Dawntide Roleplayers Group

If I were to make my own faction, it would be in the Dutch East India Company model, perhaps portraying a trading outpost/colony/hub/port in the Dawntide world of the larger company. Like the DEIC, its objective would be securing economic domination with a thriving network of craftsman and securing these interests with the company’s military arm. In Dawntide, I would hope for this faction’s settlement to be a beacon of commerce, where merchants could gather safely in a thriving trade environment. RP wise, I think this setup offers a lot of versatility in participation and offers a common goal to be proud of (developing the trading hub). I only played for a few days in Dawntide before it went offline for its makeover, but if there are any experienced players who would like to help start this idea, I’m all in.

I’m an experienced RP mmo guy, mostly from SWG days. As far as RP-PvP is concerned, I am not someone who is going to start over a new character because my guy got killed by some bandit. I will certainly play to injury, robbery, disease, poisoning, etc., of what events may unravel, but I refuse to kill my character in the course of RP.

I like the Company model more the Doge model. I think people would feel more involved if they were shareholders or “companymen” rather than subjects, but that’s just my preference. The general idea is solid though.

If we do our jobs right, we won’t have to worry about your last point. If we build it, they will come. If we’re a major supplier of a variety of goods that can be safely assembled and traded or even just a safe meeting place, it will be a natural hub of activity. In SWG’s hayday, there were many player cities that demanded far more attention than the main NPC cities, and towards the end, the highest density of players sometimes happened to be in the RP cities.

Dawntide has been known, atleast to its players to come up with its own names of Islands, and areas..

As the hansa means league of trading cities, I dont see it as fiting since we will only need to build one city..

Better yet, why not just run it through a faction with a city already, or have a large hand in building it, with property rights, with our own port, market, and headquarters.
It would be a private company of course.

He would need to be by the sea, as in the old world( I dont know about the one that is being built) boats are how we got around.

• This reply was modified 140 days ago by  LordWiese.

Not so much, it would be seprate from the government, but maybe pay taxes if that faction wished it…

There is some limited naming by the devs, such as the name of large areas, and the few NPC cities, but hey, we govern the regions, and our cities, village, forest etc, so why not name them ourselves? lol

Even if I have not played for a great period of time, I do have some experience regarding Sea oriented factions. The Seafolk were the first and only faction I created. With the only purpose to explore the world, however with certain faction goals. Ships is the best way to transport goods and is definatly vital for a trading faction.

I think its extremely important to underline that it is an RP faction you want. Rather than it becoming a blend. Blend factions (those involving both RP and non RP) offers a alot of confusion. If we can manage to create a city of trade, RP trade, which also could be developed into a center for RP. It would attract a lot of people. A “hotspot” for RP is invaluable in a game.

In regards to what I said above I don’t think it would be benefitial for an RP community to get involved in larger factions that’s generally non-RPers. If they’re not RPers they usually don’t share the same goals as the RP-community.

What I’ve always found very intersting is the development/evolvement RP of guilds. As faction names will be open for renaming I’d really like to see RP factions evolve just like a real civilisation. Starting out close to primitive to then gather more people and become more civilised. This kind of evolvement usually offers the guild to grow at its own pace. Not becoming too “small” for its purpose (as mentioned before, a faction of 5 people is not an army, etc) or too big for its concept.

On another note I think its important that RPers help eachother with mutual wish to see one and another succeed. There’s no space for out of character competition within an RP-community as it usually raises out of character problems. The more we help eachother with one and anothers ideas and offer a supportive hand to those who have plans of creation, the community will soon enough flourish into something beautiful.

With that said I’d just like to offer my personal help in aiding your idea Bstiat. Even if a nomadic guild sounds more interesting for me personally, there’s no point in having one wihtout a center of trade/rp.

Well, I already have run my own city while I was inside KoM, and it works out really well because the other members in KoM come there as guest and such.

But if you want a pure RP faction as well, im down with that, you will need fighters though.