A pirates got to have a code so this is a test to maybe get some generally accepted guidelines. This will be entirely player based staff will not necessarily accept nor force these guidelines.
This honor code will hopefully get people to return named weapons to the original owner and is thought as a test to see if the player base is capable of agreeing and following a code of honor.
Returning named weapons (Swords, Bows mainly) to their rightful owner will gain you a honor point and place the owner as in your debt. You are not forced to return the weapon, keeping it wont change anything regarding your honor. But if you are in debt to a player, kill him and not return his weapon you lose honor.
This might be a bit confusing so lets show this with an example:
Markusi kills Godsdude and gives Godsdude his sword back. Godsdude either posts a thank you note here or via pm to Markusi as proof. Markusi now gains 1 honor point and Godsdude is placed as in debt to Marksui.
Godsdude later takes revenge and now has 2 possibilities.
a.) He returns Markusi`s sword and he is no longer in debt to him, gaining an honor point.
b.) He doesn’t abide to the code losing 5 honor points and staying in debt to Markusi.
What it comes down to is you either not participate in this and everything’s fine or you do join in by accepting a sword back but in return for joining you should return a sword to the one who returned it to you. Meaning you will only gain from this code.
People with a lot of honor points could be seen as honorable and favored by the community and will get a reward in form from items (NOT from staff members but players who donate something)
I don’t think we would have any negative effect by trying this out, who knows if it works maybe we could add more guidelines. There are some rules though:
1. Returning weapons to friends, allies and relatives does not reward honor points. (Or people will just get infinite honor points)
2. Lets keep it to named items only for now since its easier to track. (Diamond Sword could be anyone’s)
If anything should be unclear please just ask and if some known players/crews could support this that would be great.
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