[Discuss] Duels.

[James]

Timothy Collett wrote:
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> You don't think it's an abuse that they could reduce his honour to  
> NOTHING just for an insult (real or imagined) to someone they care  
> about?
>
>   
I very much doubt it would be used to that scale.  I think if you 
randomly poll 4-5 people from a realm you will pull up more good players 
then bad players.  Perhaps I simply have too much faith in the community.

>
> Go to Sirion and start talking about how disgusting elves are, and  
> see how easy it is to make a whole realm dislike you.
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>   
You are insulting the entire realm here.  So this falls under what I am 
saying.  If you go to Sirion and start insulting elves do you expect 
anything different?  I would expect my character to receive at least a 
number of duel challenges depending on what was said.  If you insult an 
entire realm and keep your honour intact I find a huge problem with that.

> As for being in the same place, large battles are very good at  
> bringing whole realms (or nearly so) into one region.
>
> And yes, this *is* an extreme case, which should go to the Titans.   
> However, to lesser degree, it could be far too easily practiced on a  
> very wide scale for the Titans to be able to keep up with it.
>
>   
Lightning bolts and account locks go a very long way to keeping that 
behavior down.  I could very easily on my ruler character OOC ban 
everyone so fast that it could be done before the titans could do 
anything about it.  However, I know what the result of that will be, so 
I don't do it.  Even for the biggest battles I rarely see as much as 
1/3rd to maybe a half which is generous in the same region.  The only 
time I've ever seen it is in Svunnetland where everyone is in the 
capital because there is simply just nothing going on.  If we didn't add 
features simply because there could be abuses involved, we would never 
add features.