Starting Player Factions

One important detail I have to cover before describing the starting player factions is that the fun in this game comes from it's ability to evolve and the player's role in shaping that evolution. These factions should not be permanent. Factions start the game with a control point each, similar to those you find in Battlefield 1942. A control point is integral to a government headquarters. Government headquarters will be outrageously expensive to build, but will give strategic advantages.

Let's use the Sicilians as an example. The Sicilians begin the game in the city of Syracuse. When players log on they appear outside of the palace, in which the control point rest. The player to control a control point is, if even just for a moment, the ruler of the local area. He may set taxes on the NPC and PC citizens (this feature will have a time delay so as to allow reaction to the news of the change), he may raise an army with the wealth he collects from taxes and brand persons outlaws, forcing them into exile, or hiding.

In the area around Sicily lie several small towns. These towns are beyond the range of the CP's (control points) control. The ruler of Syracuse could raise armies and defeat the local defenders and then pay to build a government office and CP in these small towns. This would bring in greater tax revenues, bring more fertile land into the factions territory, offer additional player spawn points and allow the Sicilian faction to survive even if Syracuse itself is captured by foreigners.

Now let's imagine a group of thirty enterprising players form a cabal, and seeing the King's defenses in one of these outlying towns is weak, they kill the guards and take control of the government offices and thus the CP. They will have the option to form and name a new faction, and if they do, to elect their own ruler.

Let's now imagine the ruler of Carthage sends a military expedition to capture Syracuse and this force takes the city and the CP. The cabal which actually takes the CP has the choice to make it a new Carthaginian CP, or to declare a new faction. The King of Carthage had better trust his military commanders.

Carthaginians

Sicilians

Romans

Persians

Athenians

Spartans

Alexandrians

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