[Discuss] Can't buy rogue regions?

[John P. Murphy]

On Jun 30, 2008, at 6:12 PM, theministephan at aim.com wrote:

>
> >My character recently got the option, in a rogue region, to use
> >family money to "Buy this region... - use your family wealth to
> >corrupt the local government.", but got the message, "You can not buy
> >a region from this "realm"."
> >
> >Is this a game balance thing? It seems to me that rogue regions
> >ought to have easily corruptible local governments. In any case, the
> >error text is misleading: surely I would not be buying it from a
> >*realm* in the sense of a transaction blessed by the ruler.
> >
> >John
>
> I think it's more that you can't buy a region that's in anarchy  
> because it doesn't HAVE any government to corrupt.  And the region  
> views itself as a realm, so the text isn't that bad.

That doesn't square with a other behavior, though -- being arrested  
by guards in local regions, for example.  My understanding from the  
way Tom has been talking about rogue regions is that they have their  
own little organizations, and even petty nobility.

John
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