Diplomacy or Leadership Skill everyone wants

How about make food and make drink become part of diplomacy or leadership as low level skills so you can level that class easier than quests or botting study. Makedrink level 1 diplomacy. Makedrink level 10 or so.

Thoughts and flames please.

Just… one thing. What the hell does cooking have to do with leading planets, spreading propaganda and leading your group in the battlefield?

Diplomats always have coffee and treats on the table durring meetings! Plus you have to be good at figuring things out and think in different ways to come up with good recipies! so <!– s:P –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" /><!– s:P –>

a) Secretaries make coffee, not the big guys.
b) No
c) Just no <!– s:( –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif" alt="" title="Sad" /><!– s:( –>

Flame: Don’t have the same skill at two separate levels? <!– s;) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif" alt="" title="Wink" /><!– s;) –>

I’ll take into consideration you meant perhaps food for level 10, good idea but i don’t see either skill as something suited towards either class. I agree all mains need a level 1 skill to make the class easier to level, if anything i’d place them both in diplomacy as a courtier related thing.

Leadership could perhaps have a ‘fine’ command. It could be a clan empowerment and only work on planets controlled by your clan? It’d save on jailing spice traders for 10 days and instead just fine them 25% of their total wealth and pass those funds onto the clan coffers?
I realise the ability to abuse said skill but perhaps a cookie could be attached to said player file so that attached information reads out on a lookup of fined person. Logs of the commands use would need to be atleast monitored to maintain lawful finings? Ex: ‘fine walldo public indecency’ would add an extra note to Walldo’s history that he cannot remove(without immortal assistance) and would add some limited automated system to peoples histories for development.

I actually think that a fine empowerment would be something super awesome. I don’t like the 25% thing though, should be [i:1ir1oc3s]fine &lt;amount&gt;[/i:1ir1oc3s] rather than 25%. Also, the victim should be able to either [i:1ir1oc3s]fine accept[/i:1ir1oc3s] or [i:1ir1oc3s]fine decline[/i:1ir1oc3s] which would give the officer a reason to jail them. Well, it may not be necessary, but certainly useful and cool. ME LIKES! <!– s:D –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!– s:D –>

Initially i was going to say 50% but thought that a bit hefty if you had 25 million removed, you’d be pissed <!– s:P –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" /><!– s:P –>
The reason for 25% was that you don’t know the persons personal wealth and thusly might charge him to 0 credits which is unreasonable for ambulances and the such. It makes it fair and everyone would be fined under the same system thus their loss is only a quarter of their overall worth. This way the richer people can only blame themself for still doing illegal things when they’ve got substantial accumulated wealth.

Well, always fine 25% would get quite boring. Maybe [i:udcmb02g]fine &lt;large, small, medium&gt; &lt;person&gt;[/i:udcmb02g]? Small would be 10%, medium would be 25% and large 50%

Our current Mayor runs his campaigns from the Bar? And you say drinks aren’t important….