Suggestions on RP-Heavy hosted game?

[okiN]

I might be up for it. I'm in two games already and I don't want to get in over my head, but I'd love to take part in something like this. If the pace is lax enough I'll certainly join.

[quantum_mechani]

I consider CoW a bit of disaster, not just because it drug on forever but because of the emphasis on diplomacy rather than RPing. Diplomacy is already the driving force in most long term games, there is no need to focus on it. Besides, in my opinion it goes against the spirit of dominions- agreements with false gods should be a last resort and almost meaningless when their usefulness expires...

Also, I don't see any problems with players making good strategic choices... personally I like to role play smart characters.

[Truper]

Sure, roleplaying a powergamer; that's the spirit!

[tease mode off]

All that may be needed is to encourage roleplaying and a bit of creative writing. Another idea might be to adopt a diplomatic idea that has come up in history on a number of occasions: "Open Covenants Openly Arrived At." That is, diplomacy is allowed, and encouraged, and encouraged to be in character, but can only be conducted through through the game's thread, not through in-game messages or email.

[WSzaboPeter]

I got an idea. What if in the late age a guild of tradesmen would have formed that gained enough reputation and money to rule the world slowly. Then it was torn apart by the richest houses. Each house would be represented by a nation, and the patriarch/matriarch would be the pretender god and the first born the prophet.
But to gain wealth and reputation one needs to concentrate on this and thus negating the magical practices. This would be represented with the following logic:
Number of votes in the Guild = 10 - Number of Magic levels after the first, cumulative. With a minimum of 1.
I tell you an example:
A patriarch who has Fire 9 and Water 9 (very popular nowadays). Would get 10 - ((9-1) + (9-1)) = -6. Max(1,-6) = 1. So he would get 1 vote.
In the other hand if a patriarch would have Air 3 only, that would mean: 10 - (3-1) = 8 Max (1,8) = 8. So he would get 8 votes.
To get the maximum number of votes you should get only 1 in any magic path. Well, you could take 1 in every magic path, to a nice rainbow pretender, but for this (hopefully rare) case to compensate I suggest that if a patriarch will be adept in more then 3 paths, then he would get a cumulative -1 vote for every path after the 3rd.
So an example: If a patriarch would choose ASDEFNNW for some reason, then he would get 10-1=9 for having 2 levels in Nature, then -4 more for the paths above 3. This would lead to a total of 5 votes.
I'm waiting for suggestions an opinions.