Just to check in - no one has any issues with someone coming in with a high level character and never having ever played in a game (including NPCing) - as long as he pays for it all via gobbies and pay no play.
Wraith said:
It's true, but the logic holds for anything, given that we're a national game. Why should a player's interactions with plot out in HQ give them a character with a lot of exp and items that can walk into, say, Southern Minnesota and wipe the floor with the local plot and playerbase? It's just the nature of letting rewards earned in one chapter travel to others.
There's a difference between "rewards earned" and "rewards bought" - at least in my book there is. Which sounds more like a cool encounter:
"Oh, don't go mess with that guy. He's been adventuring for 6 years."
or
"Oh, don't go mess with that guy. He donated 5 dozen masks and as many tabards to 7 different chapters."
Dreamingfurther said:
To be honest, I *highly* doubt you'd be able to walk in with just a level 10-15 character and wipe the floor with the local playerbase... Even if you could transfer in some restricted magic items. (Which you can't currently.) Maybe you could make a shot at it with a team of 4-6 level 10-15 characters all stocked with items.
However if a group of players seriously game to a game with the intent just to hardcore 'roll' the local playerbase, or in a more soft version, just try to 'gun' for all the high quality treasure and otherwise **** block the rest of the playerbase I'm pretty sure plot would/should come up with a solution to something like that.
Any in any case I always hear people talking about a hypothetical situation arising like this and in reality I've never actually seen and/or heard of it happening so it seems like a bit of a straw man argument... :wacko:
I have witnessed a group of 3 high level characters walk into a relatively new chapter and basically mop the place from PC's to NPC's. It was done in game, according to the rules and plot really didn't have enough time (or experience) to deal with it by coming up with on the spot IG ways to deal with it. They had something in place for the next game but it didn't remove the fact that the previous one had taken place.
I should also note that the players who did this were not being malicious but were playing their characters as they had always played them. Just that this time when the local heroes began to give them some gruff, they had the power to shut them up - with a fair number heading off to the circle due to it (myself included - multiple times).
In fact, now that I think of this, I have to revise my opinion that it is near impossible to PD in Alliance. Just play a beginning level character who is a town guard that has to deal with PC's 20 levels higher and have absolutely no compunction about PvP.
I've seen the straw man - he is scrawny but scary.