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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8809599" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean the entire problem is, if that quote is correct, that is absolutely not explicit.The entire quote is vague as hell, and entirely excludes the main "use case" for adventurers, which is that they're rich AND not that keen on giving away what they have to total and utter strangers who are demanding some unspecified amount of money from them with menaces and threats. Why would you give more than explicitly required to strangers? It doesn't make any sense. Why not specify how much? Doesn't make any sense.And trying to tax or charge adventurers to get into somewhere that doesn't offer them some kind of obvious benefit? That's utter madness. It doesn't matter whether your group is members of an actual commune, or a total bunch of rule-following accountants of a centrist liberal persuasion, or wild and wooly libertarians ranchers, they're not going to like it! They're probably just not going to go in! This isn't their people, these are threatening strangers.They should have applied the tax strictly to traders, rather than implying it applies to everyone.So that quote a huge damn problem.It specifies two things - one fine, one dumb as hell.The fine one - there big import taxes - makes utter sense. All sorts of trade hubs do similar things. Very common.There's a fee for individuals to enter the hub. Absolutely demented. Almost entirely without historical precedence. Makes no sense whatsoever, and worst of all, is like kicking an adventurer directly in the crotch and insulting their mother, and expecting to get a good result. Someone on the team should have put the nix on that. This is dumbass MCU flavour of fantasy, where the actual consequences and logic are thrown out the window for what is essentially window-dressing, rather than anthropologically-inspired, rational, heartfelt of LeGuin.</blockquote>

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