...by your logic, we can never claim another character to be stronger. so....no boasting. no arrogance. no taking on a fight because you assume that the other person is stronger than you and can beat you down to the ground easily. no making any trouble at all because everyone around you is strong enough to hunt you down before you can cause it.
sounds a little ridiculous to me...
I think you are mistaking Duraza's statement. There is nothing wrong with playing a strong arrogant character. The only problem is when you start "godmodding", and I think your your definition is slightly different then ours.
Beniel is right. Theirah, there isn't anything wrong with playing a character who
believes themselves to be better than anyone else. I play many arrogant characters myself. You can have your character believe that he/she is the best. It is a problem to believe you are the best OOCly, as a player. Thats where I take issue. Regardless of what special powers you roleplay to have or whether each of your stats are maxed to the fullest you should never oocly assume yourself better than another player without their consent. By doing so you assume yourself able to beat that character, the true key to godmodding.
When someone tells themself that godmodding is when you claim and act 'invincible' or 'godly' then you limit godmodding to doing only a few select things and allow yourself to godmod in ways you wouldn't notice (like what was mentioned above). Thats why the only way to not godmod is to never determine who is weaker than you. As a player (not as a character) we can only decide who is stronger than us. Once you start to decide who is weaker than you your character becomes godmoddish.
So if you want, your character can feel that the guards are weak and insignificant. However, you as a player need to keep in mind that you do not want to godmod and therefore must treat the guard as far stronger than your character. When it comes to large amounts of people fighting in the city you must take in mind that there are far more guards in the city than what we see. There are guard towers watching the citizens. Guards would probably be watching any large group of people closely before fighting would even start. You could assume that they would already have a force ready by the time it does start. You could assume the opposite, that they weren't paying attention, as well but it would be godmodding