What I meant by saying it's a feature is that it is not literally
proscribed in the rules. The rules don't say that you cannot ever
transfer noble points, they just spell out that all the ways it used to
be done in G1 will no longer work. If Rich, after being convinced it's
bad for the game, puts in some new code that makes this method not work
then it would not longer be a feature, and if it still worked it would
be a bug.
>Is this something we would want to happen? I don't think it was in
>the plan when NP conservation was implemented.
You're absolutely right.
>Now add the fact that it can be achived through multiple ways.
I'm still not convinced of that. I think there is only one way, and Mr.
Sifu was grossly exaggerating about how fast it could be done.
>One I believe everyone agrees is the giving of an artifact. Well if
one was
>going to quest anyways then this side benifit actually exceeds the
>expected goals of Questing. IMHO, though I love NPC's I love NPs more.
Only if you have a faction around willing to give you the NP's. If you
start a second one yourself you are cheating, whether you use a friends
account or not, as long as you wrote the orders. That is clearly stated
in the rules. I doubt anyone in my alliance would be willing to give me
an NP, except under the most extreme circumstances. But if they did I
wouldn't feel I was cheating.
>:-) For you obviously don't quest for the gold, maybe initially you
did
>some questing to get breeding stock... by why keep questing?
Well, mostly because I like too. As someone said, we Camarians like to
lead our busy little lives, because we are so cute.
Rob, Robert wrote:
> >
> > >Okay, easy, I start 8 new factions, all with different e-mail
> > >addresses and with Visa cards from friends since it would only
> > >be for a few turns and then I can transfer the NP's to my
> > >faction. I will not tell you how because I don't want to give
> > >any hints to players who like to cheat.
> > >I don't say that this is actually happening but it is possible!!
> > >Next time read the mail better !!!
> > >And what 'real' bugs should be fixed according to you ??
> > >Or are they just real because they're bugs that are bothering YOU
> !!
> >
> > You clearly must not have figured out how to transfer NP's, because
> your
> > scenario above simply will not work. Those of us who HAVE figured
> out
> > how to transfer NP's realize that it is a long, slow process, and,
> > taking a strct interpretation, is not against the rules. Therefore
> it
> > isn't a bug, it's a feature.
> >
> > What is more worrisome is if you have decided that it's worth 20
> bucks a
> > week to play Olympia and you keep those 8 factions going. If you
> did
> > that you would be probably the single most coordinated group in the
> game
> > and would be able to bring off a string of unlikely military and
> magical
> > successes. In that case, you would be a cheating rat and if you had
> any
> > honor you would drop out of the game.
> >
> > Rob, because Ming has no idea that this is a game