religion, but no religious wars... have you ever heard anything more naive?

humans are playing, right?
what do you expect?

if i roleplay an extremist, should i expect a ban?

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Kilion wrote: »

syldon wrote: »

Considering the carnage religious extremism has done in the world, why would you want it in a game?

If you think that games should not depict that religion - like any other sort of belief - can go horribly overboard, I suggest not buying games that advertise amongst other things having religion in them.

I am not against the concept of RP. Each to their own. Extremism is a different matter and not one that should be accepted into RP. I suggest you read what I said and not make inferences that are not there.

Kilion

syldon wrote: »

Kilion wrote: »

syldon wrote: »

Considering the carnage religious extremism has done in the world, why would you want it in a game?

If you think that games should not depict that religion - like any other sort of belief - can go horribly overboard, I suggest not buying games that advertise amongst other things having religion in them.

I am not against the concept of RP. Each to their own. Extremism is a different matter and not one that should be accepted into RP. I suggest you read what I said and not make inferences that are not there.

I did read it and my point still stands: RPing an extremist of an INGAME faith is completely acceptable as long as the whole matter is kept ingame. Especially since there is no real line between "normal" and "extreme" faith.

Fantmx

I am a little disappointed there is not a more direct way to act against religions in game but there will be opportunities. I am not sure I would call that extremist though.

Raven016

Those who follow The Others will be in conflict with those who follow The Seven.
If The Seven are not in conflict with each other, they'll not encourage conflict between their followers.
But let's see how Steven sees The Seven.

Raven016

George_Black wrote: »

$ is your only religion and yall know it.

Right. Resources protect nodes.
If you have to upgrade defence towers or build a temple, towers might be the better choice in a conflict zone.
Gods will not save the poor.

Tyranthraxus

We've purposefully received VERY little on religions, in the pre-game info, thus far. A couple of the monthly Q&A questions yours truly were addressed by SS, who wants it all to be first experienced, in-game; He let us know that he didn't want to answer the questions I've had addressed.

For all we know? The three dark gods could mis-understood, or just have opinions that vary from the Seven; It could be a matter of *freedom*.

I highly suspect we'll see some big twist about the Goddess of Creation. Maybe she wants to be the ONLY god, for example....

Nerror

A big difference between Verra and the real world is that the gods actually exist in Verra. How the gods feel about each other would absolutely affect the level of animosity between the inhabitants of the game world.

In RL, the gods aren't real and all the hostility is purely human.

It's entirely possible that infighting between the Seven is minimal at worst, and by extension between their followers.

Sylvanar

All religions at their inception are peaceful (whispers... because of low number of followers). Similarly when Verra will spawn (launch) the practitioners of all religions can be expected to co-exist. As and when the influence of each religion spreads, bad-actors (fanatics) will sow discord and cause large scale conflicts.

Yadda Yadda Yadda, maybe it can be an expansion feature.

Dygz

Ashes is not a Faction war game.
There won't be lore for that among The Seven.
Servers might create Faction wars.
We can expect some conflict as players vie for top positions on the Religion progression leader boards.

Guajatu

Azherae wrote: »

Isn't Ashes' religion pantheonic?

I feel like Pantheistic religions don't generally infight so much that you have to consider it 'war time'...

Interesting to think about.

Really...

Guajatu

I believe that holy wars will not be promoted by the AoC directly, the good gods the 7 gods have would not fight directly among themselves. The rivalry that exists is between the pantheon VS others.
Unless a player wants to invent rivalries between good gods 🙃

Asgerr

As others have said, there is no excrutiating need for it to be included as a system. Most players will still be able to somehow roleplay into it some way or another.

However, some time ago, on a thread about ideas for node policies, I made a suggestion that Divine Nodes mayors/Popes, should have a choice to enact a policy which reduces or nullifies Corruption for killing players of a different religion that the primary one of said Node.

Of course said policy would only affect the immediate ZOI of that Node (and maybe its vassal Nodes? more infor and testing required on that one).

But, any Node can declare a Node War against another Node. So the active ruler of a Divine Node could just roleplay the reasoning for said war to be over religious shenanigans. Probably doesn't even have to be a war against a different deity's Node. Could even be roleplayed as a difference of opinions on the same deity's theology. Just ask the Catholic and the Cathars during the Albigensian Crusade.

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