Shattered Kingdoms

I would love you forever if you made this change. It never made sense to me why I could resurrect someone Meissa would be upset with me having resurrected.

And thus, another wimp gets made to darkies. As if it wasn't hard enough finding a sympathetic priest online after you've had your butt handed to you.

EDIT: Although, the one loophole in your idea, D, lies in the Ain religion - which, I believe, is ONE flag for both Eye's and scale's, and not two. That's why it was always a "matter of honor" to not go blemishing the other side of the clergy and what not. How would you deal with that cookie?

I have to agree. If you only can resurrect your own aura, darkies will be in serious trouble.

If greys can resurrect all, the pressure on the grey priests will become ridiculous. As it is now there are at least a precious few that put compassion/mercy first in their roleplay, and resurrect a newbie dying injustly or someone who has waited IC years for life. I don't think I wouldn't play a grey-auraed priest again if the pressure was to become even bigger than it is now.

I also have to say I don't understand why such roleplay should be punished/made impossible through code. Why would Aludra reject the spread of compassion, or Zavijah a darkie that has aided liberty or quests for knowledge? Shouldn't it be based on circumstance/roleplay contexts?

I agree with durlik... This will be a Super RP buff for people willing to play a darkie priest... So what if it dampens the PK... after all... death is supposed to be bothersome...I myself would be HAPPY to play a darkie priest should this be implemented....

I suppose there could be a compromise. Let's say to start with you can't resurrect opposing alignments but you could still raise dead.

I'd be happy with that.

I'm extremely opposed to the idea. I feel that, in part, it will work against the n00b friendly MUD you are trying to create. At the same time, however, I also see the logic in it. It makes no sense for a lighty to be capable to rezz a darkie.

Here's the way I see it.
Lighties: Rezz Lighties and Greys.
Greys: Rezz all
Darkies: Rezz Darkies and Greys.

I also recommend that lighties/darkies can rezz the opposite aura up to Veteran/Journeyman. Allows for some "Change of Heart" RP.

And a lightie/darkie not being able rezz a n00b is a bad idea. It will work against EVERYTHING you have done so far. (Mentor system... etc)

sleeper

This would prevent so many of the problems I had. There is one problem however, what if you are a lighty in a grey faith, and the HF is a darkie?

The way it was phrased I interpreted it as not being able to rez the opponents of your religion, not generic "light vs. dark". While many religions may end up that way there's considerable middle ground. Any religion where there's a lightie and a darkie in it clearly would not have a single aura restriction on resurrection. For instance, Mira would not ban rezzing of any particular aura.

It's what your god will/will not allow, not what your character wants to do. The hard coded part anyways.

One point I should add: Hard-code which prevents lighties from rezzing darkies might well make lighties more willing to ressurect less experienced characters who don't know how to convince a priest that they're grey/light. To use Gilgon's example, now Tonth doesn't need a contract signed in blood to know that you're not a darkie.