http://www.renaissancekingdoms.com/
For those who don't know anything of the game
You begin in a small village with a few hundred other inhabitants. It will take you some time to fully get to know the game and to explore all the different things in Renaissance Kingdoms. But at the beginning, your first mission is to survive and to integrate yourself into your village. With the intention to let you learn/understand the basic mechanisms of the game, and to get to know some of the people that live in your town (make contacts).
Personal opinion and experience
When I started playing (in 2 weeks that will be 5 years ago), the game wasn’t as advanced as it is now. Though you still hear people complain so much about this is bugged and that needs changing… but I guess that says more about those people then the game. Anyway, we always used to say that the game was based on the forums because really everything used to happen there. You couldn’t fight wars with armies or anything yet, so people used to either just revolt in towns, or role-play (RP) it on the forums. Many other things also happen on the forum which can’t yet in the game, of which some things that I don’t like so much; for example wedding RP’s or baby showers.
These days you can do a lot more ingame, but you seriously can’t do without the forums. People who try the game and never go onto the forums will abandon the game in no time. Basically all you will be doing then with your character is feed it and work each day, and after a while you’ll level up. That sort of playing would only take 5 minutes a day from your time, can’t really call that enjoyable in my opinion. So, what I wanted to say is that if you’re not a role-playing fanatic you shouldn’t play the game. The quality of the RP’s goes down as people who aren’t playing the game for that reason jump in one of the open (or sometimes even closed) RP’s and go ruin it.
But I have to confess I don’t visit the forums anymore as much as I used to, mainly because I’m not RP’ing much since my character lives miles away from his wife at the moment. Hope that will change soon with the sea lanes they finally implemented a few weeks back. But I seriously don’t think so, I would rather RP on a private forum then. There are all sorts of reasons, but one of the main is that some people… well, to simply put it they can’t RP in the right time spirit. Maybe to come back on the wedding RP’s: you got people posting all kinds of pictures there in an RP. Ok, no problem you would think… yeah maybe not if electricity would have been invented in the Renaissance. Also fashion, god, I hate people posting these modern wedding dresses… even avatars or signatures on the forums sometimes annoys me. You go play a game that’s situated in the Renaissance, then play like you should and have your character live in the Renaissance.
Mayors and Councils
And that brings me to how the towns and counties are run. This is also done by players. You put up an election list for the county with some people, or you run solo for mayor as member of a party or an independent candidate. Now again, a large part happens on the forum and if you’re familiar with irl American elections you’ll have no problems getting elected. That said, mayor elections are held every 30 days, and council elections every 60 days. How you get elected? Well, the one with the most votes wins; so the more people vote for you, the better.
The county council is made up of 12 people who get to fill in different positions, all with their own specific task. In short: someone sits at the head of the table, someone take cares of the treasury and trade, someone is responsible for the mines, another for upholding the law, etc. And of course like in irl, you got elected people who are corrupt… like all of them if you ask me. Just joking, you got good people too. Either way, it pretty much works like it does in real life.
Laws and criminals
And like in real life, you have laws you have to obey. Of course some people choose not to and live the life of a criminal. Laws are written by the people in power, so like them, these laws can be really unjust. Until recently if you did something wrong and it was reported to the public prosecutor, you would be prosecuted and have had to defend yourself in Court by the push of a magical button.
There was little you could do to prevent it, of course fleeing from the county works to prevent this as they cannot file lawsuits if you’re not on their ground anymore. But the ‘police’ or someone else didn’t have to find and arrest you first, which isn’t really fair, so there was really little attraction to playing the bad guy.
With my character I used to be a big criminal too and luckily I’ve not often been victim of the magical button. And when I was, I used to go to the Court of Appeal and until now I’ve won each case there; mainly because I could always prove the judge was biased. But it sometimes is a drag, and I can understand why most people don’t take the effort of going there.
And again free only goes this far ...
Anyway, I said ‘until recently’ a bit earlier because they have added a new option you can unlock for a short period of time (20 days) with real life money. This option would make you invisible on the town’s list (when you’re in a town you’re name normally is on the list of inhabitants), and you won’t be able to be prosecuted.
Also there is a new option there that will allow you to change your name. Where as in the past you would have had to let your character die and start over (multi-accounting is not allowed). This option can only be used once a month though. And about changing your character’s look hasn’t been said anything yet, so if you’re not happy with how Jah made you, you’ll still have to let your character die to start over. But maybe that’s something for the future.
And next to that there were some other new good and useful additions to the shop. I think that’s great news… if you got a lot of money, or if you want to spend it on this game.
Part 2
I could say so much alot more about Renaissance Kingdoms because it’s pretty big, but I am going to end it here for now and I would like to thank you for still being here. :) Next week, we'll move to Part 2 then in which we'll say a bit more about the daily routine and the new player experience.
For those who don't know anything of the game
You begin in a small village with a few hundred other inhabitants. It will take you some time to fully get to know the game and to explore all the different things in Renaissance Kingdoms. But at the beginning, your first mission is to survive and to integrate yourself into your village. With the intention to let you learn/understand the basic mechanisms of the game, and to get to know some of the people that live in your town (make contacts).
