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Erik Mynhier · **04-03-2015, 04:00 PM**

(04-03-2015, 03:01 PM)Ckayah Polaali Wrote: Erik has been running Royal Balls in Ul'dah for a couple of years. He works very hard, plans a nice event, and people enjoy them. He doesn't see a single gil from any of that, aside from any gil people donate to him to show their appreciation.

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Ok then back on topic and side-topic.

Topic: Ideas
How about a big game of hide and seek? One trusted person hides while everyone seeks them in a zone.

Side-Topic: Fundraiser Morality
The epic quest for gil. I am not above wanting/needing gil. Clio is the one with the discipline to farm mats and all for gil. My schedule doesn't allow it really. So even though I have never done a fundraiser due in part to the limitations of what my character would do. That doesn't mean I would not or won't in the future. My FC is growing, and is set to really jump in the coming weeks/month. We may outgrow our little home and if/when we do, its not my FC's responsibility to raise funds, its mine. That's something I feel is important but did not enforce like I should have before. I learned the lessons of trust and now make it known to my people that I will raise the funds for the house. So on that I understand the draw on someone like me that values this game but has real life as a constant, and far more important level. (read: real life is far more important then this game, but I still want to do well here.)

That said as Kayah pointed out money changes people and also I feel that as he described, it breaks a rule I use when RPing, the Justice League Rule.

"The what Rule?" you ask? Well a long time ago in comic books, Superman was well... Superman. And everyone else was lame compared to him. Batman, Wonderwoman, all of them were baby birds out of a nest compared to him. He had gotten so powerful it got to a point that no other comics were read. Why bother? Superman can do anything and these other characters are useless.

So the head of DC comics at the time instituted a rule, the writers had to clip Superman, give logical restrictions to his power and might through the Justice League. The rule stated that the writers had to figure out a way for each of the main members of the JL to beat Superman in a 1v1 fight. This is where you started getting stories about Batman having Kryptonite in his belt and things. The reason was the same as it is in RP, its no fun to have a few gods and the rest peeons. There can be power, but there also needs balance. Even if my character has a skill unique, it must allow for another to overpower them.

Now that whole comic history lesson to say this lol. Money messes with the balance. You fool with the RP when you allow cults of personality to determine the power of any given character, ie one make more then another in a date auction.

I see both but am unsure if there is anything to be done. People will always want/need gil, and for many a fundraiser is the best way, and for them a fun way. I guess we have to accept that different people like different things, and that its ok for us to have these differences as long as we have respect for those we disagree with be it on real life, or the morality of fundraisers in an mmo.

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