Easy Conquest Mark fix

[Digital Wind]

Set the cap of the number of Conquest Marks you can posses to 100.  This will eliminate individual hoarding (up to 100 marks) and promote the selling of marks to those who have none or get very few or promote the craft of ships or the availability of permits and blueprints on the open market via people spending their marks rather then storing them for the 'what-if' future.

1.  Marks and port battles stay relevant.  No need to design and test yet another system.

2.  The number of marks in a Nation's economy reflects their conquering power.

3.  Small nations can obtain marks from lage nations.....if they have the coin.

4.  Player based Mark economy

- Source of marks doesn't change, ways to get marks outside of PB doesn't change.  Availability of Marks via alternate ways is promoted.

Edited July 6, 2017 by Digital Wind

[Liq]

I'm pretty sure every big rvr clan owns enough alts to make sure the marks stay in their hands ^^

[Skully]

Darn you. I would have to buy permits and hoard those.

[Skully]

The Conquest Mark has severe problems:

1. It's an arms race. Spain on Global will never recover.
2. Lord Protectors will stop playing (or take breaks) thus CMs will be lost.

Lazy Lord Protectors need to be expelled. Either by Pirates:

Or by building owners through Town Edicts:

In the long run CM mechanic, as it is, can't last.

[Digital Wind]

20 hours ago, Skully said:

The Conquest Mark has severe problems:

1. It's an arms race. Spain on Global will never recover.
2. Lord Protectors will stop playing (or take breaks) thus CMs will be lost.

 

Both of these issues are fixed, or rather reset, after a successful port battle.  They are also mitigated by the 100 mark cap ensuring that those with obscene amounts of marks are encouraged to spread the wealth by selling or giving away marks or by buying permits/BPs with the extra marks and selling those.

[Skully]

2 hours ago, Digital Wind said:

Both of these issues are fixed, or rather reset, after a successful port battle.  They are also mitigated by the 100 mark cap ensuring that those with obscene amounts of marks are encouraged to spread the wealth by selling or giving away marks or by buying permits/BPs with the extra marks and selling those.

It seems you have set yourself an interesting goal there by ensuring Spain on Global will see any successful port battle. In this endeavor I wish you good luck.

I'm always willing to sell conquest marks for lets say 2M. Since they are limited in supply and the flow becomes smaller as time goes by, I think I can stick to that price regardless of whether it'll be capped or not.