21 | 168 | 2148 | 21 | 42 | 464 | |
| 22 | 176 | 2324 | 22 | 44 | 508 | |
| 23 | 184 | 2508 | 23 | 46 | 554 | |
| 24 | 192 | 2700 | 24 | 48 | 602 | |
| 25 | 200 | 2900 | 25 | 50 | 652 | |
| 26 | 208 | 3108 | 26 | 52 | 704 | |
| 27 | 216 | 3324 | 27 | 54 | 758 | |
| 28 | 224 | 3548 | 28 | 56 | 814 | |
| 29 | 232 | 3780 | 29 | 58 | 872 | |
| 30 | 240 | 4020 | 30 | 60 | 932 |
This is probably the less controversial change, many players have noted the ease of owning towns with regards to how cheap it is. Simply put, you should have to do some level of work/grinding to keep a town going for long periods of time. Right now, many towns have extremely large balances that can keep them going for months without ever needing to refill.
As we prepare to advertise Loka and bring in some new blood, new people will need space and places for new towns and it's not scalable if everyone can own towns with very little work.
Town Sale Changes
- You will only be able to /town transfer to a player who has been in your town for at least one month.
- In other words, you cannot just sell towns to random people whenever you need to by adding them and insta-transferring to them.
We want people to care about their towns and giving ownership away should be a big deal, not just "hold my town for a month". What's more, a lot of people are scammed through town sales and while this is legal, it is no less fun for people to lose a bunch of money. We considered adding a feature to handle town sales safely, but that means we'd be straight up supporting town sales, which we are not fond of.
The main reason for this change is to reduce the number of towns on the server. We believe that if towns are more difficult to transfer to others then they have less value and therefore players are less incentivised to hold onto towns keeping them on life support.
The third option we had, which we have chosen not to move forward with is increasing the number of actives required to run a town as we think this would be the least popular change to manage the number of towns on the server. It also directly harms new players the most as it makes it very challenging to get a new town off the ground.
Personal Vault
This isn't strictly related to the above changes, but it's coming now as a result of these changes and having new folks join the server. It is legal for town owners to kill new members and take all their things. This obviously sucks, but it has to be legal and will remain that way. Admins have no desire to decide what "felt fair or not" and that's why many of our rules try to remove admins' personal opinions from any judgements.
We will be soon launching a Vault at spawn to augment Ender Chests and give players a permanent, safe storage inventory to put their things. Enderchests are often used like shulkers in battle for various reasons, so it's not always viable to use an echest for long term storage. If you have a place to store your very most valuable lores, artifacts, items, and such, then at least if you do get scummed by an evil town-owner, you haven't lost your most valuable items.
Raiding hasn't been super viable on Loka for a long time; so we don't feel the Vault is really going to make an actual difference in the ability for people to raid towns and get valuables (it practically never happens anymore), especially since the space in the vault is so limited.
Ok, that's all! Feel free to ask questions as you'd like, but we hope these changes will grant a bit of dynamism to the landscape of Loka, leading to better towns, not just "more" of them.
Go Forth!
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