[Discuss] Buy Title issue (was: Infils stealing tax gold)

[Anthony Anderson]

On 4/11/07, Jeremy Stephens <jstephens at georgefox.edu> wrote:
>
>  I think they have already done as much as they can at the moment.  This
> was the message sent out:
>
> Report from Palthos (20 hours, 28 minutes ago)
> Message sent to the Rulers of this world (17 recipients)
> Once more a member of the Psych family has struck us. First it was
> Distorted when he purchased and succeeded Eno from us. Now Hvrek arrived
> into our realm and 5 minutes later purchase the Dukeship of Jidington, our
> capitol. He then demolished most of the buildings that we had there, mainly
> recruitment centers. He shipped all the food out of the region, which caused
> our people to starve. He then went about giving bad reports to his knights.
> He is now currently wounded and will continue to be until we can banish
> him.
> Dimian, nothing personal against you or your religion, but if Distorted
> ever leaves the city and enters our land he will be put in chains so fast he
> won't know what happened. That family alone has basically cost us our lands
> and the war. Many of you know that I am a very honorable man, but the Psych
> family has gone too far this time.
>
> Sir Palthos
> Chancellor of Luz de Bia
>
> People aren't going to starve in a single turn.  The Banker can fix any
discrepancies to the food allotment.  Bad reports can be reverted (I would
imagine) once a new Duke is in place.  And did he honestly have enough cash
on hand to demolish "most of the buildings" in the city?  All of that costs
gold.

I'm still failing to see how so much damage was accomplished in a single
turn, and how some of this isn't simply reversible as soon as people found
out about it.  Still no report on attempting to strip his Duke title (which
should not have been that hard) or if he was banned immediately.
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