Betalands Over world land pitch-
Anyone can access bought land*1, but unbought land is inaccessible until a user purchases it. Open land cannot be bought, but is rather always open to all users and has no distinct landlord. A person who buys land can then pay to set rules there (ex: give X % of X to landlord upon retrieval of X resource), or can pay to have the land set to Private*2, where only the landlord and people who are allowed access by the landlord can enter the land.
*1:
Once a land is bought anyone can enter and exit as they please (while adhering to the owners rules) unless the land has been set to Private by its owner/landlord.
*2:
Private means that only the owner/landlord can access the land, alongside whoever he/she allows entry. The circumstances for upholding private lands may be anywhere from a higher price for buying the land, a price to turn private on and off, or a daily/weekly/monthly fee (ex: auto-extract 10 gold from Francis’s bank).
I'll try to draw up a diagram later but this is the basic jist of it.
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yeah thats what open land is for. open land is free range, it'll be most of the overworld, but some land can be bought and controlled by users.
there there's an overworld map now
either that or allow a buying range, like a user could buy/jump to any land tile within a 5 tile radius. then it would be less tedious but still challenging, and wouldn't require a new aspect of the game to be implemented, like the caravning I suggested earlier
one thing we could do is allow 'jumps' which cost a certain amount of a specific resource (going to call it 'rations' for now) to do. now to move around the overworld tile by tile costs nothing, but to say, skip 3 tiles and hop ahead to the forth tile in a line, it would take X amount of rations. rations can be bought from stores or mined or whatever it's up to francis, but it would plug into an equation like this:
X tiles * 3 = X rations
X tiles = the amount of tiles you're moving
X rations is how many rations the game will extract from your inventory when you jump
so if I have rations: 50 and I jump 3 tiles ahead, I now have rations: 41
make sense?