Talk:Slaymaster Family/Return to Ibladesh!

If I may...

The strict heirarchy was heavily enforced when it originally came about. General's were lightning bolted by the titans for trying to bypass the new system and indeed the "order" subtype of message was limited to certain groups for certain people. For example, General could only use the red "orders" message when messaging marshals of the realm and the marshals could only use it with their army. There was a lot of discussion about the pros and cons of this in the d-list until Tom decided to do another trial - that everyone would be able to send orders again, but that the enforcement would be up to the players and in game. In some realms you'd have people deriding younger nobles for stepping out of line and trying to order betters, whilst in others (and sometimes the same realms) the nobility would complain about the pointlessness of being marshal when the General does everything anyway. In the East Continent the players play differently to all other continents, much closer to the way Battlemaster used to be played.

From the sounds of Ibladesh's situation the choice was to try and reform the realm politely through in game means or just get out. As to one of the "Ibladesh can't have the worst army because we beat Itorunt" comments... well... I don't want to imply anything but... alright I'll move right along.

As for the issue of what is essentially that nobles don't care about the fortunes of the realm, a realm that wins means chances for greater wealth and glory. Having a smaller unit makes you less noticeable in some places (though it should generally be what you say that makes you noticed) whilst there is less opportunity if less is done for everyone. Gaining H/P is also much more difficult if your unit is constantly being wiped out and your realm starts losing battles.

Anyway, hope I contributed or clarified things in some way.--Aerywyn 10:28, 7 September 2010 (UTC)