[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[James]

Alex Davies wrote:
>
> You can get caught if you try to buy a title, and it ain't exactly 
> cheap, probably looking at least 400 gold to destroy buildings in a 
> rural region - and in most cases, where's the point in that? Moreover, 
> you're likely to lose far less by someone doing that than what was 
> lost to the infil this topic was about, and the infil can keep doing it.
>
> Anyway, leaving a title open to be bought by having no lord appointed 
> is something you can easily prevent. Can't do something that simple to 
> guard against godlike infils, though.

I beg to differ.  The people do it just to blatantly hurt the other 
realm.  It is almost always done without role play (I'm not talking 
about buying titles, but the destructive behavior).  They are probably 
just siphoning off gold from their other realms, again with no role 
play.  How much something costs is irrelevant.  It costs a lot for the 
other realm to rebuild.  There is at least 11 people who can buy titles 
(and I'm assuming more, there's at least 10 people higher then me in 
family wealth and I can buy a title, I'm assuming there's many more then 
10 people ahead of me in wealth), there's 3 just in one realm I'm in.  
The number of infiltrators with 100% skill is a lot less.  People who 
take the time and have gotten their skill to 100% (which takes MONTHS) 
should have some rewards then being constantly caught.  I know for a 
fact at 80% skill you get caught quite often, that's what my infiltrator 
had before he was tortured and lost 8 points in one session.  A few 
sessions of that after you catch the person and their skills are 
marginal at best and it's months again for them to raise it.  
Infiltrators many times do role play (that doesn't mean they write long 
narratives, but they stay in character) where the behavior of buying a 
title, destroying everything in the city, and then giving all your 
knights bad marks I doubt is role played and it is definitely not 
something you would do if you were playing among friends.


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