Has there been any discussion on crafting titles that reflect your prestige? I was thinking of something similar to favors, where the titles unlock and lock based on how many you have. The idea is for the title to be <prestige rank> <discipline>, ie: Renowned Weaponsmith, Noteworthy Tailor, and so on. If your prestige decayed to the point where you go down a prestige rank, you would lose access to that title until you built your prestige back up.

I'm curious what others think about this?

This seemed like a more appropriate place to post this, but I had originally made this suggestion in the Lore forums here - forums.play.net/forums/DragonRealms/Lore/Suggestions - Lore/thread/1721543

>I'm all for titles tied to crafting, just not tied to prestige. Because prestige annoys me and is the one blemish on an otherwise amazing system.

Whereas I'm all for titles tied to crafting and titles tied to prestige. If someone wants to put in the time to perfect their craft, being able to pick an appropriate title sounds good. Likewise, if someone wants to put in the time to gain and maintain prestige, being able to pick an appropriate title for that sounds good.

It's an optional system, those who take the option of putting their time into it deserve their rewards.

>>It's an optional system, those who take the option of putting their time into it deserve their rewards.

I put tons of time into it.

Then I took a break from DR because work was really intense for awhile.

I come back, all that work is now gone. It's dumb.

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>Do higher tier give more prestige per work order?

The more complex/difficult the item, the more prestige given. Yes.

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>>Life's rough. Sometimes we have to deal with really difficult situations like prestige decay in a MUD.

This pretty silly retort could be used with anything negative in the game. Given that, it's kinda dumb to have as a response.

>>If you aren't continuously perfecting your craft, then why wouldn't/shouldn't your ability decay a bit? It's not like you are losing crafting ranks. Just your renown has faded a bit because you haven't been producing relative to others.

Because it's a game, not a job. "I have to do X every so often or else I lose ground" makes the game too work-like for me.

As I suggested in the past, I'm all for two counters instead of one. One counter managing long-term reputation, which never decays, that unlocks stuff like stamps/titles/etc, and another counter that manages short-term reputation, which automatically decays every 30 days, which determines things like leaderboards and other proposed short-term crafting advantages a society might give someone who did a ton of work orders.

My understanding is that it's not necessarily possible (if GMs even did want to do it) because of memory limitations, but that doesn't stop me from discouraging prestige from doing more than short-term boons and be a tool for leaderboards. Heck, the fact that I can't get new stamp instructions if I wanted to bugs me, as well.

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>>Life's rough. Sometimes we have to deal with really difficult situations like prestige decay in a MUD.

The last time we had something that required significant time and effort investment but decayed if you didn't use it was the Transference skill.

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