"Diluting the playerbase" isn't a thing.

*points at the secrets thread*

Majority of staff are ex-players. What do you think? What do they favor more as ex-players?

One thing is true though, is that Tuluk needs more help to ... not suck.

That's kinda my opinion, lulz. I understand what they are/were trying to do, but they didn't succeed. They just attracted a different type of player, maybe, than would enjoy the regular world to play there. I know of 8 players who play in Tuluk and nowhere else. Because they don't like the rest of the world or it is too hard for them to skill up outside Tuluk. And this isn't a speculation on the reasons. I've asked them why they wouldn't play there because I had considered a family role but didn't want to play there. They told me that directly. (That said, whichever city they nuked, if it was Allanak, so be it but god help the number of players who would stick around, if the wildlife was just safer near the city left and got more dangerous as you got further away, that would remedy that problem)

I like that they tried to make it tribal. Snaps for that.
I like that the intention of organized (and officially recognized and encouraged) crime exists. Snap for that.
I like that they made the Warrens with a wider variety of states than just all run down. Snaps for that.

But it's one of those things where ideas that are good in pitch are poorly, poorly executed and become entirely different in practice because some things just don't, frankly, translate as well.

Destroy half of Tuluk, shrink it and turn it into a small luirs/red storm sized place with small numbers. Would drive players out, maybe.


I suddenly realized I jumped into a topic without reading anything prior but the one above comment.
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Considering that Tuluk and Allanak are almost never in any actual conflict, I don't particularly see that they depend on each other outside of the very rare occasion when something happens. Note that this happens so seldom that you can play a character's entire life as a soldier and, in all likelihood, never see any kind of action beyond pointless patrols and things like that.

Tuluk could work if its assets were actually utilized, and if its surrounding environment was brought in line with the rest of Zalanthas. Tone down things like the absurdly fast regeneration rate of the Grasslands, the ease of finding food, the mild weather and so on. This could all be done quite easily as a result of some event or other, the specifics wouldn't be important. It doesn't have to be made as harsh and barren as the south, but it needs to be less lenient than it is now as it barely feels like the same game.

Then, once Tuluk actually feels like it's in the same game world and doesn't deter people who care about the setting and thus avoid the place on principle, start generating some conflict and have an actual north vs. south war, something that hasn't happened in over ten years despite ostensibly being a central aspect of the setting. It would be so extremely easy to do, it would draw in almost every player in the game, and yet for some reason the staff has been so reluctant to support any form of warfare in a game that should have it in spades. I don't know why.

Easy: get rid of the sorceror king concept. Nuke Tuluk, consolidate the pbase and make 'nak susceptible to tribal battles. Bring back Blackmoon, gith invasions,etc.