[Discuss] Dwilight, SMA and Powergaming

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Stijn Van Hove wrote:

> *The Oath of Fealty was a serious matter that was not entered into nor
> revoked lightly.*
> 
> And this other situation you describe with a realm giving away their land I
> can't agree with either under SMA. It's most definitely powergaming.
> 
... problem is that they might be 0% knights.. not certain. I would have 
bad marked and kicked them out if I was still playing the duke, for not 
honoring their oath (and get the judge to ban them) so technically.. 
there might be no oath of fealty as such... aside from some broad 
mercenarial oath to the realm. (banning doesn't work anyway)


you could say the timing of my declaration of war is suspect. it's just 
very unfortunate that shadovar attacked melodia right when they were 
where they were. war was going to be declared either way, because my 
character (and me...) believe shadovar should have declared war before 
attacking. You could say my character doesn't actually know if war was 
declared before the attack. All he got was letters saying unprovoked 
attack and so forth. No one has said anything different to him since anyway.

I mean.. I could have let them pass all the way through before declaring 
war. Equally, I could have asked the judge to just ban the lot of them 
(and as I said before.. .doesn't work) and declare war after a few 
letters. the options all make just about as much sense ICly as each other.

Is it possible for a realm to not accept "oath" from nobles who want to 
switch realm?

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as for relocation. I don't see a problem with that. Under the threat of 
being wiped out... I don't see why a choice of exile to colonise some 
far off place is powergaming/ooc.