[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 11 Apr 2007 at 9:48, James wrote:

I would have to agree that joining a realm, buying a title to the capital city 
minutes later, and then dismantling most of the city's infrastructure is not 
desirable behavior. However....

Go make your own darn thread! Stop hijacking this thread to discuss unrelated 
topics.

> 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. 

Rewards are fine. I can agree with that. Getting caught less, getting identified 
less, escaping more, etc. Sure. Great. Who could argue with that?

But there still needs to be some risk involved with robbing the tax vaults of the 
largest city on the continent, which also happens to be one of the alrgest cities 
in the world. *No one* should be able to steal from the vault with impunity for 
5 months.

> 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.  

You can't torture someone the instant they arrive in your prison. You have to 
wait two days, which means that there are 4 turn changes that the infiltrator 
has to try and escape. The one time we captured this infil was when they tried 
to assassinate someone and got caught. They escaped one or two turn changes 
later.

It also assumes that you can catch the infiltrator in the first place. Which is 
something we simply haven't been able to do.

> Infiltrators many times do role play (that doesn't mean they write long 
> narratives, but they stay in character)

If my infiltrator nemesis ever tried to RP with us, that would possibly help avoid 
some of the nasty feelings. But we have never received a single message 
before, during, or after the thefts.


-- 
Rob

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always count on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw




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