[Discuss] On the bureaucrat limit

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 8/11/07, Jeff Wilson <jjwilson61 at cox.net> wrote:
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> The buros effect is small enough as it is, I don't know why you want to
> limit it more.  I don't know why there is a limit of buros in the first
> place.  If there is a worry that knights might switch en masse to do buro
> work during a lull in fighting and then switch back, I'd rather put some
> sort of penalty on switching too often.  Perhaps you should take a big
> leadership penalty for becoming a buro, and it should be obvious when it
> happens.
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The buro limit was put in place because before it realms would have enough
buros that
they didn't need to actually manage their realms, the buros could do
it all themselves.
I don't know about others but my friends and I used to
joke about how effective buros were, and most of them were buros.....

"Sir please, we are starving. My children, they are dying...."

"What's that? You've a moral penalty? Well that's not a problem!" Takes a
pile of papers from one desk corner and shifts it to the other. "There you
go, I oversaw the administration so problem solved."

"But...."

"Oh still unhappy? Alright let me get a few more papers to shuffle.....
maybe Bob wants to get in on this, it is exciting after all."

Repeate as needed until region maitaince consists of nothing but paper
shuffling. Peasants starving? Shuffle paper. Region looted? Shuffle paper.
Lord missing? Shuffle paper. Your kingdom is in anarchy? Shuffle paper.
Moral dropping faster than food prices during a bumper harvest? Get more
people to shuffle paper until you outweigh the loss. Who needs to hold court
or feed people, we can shuffle paper!
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