[Discuss] Change to vulgarity?

[Dale Sheldon]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Talita CS wrote:

>> I was thinking of a potential change to the vulgarity option.  First,
>> only people who have been successfully tired for vulgarity can have
>> their nobility questioned as the rumors are already there the king just
>> has to expand on them.  Second, if you have been successfully tried for
>> vulgarity too many times (either over the course of your character or in
>> a short period) you cannot run for certain positions, the higher the
>> position the less times you need to have been tried for it.  As people
>> start to doubt that you are in fact a noble.
>
> James, I see such a large room for abuse here. Also, vulgarity is still 
> so uncertain in people's minds that the concept of not being noble-like 
> changes a lot from case to case. I think having criteria to be allowed 
> to strip nobles of their nobility is nice, but I certainly do not like 
> of the criteria you propose to have people allowed to positions. Maybe 
> except if vulgarity trials vanish after a while, after all, gossip also 
> is forgotten after some time. Yet, I can imagine many people charging 
> someone with vulgarity close to elections just to see this person not 
> eligible. If they manage to win just a few of those charges, the damage 
> is done...

How about something simpler, like a loss of prestige?

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Dale Sheldon
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