How many civ-neutral guilds do you know? I have exactly three in my guild list, and members of one never pvp anyway (PT).
Of course people within a civ-aligned guild could still be neutrals, but I wouldn't extrapolate over the players base starting from my friends' list.
Otherwise, with the civ-aligned caps at +100 +75 +25 +0, a marauder will only get +3 off a person if said person has bothered to raise the first 3 fames to max, and hasn't lowered any below -25. Otherwise it's +2 or lower.
Actually, I believe this could be fixed by simply not throwing a person's religious fame at -50 when they align with the opposite guys, but instead a -20. This allows marauders to get some points off religious people, which is a good chunk of the players at high levels. Would change the roleplay a little, but it's justifiable because the karas could still hope you'll see the light even if you align kami.
In any case, you need the data to see the larger picture and see how *any* changes affects dynamics.
Of course people within a civ-aligned guild could still be neutrals, but I wouldn't extrapolate over the players base starting from my friends' list.
Otherwise, with the civ-aligned caps at +100 +75 +25 +0, a marauder will only get +3 off a person if said person has bothered to raise the first 3 fames to max, and hasn't lowered any below -25. Otherwise it's +2 or lower.
Actually, I believe this could be fixed by simply not throwing a person's religious fame at -50 when they align with the opposite guys, but instead a -20. This allows marauders to get some points off religious people, which is a good chunk of the players at high levels. Would change the roleplay a little, but it's justifiable because the karas could still hope you'll see the light even if you align kami.
In any case, you need the data to see the larger picture and see how *any* changes affects dynamics.
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