[Discuss] Re: On Questioning Nobility

[Timothy Collett]

On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:58 AM, Gloria Santos wrote:
> Of course it's lame!  But that is what people did say they didn't  
> mean to strip my character's nobility, only her title.  And it was  
> expected of *me* as a *player* to pretend  that was the way it  
> happened.
>
> I don't see why a ruler would have the power to strip someone's  
> nobility and then not have the power to restore it.

It's because "stripping" nobility isn't exactly what happens: the  
ruler *questions* your nobility.
Stripping nobility would be the ruler declaring, "I hereby decree  
that you are no longer noble."
Questioning nobility is the ruler and his agents spreading doubts  
about your parentage, suggesting that maybe you weren't *really* the  
daughter of Lord and Lady Driscol after all, but some kind of  
impostor...or maybe there never even *were* a Lord and Lady Driscol,  
and you're just making it all up, and either way you're nothing more  
than some jumped-up peasant pretending to be a noble!

Tom is quite right: there *shouldn't* be a way to *restore* nobility  
questioned in that fashion.

However, you are also quite right: the people who abused the option  
in such a manner should have been told, by someone Official, that  
that is *NOT* what it's meant for, and claiming that "we meant this,  
not that" doesn't work.  It's as bad as people claiming, "We're not  
really at war with the realm we seceded from; the game says we are,  
but we really still like them, and just have to wait to set it back."

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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"I have come to believe that the principle difference between heaven  
and hell is the company you keep there."
  ~ Simon Illyan





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