by Zamte » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:38 am bitza wrote:its really better if everyone in the village shares their products, you get better goods that way, for example if i spend time on a mining alt instead of letting the smith do it, then that's time that i'm not spending on making food and improving my farming skill. likewise if the smith has to take care of feeding himself, that's less time that he has to work on metal products.
i guess it varies from group to group depending on if your people have the "team mentality" or if you're all just in it for yourselves.
Right but this is the problem; That style of gameplay is about trust and good will. You give what you can and hope and trust others to do the same when they can. I've been a part of Codexia for a good long while now, and aside from labor when I can, and helping collect what I can, I am not specialized enough or high enough in any skills to contribute anything that somebody else can't already do better, but I'm still welcome there because I am a team player, even if I can't make the world's best _____.
When you try to take the "Everybody shares" concept and turn it into "Everybody pays taxes into a pot" system, it becomes forced, and people begin to feel like they have to grind to keep producing worthwhile items, and these issues override their own needs. You need metal and I'm a miner? Well I'll happily mine some metal if we need some, but right now I'm starving and need to go cook some food, so kindly wait your turn. If your reaction to this situation is to knock me out and/or murder me, then you can kindly go take a long walk off a short pier.
This is what my earlier comment was aimed at. Riou's constantly involved in these threads accusing him of making rash, snap decisions which usually result in somebody else losing a lot of their stuff (village, high end items, characters), and he's going to gain a reputation for being a tyrant if he doesn't figure out a way to play more peacefully with people.
That character is their hard work. They are playing this game, in the long run, for their own enjoyment. I'm sure they don't mind helping you out, but only if A) you're returning the favor somehow, and B) you're being reasonable about it and not basically demanding taxation.
