[Discuss] Stripping titles of underground members

[Josiah Allen]

On Jan 7, 2008 5:38 PM, Richard Devries <richie.devries at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why not make it so that questioning someone's nobility does not only
> affect the character himself, but also others who frequently deal with him,
> and beyond a simple honor loss? You can make the option as harsh as you want
> for the target, as long as the other players don't get the message of what
> the option really does, dropping a noble to advy won't change much. Maybe if
> random people start getting hit hard as well (and not just a drop in honor),
> they'll start getting the message. Simply dropping someone's honor is not
> much of an incentive to start protesting if you ask me.
>
> Say Baron Johnny has a feud with King Mike for whatever reason, then it is
> highly likely that the majority of the realm's nobles won't like Johnny much
> either, only because he has a feud with the king. So, if the king questions
> Johnny's nobility, even if that makes him an adventurer, I doubt many people
> will protest as they should, simply because they don't like Johnny. Now,
> assume Johnny has 5 knights. If they would get hit hard as well for
> accepting or choosing a 'peasant' as their lord, then some people might
> actually rise up and protest. It could go the other way around, if Johnny
> was a regular knight, his lord could get 'punished' for having a 'peasant'
> as his knight. A snowball effect, if you will.
>
> As for harsh consequences... apart from making the target a noble, how
> about these punishments for others:
>
> -Instead of just losing honor, people who dealt with the target should
> have their nobility scrutinized for a while. In that time, they won't have
> access to banks, recruitment, paraphernalia etc.
> -Knights of a questioned lord lose their estate, their knightship and
> maybe their gold as well.
> -The Lord of a questioned knight loses all his titles and positions for
> allowing a 'peasant' to become a knight of their region.
>
> That way, a king will have to think twice before simply questioning
> someone's nobility, and force him to take another approach at dealing with a
> noble that's being a thorn in his side, because he will not only badly hurt
> said noble, but others as well.
>
>
>
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This already happens to some degree.  When Louis was questioned several
other nobles lost honor because they had been seen at his parties or some
such thing.  Not sure how the code chose who, may be random.
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