Trading Gods

Note #30 by Elera at Mon Aug 23 15:56:24 2004 on board frog

It is now possible for worshippers (not priests) to change the deity they worship. Changing deities is meant to be a tedious and lengthy process, to discourage church jumping and realistically reflect the time it takes for a person's beliefs to change.

• The worshipper must first renounce their faith, with 'renounce faith' at a high altar.
• The supplicant must 'supplicate' at the appropriate altar to begin the supplication process.
• The supplicant must supplicate at the appropriate altar at least once every 2 hours spent online.
• The supplicant must be in the proper alignment when supplicating.
• The supplicant must supplicate a minimum of 60 times.
• A minimum of 30 round world days must elapse between the time of initial or restarted supplication and the time at which the supplicant becomes a member of the church.
• A minimum of 5 days of online time must elapse before becoming a member of the church.

If the supplicant takes too long between supplications, the process will start over from the beginning. If the supplicant wishes to cease supplicating a deity, 'renounce faith' will allow them to do so. Once a person leaves a church, they can only rejoin that church or another via supplication. Initial choosing of a deity will be the same as always. Though you can supplicate more frequently than every two hours without penalty, it is not rewarded in any manner, so spamming is not profitable.

These details are covered in the help file for the high altars. You can read it with 'help altar' in the room with one. If your altar has a different name (plinth, stone, etc), you will need to use 'help plinth' etc.

-Elera
PS - Big fluffs to Airk, Lanfear, Sined, Igorken, and Katata for all of the enthusiastic playtesting :)