The End of the Alexian Empire

[Meh]

This is why I belive in the swiss system in Cantr anyway. 100% armed evenly.

[nitefyre]

Thats where my char comes to a contradiction. He likes Quality, not Quantity in his recruits. Pretty damned good ones he believes in the ones he has chosen, apart from the one, that won't be one for much longer.

[ephiroll]

I wish, but I always figure in a "maniac" chance, and the more people that are armed is that many more that could "go off", so until someone has been around long enough to be trusted (2-5 years) I normally make sure that they aren't armed well enough not to be killed in a day by others around them.

[nitefyre]

Hence the lack of distributions of proper shielding and equipment to young guards. The older ones are armed to the teeth in this case. Good chain of command.

[Meh]

A lynch mob is more effective for policing in Cantr. IMO.

How many times do you see an unarmed concerned citizen that you wish was a guard of some sort?

Armies on the other hand are a different tale.

[nitefyre]

Agreed-thats why they get weapons to a satisfactory degree based on loyalty.

Competitions/Tournaments/Tests are all good ways of rewarding the winner with the trust of better gear, and increasing healty competition and loyalty. Much like a war game of sort [i.e. red flag]

[ephiroll]

Competition...reminds me of a little idea I have that I've wanted to give a try for a while but haven't because of the combat rules, now that they've changed however I think it would be a good time to give an "Arena" a chance somewhere.

"...and in this corner we have Clubfoot Dan, armed with his deadly bone club, going up against the current champ, Kill'em Dead, and his trusted battle axe...place your bets now folks, for in two days we will have a victor!"

Which is another reason I want to drag animals, can't have a proper collusium without the classic man vs nature thing going on.

[nitefyre]

Sometimes I thot our world has become civilized, then reality hits, that I am dead out wrong.

[ephiroll]

Civilized is but an illusion that can be pulled apart at any time without warning...

And perssonally I don't think there's any difference in two men fighting to the death in a pit and two men standing in a ring beating the sh*t out of each other on live television...just because something isn't as lethal doesn't mean it's "right". Violence is violence, and is morally wrong, but it is part of human nature is therefore is interesting to people in general, the way it is "displayed" is the real arguement people have with it.

[Meh]

"Reality TV" is the new roman arena.

"Let's put them up to their armpits in animal body parts!".

[ephiroll]

Are you just joking or...? Scifi has a new reality TV show where they stick a bunch of twisted people in a house together...one of the people does stuff like that...for fun...

[Xander]

withdrawal symptoms!

no cantr all day.... arrrgggh!

[Meh]

Are you just joking or...? Scifi has a new reality TV show where they stick a bunch of twisted people in a house together...one of the people does stuff like that...for fun...

That was the one I was referring too.

Basically most of the reality TV shows are there so we can watch people suffer. How many more TV seasons will go by before we just throw the christains in front of the lions again?

[ephiroll]

I dont' know, but I'll watch that one /joking I'll just buy the first season collection

But yeah, that's what I'm saying, we still do some of the same things for entertainment, we just like to believe that what we do today is more civilized then what was done in yesteryears, when in truth it's not, it's just displayed in a different way.

[nitefyre]

I know we like beating the shit out of people, but we must learn to mend it to match what we believe ourselves to be as advanced to be. Like kill the hooker after finishing business with em in gta. =\