About shard news.

[Kent Strider]

Yeah go for it, its good for a temporary rule, people can get back on their feet after the big warp without worrying about getting robbed and stuff.

[Raven Darkblade]

Well the only thing I dont like is that you change (at least as I can see it) the max peity to be 60 and only for hp, and basically the "peitygoal" ends at 50 for priests.

That means any priest that has 60+ atm (not many but still) gets a big hit in the face, because you wanna change rules, if thats the case im against it, even it wont reflict on my peity at a current state, it will if i at some point wish another to take over the Hp position (and I dident get any peity when I ever became hp got all my peity outside as normal priest)

Furthermore I dident fully understand... does everyone get a freebee to another religion or only tekstones? and do they get to keep their current peity at transfer?

thats all from here.

[Geryn Farodae]

I agree with Raven. It should not be set that only HP's have 60, and priests only have 50. As Raven said, it would be a veritable slap in the face to those who worked their butts off to get 60-70-80 piety. In order to encourage more people to migrate here, instead of stay inactive until Pan2 opens. If Tekstone is allowed to migrate to another religion, then at least they should be able to keep their piety. Mind you, not that Darian would mind a whole lot to have 60 piety since, until piety is fixed 80 is exactly the same as 60. But still, inactivity was one of the main reasons why no one is playing anymore. On top of the fact that they found out their accounts would be deleted in order to make way for Pan2, and to have a huge timewarp.

The change where HP's have 60 and can grant up to forty is a really good idea. But be careful not to push it too far by imposing restrictions, it will most likely do more harm than good.

[Glarundis]

i do not really mind that hp's get awarded a standard 60 piety and being able to grant 40 piety but if we are going to make each "piety level" as hard as x level - 1 was before, then i think it will only overpower religion members compared to non-members

[Darian Darkmind]

Hello y'all!

First of, I'm glad you're finally planning to do some changes to the religion, but as much as I'd like to switch to Law, I must disagree on deleting Tekstone. Instead delete both Nature and Imperial and greatly boost Tekstone to match Law in power. When looking at the bigger picture Tekstone is the spice of Pangaea, and has always been. Removing it would be simply stupid. However, if my request is too much asked and you don't agree with me boosting Tekstone, fixing it to equal Law in power, then go free to delete the whole religion.

Now, giving 60 piety to HP is too easy. The old 50 is good. That way the HP has to earn his 60 and if he's not one for the job, he must step down and his piety is lowered back to the piety he had before. If he gains 60 while being HP and then steps down, it is lowered by 10. Just like it was before. Otherwise we have everyone changing HPs every other second week to gain power.

[Edit] Also, I take it capping piety to 60 is just some speculation of random players. After all, doing so would only affect one single player on this shard, me. And that'd be über lame!

[Alteran]

only way the religions can work and getting piety higher then 60 is over kill.
the hp now has more to work with then any other religions members so he is earning his place as hp not the piety.
i want to remove the piety to be up to the staff totaly , unless we are punishing a hp for taking to many new members and giving piety too fast.

There is not enugh players to have 4 religions, and i chouse to close tekstone ,and to avoide much fighting and staff have to dealing with, it all that is placed in the hands of the Hp , again to remove work from staff.

a hp stepping down will be given his former piety so no gain there.

When you have been in a religion for a year you are now an old timer and will be granted 50 piety.

so the piety will be out of staffs hands.

Alteran

[Geryn Farodae]

Still, those people who have more than 60 piety were given it for a really good reason ie: they deserved it. Which means, after literally years of good activity and roleplaying they were awarded accordingly. Stripping that away is practically shooting yourself in the foot, because anyone who's used to having that power, gets it stripped away for no reason, imo, will not be a very proactive person when it comes to playing.

[Alteran]

well still need to change how the religions work ,and i know it will hurt some, but it will also gain the liberty to change a religion with out much punishment ,and still giving you easyer way to get piety.
This way no one is forced in a locked game as i see it.

alteran

[Geryn Farodae]

In that case, if 50 piety is the maximum achievable piety level without being HP, then why not make it so HP can grant up to 50? Take GM's right out of the picture. Either that, or you increase max piety to 100 and decrease the amount of time it takes between each eligibility, also in doing so, nerf the boosts received. The fundamental flaw with this reasoning, though, is that it would make no sense. You would have a 100 piety priest with the same power as a 60 piety priest, if you get my meaning.

Why not just allow those from Tekstone, who are obviously being forced to give up their chosen religion, not to mention their piety on this decision, to keep atleast 50-60 piety, then? In the interest of fairity it's always nice to give something back after taking something away.

[Alteran]

They are given 50 in piety .

Alteran