DISCUSSION - CLOSED
Posted on October 15, 2022 at 04:52:33 PM by loveinspired
Hello everyone!
It’s time for another discussion! This time, we’d like to take a look at the suggestion Uforia made to lengthen a TLI year from 4 real-life months to 8 real-life months. This would mean each in-game season would run for 2 real-life months. This would be a large change and is something we definitely want to discuss before any permanent changes are made.
Some of our rules might need to be adjusted. Battle limits (such as the number of challenges issued and answered), experience limit, escapes, and raids would all likely need to be looked at. We may also need to consider the timing of the Peak and Lagoon elections. Breeding season limits, such as color requests and the number of defects and twins will remain the same as these are still meant to be rare occurrences. The current rules for land claiming and activity would also remain the same.
Some other preliminary pros and cons to consider:
- A slower game speed allows more time for players to interact through threads without feeling as though they’ve fallen behind. Alternatively, during times of high activity on the site, this slower game speed may make it seem like it takes a long time for things to happen.
- An 8-month system would not end neatly at the year mark. For example, a three-year span might run January through August, September through April, May through December. This could make keeping track of years and ages more difficult.
- It would take 2 real-life years for your foals to reach maturity unless you fast-age them. Fast aging is allowed, but may break the timeline for some players.
- Changing the experience earned limit (currently 5 experience points per season) to per month could mean that a motivated player could go from unranked to rank 3 in two 'seasons,' or roughly half a year in character if this change is implemented.
We invite all of our players to share their thoughts and feedback on this topic! We'd like to hear from as many voices as possible before we make a decision. We will keep this discussion topic open for 2 weeks.
QUESTIONS
1. What are your thoughts on changing from a 4-month year to a 8-month year?
2. Do you think the battle rules wording for challenges issued/answered should be adjusted to per month instead of per season? Why or why not?
3. Do you think the experience limit should stay as a per-season cap or have the wording changed to per month?
4. Do you think raids and escapes should be adjusted to per month or stay as per season?
5. Should the Lagoon/Peak elections stay as once a year in an 8-month season? Or should there be a second election period?
Feel free to share any other thoughts or questions you have! We appreciate all of you! <3
UPDATE Oct 29 - We are extending this discussion for another two weeks. We would really like to hear from everyone regarding this as it's such a big change. If you are uncomfortable posting in this thread, you are welcome to email your thoughts to lostislands.staff@gmail.com
UPDATE Nov 17 - This discussion is now closed. Chaos and I will take the feedback you all have provided and discuss. We greatly appreciate all of you!