And you have to be a serious player to get your character to the level where garrisons are available. Anybody, at a very high level, can have a Garrison in Wow. I’m not making a detailed comparison, but a high level remark. I didn’t study all the details, but I saw a video describing their plans. Let’s compare Sky Castles with what Wow has done. Player housing might be seen as too expensive of real estate in the game and it might be if it didn’t use instances. The big thing recently in MMOs is Housing, or Guild Housing. Twitch Stream describing Sky Castles Sky Castles DescribedĬheck out minute 28 or so to start the sky castle description. So, eventually, Tera scrapped the whole Vanarch thing.īut they seem to have this thing for Elitist features that benefit the largest guilds and their leaders rather than building in features that benefit the large populations in the game. Basically the only power they had that meant anything to the vast majority of voters was setting the taxes that the NPCs charged on transactions, and Duh, everyone voted for the guild leader that promised zero taxes.
Back then, maybe two years ago, there were a few – 3 or 4 – Vanarchs that were elected to “govern” areas of Tera.
This is sort of like the Elitist Vanarch thing that was in force when I first joined Tera. Apparently you don’t lose all those customizations that you bought for your castle, and there are a boat load of them, but you have nowhere to display those since you no longer have a castle to show them off. Castles are awarded each quarter based on a complex formula, and if you lose ranking, then you lose your castle. Two factions – PvP and PvE, but to have access to one, you must be in one of the top 10 guilds in your faction. Read more to see the Enmass Twitch video that describes the castles.īasically there are 20 castles. Wonder why they didn’t make them for all, or many more, of us?