[Discuss] Powergaming

[Andrew Asche]

> > Then set everyone's withdraw limit to zero, or kick them out straight
> > away, and you have all the time in the world to go to all the guild
> > houses and collect the treasuries for yourself.
I guess thats a risk when you invest money into *anything*, and guilds
aren't insured or anything.  Still, BM code makes it not *all* that
advantageous for a single or small group of people to have ridiculosu
amounts of gold.  Tax levels, recruitment limits, etc.  If the average
person could recruit a 15k cs unit, then I'd be concerned, but its not
so.  You need to work with people to get things done.

> > I know for a fact that some guilds literally have a few thousand gold
> > stored in their guildhouses. With that kind of money, you can
> > practically buy yourself a kingdom.
Thats an interesting point, I know the Church of Ibladesh was worth
thousands, because of a few people who gave gold to it frequently and
generously.  However is that so bad?  IRL, a lot of old colleges have
more money than you'd expect, mostly in real estate, I'd guess.  Same
goes with churches.  Look at the Vatican.  Thats a bad example,
because it actually *is* a country, but still.  My own church, every
now and that, has someone leave a few million dollar estate to
it...They're probably better off than a lot of successful
businessmen...But that doesn't *necessarily* bring about noticeable
corruption....And even if it did, it would create an interesting RP
point....A guild takes down a realm from the inside using its huge
caches of gold?  That sounds like fun, provided there aren't OOC clans
going about it.


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