A change to Allanaki Markets

[DustMight]

A change I long for in Allanak is to have the merchant house offices and barracks and everything integrated in with the market area.  I remember in old Tuluk there were offices above the shops and you could watch (virtually, I think - don't know if coded windows were available at that time) the comings and goings in the marketplace.

It would make the business areas seem much busier and help collect people together in one area rather than have the these huge estates way the heck off yonder.

And speaking of estates, I would love to see each GMH have one and one only.  Salarr in the south (it was a southern-based house, if one remembers) Kadius in the north and Kurac in Luir's.  Doing this would not only bring the size of the estates down to reasonable (just below noble) level, but would give the traveling merchants a real feel of being away from home. 

These are dreams, but they are mine.

[AmandaGreathouse]

I really like the ideas here. Also, I would like to see the price of the goods away from the city-state of the GMH's home base increase to compensate for the shipping and risks.

[DustMight]

Fair enough. I think that's a great idea.

What do we do with the new-found real-estate?  We add more commoner slums and alleys. 

[AmandaGreathouse]

Or it could be tangled up in a future plotline, the ruined hulls of the GMH's left as ruins because it's more cost efficient, they could be made public access and the same quit and save rooms there are now could stay as quit/save rooms. Let teh commoners fight over them. Unless there would be a longish period of building associated with the creation of the slums/alleys. Plus, it would give a lead-in for the lack of GMH's in Arm 2.

[FantasyWriter]

Or it could be tangled up in a future plotline, the ruined hulls of the GMH's left as ruins because it's more cost efficient, they could be made public access and the same quit and save rooms there are now could stay as quit/save rooms. Let teh commoners fight over them. Unless there would be a longish period of building associated with the creation of the slums/alleys. Plus, it would give a lead-in for the lack of GMH's in Arm 2.

PC Gang hangouts... bring on the mafia.

[Voular]

I really like the ideas here. Also, I would like to see the price of the goods away from the city-state of the GMH's home base increase to compensate for the shipping and risks.

Certain armours/weapons/items/gems/clothing and so on from respective cities and materials associated with them are very different in price depending on where you order them from. Penalizing the north because Salarr is a southern house would just be.. merh.

[SMuz]

I think a more IC way for them to handle is to force the clans to pay an actual higher tax for estates and stuff.. that way the clans will be forced to shut down and evacuate any estates that aren't making any money unless there's a powerful player presence there. And the prices follow the active PCs in the area - would be a good experiment for the player-based economy of 2.Arm.

Heh, irony is that the northern Salarr goods seem to be quite a bit cheaper than the southern ones.

[Niamh]

It's common knowledge that after the recent Senate meeting in Allanak, taxes on the GMHs were raised.

[tortall]

I think a more IC way for them to handle is to force the clans to pay an actual higher tax for estates and stuff.. that way the clans will be forced to shut down and evacuate any estates that aren't making any money unless there's a powerful player presence there. And the prices follow the active PCs in the area - would be a good experiment for the player-based economy of 2.Arm.

Heh, irony is that the northern Salarr goods seem to be quite a bit cheaper than the southern ones.

That is because 90% of the hides used to make the goods come from creatures in the north. Also this::

It's common knowledge that after the recent Senate meeting in Allanak, taxes on the GMHs were raised.