An idea for a 4x building game

[micaz]

A new game? What? Why? As you can see I am fairly new to Eurobricks. There has been one thing I have been looking at mostly and that is the four major building games on the forum. All of them seem great, however for me  being a boardgamer/pc strategyplayer I want a building game with more game mechanics. Therefore I propose a new thing:

Building RPG set in the era of castle fantasy with elements of 4x (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate).

Each player or group start by making a faction (name, colours, culture and buildig style (for buildings ofc), how the faction is ruled and landscape, what they are good/bad at. Each player has a character as well that he/she follows. 

Each factions gets a portion of the map under their control. The game? By building mocs player are to build up their factions economy, infrastructure, army and can engage in wars and conquer other factiones lands. Events will be occuring which factions can respond to with a moc. 

Examples: Most things are tied up to reasources. Do you want to make a big castle which will make your land hard to conquer? You will need stone! Either through trade or by building say a quarry which produces it. Raise an army? You will need to show them training if you want them to be good soldiers, and each month pay for their upkeep. Build a blacksmith to produce weapons which you can trade or equupt your army with.  Skeleton invasion from the north? Build a moc where you defend your lands. And so on and so forth. Conquering and destroying what palyers have built will be possible but will be hard and requiere alot of time and effort, and in the end might fail if the defender puts up a good defence.

I am tyring to keep this post to a minimal and just give a understanding of what I hope it can become, I have a more fleshed out plan. What do you think? Something you could see yourself joining and contributing to? Bad, good, excellent or stupid idea?

Edited October 18, 2018 by micaz

[MiloNelsiano]

I don’t want to say that your idea is a bad idea, because it’s not, but I don’t think it will work right now. As you mentioned there are already several building RPGs here, and each time a new one gets added, participation in others is reduced. I really can’t see there being enough builders interested in supporting 2 medieval games on Eurobricks. GoH has had certain elements you’ve mentioned in the past (search for the Kaliphlin civil War). BoBS also has similar elements, but is in a pirate setting. You’d be welcome to check those out in more detail!