[color:"orange"]when talking about karma I feel that samurai and their beliefs should be thought about.[/color]
Didn't some samurai believe that the violence and killing associated with their way of life was bad karma, and their punishment was to be reincarnated as a samurai in their next life?
Maybe at a certain period or by the christian samurai that was believed, however I never read anything regarding this. Traders even bought themself (or their children) a certain samurai rank because they believed their family would become more honorable.
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After all wouldn't the game be great if we could really choose by wich standards our game character will live ?
If you can choose what you consider right and wrong, and what actions are acceptable, then that would fit in with a reputation system much better than 'karma'. That would be nice to have in the game though.
I think that an advanced reputation system would prove to be better as a karma system, this way we still get punished or rewarded, but in a logical way. And there is noone to judge us except for the NPC's involved. We still won't know what the outcome of certain actions will be as some NPC's could prove to be far more valuable as first believed. Maybe early in the game we could kill someone that is valuable to a secret clan/guild and we will not be able to join that clan/guild.
