Player Towns - Should Portalarium Limit Total POT Numbers

Here's the thing. The conversation is so biased, you can't have a reasonable one. The POT owners are so whiny when someone brings up the facts, no compromises or agreement can be reached.

When we have a website like Blake Blackstone's charging people to live in his town, he's not about to give up that money. Nor is anyone else posting against a reasonable discussion on the topic. No big surprises there.

Shroud created that monster. Greed feeding greed. They can pull back the reigns and slow down POT progression if they wanted. But they are trashing the whole economy, gaming ethics, chance to attract new customers because POTs on the overland map are capped.

It's so multi-tiered in problems introduced, one has to wonder where to start. It's obvious the whole concept was never thought through to start.

Probably, but some are also overlapping, so it still might drift a bit.

How the hell did the last twelve people playing this pile of shit manage to purchase 230 POTs? Talk about whales...

What about the fact (and I may be off here) that buying and owning a player owned town can give those PoT owners potentially a considerable advantage in game? People have been making the case that the items for sale in the shop has no bearing in game. There are arguments against that, but lets assume that's the case. We've already seen people selling in game space in the PoTs for real money. Who is to say one won't charge rent or lump sums to place homes in their PoT? The provides that individual with a regular source of gold income that players who have not invested substantially money into the game will not have. So, making an Add-On store purchase can directly afford you a significant amount of streaming income in game (or out of game for that matter). If one argues that there will be plenty of housing for everyone, then the financial investment people made prior to release by purchasing houses will be significantly devalued (and also mean there will be empty lots sufficient enough that the world will not seem populated) but if one argues that the plots will be hard to come by on release, then those who didn't purchase homes with real money will be left out in the cold and forced to pay either real world cash to get a home or to funnel gold to the very people who invested in the add-on store, making an add-on item have substantial real in game value beyond cosmetic.

I can't agree until they add furry races. I'll keep my eye on the add-on store for that though.

If you were to summarize that into a single bullet point and put it up in the OP... what would that bullet point be?

Lol, I understood, but I don't like to try and simplify what others are saying. Chances are I'd muff it up

Concern that non-home owning players will be feeding gold via renting or purchase to those who have invested more financially creating a larger disparity of in game income between high and low level backers.

I brought that fact up in one of my posts everyone is pretending to ignore. Only a few people commented on it.

Here is the thread: www.shroudoftheavatar.com/forum/index.php?threads/nested-pots.35203/#post-404807

Yes, that was the root troll which killed the thread. 

So we have really two options from my brain:

1. Limit them to preserve things I'm not so fond of; whaling for one
2. Open them up sell as many as possible and devalue everything, including my own house/lot.

I say sell sell sell, turn it all into nothing

Good thing is, I made more money than I paid, so I made money off my buy-in lol

Slightly hypocritical... Just saying.

Thanks for making an account and replying, giving us your side.

I had not considered fund raising for a guild.

But your website doesn't come across as fund raising, but instead making a profit on unsuspecting players, who may have no choice once property is gone.

Welp, we know what happened with this now. In the end they found a way to artificially limit Player Owned Towns. They have done this by allowing an infinite number of Player Owned Towns to be purchased, of course, but have placed a limit as to how many of them can be visible on the game's overland map. Towns purchased after this limit will be "attached" to POTs already visible on the map. In some way.

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