[Discuss] Inalienable Rights addition

[Josiah Allen]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Samuel Knowlton <sam at iamsam.org> wrote:
> >> The second is a suggestion, and implies the student will be punished
>  if he doesn't follow it.
>
>  Nonsense. In every realm I've played in we've 'suggested' this for as long
>  as I can remember but nobody has ever actually checked to see who led what
>  in a siege battle. We just don't care. The only implication from telling
>  someone that infantry is more useful is that you're implying that their unit
>  will do more/fight more bad guys if they have infantry. Tacking on a phrase
>  like 'Marshals will be looking closely at each noble's performance' or
>  something insidious like that would be implying punishment.
>

It does socially imply.  A new player being instructed will not know
what the status quo is, and will do what he is told because he wants
to get along, including choosing whatever unit type you suggest.  The
alternative is for him to go against the one suggestion he has gotten
from the community, which would be taking a social risk in a new
environment.  By never suggesting, you force him to study his choices
without considering anyone's opinion, which of course is what we all
should do.