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Originally Posted by konidias
It's really a shame that so many people see things in black or white. How many servers have you played online that had an npc character as a king? My guess is ZERO. Then why are you so confident when you say that my idea won't work? Is it because you're afraid of the unknown?
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Valikorlia had NPC Kings, the Archduke took the role as King. No one liked the NPC King... in the end they fell through RP Means because there was no leader to actually do things.
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Originally Posted by konidias
In my opinion there are some people that don't like my npc king idea simply because they want themselves or their friends to be in power. My idea is going to put several people out of power. Which I guess is a turn off to those several people.
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I can assure you, the people who have stated they do not wish for an NPC King do not know what's going on with the kingdoms. Therefore your assumptions that they only want their friends in power is invalid as they do not know who is leading the kingdoms.
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Originally Posted by konidias
When I started my revision I thought about kingdoms and at first I didn't even want them at all. Because they are such a large project and they aren't NEEDED for roleplaying. But then I figured it would be better to have them anyway... But then I began to think about the problems that would arise from this:
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There are three types of roleplaying: Battle, Social, and Political. The point is that the political aspects of roleplaying takes roughly 50% of the pie chart. If you cut the political roleplaying of the server then the RP community will fall.
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Originally Posted by konidias
1. Who leads each kingdom? Do you just draw names out of hat? Do they get voted in through a popularity contest? Do they get the position because they are friends with staff?
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They get positions because they have been identified as good leaders and good roleplayers.
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2. Will this person do a good job? Will they be active? What happens if they are inactive? What happens if they are corrupt?
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They would be selected because they have done good jobs in the past. I'm sure that anyone is smart enough to judge if a person would be active. If they're inactive then the kingdom revolts. If they're corrupt?... this has no real bearing on anything, they can be corrupt and still produce a wonderful kingdom.
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Originally Posted by konidias
3. How can any RP events be taken seriously when they are normally just thought up at the spur of the moment? How can two kingdoms really go to war? Do both kings just say "I HAET U!!11" and then send their armies in to attack?
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Wars are interactions between the people of the kingdom to resolve a conflict. I know Gryffon well enough to know that all wars will have to go through him first.
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Originally Posted by konidias
The old kingdoms lacked balance. They lacked structure. They lacked consistency. There was corruption, there was inactivity. There was favoritism.
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I will give you one of the above statements, favoritism. But is there really anything wrong with that? Because of Favoritism I was able to make the Zormite kingdom into something after they changed leaders every other day. They ended up conquering the world too.
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Originally Posted by konidias
I don't really think anyone here is totally grasping my concept of an npc king. I think most people are just automatically assuming that it means the king will be useless and you will go and talk to him and he will assign you chores and you do them and level up and it's all very robotic. But that is not the case.
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All I'm hearing is
"We'll let that guy who runs around in an all orange body going 'LAWLZ I NEKKID!' and he'll be the Duke of your kingdom"
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Originally Posted by konidias
I want a successful server and I want to feel confident that it will succeed. Putting my server into the hands of different people and letting them play king does not seem wise. I will be waiting on the sidelines to say "I told you so" when a kingdom on Lance's server collapses due to corruption, inactivity, or lack of members.
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Granted, kingdom leaders do have an effect on the server as a whole. However there are still two issues that you are blind to see.
There are higher ups then the kingdom leader who also have the power to change those kingdom leaders.
Secondly - There will always be a high leader of a kingdom, rather you like it or not. Therefore your judgements against a player king will still happen.