Message #50855

[Brant]

My line of reasoning:

• Was it a bug?  Yes.
• Would a long time player reasonably know it's a bug? Yes.  When is the last time in the history of Battlemaster when an election in your realm was supposed to be able to get you elected to a lordship in a different realm?  Not in the 8 years I've been playing, not in the 4 years he's been playing.
• Did he bring it to the attention of a DEV, as required by the social contract? No.
• Was the result bug used to gain significant IG advantage?  Yes.  Weather you think he closed the RC's then discovered he could change duchies, or if he knew all along... changing the realm of an enemy region to that of your own -is- an IG advantage, the act single-handedly changed the course of a war.  "He closed them just to be fair before he took the region" is overthinking just as much as "he closed them then discovered he could take the region".  The fact is that those things happened.
• Were there other options available, where he could remove the results of the bug without IG consequence? Yes, abandoning a lordship under the new system currently does not cost honor or prestige, and can be done from anywhere even while traveling. (just tested it, to be sure)