Prestige Nomination guidelines
Posted by Apostate on 03/31/19
The 'nominate' command lets players nominate other PCs for prestige recognition for positive gains based on their actions which likely will have gone unnoticed. I thought it might be helpful to give a few very basic guidelines for what I'd consider appropriate, as I've denied an awful lot of these.
Fame: Does not necessarily require risk, just relevance that would see widespread recognition and general positive approval.
Small: A gain with a very small subset of the city, such as being exceptional for some behavior at a modest public event in the city.
Medium: A public action that likely would have been heard of throughout Arx.
Large: Likely heard of throughout Arx and a major region (ie the crownlands).
Huge: Arvum wide recognition.
Legend: These should require some sort of risk to one self, either personal in life and limb, or risk of destruction of someone's standing, like a bold position that they will forever become associated with.
Small: Saved some villagers from bandits.
Medium: Convinced the Assembly of Peers to hear a bold proposal that could have proved ruinous if ignored.
Large: Prevented ruin to a major region of the Compact.
Huge: Prevented ruin or averted Arvum-wide disaster at grave personal risk.
In general, these shouldn't be things that already have awarded prestige in an automated way, such as events, or donations or the like, only if it would be some sort of associated effect because of it. For example, hosting an event, no. A nomination for hosting an event where as the host they also prevented a spontaneous fight that would have resulted in two nobles murdering each other and starting a war, yes, as the nomination is not really about them holding the event but an incidental action that happened as they hosted.
Fame: Does not necessarily require risk, just relevance that would see widespread recognition and general positive approval.
Small: A gain with a very small subset of the city, such as being exceptional for some behavior at a modest public event in the city.
Medium: A public action that likely would have been heard of throughout Arx.
Large: Likely heard of throughout Arx and a major region (ie the crownlands).
Huge: Arvum wide recognition.
Legend: These should require some sort of risk to one self, either personal in life and limb, or risk of destruction of someone's standing, like a bold position that they will forever become associated with.
Small: Saved some villagers from bandits.
Medium: Convinced the Assembly of Peers to hear a bold proposal that could have proved ruinous if ignored.
Large: Prevented ruin to a major region of the Compact.
Huge: Prevented ruin or averted Arvum-wide disaster at grave personal risk.
In general, these shouldn't be things that already have awarded prestige in an automated way, such as events, or donations or the like, only if it would be some sort of associated effect because of it. For example, hosting an event, no. A nomination for hosting an event where as the host they also prevented a spontaneous fight that would have resulted in two nobles murdering each other and starting a war, yes, as the nomination is not really about them holding the event but an incidental action that happened as they hosted.