Political Relations and Trading Guidlines

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Originally Posted by busyrobot

Perhaps, it would depend on the leading authorities on Dukes in France to decide that

Probably not.

Originally Posted by busyrobot

He did choose to join the other kingdom and adopt a new rank.

So? I bet there are tons of examples out there of royalty and aristocraty who were forced out of their kingdom, got a job as officer or whatever in the army of someone else, and later returned to their kingdom with the same ranks.

Originally Posted by busyrobot

Uh, you're joking right? Are you saying you believe if say, a Paladin is caught scamming and is kicked out of a kingdom, he can run around abusing a global tag to appear as a paladin and claim that everyone in his former kingdom is just 'roleplaying badly' and that he is still a member - that this would somehow be considered a good example of being part of a kingdom?

That's something quite different.

Originally Posted by busyrobot

You have to see how though, given Zurk's view that players cannot ever be removed from a kingdom, unless that player agrees to leave and later doesn't change his mind - that it is impossible to remove scammers, or demote people who don't carry out their rank's responsibilities. The irony is he likes to boast how as Erik he lead forest with an iron hand and kicked people out left and right that did anything out of line. Now he is saying its not ever possible to kick anyone out of any kingdom, for any reason.

That's different too. I don't think Zurk ever said he wasn't kicked out of Dustari, but that nobody took his title.