I opened this topic because I’m curious what are the most chosen settlements for buying a house, doing trading/crafting or fighting for.
Of couse, this will be a feedback post because I think AGS can learn alot from this and I’ll be posting my own opinion as well.
For me it has to be Windsward, mainly because it’s close to map center and easily connects to 5 other teritories. I can just fast travel to my house and do a 5min sprint to Firstlight or Reekwater for example.
The second reason would be easy trading. Windsward being one of the starter areas, has inevitably become center of trading on my server. I sell all my stuf in Windsward for a quick sale and with the trading posts connected it’s even easier to buy everything i need.
The third reason and equally important to the other 2 is the access to resources. Windsward has the best resource pool available in the game in my opinion. You can find any type of ore and wood, and most common used plants such as fiber, silk and wirefiber.
A 4th reason is the confort of traveling a well designed map. I think Windsward is very well done in terms of traveling roads and access to certain areas. If you want to do faction missions you don’t have to travel too much. Often then most, all missions are in the pirate bay to the east of the settlement. I personally wish more maps were designed like this but they’re not. For example, I think Mourningdale is terrible in terms of travel design and landmark positioning.
I think the competition between settlements shouldn’t be on equal terms. Teritories like Mourningdale or Cutlass keys should have something better to offer to make up for the lack of good travel design, resources acess or good positioning on the map. Players need to feel motivated to visit other settlements. Having Everfall and Windsward being most popular areas is already impacting wars and economy.
With all this said, I’d love to hear what you think.
Best regards.