Aegohl wrote:Try cutting down trees on government or public property in your neighborhood. You *will* be arrested.
Maybe I gotta try that, yes.
Or no, now I remember why I never tried in the first place.
The signs. "Don't walk on the grass", "Don't cut the trees", "Don't harm the animals", whatever.
Seriously, it needs sign-posts. That's it.
Sure, in medieval type of times nobody would give a hoot about public relations, they might just dispatch the person breaking their unwritten rules. But y'know, at one point, dealing with the breakers of unwritten rules is more time-intensive and problematic than just setting up a sign like "TRESPASSERS ARE SLAIN ON SIGHT" and scaring unwanted commoners or peasants off the estate right off the bat and only having to deal with the serious threats - the intentional trespassers.
In other words, I understand what Cain is getting at; there's a degree of realism that not everybody seeks from an RPG. Because - and let's face it - you take players from any MUD or MORPG over the 'net, and nobody will be able to tell you of any game where people take the RP as seriously as Illarion. In fact if someone would join quickly unbeknowing of how it is, I'm sure it's like a kick in the face.
Maybe you people don't remember what it was like when you started out newly in Illarion, or maybe you don't remember what it's like to start out newly ever since this game has enforced RP, strict naming rules, and that ancient, asseninely difficult account acceptance system the game used to have (the one with the confusing emails, etc.)
I remember it was pretty cold when I got started. Darlok and some others were the people who answered my questions (which were purely RP-related and not technical) in the Newbie forum section when I was new, that was fine. Still - in-game was a cold and boring place for the longest time...
Fat chance anybody will tell you whatever is what on the map. You had to either have a buddy show you the ropes, and find out the rest by raping the forums and websites that orbit around the game world and listed what the buildings were; God bless Kasume who didn't take that task like as if he had a broomstick shoved up his ass - which is sometimes the impression I get of some other people around here.
Not at last, what made identification of things on the world map insanely difficult, were the temporarily inactive buildings - graphically an enigma, technically useless, roleplay-wise - an empty sheet of paper, because nobody gave any input on it, and there's not even a sign saying what kind of building you're looking at or if it's illegal to enter.
I hope some people understand me when I say that I NEVER took anybody seriously who tried to tell me that there were always invisible NPC guards patrolling the walls of Troll's Bane back then, so criminals couldn't enter town after roleplayed bans... seriously, WTF?
I hope we're not, like, speaking a different language here.
). And of course i like him because he is one reason for lots of guests and costumers around the castle. 
So I didn't get your point and you didn't get mine...
