Combat from mounts? Giving us even more strategies to explore in PvP and PvE?....*gasp*
Anyways, you just mentioned to me in-game that campfires could be viewed as a first step toward this...I agree but I want to clarify my original intent and this new possibility, just for the benefit of whomever might be reading.
Initially I meant for everything to be built in predetermined places...you would donate the mats to a "local architect" NPC (maybe a menu pops up allowing you to choose which structure to donate to if there are several locally) and the building would go up...but I also think they should require a HUGE number of mats. This way it becomes something we all actually have to work toward.
Alternately, if we look at it from the perspective of campfires, it becomes an architect profession...which allows you to place a building foundation and add mats to it until the building is complete. This is a different idea, but just as valid in my mind. This would work as long as partially built buildings decay (and disappear eventually if left to do so), and the number of mats required to make any building are such a large amount that it would be implausable for all but the largest or most dedicated guilds or a faction/civ as a whole. Once completed, I agree that the buildings should not decay unless damaged. Once damaged, it decays and must be completed as if incompletely built.
Anyways, you just mentioned to me in-game that campfires could be viewed as a first step toward this...I agree but I want to clarify my original intent and this new possibility, just for the benefit of whomever might be reading.
Initially I meant for everything to be built in predetermined places...you would donate the mats to a "local architect" NPC (maybe a menu pops up allowing you to choose which structure to donate to if there are several locally) and the building would go up...but I also think they should require a HUGE number of mats. This way it becomes something we all actually have to work toward.
Alternately, if we look at it from the perspective of campfires, it becomes an architect profession...which allows you to place a building foundation and add mats to it until the building is complete. This is a different idea, but just as valid in my mind. This would work as long as partially built buildings decay (and disappear eventually if left to do so), and the number of mats required to make any building are such a large amount that it would be implausable for all but the largest or most dedicated guilds or a faction/civ as a whole. Once completed, I agree that the buildings should not decay unless damaged. Once damaged, it decays and must be completed as if incompletely built.