QUOTE (Rainydays @ Mar 30 2010, 08:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
So, Devokens losing and gaining and losing and regaining great house status made me think.
What we could do is, once you gain great house status, the threshhold for losing it is half of what it is to initially gain it.
This way, when you gain it, you don't risk losing it back and forth too easily, and when you've lost it, you've really, really lost it.
What we could do is, once you gain great house status, the threshhold for losing it is half of what it is to initially gain it.
This way, when you gain it, you don't risk losing it back and forth too easily, and when you've lost it, you've really, really lost it.
Completely their fault. They should have let me stay in.
QUOTE (Lendren @ Mar 31 2010, 08:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Half is way too far. If the high-water mark (where you gain it) is 50, the low-water mark (where you lose it) should be 45-48 or so, not 25.
45 seems fair - that way a family isn't losing their status the minute someone hasn't logged on for 30 days (or uh...starts their own bloodline
)QUOTE (Aoife @ Mar 31 2010, 11:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
45 seems fair - that way a family isn't losing their status the minute someone hasn't logged on for 30 days (or uh...starts their own bloodline )
)IIRC, 'active' is defined differently for Houses. Active indicates that you are still a member of that family and have not rejected, married out/divorced out, started your own bloodline, etc.
48 seems perfect to me: it means if you lose people you lose it, but not just because of one little flicker of a person quitting. So I guess 45 is the best compromise we can reach. Which is to say, when they don't actually do this, 45 will be the number we wish they'd do if they did. 
What they really ought to do is bump down the Great House req to 25 and lesser to 10, then make the low water mark 22.
