[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 11 Apr 2007 at 10:27, James wrote:

> Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> > 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.
> >   
> 
> I was not the one that hijacked the thread. 

Then don't get offended when I make a call to stop hijacking the thread. It was 
a generic plea, not aimed at you personally. Yours just happened to have some 
issues to which I wanted to reply.

> > 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.
> 
> There is some risk.  Others have said they have caught the person in 
> question, I believe?  I may be wrong because I cannot stand EC personally.

That was... 8 months ago? Maybe more. Something may have changed in the 
meantime. BT is a testing island, so when things happen that don't look right, 
we raise the issue and discuss it.

> You do not always get the option to escape and it works even less of the 
> time.  Just because he escaped once doesn't mean he always will.

We can't even capture the infil while stealing gold!

> He has 
> close to 100% skill.  Do you not understand the magnitude of that 
> training?

I don't care how long it took. If it looks out of balance, then I comment on it. 
>From there the community can discuss it, and Tom can choose to take action or 
not. In this case, Tom decided that there were some things a bit out of whack. 
Case closed.

> Honestly I think it's dumb that at 80% skill I get captured 
> so much.  Think of ninjas from the Japanese movies, the good ninja, the 
> bad ones usually aren't as well trained, he has 100% infiltration.  
> Shaolin monks also come to mind.

Infiltrators are not ninja monks. Wrong game.

> This person should be nearly 
> impossible to catch.

"Nearly impossible" != "impossible"

If you try 50 times a month for 5 months and *don't* get caught, then I would 
make the assumption that you *can't* get caught.

> Just because he doesn't RP with YOU doesn't mean he's not role playing.  

I understand that perfectly well. But, at the same time, BM is a multi-player 
interactive game. What's the point of playing a multi-player interactive game if 
you don't, like, interact with the people with which you are in direct conflict and 
close association for long periods of time?

Nevertheless, that is all a side issue. The issue here is with game mechanics, 
not player interaction.


-- 
Rob

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
-- Albert Einstein




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