I'm trying to be a known backstabber but I keep reverting into bad honorable habits
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Personally, I think that players in these games (myself included) almost always err too much on the side of being honest and honorable in terms of in-game agreements; which, after all, it would be much more in-character to break! So if a backstabber list de-incentivizes that sort of thing, bollocks it. This should be completely distinct from actual cheating, of course.
But I'm opposed to good-player pledges for the same reason that I'm opposed to no-treachery games. The only way to police them is to report people for what is, I suppose, in the context of the game, cheating
And that's a pretty severe thing, so in ambiguous cases, which is what always comes up when you try to enforce in-game honor of agreements, what are you going to do? Better to leave the whole shebang alone in the first place.
In closing, I'd like to congratulate
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and Septimus Severus as being the only three people who've had the balls to actually break the terms of an agreement in one of these games. Kudos!
