[Discuss] Dwilight updates?

[John P. Murphy]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 3:12 PM, fodder wrote:

> Rob McDonald wrote:
>> I agree with this in most part. I can see the reason for not  
>> wanting to
>> absolutely flood the realm, but the process of it is going quite  
>> slowly. I
>> thought as well we were going for no immigration? Or did I get  
>> confused with
>> a comment from someone else?
>
> heh... we belatedly discover that holding monthly elections when the
> original choice (voted in prior to set up) can't even run for it  
> due to
> low prestige is a bad thing.
>
> our realm hasn't taken over 1 single region yet and have a minor  
> monster
> problem in one of the starting regions already... with a chunk of the
> army sailing off somewhere to hopefully TO a city...
>
> did I mention the city gave my character 17 gold as tax whilst the non
> city region has 6?... which is sort of fine... because there's nothing
> to spend money on anyway (new character, new unit.. barely cost 10  
> gold
> a week).. oh and most of us can't even send bonds to the lords to  
> build
> stuff.. (low prestige)
>
> now imagine adding a few tens of immigrant characters.... with nowhere
> to pledge to (lords need money to build stuff, you know).. all sitting
> around in the city doing manual labour because there's no gold to  
> be had.

All the more reason to allow new characters but not immigrants --  
people who show up with their own units plus family gold, can't run  
for office, who don't get taxes?  Sounds like a godsend to me.

John