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Author Topic: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?  (Read 1560 times)

Corai

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What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« on: April 16, 2012, 10:57:11 pm »

Does he give out some form of benefit, like a job only he can do?


I never gotten to king yet, so im curious.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2012, 10:58:14 pm »

He runs around at night in a homemade costume, fighting crime as a masked vigilante.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 10:59:03 pm »

He runs around at night in a homemade costume, fighting crime as a masked vigilante.


How did I see that coming.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2012, 11:00:19 pm »

I'm saying he's the batman.
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Corai

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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2012, 11:01:59 pm »

King cancels make mandates involving slade, fighting evil! (And people with legendary +5 comedian skill)
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2012, 11:03:08 pm »

For an honest answer:

He demands high quality apartments.

He also makes you feel warm inside
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2012, 11:10:02 pm »

He burns really well.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2012, 11:23:54 pm »

Kingly duties include but are not limited to:
-Exploiting the workers
-Hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma
-Perpetuating the economic and social differences in your society
-Violently oppressing peasants
-Seeking the Holy Grail shrubbery.
« Last Edit: April 16, 2012, 11:27:00 pm by Anathema »
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2012, 11:27:52 pm »

The demands can be a real challenge. On the other hand, so is designing beautiful, magma-safe royal apartments.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2012, 11:32:57 pm »

It's like having a wart on your finger, you don't want it, you get it anyway, it does nothing but annoys you. They only way to get rid of it is to burn it or freeze it off.
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Re: What does a king do aside from making you a capital?
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2012, 11:33:48 pm »

According to the long-term dev goals, kings/queen will let you have control over the whole of the kingdom in some limited fashion. 

Those are long-term goals that do not exist yet.

Basically, he/she is just a useless figurehead (Insert English Royalty joke here) that is just one more noble to house and feed at this point, but they're also a marker of having actually accomplished making a decent fortress.  A trophy of sorts.
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