There is interpretation and then there is getting away with it.

Jaywalking is against most laws. But who gets arrested for it. Thus most people 'interpret' that to mean that its not really a crime.

It is.

They are just getting away with it because its not typically enforced or there is some loophole.

Ive been a villager for over ten years. Its the number one go-to cabal choice for me when I get sick of searching for preps which is most of the time. I understand everyone has a personal role they have and a 'past' they are coming to the village with.

That said joining the Village isnt some hobby. Its like joining the army or any other military force.


There are rules for every rule. Some of these rules seem to conflict but really only when the person is trying to get away with something and hoping nobody cares enough to call them on it. Which is alot of the time.

That said...

Whats written is pretty straight forward and the 'conflicting' parts are usually specific to certain situations.

For example the part when parity can be ignored (when someone attacks the village and hits the giant parity can be ignored) and even THEN - it has been made fairly clear that Villagers shouldn't be looking for excuses to ignore parity, which 'conflicts' when you ignore the specific context of when that rule applies.

Basically what im saying is that if you are playing a villager like some lawyer looking for loopholes to be able to get all those nice powers and still get to do WTF you want to anyone then you may be good at 'interpreting' things to make things conveniant for yourself but you are imho a 'so so' villager the same way id call a soldier who may demonstrate bravery, loyalty and whatnot, but who also got caught selling contraband is 'so so' when compared to the IDEAL.

And dont get me wrong...there is nothing whatsoever wrong with being 'so so'. Ive been a so so imperial for a long time. Fact is being an IDEAL imperial is hard work. I served under Melemele ah fuck his name the dark elf shaman and he imho played an 'ideal' imperial shaman - all about the rules. And alot of folks hated him. It was very inconveniant to have him be above you and try and rank because he'd always be like' did you offer them the oath? No? Kill them!

But he was playing the 'ideal' to the letter. Could not fault him for his RP.

Same goes for the Village. There is an 'ideal' current Villager (with slight modifications depending on if you are a scout, berserker, or defender) and the ideal Villager kills magi and enemies of the Village pure and simple. Everyone else is a distraction from the War and you shouldnt be chasing around non-magi non-combatants much less (my main problem with Mhuurg) backstabbing folks who arent even traveling with magi at the time and arent typically interacting with the Village at all. As I stated earlier back in the late 90s early 2000s you could get away with that because the bar was ALOT lower and Villagers were openly going around killing pretty much everyone who they saw wearing magical gear. And everyone had at least one piece of magical gear on. Thats all it required. The excess death (and looting) of that is likely what led to the more strict 'intepretation' of Villager law/philosophy so that being a Villager came with a few things to think about besides 'ewww DB...me go kill all and get phat lootz'.

So to conclude I perfectly understand the whole 'interpretation' angle but Im not a lawyer (yet) and I dont play my villagers like one.