I've been wondering the distance on that actually.The entirety of Altera is only 16km wide. *shrug*
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I've been wondering the distance on that actually.The entirety of Altera is only 16km wide. *shrug*
North is north of the equator.Especially since it's kinda in the north....
As said the favor is mainly RP - Think about it from this angle:It's the one right next to spawn, which everyone can get to for free, so I'm afraid you'll have to explain a bit more as to how it unfairly and "immensely" favors the southern cities.
If your character was devoted enough to their god, time/distance wouldn't be a factor. I think it'd be more insulting to the God/Goddess of your worship if you were basically going about things the lazy way, and simply making a homemade shrine nearby. But that's just how I think, I guess.North is north of the equator.
As said the favor is mainly RP - Think about it from this angle:
Why would someone travel over half the globe to do something they could do on their own continent too?
And its not exactly free either - it costs IC-Time.
Depending on where your character lives travel times could actually come up to 1 month or more IC time.
And while there are people doing it nowadays, we got something altera doesn't have - giant steel/bauxite birds bringing us and all our luggage from one end of the globe to the other within 48 hours.
Theoretically speaking the amount of prayers that staff has to read shouldn't even change much at all, since if people pray because they want it count, they will just move their prayers to the cathedral instead.
Its basically the same as with Port Silver. RP (in this case specifically religious one) is now centralized at one point - which was as far as I remember a good portion of the reason PS got canned for good.
Our characters can believe our prayers are still heard in our own personal region shrines. They just won't be .. "heard" as loudly as the ones in the Grand Shrine in roleplay "reality".I wouldn't say we folks should stop praying in our own shrines or homes. It helps with character development on your own, regardless. With the divines being more faint now, one can assume voices and prayers can probably be heard more stronger/better in the Grand Shrine.
Why would someone travel over half the globe to do something they could do on their own continent too?
And its not exactly free either - it costs IC-Time.
Depending on where your character lives travel times could actually come up to 1 month or more IC time.
And while there are people doing it nowadays, we got something altera doesn't have - giant steel/bauxite birds bringing us and all our luggage from one end of the globe to the other within 48 hours.
I am okay with this. It'd make it "muted," like Solus explained, but would help us keep track of it.How about typing your prayer in the Catherdral but mentioning it was actually prayed at "X" Shrine in the prayer as an OOC note. That way staff can keep up with the prayers easier and folks can still use their fancy temples IC. If it turns out a place is used a lot for a large prayer group staff could then see if their is merit to adding another place to the plugin.
What might happen... someday... eventually... if it is ENTIRELY player driven, mind you, but has enough support to be sustained, is that gods could have main temples that aren't actually at the Grand Cathedral.I totally understand the reasons behind doing it this way, and it truly doesn't bother me, but let's be honest, the placement and construction of the Grand Shrine has never made any sense.
That said, if it makes it easier for the staff, I'm all for it!
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE-prophet
If there's enough interest, we may do this, we just didn't have any mechanics on the backend for it at the time.I really like this actually, I tried it out for the first time and I can say I felt thoroughly impressed! I dunno if you are able to manually edit the rep with other gods for people, but if there was any spare time it would be cool if that could be possible! but obviously not for every other god, just their god of choice, Perhaps.
Totally fine! cant wait!If there's enough interest, we may do this, we just didn't have any mechanics on the backend for it at the time.