Religions

[Bedwyr]

It certainly would have been if they had ordered me, or tried to punish me for not changing. As it was I just had to endure endless OOC messages about not being a "team" player.

That's a very, very clear IR violation.  Extremely clear.  Putting pressure on, especially OOC, is a violation.

[Draco Tanos]

^ What he said.  While I can understand, IC, asking that you take a more active role in the war effort (not ordering), the OOC bit is what strikes me as a no-no personally. 

Battlemaster Missionaries! 

Exactly. 

Just out of curiosity, do you lose your preaching skill when changing class away from Priest?

Honestly, it takes no time at all to be able to switch classes to priest compared to some other sub-classes like infiltrator. The only benefit I could see of having the priest class persist during emigration is if you lose preaching skill in the process.

It's also immersion breaking and annoying.

[egamma]

The main problem as I would see it, the database was not designed to link religions across islands. Without actually seeing the database this is all speculation, but it is likely to require a fair bit of change to the database before you can even start writing the code to handle it all.

What I understand is that each island is a separate database. Tom could delete Beluterra (for example) and it would have no affect on the other continents.

There's no burning need to do any linking, is there? Just create a religion with the same name, internal boards, rank structure, etc., and you're good to go.

[De-Legro]

What I understand is that each island is a separate database. Tom could delete Beluterra (for example) and it would have no affect on the other continents.

There's no burning need to do any linking, is there? Just create a religion with the same name, internal boards, rank structure, etc., and you're good to go.

That has been done. However the separate databases is what causes a priest to have to change class to emigrate, even if the religion has "spread" to the island they wish to travel to.

[Anaris]

That has been done. However the separate databases is what causes a priest to have to change class to emigrate, even if the religion has "spread" to the island they wish to travel to.

That's correct, and it's not going to change.

There is no way to link religions across continents.