I respect Yves' opinion, and I agree that there should be more
interaction between fear and bribe.
I don't agree with the higher the fear the more likely to be bribed.
I tend to believe that in a realistic situation, the person being
highly terrorized is more afraid of the consequences. Consequently
with a high fear rating (though ensuring not to exceed the terrorize
limit), the noble is very loyal, but as the fear dimminishes (ie. the
noble becomes more brave), the noble is more likely then to divert
from the terrorizing noble's wishes and be more likely to be bribed.
I would agree with a simple abandonment setting, or something similar.
Then should you terrorize the noble too much/too often, then the noble
will just run away (and you temporarily lose the NP just as in death.)
These will accomplish two things:
1- the terrorized noble continually learning "survive fatal wound" as
the player will be trying to keep the noble as loyal as possible.
2- it will prevent someone from fearing a noble up to say 200 (as the
noble will simply run away.)
Now that would adjust how you view the use of terrorize... wouldn't
you agree?
And augment to the terrorize limit will be the addition of a varient
to the amount of fear you terrorize a noble to, would add a little
random element to the amount of tortureing occurs so if you
continually terrorize to a very high level, then your not quite sure
if you exceeded the threshold. (Kind of like a "bloodlust" or "in the
heat of battle" variable.) Say a 10% variable. You terrorize for 50
and it might be some value between 45 and 55.
Maybe this will happen in G3? ;0)
Best Regards,
Sam K.
Band of the Spear
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>What Rich should do is, make it easier to bribe a noble with a high
fear
>contract or something.
>
>>I have personally terrorized a noble to 7000 in one shot with SFW,
but,
>>beware!
>>Just this turn I saw a player attempt to terrorize a noble to 1000,
and it
>>only went to 100!! This may be a bug, or Rich may have "fixed" this
feature
>>without letting us know.
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