[Discuss] New character's first leige

[Thomas Dalton]

I think it would be best to split this discussion off from the other
thread.  I agree it's important for a new character to know the person
that will be their liege.  A realistic method (I don't think it's
exactly how it used to work, but it's close) would be to remove the
mentor class and make all lords effective mentors.  When a new
character joins the realm they choose a mentor and if that mentor
teaches them well, they can swear alliegence to them after a week or
two.

Some lords can choose to work with new players, others can just work
with new characters of existing players, helping to integrate them
into the realm, rather than teaching them how to play.  Actually,
better idea - keep the Mentor class and have it so new players can
only choose mentors, but old players can choose any lord.  Being a
lord would be a requirement for a mentor (which fixes the previously
discussed problem of people that don't know enough becoming mentors).
This would mean that mentors get more knights than other people, which
is a good reward for their hard work and would encorage more mentors.
I'm going to guess that around 20% of characters are the first ones
created by a player, so those 20% would be distributed around just the
mentors, if 10% of region lords are mentors (with the added
encouragement, that's not implausible), they'd have roughly twice the
knights of other lords.  A big reward, but not excessive.


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