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Holding types and their advantages
« on: December 14, 2008, 08:04:20 AM »
I've done several changes to holdings in RoE II; to make them a bit more different, and to tone down the over-powered law holding. Law is still mighty powerful, but slightly less so now.

Law: RP, Collection of taxes (but taxes are now lower), ignore prosperity penalties, applicable to many domain actions
Temple: RP,GB, Spellcasting for divine spellcasters
Manor: RP, GB, levy
Guild: RP, GB, cheaper trade holdings, bonuses to trade holdings
Trade: GB, benefits from guild holdings in same province, can't be fortified
Source: RP, spellcasting for arcane/primordial spellcasters, can't be fortified, can't be interferred with by mundane means

Each holding is now more balanced (guild + trade must be seen together) and has a distinctive 'personality' while remaining fundamentally similar in how they work (simplicity and elegance)
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2008, 12:23:34 PM »
No RP or GB from Temples?!?  :o
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2008, 12:33:10 PM »
Seems like you can pretty much close up shop right away ;D
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2008, 12:40:47 PM »
I'll just have to branch out more into Law and Manor holidings. with a smattering of sources  ;D
Oh, that would be Medoere then.
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2008, 12:42:05 PM »
A 'slight' omission.
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2008, 03:59:19 PM »
An additional advantage that I am tempted to suggest for Source Holdings is that they do not require maintenance in GB - perhaps you could pay for them with RP or perhaps not at all.

This would reduce maintenance to nothing for regents with only source holdings, perhaps a good idea since source holdings have no income.

I dunno, I also have the feeling that pure source holding domains are not supposed to able to function indepently - they need one or more sponsors to run their domain. The maintenance for source holdings reinforces this - the mages needs sponsors.

Personally I would save 1-2 GB on maintenance, someone like Regien would save 3-4 GB.
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Re: Holding types and their advantages
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2008, 04:27:30 PM »
An additional advantage that I am tempted to suggest for Source Holdings is that they do not require maintenance in GB - perhaps you could pay for them with RP or perhaps not at all.

This would reduce maintenance to nothing for regents with only source holdings, perhaps a good idea since source holdings have no income.

I dunno, I also have the feeling that pure source holding domains are not supposed to able to function indepently - they need one or more sponsors to run their domain. The maintenance for source holdings reinforces this - the mages needs sponsors.

Personally I would save 1-2 GB on maintenance, someone like Regien would save 3-4 GB.

Sources doesn't count against maintenance. I toyed with an idea where you had to pay RP in maintenance, but I dropped it. Mages already need income to prepare spells, I don't think I'll penalize them more.
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