[Discuss] Death (This is serious proposal to the game)

[Loren Schmidt]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:31 AM, Ben Shearon <sendaiben at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 08/01/2008, Loren Schmidt <loren.schmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If Gregor were to die from a game mechanic I'd quit.  Simple as that.
> > He's one of my favorite characters period.  What a lot of people seem to
> > miss is that the really old guys tend to eschew politics after a time and
> > simply look for a nice Dukeship, or cush townsland or mountain region.  The
> > trouble is with the people who never let go of power once they get it, and
> > people who help them keep it.
>
>
> The reason it is *really* hard to get a dukeship is  'cause the "really
> old guys" who have eschewed politics are just sitting on them, and there is
> no real way to get them out at the moment...
>

I've had hmm, 10 dukeships in seven years of play with five different
characters.  Some of those are really old when there were under 100 people
playing the game granted, in fact half were.  But now I hold only one
dukeship, and that was in jeopardy for a while.  Several political deals
were made for that to happen, and he still struggles against them.

It's not really about how old you are in BM it's about how popular you are,
how effectively you've played the realms politics over the years that gets
you into positions.  With the addition of claims it's even more complex
now.  This game is not easy, not by a long shot.  I have the utmost respect
for anyone who manages to stay in power for any length of time.  In theory
everyone wants to be the ruler, that you can tame those ambitions says
something about your political character.

/Loren
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