Shattered Kingdoms

Wait, are you seriously going to tell me you are not going to work on a feature to make your economic system worth a damn based on the fact SK lacks passports? You realize it's not too useful in its current incarnation and doesn't allow players to do what you constantly harp on as Sk's best feature: player to player interaction and game play.

Just in case you weren't paying attention: I can conjure fireballs from my [REDACTED] and summon people across realms and detect their true nature of their being. Let's not even mention raising the undead and being able to grow new limbs. What the hell would stop shopkeepers from figuring out where you lived in this magical world?

Secondly, who says being disguised in a certain way wouldn't allow you to purchase items in each country, regardless of stance?

If shopkeepers can stop from being stunned and their 'magical vault keys' from being taken, and return from the dead everytime I pop one for xp -- then I think they can manage to figure out which country you come from because the local law requires it like we require ID to purchase liquor.

Also, here's something to throw a wrench in your logic plan for SK: you can detect poison, aura, alignment, invisible, hidden, and magical. Why the hell couldn't you detect where someone recalls to? Call it detect patronage and have it show (imperial) (zhensh) (ayamao) to shopkeeper mobiles. Badaboom, look, I solved the 'magical problem'.

I hate this magical vault thing.

Ironically the bugfix to keep shopkeepers from having their stuff stolen while being stunned was put in to make the economy better. Being able to stun shopkeepers to harvest 150 obsidians made it too easy to gain quick money. This was just a long-running loophole, because their stuff was never accessible when you killed them, only when you stunned them.

I never said I don't want to increase the economic system. I just am not in favor of the idea you proposed. A real embargo would prevent commodities from going one kingdom to another - it generally doesn't have anything to do with individual purchases. I'd actually like to get a trade system in where each kingdom has access to a certain amount of raw materials and they'd have to make up the difference through trade.

What you propose will take another few years to get put in, while we realize zero value on it in game.

What I propose even I could code in a weekend and have it working giving much value despite not being perfect.

But it's not worth doing in the first place, because it doesn't make any IC sense.

Say you're a Imperial citizen buying something from Nerina. How does the Imperial government know to tax you, and how can they collect if you don't feel like paying? Or if the taxes are being collected by the Talons, why are they sending money to the Empire?

Or take the case of embargo. I'm not buying that every shopkeeper in the world is a spellcaster with this new "detect kingdom" spell. And even if they were, why would they care if a customer's foreign nation wants to prevent a trade? It's not their law. The whole situation is reversed.

If a tribunal wants to embargo goods, it can just go kill everyone who's holding them without a license. Locate object works fine, and I've seen warnings of such activities many times. If the tribunal doesn't have that level of military might and organization, that's its problem.

Uh, guys, you have an economic treaty with them, just like a diplomatic treaty. That is what enforces it.

Stop bitching about how the game knows things, the game knows impossible things all the time. This is furthering economic status and in the future can allow dulrik to put in a more complex raw materials trade system.

For once, I agree. I am pretty sure that in the empire that everyone has to have some sort of paperwork to ensure their residency. The only place that it doesn't make sense to not have any sort of paperwork is Ayamao. The rest of the countries (not including Uxmal) would have have some sort of paperwork or something else, that would mark them as a resident of that nation.

If the treaty is mutual, and both sides are honest, sure. The first is contradicted by letting one country unilaterally shift to a taxation system. The second, by bothering to glance at these kingdoms we're talking about.

If this system actually added something to the game, maybe I'd be more willing to suspend disbelief. But I'm not seeing any advantage to this. I think tribunals have enough sufficient power already. And if people want to chat around Nerina/Teron instead of spending so much time in the far corners in the world, I see no reason to push them back. (Rah for not being able to buy food/drink/room keys. *eyeroll*)

Nobody sells [REDACTED] in the wastes because you're lucky to get 4 silver for the sold item.