I'll point up to Krilari's post in regards to how this will help nobles, for starters.
Quote:Has it gotten to a point where we can't say to people "You're doing it wrong. No. Bad. Stop.", and have to monitor it by making -another- thing on CoTH we have to get approved?
It's not that easy, and I'm certain everyone's aware of it. We can't see what everyone's doing at all times with their RP, though, noble or otherwise, is the problem. We'd have to actively do the monitoring that everyone is so afraid of, and watch, invisibly, as people RP. No one wants to do that, and no one wants us to do that.
Quote: It feels like, in the case of us that have been playing our noble houses for a long while and have had the enjoyable RP, or that have established something over a long period of time... that we are suddenly being told "Nope, we don't like it!". So, it feels like we are being micro-managed, and by people that aren't often involved in our RP.
I think it's important to remind everyone, again, that we're
not taking your nobles away. No one has had their nobility removed. And, honestly, we can't be involved in everyone's RP, nor would you actually want us to be. That's hardly a fair thing to say in regards to policy changes. Every change affects someone, and just because GMs don't RP with every single character that gets affected by the change doesn't mean we take it less seriously, or anything like that.
Quote: then it should be something that has to do with profiles, I'd think, instead of applying for a whole -faction-.
This is a profile. Just a slightly different kind of one than people are used to. What we're asking for is information on how their house operates and came to be. It's a profile for the
house, in addition to the character. No one complains when we ask people to think about their characters (since we have profiles for them), but few people put the same amount of thought into how their house operates, its history, its income, its resources. Things that we feel are important, and should be as thought about as the character that comes from it. Is this going to make noble houses spring up less often, now that you have to consider more than before? Probably. Is this necessarily a bad thing? No.
See, here's the contradiction, though; we haven't been able to monitor anything after the profile process, far more often than not, on nobles. Making the profile stricter isn't going to police what happens afterward, and the response to further close 'monitoring' by GMs has been met with understandably negative feedback.
Quote: And honestly, feels like it has little input from players -OF- nobles.
As I've mentioned a few times now, among others,
post ideas and suggestions here if you have them. I know you posted a PD, but all I have seen otherwise, with a few notable exceptions, is people saying that they don't like how it was handled. They don't like what was posted.
We can't improve it, however, just on that. Make suggestions. Here is the chance; we know stuff isn't perfect. We try our best, but we only have so many different points of view on the team. It's like a beta release; you can only test so many things as a company yourself, before you open it up to the public. Obviously we can't go for anything and everything, but if reasonable topics are brought up, we'll certainly consider and make adjustments.
Quote: it's like.. people are blowing it out of context by expecting us to blow it out of context.
It's been blown waaaay out of proportion already, though not in this thread. I apologize if I sounded like I was referring to the posts in this thread. That wasn't my intention!
Quote:I'd heard that the reason for this was because of people actively walking around town claiming about slaves as well as hiding behind noble status.
There is almost never a singular reason or happening for why something gets changed.
Thank you for the feedback thus far, though; discussing it with us is faaar preferable to "meh I don't like this but I don't think I can make a difference so I won't say anything."