[Discuss] Rules of BM Need to be Stressed More

[Tessa]

"You know how the new government options for the ruler allows him to 
change the titles of everyone along with other factors of the realm? 
Well why don't we add another field where it says what kind of 
address/titles are used in the realm for each level. Then set up 
something where the game auto checks the message for said titles, if 
they don't see it, the sender is punished. You could also make it so 
people with titles get some option to exclude a select number of people 
from using their title, close friends and such."


I don't know if I really like that idea. It seems so...limiting. It'd 
have to be changed every time you make close friends, or you can only 
make a certain number of close friends who you'd feel uncomfortable 
having call you "Your lordship" or some other title that you wouldn't 
ask your friends to call you. And what about abbreviations/nicknames? 
How would it recognize the difference between, let's say, (Richard the 
Courageous) "RTC" and "Sir RTC"? And having to remember everyone's 
title in the way that  that specific realm created and type it every 
time you want to talk to/about them instead of a simple Sir/Lady 
Lord/Lady or risk losing honor/prestige would be an absolute pain, 
especially if you're in a rush. And it seems like by having the game 
automatically punish you for not putting a title wouldn't react to 
specific circumstance. If my character really hates yours because yours 
is a traitorous scoundrel who tried to sell out humanity then I'm not 
about to call him anything that denotes "respect", nor should my 
character have to, I don't think.  Or if a personality quirk causes a 
character to really hate false flattery so having -everyone- call 
him/her by a fancy title is really irksome, after all, if it's about 
respect shouldn't you respect their wishes and not call them something 
they don't like? I'm all for using titles and having more respect for 
the hierarchy, but I don't think a game mechanic is the way to go about 
it. It should be up to the players to enforce, if a character ignores 
the titles for no specific reason then have the judge fine them, ban 
them, or as lyman said, question if such a overtly disrespectful noble 
is really a noble at all.






















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