Honeybubbles
Member
My city is on the edge of an encroaching desert on my East and South with only a few regularly active players. Sometimes a few itty bitty cities land in my neighbourhood, but are unable to reciprocate with neighbourly help, only to vanish in the mist a few days later and become gold mines.
Details:
1) When visiting a goldmine, we offer the thirsty dwarf toiling there, a tankard of cold strawberry beer. Grateful, he offers to repay us with help, effective immediately. (There is already a small building under the mines.)
A popup, similar to the App for Neighbourly help, would appear offering 4 choices of help to our city: Main Hall, Builder's Hut, Culture polish, or a visit to the Dwarven Outpost Trader.
The latter would enable us to make one immediate 2* trade for Standard Goods up to a total of 10 per day.
These visits are limited to 25% of the scouted provinces in a city. If there are still goldmines available, the option to visit for gold only is still available. For browser convenience, the allocated visits to Dwarven Goldmines could be included to the Neighbours tab in the Province Overview of the world map.
Benefits:
Receiving help of our choice when surrounded by inactive cities and Goldmines.
Having more than 105% culture bonus.
A trader is immediately available to newbie cities in the desert.
It becomes fashionable to live off the grid.
Decimating tickets to Support re moving.
Cons:
Cannot think of any.
2) Reverse the Neighbourly Help system.
When visiting a neighbour, we receive immediate polishing to our choice of Main Hall, Builder's Hut or Culture.
The neighbour then has the choice of using our help when it suits them to their own preference.
The golden handshake would still apply. It would not affect the Archive Neighbourly Perks.
Benefits:
Control over when and what type of help is received irrespective of time zone differences.
Receiving help when team mates away on holidays.
Receiving help from smaller cities who are too far to reciprocate.
Receiving help from all our neighbours!
Cons:
Only to lazy neighbours who cannot be bothered!
All the above can be automated by having a checkbox in the Game Play tab or Profile section where Neighbourhood preferences are listed 1, 2, 3, and 4 with a default if they are not checked.
Details:
1) When visiting a goldmine, we offer the thirsty dwarf toiling there, a tankard of cold strawberry beer. Grateful, he offers to repay us with help, effective immediately. (There is already a small building under the mines.)
A popup, similar to the App for Neighbourly help, would appear offering 4 choices of help to our city: Main Hall, Builder's Hut, Culture polish, or a visit to the Dwarven Outpost Trader.
The latter would enable us to make one immediate 2* trade for Standard Goods up to a total of 10 per day.
These visits are limited to 25% of the scouted provinces in a city. If there are still goldmines available, the option to visit for gold only is still available. For browser convenience, the allocated visits to Dwarven Goldmines could be included to the Neighbours tab in the Province Overview of the world map.
Benefits:
Receiving help of our choice when surrounded by inactive cities and Goldmines.
Having more than 105% culture bonus.
A trader is immediately available to newbie cities in the desert.
It becomes fashionable to live off the grid.
Decimating tickets to Support re moving.
Cons:
Cannot think of any.
When visiting a neighbour, we receive immediate polishing to our choice of Main Hall, Builder's Hut or Culture.
The neighbour then has the choice of using our help when it suits them to their own preference.
The golden handshake would still apply. It would not affect the Archive Neighbourly Perks.
Benefits:
Control over when and what type of help is received irrespective of time zone differences.
Receiving help when team mates away on holidays.
Receiving help from smaller cities who are too far to reciprocate.
Receiving help from all our neighbours!
Cons:
Only to lazy neighbours who cannot be bothered!
All the above can be automated by having a checkbox in the Game Play tab or Profile section where Neighbourhood preferences are listed 1, 2, 3, and 4 with a default if they are not checked.
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