@Orin1234 That would remove any way for players to stop people from being able to get up while no DM is there.

The system isn't broken, so why are we trying to "fix" it?

@Zap Having a bank also encourages literally every criminal PC to make one of their goals be "rob the bank". I'm pretty sure this has happened in CoA's past. I remember a certain DM complaining about it.

@onlylobo Generally scummy tactics beget scummy tactics. i.e. If one team invis ganks another, they should expect the same in return. If one team stockpiles win buttons, so will the other.

Villains, criminals and bandits have always had an admirable level of restraint when it comes to mechanical pvp, both granting their targets one or more "outs" during initiation (as Listen described) or only stealing a token amount of gold/consumables in the outcome.

I have played CoA for 9 years and will +1 everything @Zap @listen4silence @Cadiz and @Ruler have said so far.

Melf's Acid Arrow would be a good replacement if they're meant to be a strong group. At least then you could summon a familiar or creature to increase the number of targets for them.

These slimes spawn in groups (I encountered 4) and all cast acid fog, which is a cloud spell that can deal a LOT of acid damage. This hurts if they all cast them at one target, especially when everyone has low hp.
It's a 6th circle spell! If we can't use it, the stuff we fight shouldn't have it.

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No. DMs can't be trusted to make pretty loot when they don't have to wear it.
Fix the ridiculous price to modify loot though, yes.

There's elite bandits in the Starwater Tomb quest though...

In v5 militia privates were the equivalent of Sergeant At Arms/Fang/Apprentice. You needed an app (on creation) or mini app (EiG) to become one after being deputised.

Deputies never got forum access. They just got a helm and told what to do by the full faction members until they earned their spot, which was harder to do back in v5 than it has been in ch1. Back then they didn't even have a private discord channel, so they had less than you have now.
I think it took me 6 days of playing to go from Unproven to Fang and that's the longest I've seen it take, because my PC is pretty polarising.

As a squire you get access to the discord channel, which lets you find out what's going on because you can talk to your faction and the DMs there privately.

That's just the OOC side though. IC it doesn't make sense to let everyone immediately have access to a faction's secret files. You need to prove you can be trusted first by impressing your superiors in some way.