[Cerlin]

Ok ok, this really doesn't have as much to do with role play (which I would totally join your RP game Llamabeast, it sounds great!) which is more with what can be enforced in game.

Of course if some gamer has a history of breaking a NAP you will be less likely to trust them, then instead of trying to get a set of rules past, just do not trust them as much next game. The only rules enforceable in each game is the rules which the players in that game will make happen by force. If someone breaks a NAP and no one cares to enforce it, then that player can do what they please. A NAP is overrated in its strength here, The whole point of MP games is to ascend as THE GOD, there is no second place! As for me, NAP's generally are good to honor, especially in big games with many boarders (Epotara for those of you in it), but in a smaller game where I have only Two neighbors, it may be different.

Just like classical European history, the only things that keeps countries in line is other countries ready to enforce the "laws" and "Treaties." It is all about force in the end, not about "honor" no matter what people think. In my honest opinion, i really think the people here complaining most probably had losses because of backstabbing. If this is your problem, then make more alliances and less "NAP." I am a historian by trade, and do not even get me started on how shaky NAP are in real life.