[Discuss] Status ?

[Timothy Collett]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 5:16 AM, Jonathon Taylor wrote:
> I also think how the Capital City change in Sint could have been  
> dealt with better. I think the Realm should have been punished by  
> having the previous capital as it's Capital again. As well as  
> lightning bolting the Ruler. As always, the punishment aught to fit  
> the crime and in this case I think having the old Capital placed as  
> there capital and nullifying the change of Capital that they put  
> through would be suitable.

I agree.  I don't have direct knowledge of how it worked for Sint,  
but with Luz de Bia, the ruler was removed from position, and at the  
very next turn change, he was re-elected.  The capital remains where  
it is, and so for a relatively serious abuse, there is effectively no  
punishment.

I actually had people suggesting that we do the same, precisely  
because the punishment was so light: "We move the capital, fix up the  
regions for a couple of days, and re-elect the Ruler."  I believe  
they were, in fact, being facetious, but it does seem to underline a  
problem.

My understanding of the way the Titan tools work is that they have a  
very few options: send a warning to one person or a group of people,  
remove someone from office, seriously wound someone, or lock/delete  
an account.  If punishment is to be appropriate in this instance, as  
Jonathon says, it seems most sensible that it should be to move their  
capital back to where it was, so that they do not reap the benefits  
of their abuse.  However, that is, I believe, a database change,  
which requires Tom's intervention, which leaves us in the same  
situation we had before Titans...unless there were tools that would  
allow the Titans to make changes like that (move a capital, send a  
city rogue, damage stats of a region or realm, that sort of thing)  
without applying to Tom first.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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