[Discuss] Infils stealing tax gold

[Alex Davies]

>From: James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com>
>
>I beg to differ.  The people do it just to blatantly hurt the other realm.  
>It is almost always done without role play (I'm not talking about buying 
>titles, but the destructive behavior).  They are probably just siphoning 
>off gold from their other realms, again with no role play.  How much 
>something costs is irrelevant.  It costs a lot for the other realm to 
>rebuild.  There is at least 11 people who can buy titles (and I'm assuming 
>more, there's at least 10 people higher then me in family wealth and I can 
>buy a title, I'm assuming there's many more then 10 people ahead of me in 
>wealth), there's 3 just in one realm I'm in.  The number of infiltrators 
>with 100% skill is a lot less.  People who take the time and have gotten 
>their skill to 100% (which takes MONTHS) should have some rewards then 
>being constantly caught.  I know for a fact at 80% skill you get caught 
>quite often, that's what my infiltrator had before he was tortured and lost 
>8 points in one session.  A few sessions of that after you catch the person 
>and their skills are marginal at best and it's months again for them to 
>raise it.  Infiltrators many times do role play (that doesn't mean they 
>write long narratives, but they stay in character) where the behavior of 
>buying a title, destroying everything in the city, and then giving all your 
>knights bad marks I doubt is role played and it is definitely not something 
>you would do if you were playing among friends.
>

Buying titles can be done if you have a decent amount of family wealth, but 
building that up takes ages and that's not the case for most players. In one 
of my realms there's 25 or so other players, and only one of them apart from 
myself can buy titles - also, they'd only be able to do it once without 
falling below the amount you need. The factor in the amount of people 
*willing* to do that. If someone joins your realm and buys the title to the 
capital city then that's your fault for leaving your capital city without a 
duke, not the guy who takes advatage of that fact. There's already mechanics 
in place to stop the guy doing something insanely harmful like moving the 
whole duchy away in minutes. And who's to say it's not IC to throw gold 
around to cause damage to an enemy realm from the inside? Besides which, 
we're not asking for infils to be constantly caught, it's more that if 
they're seen they do get penalised for that. Even the best infil would not 
be able to fight off hundreds of guards. Add into that that it's a city - 
the option even says that trying to steal tax gold in a city is going to 
make your chances of escape minimal. Having high skill should help, but it 
certainly shouldn't make you untouchable.

The1exile (AKA SniperChief)

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