Port Battles/ "lord protector"

[Robert C Maynard]

As of now, shallow water ports have 3 towers, and deep water have 5 towers. When you take the port, whoever bought the flag becomes "lord protector".

 

My idea is to dig further with the lord protector, and ideas on port battles. 

 

The lord protector after taking the port, can go into the port and build certain defenses. The lord protector does not have to build defenses, and if he does not there will be 3 or 5 towers depending on the port as normal.

The ideas for the lord protector on what types of defenses he can by are...

- Extra tower, this will either make it 4, or 6 towers depending on the port, along with increasing the towers need to capture/destroy, to +1 (deep water you'd have to destroy 4 for ex).

- NPC fleet, this will add 3 ships based on the port, if it is shallow 6th rates, if it is deep 4th rates. If more than 15 players for defense are in the battle, the npcs will retreat so more players can join (best have it at 15 and not 25 so they can get out before others try to get in). If it is on the 5 minute timer, and at least 15 players join  they will despawn before the battle starts.

- Upgrade towers to a fort, this will require the extra tower upgrade to be bought, seeing as they plan to add land to port battles, hopefully the towers will be along the coast. Instead of having the towers, a fort will be placed based on the port, if it is shallow or deep. The forts will be similar to towers, with a flag on the walls/points(possible star fort), if all 5 flags(deep) or 3 flags(shallow) surrender (they'll turn white once destroyed), the fort surrenders. Of course only the walls based on the coast will have these.

Rough draft of the idea of the fort: http://i.imgur.com/z4kJGMD.png  Shallow water fort: http://i.imgur.com/G3bDUgg.png   The red lines are to indicate that the forts will have limited range such as the towers, but slightly more range.

- Protectors can upgrade the fort one more time, adding mortars on them. The mortars will be placed at the points of the fort (3 for deep, 2 for shallow).

 

Let me know if you have any further ideas on this, which ideas you like and dislike along with why. Any changes you think to this idea too.

[Cpt Blackthorne]

Post this in the Such is Lord thread. Nice suggestions. We should be able to influence the port size, population and maybe even whether it becomes a regional capital or not just by our interaction there.

http://forum.game-labs.net/index.php?/topic/13596-such-is-a-lord-simple-politics-and-alliances-part-1-heavily-moderated/