Shattered Kingdoms

There are many downsides.

You're assumed to drop everything to defend your city.

Many guards of at-war factions are now scripted to automatically attack you, in addition to bounty NPCs.

Your bounty NPCs have a limited playing field.

Their buffs have strings attached.

You clearly have not been in the army. If you transfer the matter to game standards, all the tribunal players are officers and the NPCs are more or less foot-soldiers. Can you imagine a footsoldier disobaying a general? And playing smart at that? Besides it's not your charisma that makes you a leader in a tribunal, it's either seniority or combat prowess. Charisma is for politicians.

"You're assumed to drop everything to defend your city."

Doesn't mean kamikaze, shouldn't join the ranks of guards if you don't want to do the job.

"Many guards of at-war factions are now scripted to automatically attack you, in addition to bounty NPCs."

Only at entrances and there are ways around it anyway. You CAN walk around cities you are at war with if you aren't a criminal.

"Your bounty NPCs have a limited playing field."

Screw bounty NPCs anyway, as long as they tell the player where the action is.

"Their buffs have strings attached."

Being?

Tribunals are awesome and the downsides are few so far as I see it.

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean bounty NPCs.

Ordered NPCs have a limited playing field. There are many ways they can be drawn out from your party, and most can be neutralized easily.

The problem with tribunal defense is that your enemy has always prepared and you frequently have not.

The problem with tribunal offense should be obvious.


I won't get into the strings attached to the buffs, because I don't want to reveal OOC info that would get me in trouble. If people are interested in tribunals, that's great, they could use it.

I just know I've sworn to never again join one until certain code updates are made.

If they are going to draw out your tribunal NPC, just follow it anyway. It also shouldn't be that hard to prepare for an attack. If your in a tribunal, you can run around with buffs twenty-four seven and get fading buffs from pills/potions instantly. As far as how easy it is to neutralize a naked guard NPC. Give it some enchanted armor, which guards can enchant.

Hell, if they draw your law NPC away, follow the NPC if you can, it will track them down. Just be prepared to do that.

I guess I just like the utility options for both pvp and pve granted from tribunals. I don't think it needs to be made any more difficult for people to raid or easier to defend. The way it is now, you don't have to be l337 to get involved and be useful. Just have to be careful not to get overrun.

...I'll just suppose you aren't very well-acquainted with the tribunal NPC AI scripts, then.

Grep accurately points out a few chinks in a tribunal character's armor, but on balance tribunals are just fine in terms of potency.

Gliknok, the trouble with following guards is that you can only do that during city defense. If you try to do it during a raid, you'll just end up in the front row fighting several bounty NPCs.

Im a little late to this discussion, but did you really just say that? Hand is one of the strongest tribunal's in the game, the trio is devastating if it is used right.

A nymph with no mouth?

I wonder how one uses that correctly.

Zing.