6 faction problem

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6 factions sounds great and all, but how are you going to implement 6 factions over a small community as it is right now? We barely get 60-70 players at events let alone without events. What about commoners? Independant Nobles? Organisations? 



With the option of 6 factions youre gonna have 2-3 big factions and the others will be small. FLS will try to lure everyone they can to their faction and the ones that are less popular will be stuck with less people making it unbalanced for the others. Then theres a matter of commoners and/or organisations. Will there be enough to do for them? And will they have enough players to fill in these spots? As for independant Nobility, will they be a thing and have place in the scenario? 

I see 6 factions as a problem because of the current community size, unless you can bring 80-100 people on launch day and after. Which is just not happening. And what culture are all factions going to be? If you have 3 Swadian 3 Vaegir its going to be a 3v3, if you have more Swadian less Vaegir its going to be unbalanced for the Vaegirs and vice versa, Will Nords be a part of the scenario? 

[conchobar]

Those six factions will each be "smaller than the traditional factions seen in past Warband RP scenarios" (see the announcement), i.e. none will be bigger than seven or eight on launch day. Since we've got plenty of nobles to begin with, I don't we're going to encourage indie nobles, but there's no established policy on that or on orgs as far as I know. Traditionally orgs have been things like mercenary outfits, medical clinics, and mercantile enterprises. Given the deliberately volatile political environment, I don't think physicians or sellswords are going to have any shortage of work. And I don't think there's any reason to expect that a thrifty merchant's odds of success are worse here than on any prior scenarios - we're actually thinking of ways to make off-map connections available to players who've earned it. So if these kinds of ventures are your preferred playstyle, Krenn 5 should in fact be a pretty good fit.