Message #41754

[DoctorHarte]

That is ONE of the reasons that training matches DON'T improve swordfighting. Duels are for honour, not for for a cheap way to increase your sword fighting skill. If you are duelling for fun and skills using duel to surrender, I suggest you are abusing the system.

Only because the mechanics for a fun or training match didn't exist at the time. The mechanics represented a serious duel over insults. If you wanted to have "fun" duelling or sport duelling, the RP's were the answer. Note this has changed at least on testing with the implementation of training matches. The rule also existed to prevent people from constantly duelling each other for skill gain

The dueling guild is set up to be held like a tournament, with a 250 gold prize, "champion of the duel" status, and each round nobles are eliminated. It does display honor and is not an abuse of the system. We also have a noble fro PoZ dominating the first tournament, Sir Moses. In a few weeks, Sasrhas will also be hosting her own tournament to invite other nobles to join our guild and share the opportunity. We are most certainly not abusing the system this way