TERA's political system has been shrouded in mystery for some time now, despite allusions to it in various producer and community manager interviews that En Masse Entertainment has given out over the past few months. Thanks to a video interview captured at Gamescom by a member of the Glimpse Dog fan website, we now have a bit more of an idea as to how the feature will play out.
The video is part four of a five-part series, and features live TERA gameplay interspersed with commentary by the reporter and an unnamed TERA employee who drops several nuggets of information about the political system. Among them are the fact that the system currently features lordships and kingships. TERA's world is divided into regions that will be able to elect a lord via citizen vote and also via an unspecified PvP mechanic. Details on citizenship and voting privileges were sketchy, and it seems the system is still under heavy development.
Once a lordship is obtained, players may then apply for kingship, which also features an election mechanic and grants sovereignty over a particular city. Kings also control taxes and have an unspecified level of control over how monsters spawn in their part of the world. Check out the video after the cut or the full series at Glimpse Dog.
Reader Comments (20)
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 3:12PM Seraphina Brennan said
All of TERA's political system aside... that character creation shot looks incredibly derpy. It's his eyes.
~Sera
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~Sera
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 3:23PM (Unverified) said
You won't see it in-game though, since no-one will be playing a male character in this game.
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Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 5:08PM (Unverified) said
@Knob: Female players will be playing male characters :D
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Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 9:54PM kjhasdfjkhk said
I don't think everyone is as hard up for sex as you apparently seem to be. Not everyone gets off from computer generated polygons, nor do they want to pretend to be a girl in a game that is meant to simulate a life.
Also, about the system specs, they already released them a while back. They aren't for the final build though, and these are minimum:
• Intel Core Duo 2 Processor
• 2 GB RAM
• NVidia GeForce 7600 or ATI Radeon X1800 GTO
About half of what FFXIV require, and it looks 10 times better. Funny, the things you can do with a half decent engine. Oh Square-Enix, when will you learn? Runs on Unreal 3 so it's pretty optimized for PC at this point, should run pretty smooth and not use too much system resources.
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Also, about the system specs, they already released them a while back. They aren't for the final build though, and these are minimum:
• Intel Core Duo 2 Processor
• 2 GB RAM
• NVidia GeForce 7600 or ATI Radeon X1800 GTO
About half of what FFXIV require, and it looks 10 times better. Funny, the things you can do with a half decent engine. Oh Square-Enix, when will you learn? Runs on Unreal 3 so it's pretty optimized for PC at this point, should run pretty smooth and not use too much system resources.
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 11:40PM Addfwyn said
@kjrandomletters
I dunno, while I like the look of Tera, I think I prefer the style of FFXIV still, but I also probably will be playing FFXIV on PS3, so may check Tera out on the computer.
Also yes, that guy looks strange. I think it's his huge Chin of Manliness.
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I dunno, while I like the look of Tera, I think I prefer the style of FFXIV still, but I also probably will be playing FFXIV on PS3, so may check Tera out on the computer.
Also yes, that guy looks strange. I think it's his huge Chin of Manliness.
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 2:34AM (Unverified) said
@kjhasdfjkhk: I do know the difference between real-life and an in-game environment, thank you very much. Kudos to you on assuming things about other people, no really. Maybe next time you'll stop frothing at your mouth long enough to come up with a name that is an actual word.
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Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 4:04PM (Unverified) said
Dear massively,
I'm not sure if you have any set rules for linking but it keeps confusing me as sometimes clicking on the image takes me to the article and sometimes to the article source. I click the games name and it shows me related articles and sometimes it takes me to the game's website. Sometimes it is super handy and sometimes I do one expecting the other only to have my face go X_x.
I was thinking maybe you guys could template things so you just had a (via: XXX) at the end of the articles to site the source and maybe a link to the website for the game the article talks about. This way all inter-article linking could just be for massively.
Just a suggestion ^_^
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I'm not sure if you have any set rules for linking but it keeps confusing me as sometimes clicking on the image takes me to the article and sometimes to the article source. I click the games name and it shows me related articles and sometimes it takes me to the game's website. Sometimes it is super handy and sometimes I do one expecting the other only to have my face go X_x.
I was thinking maybe you guys could template things so you just had a (via: XXX) at the end of the articles to site the source and maybe a link to the website for the game the article talks about. This way all inter-article linking could just be for massively.
Just a suggestion ^_^
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 4:57PM Seraphina Brennan said
Charlie,
Actually, we do have a style for our links! Let me break it down for you:
1. Pictures and the source link at the bottom of the article will link back to the source of our news, unless the source is the game itself, in which case it links back to the game.
2. The first mention of a game in our articles always links to the game's website.
3. The second mention of a game in our articles always links to the category or tag section for the game, so we can show you related stories.
I hope that helps alleviate some of your confusion and your X_x.
~Sera
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Actually, we do have a style for our links! Let me break it down for you:
1. Pictures and the source link at the bottom of the article will link back to the source of our news, unless the source is the game itself, in which case it links back to the game.
2. The first mention of a game in our articles always links to the game's website.
3. The second mention of a game in our articles always links to the category or tag section for the game, so we can show you related stories.
I hope that helps alleviate some of your confusion and your X_x.
~Sera
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 5:20PM alucard3000 said
With players not having to be vested in one area and have citizenship to vote there and once they have that citizenship not be able to go to another town across the world and vote without transfering it I can see a mass zerg wave in voting friends into office.
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Posted: Sep 17th 2010 7:45AM (Unverified) said
Hi mate,
I'm actually the interviewer from the video. The guy wasn't actually saying that to me. He was saying it to his colleague. They had some sort of act going on where they pretended to hate each other during the interview. Hope that clears things up. They were actually very nice people.
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I'm actually the interviewer from the video. The guy wasn't actually saying that to me. He was saying it to his colleague. They had some sort of act going on where they pretended to hate each other during the interview. Hope that clears things up. They were actually very nice people.
Posted: Aug 23rd 2010 7:41PM Blacknimbus said
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7BU2fH3Vnw
http://tera-online.cc/gallery/renders/rases/
Who's rolling Aman?
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http://tera-online.cc/gallery/renders/rases/
Who's rolling Aman?
Posted: Aug 24th 2010 12:54PM Misterlee said
The way they explain the political system sounds like a nightmare tbh, and pretty meaningless to the majority of players. So someone you probably never met/heard of/seen can get elected to be 'king', raise taxes so they get more money and make less mobs spawn in one area or another. So what? How does that make the game more interesting or fun to play for 99% of the people? I really can't see any point in it other than to encourage guilds to recruit as many people as they can just to get more votes.
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