[Discuss] Duels.

[James]

Timothy Collett wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>   
Again Tim, you're insulting everyone in the Barony.  I agree completely 
and 100% that outside of your own realm this could not be used, but 
again happens far too much.  People could abuse the vulgarity system 
just as easily, but it does not happen that way.