eh?! Castle Raid =D

[vitor]

Prepare the army, The 2 paladins and the dwarves defenders on front, The Fighters on left and right...
 The Clerics and mages on middle, casting fireballs and snowstorms, clerics healing the warriors, aiding those who need...
 The arcane archers shoting, helping the warriors on frontline.

 well, imagine a castle raid? it would be Soooooooo Coooool, archers defending the castle, the warriors coming from inside, the clerics, defending with their storms of vengeance, sitted near the castle walls, a war for peace.
 i think it would be very cool, the scouting... the attack... and the victory (or maybe not, the survivors, just experient rogues and scouts...)

Nice eh?! i think it is...

=D

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

greatt romances please!!!!!!!!

Just, y'know, trying to blend. Obviously not working.

Anyway... I imagine, based not on information in your post but instead upon my meager INT score, that you're talking about the retaking of Pranzis. Sure, there are a lot of cool-sounding ways to do it, but honestly, is there any point to retake the city, now?

[Filatus]

You really don't want the mages to casts snowstorms. This gives the enemy ample opportunity to counter with throwing snowballs. And we all know how bad a snowball in the face is for troup moral.

[darkstorme]

And you run the risk of having Otiluke's Three Freezing Spheres and Top Hat cast back at you.  By'r ladykin, a parlous fear!

And, SZ - that is some masterful repartee.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

Thanks, DS - I'm just trying to compete with Ozy and Doc.

Nice spell, though. *He chuckles.* Though it can't be more than a third-level Conjuration.

[FlameStrike]

Getting back on topic, i think it's a nice idea and all, however, i don't think it fits Layo if it's meant to be an 'instance' like those found on other games such as WoW and Lineage 2. There aren't any sieges happening that often to justify a creation of an arena for this purpose, at least seeing it in a RP perspective.
 On the PvP and similar to the Arena that is already implemented, yes i think it would be fun, but there are already many servers out there with a castle raid system, i think.
 

 I agree with Stephen when he mentioned it could be happening when the retaking of Pranzis is taking place, though.

[Thak]

*pokes NWN2 with a ten foot stick* :p

[darkstorme]

Well, and furthermore, the NWN server construction isn't robust enough to deal with massive PvP assaults without loss of speed/coherence.  It's a small-party server - PWs make it do things that it was never meant to do.  (Not that they don't do it well, but it's still not designed for Soooooo Coooooooool castle raids.

[vitor]

i was not supposing a PvP, something like, the orcs start to build a fortress, then, prepare the team, to "try" to defeat them, maybe inside of it, some reward for the brave army. not an impossible thing i think, it can be done... =D

[vitor]

i was not supposing a PvP, something like, the orcs start to build a fortress, then, prepare the team, to "try" to defeat them, maybe inside of it, some reward for the brave army. not an impossible thing i think, it could be done... =D

[darkstorme]

Except we've been told that the current area of the respective servers is already pushing the area limit for a NWN server... and switching out a section of the module on the fly would be hugely disruptive.  In addition, there are HUNDREDS of locations that require a coordinated assault to make your way into.  This is, in fact, the point of soloing being nearly impossible in Layo.

So if it's not PvP, there's nothing new about your idea - you can find it everywhere.  Enjoy!