PLAYER CITIES ETC.
$Id: player_city.txt,v 1.1 1998/04/22 08:53:27 namhas Exp $

  Players should be able to build castles, villages, inns etc. to the
  world map. The idea is rather simple, it will work like player castles
  in BatMUD, except that we have gridmap system and many, _many_ times
  versatile system. For every 'player-city' like location there is a
  emperor, owner, king, president or whatever appropriate. This allows
  possibility of mass-wars, and possibility of conquiring individual
  buildings, villages, cities, as well as becoming emperor of whole
  world of Majik at once. For some players, this would be the ultimate
  goal of mortalhood.

  This also brings one really interesting thing as _real_ history which
  will be written without needing coders' attention at all. First Majik
  will have only few home cities of different races and then after like
  10 rl years there might be thousands of large cities and large wars
  sweeping through the lands. There would be also borders between 
  countries owned by different emperor, without needing coders to 
  design such things at all!

  The only thing that coders need to code is all kind of special places
  or things like quests and temples. Everything else is up to mortals.
  Actually, quests will become obsolete when we have enough players 
  around :) The players theirself will give quests to lesser mortals,
  like "deliver a message to the emperor of Plaah".

  After becoming emperor of some 'player-city'-like place then (s)he will
  be allowed to see exact population of city, set and collect taxes, order
  people to build something to city, organize city's defensive and
  offensive forces and decide everything. If the tax rates are too high,
  then the players idling in the city will leave (not forced, but they
  will) and so on. We don't need code for such things, players will decide
  themself what they will do.

  I know, this is a crazy idea... but it might work someday!

Your admin,
Namhas.