[Discuss] Looting enemies *is* hurting my own regions!

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 5 Jan 2008 at 18:03, Tom Vogt wrote:

> psymann schrieb:
> >  From what I've seen:
> > 1) Looting for gold damages regions nearby - including your own.
> 
> Wrong. If you loot extensively, your realm might get a bad reputation, 
> but there is no "nearby regions" effect at all.

Tom,

I know that you say here that there is no "nearby regions effect", but I have a 
situation on BT that seems to indicate there *is* such an effect.

My realm, the Kingdom of Alluran, is using the "Destroy Military Infrastructure" 
and "Raze fortifications" options to pull down all the buildings and wall in the 
city of Eylmon. (We are not burning, killing, raping, burning food, etc.) After a 
while the peasants get angry and form a militia to stop us. *Every* time that a 
militia unit forms in Eylmon, the Loyalty and Morale in Epinotke (the 
neighboring region that we own) drop by several percent. We have compared 
the stats in Epinotke before and after the peasant militia forms in Eylmon, and 
confirmed this. The last drop was 3%. This may not seem like much, but over 
the course of a week, the stats in Epinotke have fallen to 7% Loyalty, 17% 
morale, and Province control. We have destroyed our own region by looting an 
enemy region.

So looting in Eylmon is hurting our own region stats in Epinotke. Is there some 
extenuating circumstance here? Is the effect of my realm getting a "bad 
reputation" causing stats in my own regions to drop? If so, then looting *is* 
directly hurting my own regions, and that seems to go directly against what you 
are saying here.


-- 
Rob

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