[Discuss] Duels.

[Timothy Collett]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:08 PM, James wrote:
> 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.

OK, so what if it was going to the Barony of Makar and saying that  
Vikings were all dishonourable pigs who deserved to burn in <insert  
appropriate analogue to Hell>?  Or, heck, what if you've got 25  
people from Ikalak in a region with one person from Taselak, and they  
decide to get together and reduce his honour so far he can't recruit?

I don't care *what* someone says; *NOTHING* should let a realm decide  
to reduce someone's honour to *ZERO*.  Zilch. Nothing.  Which would  
be possible with the system you propose.

And yes, I can tell you with 100% certainty that you have too much  
faith in the community.  If there are holes and exploits, there are  
more than enough jerks in the game that they *will* find them.  And  
they will use them.  That's why we have the Titans--but the system  
you propose is so full of holes that the Titans would be occupied  
full-time handing out warnings, temporary locks, and lightning bolts  
to groups of people abusing the duel feature to reduce the honour of  
their enemies and other people they don't like.

Rule #1 when coming up with new features: think of how it could be  
abused.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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