Reducing the world radius

[Severian]

Since there are fewer players nowadays, what about reducing the zonewidth by a square or two? Part of the fun is running into other players now and again, and with the world so big, it doesn't happen very often.

I don't know if that would require a land-reset to be sure that all the temples that would be off the map are removed, but it might be worth it even if that's the case.

[assmonster]

This might be a good idea. I rarely see anyone nowadays.

as long as we don't have to re-explore the map again. that suuucks.

[Severian]

Re-exploring does suck, but I think that's the easiest way to get this change to happen. I don't think rast wants to spend any more time on GoG, even though it's so awesome.

Re-exploring only lasts a few weeks usually - and with a smaller world radius, it should go even more quickly.

[assmonster]

that's true, a smaller radius would mean less exploring. could we also do something about the ridiculous cost of exploring? i explored a square the other day and it cost me like 8 moves or something gaytarded like that. and it seems to be different every time. is it faith based? i say make exploring a flat fee... like 2 or 3 moves for everyone no matter what. i avoid exploring at all costs at the moment.

[Severian]

I also avoid exploring at all costs, but I guess if we want to propose that as a change we should probably start a new topic. Don't want to have this change ignored because we've implied that it needs to come with an exploration cost reduction, IMO.

[Rasteroid]

Ok, I've reduced it by 1. I may tie it in to the number of players later, if it becomes an issue. (ie, we get lots of players.)

[assmonster]

sweet, hopefully this will provide the world with more chaos and death.

of course i got SCREWED. i was saving up my pope regen rate before i logged in again, but with the change in the world radius i got moved off my igloo onto a random space in the tundra and had shitty regen.