Personal opinion and experience
When I started playing (in 2 weeks that will be 5 years ago), the game wasn’t as advanced as it is now. Though you still hear people complain so much about this is bugged and that needs changing… but I guess that says more about those people then the game. Anyway, we always used to say that the game was based on the forums because really everything used to happen there. You couldn’t fight wars with armies or anything yet, so people used to either just revolt in towns, or role-play (RP) it on the forums. Many other things also happen on the forum which can’t yet in the game, of which some things that I don’t like so much; for example wedding RP’s or baby showers.
These days you can do a lot more ingame, but you seriously can’t do without the forums. People who try the game and never go onto the forums will abandon the game in no time. Basically all you will be doing then with your character is feed it and work each day, and after a while you’ll level up. That sort of playing would only take 5 minutes a day from your time, can’t really call that enjoyable in my opinion. So, what I wanted to say is that if you’re not a role-playing fanatic you shouldn’t play the game. The quality of the RP’s goes down as people who aren’t playing the game for that reason jump in one of the open (or sometimes even closed) RP’s and go ruin it.
But I have to confess I don’t visit the forums anymore as much as I used to, mainly because I’m not RP’ing much since my character lives miles away from his wife at the moment. Hope that will change soon with the sea lanes they finally implemented a few weeks back. But I seriously don’t think so, I would rather RP on a private forum then. There are all sorts of reasons, but one of the main is that some people… well, to simply put it they can’t RP in the right time spirit. Maybe to come back on the wedding RP’s: you got people posting all kinds of pictures there in an RP. Ok, no problem you would think… yeah maybe not if electricity would have been invented in the Renaissance. Also fashion, god, I hate people posting these modern wedding dresses… even avatars or signatures on the forums sometimes annoys me. You go play a game that’s situated in the Renaissance, then play like you should and have your character live in the Renaissance.
Mayors and Councils
And that brings me to how the towns and counties are run. This is also done by players. You put up an election list for the county with some people, or you run solo for mayor as member of a party or an independent candidate. Now again, a large part happens on the forum and if you’re familiar with irl American elections you’ll have no problems getting elected. That said, mayor elections are held every 30 days, and council elections every 60 days. How you get elected? Well, the one with the most votes wins; so the more people vote for you, the better.
The county council is made up of 12 people who get to fill in different positions, all with their own specific task. In short: someone sits at the head of the table, someone take cares of the treasury and trade, someone is responsible for the mines, another for upholding the law, etc. And of course like in irl, you got elected people who are corrupt… like all of them if you ask me. Just joking, you got good people too. Either way, it pretty much works like it does in real life.
Laws and criminals
And like in real life, you have laws you have to obey. Of course some people choose not to and live the life of a criminal. Laws are written by the people in power, so like them, these laws can be really unjust. Until recently if you did something wrong and it was reported to the public prosecutor, you would be prosecuted and have had to defend yourself in Court by the push of a magical button.
There was little you could do to prevent it, of course fleeing from the county works to prevent this as they cannot file lawsuits if you’re not on their ground anymore. But the ‘police’ or someone else didn’t have to find and arrest you first, which isn’t really fair, so there was really little attraction to playing the bad guy.
With my character I used to be a big criminal too and luckily I’ve not often been victim of the magical button. And when I was, I used to go to the Court of Appeal and until now I’ve won each case there; mainly because I could always prove the judge was biased. But it sometimes is a drag, and I can understand why most people don’t take the effort of going there.
And again free only goes this far ...
Anyway, I said ‘until recently’ a bit earlier because they have added a new option you can unlock for a short period of time (20 days) with real life money. This option would make you invisible on the town’s list (when you’re in a town you’re name normally is on the list of inhabitants), and you won’t be able to be prosecuted.
Also there is a new option there that will allow you to change your name. Where as in the past you would have had to let your character die and start over (multi-accounting is not allowed). This option can only be used once a month though. And about changing your character’s look hasn’t been said anything yet, so if you’re not happy with how Jah made you, you’ll still have to let your character die to start over. But maybe that’s something for the future.
And next to that there were some other new good and useful additions to the shop. I think that’s great news… if you got a lot of money, or if you want to spend it on this game.
Part 2
I could say so much alot more about Renaissance Kingdoms because it’s pretty big, but I am going to end it here for now and I would like to thank you for still being here. :) Next week, we'll move to Part 2 then in which we'll say a bit more about the daily routine and the new player experience.
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I agree with you about the RP showers and weddings that aren't even close to being set in the renaissance period. I get asked to participate and then cringe a bit when I see that. Then again I don't want to ruin anyone elses fun with my preferences so I look past that even if inside I'm annoyed.
Like real life, you don't have to like the Hawaiian print tafetta ballgowns the bride chose for her attendants, someone else's wedding isn't about you. ;P I agree though--I hate seeing the modern dresses and people throwing up a picture of a plate of sushi and calling it good. On the other hand, I also don't like people who are so picky about historical accuracy that they do nothing but complain that chocolate doesn't exist yet. The game itself has corn and pics of pumpkins in the veggie fields, so obviously it's not meant to be THAT realistic.
Yeah, I agree. I only think there is one county (Holland) that changed the name of corn ingame to a more historical accurate name. But I myself am not going to cry about minor details like that. We got ships and we can discover America soon... not very accurate, but that's no real problem. I don't want to play exactly like it used to be in the past, I can read history books for that. It's just the feeling of being in that age, really getting into the skin and mind of a person that could have lived back then. So, even though the game might not be meant to be that realistic, you should still get the feeling of being there, back then. No?
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