[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 4 Apr 2007 at 12:04, Jeremy Stephens wrote:

> For someone to get an infil to that high of a skill represents a massive
> amount of time and gold spent as an investment into that character.  It
> sucks but at least it is only gold.  I'd rather have to deal with on 90%
> infiltrator, of which there is maybe 2 or 3 in the entire game, then 10
> priests that have a 70% preaching skill jumping across your border
> turning your regions against you... Because you can't do anything to
> really stop priests from using "strategic preaching" in such a manner

Sure you can. You can have a priest (or two, or three, etc.) with 30% skill 
sitting in the region under attack, spending all their hours preaching. Because, 
unlike infil skills, it doesn't take a near-equivalent level of preaching skills to 
battle them. (Not to mention that as they preach, they will get more effective, 
whereas guards patrolling the streets never get any better at patrolling.) Then 
you also have the advantage of having more hours than the attackers, because 
you're not moving back and forth. And don't forget that over time, the 
commoners in the region will get bored with the preaching, and it will have a 
reduced effect.

We have a couple infils of our own who have searched for our pet infiltrator, 
and can't even *see* them, let alone attempt to assassinate them. So I can't 
catch them, I can't stop them, and I can't even have them assassinated.

This infl is, by far, *not* normal. I'll admit that they're one of the best out 
there, if not *the* best. (At least at stealing gold.) But after 5 months, this is 
getting more than a little bit ridiculous.


-- 
Rob

That power surge will toss us around like a bead of sweat
in an aerobic teacher's buttock cleavage.
-- Lister, Red Dwarf




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