Defense can be raised using a skill. So, no, this won't discourage
anything.
> The way you describe resurrection as _should be_ working [the Rules
> way] means that if I have lost a 5NP noble, and have no priest or
> insufficiant NP to do the resurrection myself, some EXTREMELY generous
> ally needs to pony up 5 of his NP to save _my_ noble.
No, just 1 NP. That means you won't do it for anything but special
nobles, which (I suspect) was Rich's intent. (That particular rule
change was Rich's idea.)
> This does not foster inter-player cooperation. What it does foster is
> having players opening dummy accounts via, say, hotmail or yahoo.com.
No more so than the game already does.
> Makes me wonder if this was the other method one player was talking
> about on the list awhile ago, and if Rich has put a stop to all
> resurrections while he looks for a way to stop it.
Are you a conspiracy nut or what? Resurrection has been broken since
g2 started, just like most features of g2 which were changes from g1.
-- greg, not Oleg