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I stopped playing in mid-April and kept telling myself I should come to this thread and spend a little time allowing my holdings to be transferred over to someone in Farra. Went to the LoL site today to see how many active players there are and decided to check to see if my chars were still alive or not. They're dead, and I was glad to see you all were able to seize control of Swill and Undermantle anyway.

I would've played this game a lot more if I was in the hardcore gaming phase of my life. It had a lot to offer but was just too much of a time and energy commitment for me to sustain it beyond the six months I gave the game. Someone mentioned their cat likes chestnuts in a Discord chat related to my professional industry just now and I thought to myself, "Remember when you used to care about picking chestnuts on a daily basis? Weird."

This will likely/hopefully be the last computer game I play seriously until I am a happily retired old man. My favorite memories are how many people showed up for the Kingdom forming party for the Little Bay and all the conversations I had with King Salvo, my unexpected new friend from Uruguay. I see he has died off too. For a game as complex and grindy as this was, it really was the human relationships that sustained one's enthusiasm.

It will be interesting to see if LoL can continue on in a healthy way. It has its merits, but gamers have a lot of choices these days and you need a critical mass of a very specific type of gamer to breath sufficient life into this one.

I'm Datgum/datgum on Metalsmiths (it's not in the OP).

Whoops, I thought I did, but I must not have saved it. Sorry. Done.

http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.20/clans/quinnr.html - is what the tournament page is showing right now.

Time to get a 15-rune win after the tournament version is locked in, but before the tournament actually starts, then catch the flu for the actual tournament, so I can't focus at all! So I'm so on the ball this time that I already developed a fever this afternoon. -_-

Grats

For me this seems like the best mobile game for work-days I've seen so far, it doesn't take much time to assign the actions a few times a day and its comparatively deep enough to hold attention without being a clicker. It's like a bonsai tree for the mind, a sort of meditative time-waster befitting a PC gamer. I can go for a walk out of office, get a coffee and have something to fill in the blanks with. For what it is, I think its very good.

This is where I am at with it too. If you work at a computer all day you can make a lot of progress in five-minute bursts throughout the day, day after day, week after week, month after month.

Building up domains, dealing with diplomacy, working with allies, and watching the world evolve has continued to keep me interested. Who knows how long that will last.

I let it take up too much of my life for the first 2-3 months. Sucks, but at least I have two very developed domains that I can now inch towards automation at a much more languid pace. At least once a week I do have to sit down for a couple hours and get a domain squared away, train the new settlers I bring in, and update the rather lengthy text file where I write down all the projects I need to do.

It is definitely an intense and potentially time-consuming game. If you don't genuinely enjoy it then you will never stick with it long term. And if you do genuinely enjoy it, you still might not.

My big breakthrough occurred when I stepped away from the game for a few days and realized, oh, nothing bad happened, my progress slowed down a little bit, and I don't care.

How many more posts would this thread have if the title was "Land of Lords: Game of Thrones-esque browser MMO"?

Yes, absolutely talk to your neighbor. You have no idea what they are like. Friendships are one of the most powerful assets you can have in the game.

And use the majority of your tokens to harvest crops, plow new fields, and make hay fields.