Arbotross wrote:well if your still taking suggestions on game play you should make it so the castle can bombard other players "artillery and camp". if someone went through the effort of taking the castle they should be rewarded some how. This way there is more motivation to attack the castle, someone could disable their opponents by taking the castle first and risk being removed from the game if they wait too long and let build up.
Otherwise I can see most of these maps going on forever until someone decides to attack the castle and give another player the win
if not you should come up with some way for players to get more armies for playing well(not lucky drops) so stop the game from stalemating
maybe have a handful of smaller castles(not attached to what you have already) that each player would have to defend in addition to the real objective of taking the main castle, this would go along with your theme and make the map more popular(almost for sure because unless there is something I'm not seeing these games will last for a long time so freemium won't play it much and the rest of us may get bored of build up games after a little while)
have each player get there own castle to defend(in the more or less same style as the actual castle) with a starting amount of 10(if thats possible if not just have the siege point be a number large enough that the first round people shouldn't be able to take it) and an additional 2 or 3 troops a turn while it is held by a player
i think your confused
take the castle = win the game
so why would it need a bonus???
because if there is no way to effect the rate everyone gets troops than everyone will HAVE to build up until someone is stupid enough to attack the castle, and then everyone attacks whoever has the castle and usually whoever attacks it last will win, you don't win as soon as you take the castle you have to wait until the start of your next turn.
the other bonus stuff is there so that it isn't completely even which would cause a stalemate from the start which would cause games to last forever otherwise if everyone knew what they were doing
EDIT: I think I relies what you meant, the reason so by able to attack the artillery points from the castle so that whoever takes initiative to take the castle could potentially take some of their competitors out of the game during the ensuing struggle to hold the castle
