[Discuss] Pledging Ransom

[jmadsen1 at juno.com]

I don't know if my ideas are just out of left field, or if they have the misfortune of always getting caught in the middle of 98 posts about generals vs. marshals and no one sees them, but I always seem to get a very low response rate. :-(

I like this idea, so I'm posting again - maybe I just didn't write it very clearly the first time, so I've cleaned it up. I'd like to hear what people think.


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 Here's an idea - without going into the actual mechanics yet, what do you think of this:

Ransoms were much more common back then than in the game, because we (in the game) have the option of just waiting out our prison sentence. It was quite common for some nobles back then to actually make a living capturing opposing nobles and ransoming them.

My idea has two parts: 

1) All prisoners are captured by someone specifically (I think wounds given should have this also, and bounties paid for serious wounds, if this doesn't already happen.) 

If you capture a prisoner, he is "yours" - any ransom money goes to you. Perhaps you can even control the ransom amount? Eventually attributes will show this, maybe even a new fame point for X prisoners taken. Definite role play possibilities.

2) What do you think about an option for "attack for prisoner capturing" - a unit setting that would make you more likely to capture a prisoner, at the expense of something else (less offensive power, less defensive, etc.) Poor nobles could then have a hand at being "ransom takers"

Idea still a little rough, but what do you think?[/quote]
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