Lets open a castle!

[Gale Buckhannah]

A warning, on my previous server the GM's started out by leaving EVERY castle open.??This allowed the server to progress very fast and a select few players/guilds became very powerful, very quickly.??It also flooded the economy with the standard castle drops, Chain Mail [1], buckler [1], and the other items were all but worthless as so many of them existed and guilds could just give them out freely.??After about a year, the GM's finally realized this was a bad idea, and closed all the castles, save four.??Of course, the damage was already done, it will take months or perhaps even a year or two for those items & players who benefitted off of them to no longer influence the game/economy.

While the thought of good gear for free may sound appealing at first, in the long run, it will hurt the server, and it's image to new players in my opinion.??Be very, very careful before opening more castles, a little foolish greed can cause balancing problems later.

One final note, the fewer the castles, the better the WoE.

~Gale Buckhannah