Popular Post Buorhann Posted May 3, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2018 (edited) Simple topic. @James II had the idea and brought it up. Allow players to create their own religion and submit icons (Similar to Flags) for a credit to put into the game. The community has shown interests in having in-character religions (Dioism, Chaos, Atomism, Ayyslam or Ayylism, Buorkhannism - lol) and I think this would be a good way to add flavor to their nation profiles, as long as it's not obscene or rule breaking with the imagery. For example (Per James' example): The image by the Atomism would be the one that could be edited by submission of credits, for the community to later accept/use for their nation profiles. Dioism would obviously be the Crescent Moon/Star with Dio silhouette symbol, Chaos would be the Symbol of Eight, etc. Simple change. Nothing game breaking. Would encourage spending of credits to include more imagery, and would allow the playerbase to further shape the world here in Orbis. EDIT Note: I'm aware of the VIP bit, but that's too constricting for players. Remove that bit, but keep the credit requirement to add imagery like we have for Alliance Flags. Edited May 3, 2018 by Buorhann 6 11 Quote Warrior of Dio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPCFQfOnLg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James II Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 His Holiness, Disciple of Atom, the first of his name, James II endorses this message. 5 Quote "Most successful new AA" - Samuel Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dio Brando Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 The Blessed smiles on this day, for there will be many more to join His host of Dioist Warriors. May your day be bountiful and fulfilling, free from the wretched villainy of snow. I can appreciate a change like this. Adds more flavour to the game. Endorsed fully. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Prophecy of Shifty when? It's animated so you know it's huge and has wealthy benefactors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriegskoenig Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 This. This is fun. Religious wars when? ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kabu Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Fully support this feature being added to the game and hope it is implemented ASAP. Good call. :P 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 52 minutes ago, Kriegskoenig said: Religious wars when? ? For the love of Sheepy/Roz/Steve/Partisan/Hippo/Zeebrus/Ur Mum Big Gaye/Kastor/Shifty/Roquentin/Insert Player Here Who Mad I Left Them Out Which Is Most Of You Anyway... I would be totally unable to white girl even if people decided to do this. inb4 people already do with RL politics inb4 KT/tTO/BeeKaayslam does it already Quote In paradisum deducant te Angeli; in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem.Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cüm Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aksel Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Will prob just be added to the VIP feature considering you can already put your image in there, why not add the name and give money to the sheep god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buorhann Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Mad Max said: Will prob just be added to the VIP feature considering you can already put your image in there, why not add the name and give money to the sheep god. That's the thing. Remove it from the VIP feature, that way it's accessed to more players. Add it into the game like an Alliance Flag. 1 Quote Warrior of Dio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPCFQfOnLg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aksel Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Just now, Buorhann said: That's the thing. Remove it from the VIP feature, that way it's accessed to more players. Add it into the game like an Alliance Flag. Most things should be like that, tbh. I like the idea of it tho, i have an awwww yeahhh humping guy for my religion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Juan Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Perhaps adding a game-wide accessible one should be like flags. But I do like the current VIP option remaining too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Scarfalot Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 I like the idea, considering how many alliances have their religious themes and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pheonix Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 Your forgetting christiayynity, ayytheism, hindayy, budhayysm, judayyism, orthodoxayy and mayyny more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jroc Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 15 minutes ago, Pheonix said: Your forgetting christiayynity, ayytheism, hindayy, budhayysm, judayyism, orthodoxayy and mayyny more And the Church of the Almighty Bomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted May 3, 2018 Administrators Share Posted May 3, 2018 All this sounds to me like is a way to get VIP subscriber benefits without paying a monthly fee, which is largely against the point of offering a VIP subscription. That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durmij Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Alex said: All this sounds to me like is a way to get VIP subscriber benefits without paying a monthly fee, which is largely against the point of offering a VIP subscription. That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. Perhaps religions can be tied to an alliance, and alliances can set them up for credits like flags? 2 Quote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjI4ROuPyuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUUEHv8GHcE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buorhann Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Alex said: All this sounds to me like is a way to get VIP subscriber benefits without paying a monthly fee, which is largely against the point of offering a VIP subscription. That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. VIP Benefits are solely on a Player basis. I'm asking for a more wide open Community or Alliance basis, similar to Alliance Flags. For you, it opens up more opportunities for players to spend credits. For us, it opens up more community building and political (Or rather, in-character religious) interaction. 