Retaking Freeport

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Nouaf

Dalayan Beginner
It seems like it would be a lot of fun (and has some strong support in ooc) if there were some massive serverwide quest to retake some part of Freeport, if only during the day (so that questing stuff might still be done, but during the night).

Figures listed are just examples (EXAMPLES):
What if 40% of the server's population needed to complete a main quest-style thing. And then of those who completed it, several raids needed to be done (only admitting those who had completed some portion, or all of, the quest). Once the process of reclaiming Freeport reached a certain point, NFP could be usable during the day, but undead still took it over at night (Thank's Ghaellie for the nighttime idea).

In fact, East Freeport and parts of the Plaguelands could still be left alone, but possibly made a little higher level so people could still do their necessary questing. Once the serverwide quest was complete (could take months or longer), NFP could be usable 24/7 as a city zone (possibly taking a lot of the strain off of Athica, which was never able to support the load of characters it has come to expect), EPL could be usable during the day, but WPL could be left as it is until something similar was done for King's Pass and HHK

And once the serverwide quest was completed, NFP could become a moderately tiered raid zone that reflected the unliberated parts of Freeport. A lot of very fun and involving lore could be created surrounding this idea.

I realize that this is just a rough draft and a lot needs to be put into it before it's viable, but I haven't talked to anyone who didn't think some variation of this idea was a bad one.

And I have also been told that something in the same ballpark as this idea has been kicked around a little - though apparently very different than this, but that implementation is a major hindrance. If there's anything I can do to help (I can't code, but I would be happy to storyboard the lore), I would be more than willing to.

In my years with SoD, I haven't seen anything like this and it seems like a really fun and fresh way to involve people beyond grinding tomes and farming cash. Suggestions and beer welcome.
 
There is a sticky thread where they are looking for new DEVs, maybe you should flesh out your idea some more and submit it as your application?

Going from the as-is situation, I think the part most likely to be retaken is east freeport - the silver crown allready has a bridgehead at the docks, seems logical that any further expansion into the city would start here.

About the daytime/nighttime only, eh. I personally would hate it if my banker depopped and got replaced with something that wants to kill me just because night falls or my xp mob depopped and got replaced with a banker, just because the sun rises, this works in both directions. I'd much rather see that during the day, more (stronger) silver crown soldiers spawn, so that eventually they would be able to take certain parts of freeport, while at night more (stronger) undeads spawn, so that unless players help the Silver Crown, the undeads will inevitably reclaim whatever the Silver Crown conquered during the day. (Something like bugs vs valk in tarhyl crags). How feasible it is to implement such a thing, and how bad it would be in regards of zone lag is another story though.
 
I like the idea, but instead of a day/night thing as more people on the server do the quests the area SC controls would expand. Maybe certain quests guided the expansion. I'm not sure what old landmarks are in East Freeport, guild wise.

But let's say the caster guild was there. Could have caster centric quests that aid in the restoration of that area. Could be based on layout of town as well. If the tradeskill area is there could have TS quests.

Only thing, I think the silvercrown would have to be changed to CoI, so that BS folks aren't KoS in the new area. Any quest npc's MQ other wise could be left alone. Not sure if there are SC quests for freeport. my only pledged character is BS.

There could be skirmishes outside the controlled areas all the time day or night, like the gate is now.
 
The entire Silver Crown Trader quest takes part in Freeport (well atleast 90% of it...), and lore-wise, it makes no sense for CoI to be interested in this place. Also, if it makes you feel better, Grobb isn't exactly a place silver crown people can go to in exchange.
 
Can you point me toward this sticky about Devs?

And Thank you for the suggestions. I will repost this to the devs and append your suggestions into it (with credit, of course)
 
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Well maybe different factions could take over different parts. depending on who is completing the quests. Control of the zone depends on the different factioned players doing quests etc.

I think some other games have things like that. Where a certain faction can control a zone for set amount of time after an event.

Just my 2 cents. Could be the 2 factions fighting for control and the undead fighiting back as well.
 
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