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[Discuss] Rules of BM Need to be Stressed More

John P. Murphy john.p.murphy at Dartmouth.EDU
Wed Nov 7 03:25:37 CET 2007


On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Timothy Collett wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Anthony Cerqueira wrote:
>> You know how the new government options for the ruler allows him to
>> change the titles of everyone along with other factors of the
>> realm? Well why don't we add another field where it says what kind
>> of address/titles are used in the realm for each level. Then set up
>> something where the game auto checks the message for said titles,
>> if they don't see it, the sender is punished. You could also make
>> it so people with titles get some option to exclude a select number
>> of people from using their title, close friends and such.
>
> And how is it supposed to know when someone's actually addressing the
> ruler?  Most such addresses are done in message groups or before the
> whole realm.
>
> That is simply not feasible.

More to the point, automated punishment based on text parsing seems  
very much against the spirit of the game.

John


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