Utopia Classic Developers’ Update 3rd June
A little later than usual here is today’s blog post from Brian and Sean :) Comments here please.
Hey All,
Thanks for all the feedback last week. There was some really constructive discussion which has got to be beneficial for all of us.
Clearly people are quite polarized on the Council of Elders idea. Don’t fear, nothing has been decided on it yet. We’ll review all your input on this again later before we make any decisions.
Regarding gathering suggestions in a structured format. After this release we plan on focusing some effort on this process. What structure that process will take is still to be decided. There is already a suggestions forum section (rather than just a thread) by the way.
There was some discussion about a feature to share province information with the kingdom monarch. Any feature like this would have to be optional. At the moment a monarch can’t force their kingdom-mates to use any tools outside of Utopia. This is handy as it’s easy to draw a line in the sand regarding monarch’s power. To make an in-game tool optional would require a a rewrite of the Utopian constitution! It’s not hard to do, but philosophically we’d have to be ensure it would be good for the game.
Now for your questions…
Shockwave’s Minge: Are there any plans to add formal in-game options and features for alliances?
We have talked about allowing kingdoms to “declare” their alliance. Perhaps they could add an alliance banner in addition to the kingdom banner. I’m sure your question relates to more substantial features though - we haven’t discussed anything further on alliance features yet.
Ezzerland: Will you consider focusing the forum in a more organized an proper manner for future suggestions? Do you have that power?
We’ll definitely consider it. Suggestions will play a much larger role in the next round of development, so this is important to us. Regarding power, we shouldn’t need to fight anyone for something like that, we’ll try asking nicely.
Ezzerland (re kingdom merges): What happens if two 20 or 25 prov kd’s conjoin, where do the “lost” provinces/players go?
Bearing in mind that this kingdom merging is a fictional feature… while there is an upper limit on kingdom sizes we wouldn’t allow two kingdoms to merge if combined they would exceed the max kingdom size.
redhorse: When is this age gonna end?
Nice question. This age will end when we’re ready to put the new code on WoL. Clearly that’s not a definitive answer, all we can say is we’ll give plenty of notice. The new code will go onto Genesis before WoL, so until that happens you can rest assured that the age isn’t about to end.
Brian & Sean