How about an option for when new chars are created, they have a choice of which city to arrive at and hence be a citizen of....i.e stoneglow, stonehaven, etc.  It would go well with the government and other planned and suggested ideas like community/clan/race relations.  It would also require more mapping to provide areas for all levels in each of the towns.  Community citizenship could also be used with guilds/deities/classes to determine what you can/can't learn.  Like a seaport community would have boating/fishing type skills, while an agricultural community would have leatherworking/farming, a mountain community would have smithing/mining, etc.  And spells/prayers learnable would vary as well...mountain community could have earth type, seaport could have water or elec (lots of storms), agricultural greater restoration attunement, etc.

EDIT:  probably an option for changing citizenship (along with benefits/penalties) would also be needed.

Yes, this is one of the areas of development that (IMO) would need attention before any sort of political structure would be viable.

Well Shroud, sounds interresting and I agree with the idea of a changing system so far. - I don t agree with loses of skills (or what it would be in fact exp lose). 2example to why I disagree to loses: RW: In the medival age, nearly all craftsman guilds send thier apprentices on a traval for 1-3 years (depends on guild) during that time they were suposed to learn new technics and procedures (skills) to benefit from them when thry later return. - In many RPGs there is a change of char-class possible (and has some impact on skills also) but a change of citizenship has no impact on skills. - To have changes in skills there must be a class not a town change. - In case that would be implemented I c a kind of a bonus system which is changed. -

As u may know my favorit pen/paper RPG is Rolemaster, the old system provides there a good guidline to char classes changes, level boni are frozen at the point they are before the class change, after class change new lvl boni start again from lvl 1. - Even if the overall lvl is now much higher. - E.g. a barbar decides at lvl 20 to change to the wizard class (he still has to fulfill all reqs of the new class - lol I wonder the GM would even alow that) - The char will keep the lvl boni he gained in the weapons / wilderness / animal / gymastic - categories but will start in the wizard class as a lvl 1 and gets the new lvl boni of the wizard class in magic / law / social 7 etc - exp it gained seperatly in this class, for resistans purposes the benefit he has is that the is a lvl 21 char at that point.

- I hope I was not to confusing lol

w/r bigbroni

it does in a way, because you're spending more time focusing on training your newly acquired skills that you spend less time maintaining your old ones.  and for the magic/prayers, if you're attuned fire/denied water for your original affiliation, then change and are attuned water/denied fire, you wouldn't be able to use your fire based spells even though you still know them.  or attuned healing/denied wounding and change deities to attuned wounding/denied healing.  that can also affect skills....perhaps you're in a fighter guild in one town then leave it and join a monastery and become a monk and be denied use of weaps at all.

OK, well basically the way I saw it if you transferred town and gained different ones if you retained old skills then it'd get abused and everyone would simply be a member of every town, changing whenever you wanted/needed a different skill to be use/improved. You may want that but then being a member of a specific town loses it's meaning imo

Then if skills can't be cumulative and you can only have one then you get issue of what happens to training you've done in previous skills and I saw 3 possibilities

1. A direct 1:1 transfer of XP in skills assuming each town has a similar amount of skills. So a lvl 50 farmer would become a lvl 50 fisherman etc, a lvl 50 water mage becomes a lvl 50 fire mage etc. Depending on how easy it is to change town this could mean you could change town to suit your needs for the day with no actual penalties. For example I go mining and join the mining village, then want to craft a bit so I join the crafting village, then decide to fight with my new equip and join a fighting spe****ed village etc

2. A transfer of skills but with some losses. For example let's say you had a town diety, you'd be just as skilled at using divine spells but on the other the rappore with your new god would be nearly non-existant. Also let's say you had lots of experience in farming you'd have some experience in how to care for the land etc but a veteran farmer can't become a veteran fisherman overnight, even if both areas have some common ground. % loss of XP I thought would be ok would be something like 10% of XP points. This is not same as 10% of lvls tho.

3. Reset all skills to 0. This is pretty harsh but might be closest to RL although it's not one I'd like to see in daimonin

This was the thread that lead me to post my suggestion of dynamic characters.

Don't let the game become too linear, where you're an x mage of stoneglow, with this affinity etc...a

Citizenship could work as long as it doesn't block too much. You could implement simple functions like quests to prove your worth when applying for citizenship in other towns, if you're not a citizen you get higher prices (not ridiculously though) etc. I think it should have an effect but not completely limit what you can do. I'm not saying that you should be able to be a citizen off every town since that would defeat the purpose, but just don't make it too restrictive.

If the different skill classes get implemented, you could always keep the weapons/magic/etc skills independent of citizenship and have the second class limited to it. The magic guild in the port town will teach any mage that undertakes quests magic skills since a mage is a mage and they recognize each other, but you can't learn navigation etc if you're not a citizen because it's the livelihood of the town.

i think this would be coming much later in the production of the game if at all but it does sound good. i would like to be able to make armour and weapons and produce higher quality with higher levels