OOC Thread and Chatroom

[everyone]

Besides, what's 40CP?
If you idle in city for 4 sessions, you can do it already

4 sessions is rather long, no we're only at our 5th session, and already around 3 months have passed; I wouldn't want to wait 2 months just to become someone important, save a month if I want to command a legion and get in action.
honestly, I don't think historical accuracy should be placed as a priority here. which is more important? being able to play the game with as many opportunities as possible by relaxing historical accuracy or needing to register for the game, wait 1 month, get into some action for 1 week, and by the time 4 sessions passed; things changed, etc.

and it also poses the problem of needing to wait a long time before anything could happen from now. for you see, I doubt Cotta could even run for Consulship by the next session regardless if this session's edicts against him passes. even so, there would only be 1 consul, and it wouldn't be good RP-wise, since guys from Legio III, Regulus and a few others don't like him.

This may be true real life; you start out in politics at say 25, then you stay as a minor position for a decade or so, then rise to a position of some importance and after another 10 years you go to a really high position. or not at all.

but apply that in a game where there is constant RP-ing and things are changing; wouldn't that be boring?

a person joins this game; he pesters the CoL to make him a Tribunus Militum. after a week, he gets the position. then 3 weeks later, his commander fights enough battles to get him the 15CPs, then he becomes a Legatus. so far a month has passed, and in that month, some important guy probably died, another important but unpopular guy gets voted in; half of the senators are attempting to impeach him and the ToPs have just been voted in, and the new player during his time as a Privatuus or a TM couldn't even do anything but say a few lines in the Curia about what his character thinks.

I'm not trying to say that your rule changes are nonsense or anything, but the rank reqs are unreasonable. you may say it's not about ranks and it's about the RPing, but how do you RP stuff you have little or no influence and when you're stuck at a low rank for a month; other than posting stories like "Gaius Julius Nero, a young intelligent man, wanders in the forum, blah blah blah, elderly senators in the Curia arguing over nothing, they need change, blah blah blah, I shall become consul one day and lead them to do some really amazing stuff like transforming into howitzers"

to show that my levels of yellow bile is not increased by such a discussion, I shall post a few emoticons