[Discuss] RE: Discuss Digest, Vol 18, Issue 12

[Josiah Allen]

On 5/5/06, Adam Wilkinson <neolists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> > Eric schrieb:
> > >> Like it or not, having council positions is no longer a light weight
> > >> thing.
> > >
> > > That is nonsense.  It can be very lightweight and the game is now
> > > designed to spread that power and responsability.  It is the players
> > > that put too much premium on coiuncil positions and do not use what
> > > the game gives them.
> >
> > Eric is right. I've had every council position in the game. You *can*
> > make it full-time job. But by distributing responsibilities, you can
> > also have a very laid-back ruler, general, judge, banker, duke - anything.
>
>
> I wish I could be a laid back ruler a little more, but my council is
> slacking too much..
>
> > >> Or another fuction. Being able to see if the certain messages have
> > >> been READ or not, like on some communicies. That will of course be
> > >> difficult with messages sent to a whole realm..
> > >>
> > >>
> > > Do you really need to micromanage people that much?  That brings us
> > > right back to the bad old days of being banned for ignoring someone.
> > > Especially given how dull some of the in realm chatter is in those
> > > sort of realms.
> > Again, right on the money. We have a disease in BattleMaster, and it's
> > spreading fast and clogging the airways. It's called micromanagement.
> >
> > And I _will_ make it harder and harder to micro-manage an entire realm
> > from the top. If you insist, fine, but don't complain about the pain.
> > The solution is, has been and will always be to distribute
> responsibilities.
> >
> > One judge or general having to know 140 people? Insanity. You have 5 or
> > so dukes, and each of them has ~30 people to know. That's more
> > manageable. If you break it down to region lords, every lord has 5-10
> > people to know. Now that sounds about right to me.
>
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> I'd also say it's a symptom that we need another normal island, releive the
> congestion in Atamara and EC.
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If the General can't log in, that is why there are marshals milling
about, or even military advisors, to give orders.  This is even easier
in a large realm because the chain of command can be bigger.


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