Ok as has been noted there is a lot of concern in the community regarding kingdom selection and the new major concerns of not being able to play the tribes they want on the level they want IE as county level or duchy level tribes… to discount this concern or flop it away with “there will be other tribes in kingdoms any way why worry” is completely disregarding the major concerns of those of us with titles.
The diffrence between a blacksmith getting a shity tribe choice vs a count is a vast difference. IE i will use myself as a example. I chose Naren because they have the most benefits to my plan of being a county focused on food production. Don't get me wrong other tribes will have food production methods but naren just has the most balanced.
I can Breed cattle i can plant grains i can chop trees for their wood as a side business. Nearly every other tribe i look at can do 1 or the others but not all.. So for my goals and plans a Naren Suits me to a T more than any other tribe could. But the chances of me getting naren are limited to what my kingdom gets in domain selection.
So thinking on this i came up with a idea or should i say i revived a old idea.
Gifting IP to Monarchs.
hmm this subject had come up once before regarding the question why we could not donate ip from a account to leader to give them a better Choosing rank for domain selections.
now at first i advised against it due the complication of having to setup a system that would allow anyone to donate to any one but after thinking on it i have a compromise that should work and makes sense.
Which is to allow any player to donate the IP or a portion of their IP to their Monarch of choice.
now bear with me as i go thru this and explain the reason why.
Reasoning
ok the issue with the plan was with to many recipients it would take to much coding and could turn into a real shit show but what if we limited it to Monarchs then this should make life easier as there would be only 6 accounts per server (apac has 4) so 22 in total that could be donated too.
Something similar to this has been done with the token system but sadly that only helps in a certain way that sadly does not help in domain selection. but i feel if they do that then allowing to donate IP would make just makes sense.
Why is it needed?
the Kingdoms we have made are flourishing we have organized duchies Counties even towns and we are organizing these around the wishes of the kingdoms which include what tribe every one wants.
but when it comes to domain selection it comes down to the finances of 1 person to determine the fate for hundreds if not thousands of players.
Why i understand the reasonings and that maybe SBS underestimated the amount of organizing that kingdoms have done i feel that now it is time to address this issue why we have time.
I personally don't feel kings should be forced to pay to provide for the tribal needs of their kingdoms alone. i know alot of players out there would love to help their kings so they get a better chance come domain selection to not only get the best lands for the kingdom but the tribe that most the kingdom would like to play.
This one moment in game play will define players lives for the next 10 years so allowing players to help their kings or queens of choice get the spot that will benefit the whole kingdom just makes sense.
But there will be conclaves so u should be able to place the races you want.
yes i am aware there will be conclaves within a kingdom that players could spawn from but these conclaves cant cover every player or mayor or count or duke if they get the wrong tribe.
So if a kingdom worth of players, mayors, barons, counts and dukes all want to go a tribe but fail to get it because there king could not invest enough personal money into the game to make it happen it just not gonna be cool.
The only option they have currently is to setup a RL money donation system. Which i am sure as hell SBS does not wish to have to deal with that in the background let alone the monarchs.
Closing
So in closing i feel that SBS would be well served to look at this kinda option and see what sort of delays implementing this system would cause.
Leaving it as it is will just make for a lot of issues within kingdoms trying to get the tribe they want having to look into options that SBS never intended.
I feel allowing this system will put some power back in the common player to help define their play experience which i feel is inline with every thing that SBS has done to date.