Fr de Acosta wrote: ↑Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:47 pm
I believe this is actually considered to be an OOC enforced rule.
If someone consistently waited until the moment it was useful to pick which Status to use (positional or age), I wouldn't talk to the Harpy ICly, I would talk to Staff OOCly with a cheating complaint.
Staff? Harpy? Am I right on this?
The more I think about it, the more I think it is and must be a rule enforced IC. In fact, I'd expect Elders, Princes, Harpies, Nobles and anyone else who can declare someone Vulgar, to do so when they catch another Cammie vampire trying to use the Status of two hats at once.
It is better from a game design view, because it is one fewer things to stop play and grab Staff for unfun OOC disciplinary action, and adds one more thing to drive IC play--which is probably the closest we can get to "adds more fun" from a designing-the-social-game perspective.
Enforcing the customs of whatever sect you are through social interactions, with whatever social tools are at your disposal, is basically what the Status game is about--and so is trying to cheat basically every social rule of the sect. What fleeting and abiding status can't give you as far as shielding, you can probably buy with boons if you're savvy, or patronage if you make yourself a vassal.
And, distributing the load to ALL who can sling Vulgar as a Negative Status, makes bribing the Harpy not conflict with how this rule is enforced, and keeps the Harpy from becoming the sole OP arbiter of who can or cannot get away with slinging the abiding Status of two hats at once.
It DOES makes sense to me, too, that maybe a Kindred who is both Sheriff and Elder, doesn't get to throw around Elder status while explicitly acting as Sheriff--but I also dig on the looming informal threats that mirror real life, that such a person can go either way until they sling Status from one source of station or the other.
I think maybe always waiting to see which abiding Status set to use until the moment of, might actually be a right way to play, and that it makes the most sense to have the one-hat-only rule be enforced by any Kindred who can sling Vulgar within that Domain and/or Sect.
Edit/P.S.
I also think it makes the most sense that rampant abuses of Status which need to be addressed by Staff, sometimes get addressed by the intervention of NPCs enforcing the social standards on PCs, which in turn feed back into moar politicking IC and that whole web of intrigues experience thematically ingrained in Vampire--right up to the Ominous NPCs.
Second Edit/P.P.S.
Can this post of mine please be moved to its own Discussion thread? I started talking here, and then only just now realized this could really spam out what was meant to be a "Tell us Status actions so we can log them on the Status page!" thread. Sorry all, mea culpa.
to run with this as a right according-to-the-rules expectation of how things work?