Shattered Kingdoms

I only have this to say.

When you propose an idea:

Think, "Does this idea impact me only? Will -everyone- enjoy the fruits of this implement?"

No no no no no. SK does not need more player groups. We do not have the player base to support a few active cabals and tribunals and a handful of inactive ones. I would rather support joining some of the old cabals and tribunals back into one!

MC's dual cabal and tribunalship makes its it so soucy. Though seeing an equal organization for lighties would be sweet too. Like returning the hammer and peacekeeper into one faction.

The history of the skill leadership, to me dictates that it should remain a skill for the MC.
Need be, for RP reasons mainly a tribunal could be added with the purpose only to answer directly to the MC and for the MC to recruit from, giving more leeway for newbies aswell.
Both tribunal and MC would have leadership.

No, no, no... they are quite seperate in what they wish to achieve. I think joining them together is a terrible idea.

The only way I could agree with seeing MC -> 2 factions, would be allowing membership simultaneously with a cabal and tribunal.

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Got my vote - Join one, do well, RP the deal, pass some time so your not a one month char, and get second invite... See both in cabal channel, but access to the other skills etc comes with the invite. That way we dont have to do the merge, but get the benefits of a merge and help deal with any low member numbers.... My 2c

You mean what each faction's leadership wishes to achieve. No offense.

The goals of the Hammer are different than the Peacekeepers. They even fought a war with eachother to keep that difference. The Hammer tried to tell the Peacekeepers what to do at one point in time and they said no. A war happened. Same thing happened in Sith when the Druids attempted to tell what Ayamao should do.

I meant the factions serve different purposes, but yes, at any given time that is largely influenced also by the current leadership. Under Arsilan they were more proactive and would hunt enemies of Taslamar across the realm, under Worts they would hide in the barracks.

I've always seen being a cabunal as worse than being a plain ol' trib/cabal.

The worst, WORST part is that their relic is susceptible to enemy guards raiding it because anyone who wants to take their relic is already at war with them. So it's really easy to move mass chars and body guards with them. Scoff if you want, but those mobiles can do a great job at fighting the spawned guards that come out as well as the outer guardian. It's almost as if they're like a necro's undead -- just not crappy, full of vulnerabilities, and killable in 1 spell.