[Discuss] remove stepping down penalties?

[Tessa]

First, the required honor level ought to be something very small,
  like 3 honor per month. Just enough to prove that the Lord is still 
actively
playing his character.

That is 60 turns to fight 3 times in battles big enough to get 1 honor, 
such as
large monster battles,etc. Or one big battle.
Should encourage more war, won't it, since you need to fight to keep 
your
region?
-- downside -  you could get that in one tournament, but there aren't 
tourneys
every month

Can't get enough knights? Have they tried offering more gold each month?
Don't buy that excuse.

It might be that the Lord used to be active,
it might be that the king is a power gamer rewarding his friends.

That's what this is - protection against that kind of lord,
placed there for those reasons.


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My (very active) lord character on Atamara has fought in several 
monster battles (nothing for any of them) and gone to like 5 
tournaments (got 1 honour, once, for getting into the final round), and 
held court/police work a *lot* in the past two or so months and only 
accumulated 2 honour. Not gaining honour and prestige doesn't mean a 
character is inactive or a bad lord. All it means is there haven't been 
any opportunities to gain honour. While it might encourage war, wars 
don't mean honour and prestige for everyone, especially for people who 
have, as I said, higher honour and prestige (which in many cases lords 
do).

As for knights, some times there just aren't enough people to go 
around. I know this is a problem on BT (no one can come in and lots of 
people die/leave), and in some realms on the FEI as well. If there 
aren't any people coming in it doesn't matter how much gold you have to 
give out.

If this is trying to protect people from a powergaming king who 
appoints his friends then it's the king you should go after. I wince 
when you say "the lord used to be active", do you mean that if you have 
a lord character you're not allowed to become busy and log in less?
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