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Same with me, and even bit more.

Thanks to all responding, and I realized in the meantime that the bulk is per ticket, not per stack, I apologize for the misconception. Indeed, testing showed me deceiving figures: everytime I added or subtracted one of my 3-5ticket stacks, bulk rose or dropped by an integer, everytime i added or subtracted a ticket, nothing happened. Thanks for the clarification. By stripping my ticket stacks, especially those to Almati which were indeed overloaded (most times I take the temple porters) I managed to reduce ticket bulk to 25 approx.

Anyway, I still feel that this is not sensible. There may be the idea behind to restrict the faction hoppers collecting all tickets and storing them while changing religion or becoming neutral afterwards. But that's a half-assed measure (if you forgive the expression) as clearly nobody may store the maximum of tickets yet still enough to be able to move unrestrictedly for a good deal of time.

If the idea was to restrict that kind of behaviour (it doesn't trouble me, because I would never act that way as strict neutrality, not opportunism, is in the core of my roleplay), why not limiting the number of tickets of one direction on a per character basis to say, 9, 15, 20? I had not a too close look into the sources, and my knowledge of Lua stems from the NeL documentation and subsequent googling, but I failed to see that such restriction would have been too hard to implement. Instead, after nearly 7 years, usage of Karavan tickets by Kami and vice versa was eventually blocked (rightly).

For any other purpose, bulk of tickets makes no sense, IMHO.

I don't think that it has to do anything with f2p which was implemented years later. I have two payed accounts and don't care much about. Hopefully it will bring some more players, anyway.

Cheers, daomei