2 Quote Warrior of Dio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPCFQfOnLg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James II Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Alex said: All this sounds to me like is a way to get VIP subscriber benefits without paying a monthly fee, which is largely against the point of offering a VIP subscription. That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. Some of us want to role play religions, add a broader dynamic to the politics of the game. Having someone spend monthly credits for a custom religion to have 100 people who follow their religion isn't economical for most. People who don't enjoy the financial flexibility of having VIP subscriptions won't be able to participate. If we could do a one time credit payment to add an icon or even a monthly credit payment. I.E. I spend 4 credits a month to keep my religion emblem available to everyone. As far as the game mechanic goes, you can assign a code to the religious symbol that can be handed out. That way they either select one of the default religious symbols, or they can enter the code. So you don't have to keep adding things to a drop down. 2 Quote "Most successful new AA" - Samuel Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean289 Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 I feel that adding religions would be a great idea with minimal draw backs. Although there should be a cool down time for creating religions and game mods should check it first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Scarfalot Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 11 hours ago, Alex said: All this sounds to me like is a way to get VIP subscriber benefits without paying a monthly fee, which is largely against the point of offering a VIP subscription. That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. Why are you asking us to propose the return of color stock bonuses? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WISD0MTREE Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 On 5/3/2018 at 2:22 AM, Zed said: For the love of Sheepy/Roz/Steve/Partisan/Hippo/Zeebrus/Ur Mum Big Gaye/Kastor/Shifty/Roquentin/Insert Player Here Who Mad I Left Them Out Which Is Most Of You Anyway... inb4 KT/tTO/BeeKaayslam does it already FOR STEVE!!!!1!1 To an extent, but it's mainly just memes. We even had a muslim in KT once and a handful of atheists/agnostics. 22 hours ago, Alex said: That said, if you propose a more fleshed out religion mechanic, whereby nations can join religions and religions have some sort of effect (some reason to compete with each other) I might be more interested. So you're thinking of something like religion stock bonuses? Are you thinking more like more resource x for every nation following religion r, or income, war stuff, etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Scarfalot Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 On 5/4/2018 at 1:19 PM, WISD0MTREE said: war stuff actual mechanical bonuses for literally going on crusade/Waaagh/jihad/whatnot for Dio/Buorkhann/Atom/etc? Woo! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James II Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 (edited) @Alexmake it happen plox. Edited May 8, 2018 by James II 1 Quote "Most successful new AA" - Samuel Bates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin076 Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 1 hour ago, James II said: @Alexmake it happen plox. I second this. Make this happen plz 2 Quote Chief Financial Officer of The Syndicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Alex Posted May 8, 2018 Administrators Share Posted May 8, 2018 I think religions being inter-alliance mechanics is more interesting. One quick thought, let people create their own custom religions, icons and everything, and then tier some sort of bonus based on the total score of all nations in the religion (don't want to do member count, as that creates an incentive to create multis.) The bonus should have diminishing returns, so that one religion doesn't completely dominate and ruin the point of it. Something I've learned over the years introducing mechanics similar to this. So maybe top X religions (10, 25, some hard cap so as to prevent "mini-religions" from flourishing. Not that I have anything against new and small player groups, just that at some point it gets too confusing and arbitrary) get some sort of bonus, maybe something new like a population bonus. That would weight religions more toward commerce than resource production, but any nation would benefit from an increased population (more tax revenue.) So maybe a bonus with a formula like: 1.1 - (x^2 / 1000) And that would be a bonus multiplier to your nation's population. This example formula would be for the top 10 religions. It yields the following table of values: So as you can see, the 10th ranked religion would have effectively no bonus, and the idea there is that for nations that don't want to participate in the religion part of the game for roleplay reasons or whatever (I imagine someone would make a "None" religion that would make it in the top 10 somewhere) they would have the same bonus as the 10th ranked religion (no bonus). And it scales up with diminishing returns from there, with the #1 religion getting an (almost) 10% population bonus. Now I know that 10% is pretty hefty, but you'll note that the second religion also gets a near 10% bonus as well, that's the point of the diminishing returns. It would be best to be on top, but if you're at least close to top, the top religion nations won't exactly run away from you, so to speak. It's a good setup for allowing takeovers, comebacks, whatever. Lastly, with religions I don't think it would make sense to mechanically prevent people from joining a religion. A nation should be able to convert to whatever religion it wants, and so for anyone who just wants to min-max, whatever, you'd probably just pick one of the top religions. For people interested in religion and pushing it on other nations (conquering and converting) you'd have something to fight over and could potentially impose forcing a nation to switch it's religion as surrender terms or whatever. Anyway, I don't care if this is it, but I think something mechanical similar to this would make things a lot more interesting than just straight custom religion images, which again, you can get with VIP. 1 Quote Is there a bug? Report It | Not understanding game mechanics? Ask About It | Got a good idea? Suggest ItForums Rules | Game Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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