[Discuss] Estates

[Timothy Collett]

On Aug 1, 2007, at 12:08 PM, S. Ray wrote:
> I'm sorry if this has been discuss before (I honestly don't have  
> time to keep
> up on the D-list all the time), but has it ever been thought of to  
> allow estates
> to pass on from one character to another, or even exchanged?  It  
> would make
> sense if estates were treated as property that could be bartered  
> (for instance,
> if your character comes on hard times, he could sell off 'acreage'  
> from an expanded
> level 2+ estate to other nobles for gold or something).  But more  
> than that,
> it seems very logical to allow estates to pass on from a deleted/ 
> killed character
> to his next of kin, be it a child/spouse or a relative (as RPed,  
> would probably
> have to be some sort of option in the character creation or realm  
> join screen).

Your estate doesn't, as far as I understand it, really belong to you.  
It belongs to your liege lord, and he's letting you use it as part of  
your payment for service.  So you can't sell it.

As for naming an heir to your estates, that would seem to open a can  
of worms that would cause a lot more issues.  After all, if you can  
name an heir to estates, why not let Lords name heirs?  Or Kings?  It  
would allow players with power to hold onto it *forever*.

Besides, you couldn't give those estates to your son unless he was  
*also* a knight of Region X, and many people don't even have 2  
characters on the same *continent*, let *alone* the same realm.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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