I think the point of that was to tell you that 15 seconds in RL could be 10 minutes in Ylikuam. What you call a short time in RL really would be a very long time giving guards plenty to catch up.
Well that is the exact opposite of reality. In busy city streets and winding back alleys(what youre saying should be simulated), the fleet of foot escaping killer would have a huge edge over the platemail encumbered guard who was probably standing in the sun all day, bored, and who would really rather be taking a nap. And, oh, by the way.....Elite warriors are very expensive, and are rarely used as guards. Typically the youngest, most inexperienced soldiers in a garrison are. And what's more, guard duty is deathly boring, and guards tend to stop caring about the daily details of their duties, and tend to get distracted by the pretty young girls, or magazines, or anything they can think of to break up the boredom of that oldest of soldier's banes.
One poster said, "They'd just hire more guards until there would be no more killings." Hmmm, a simple sounding solution, but it overlooks the fact that trained professional troops (let alone wizards) do not grow on trees, nor are they free, and that almost no place on earth(using reality as our guild) is there a 0% murder rate. Surely if it was easy as 'just hiring more guards' there would be no inner city street crime anywhere in the 1st world. Yet...
Finally, if these troops were the cream of the crop, they'd be at BD guarding that far more important strategic location. I imagine that'd be doubly so for any mages employed by the Gov't.
So, there are a few more daggers of reality into the heart of the assertion that the hydlaa guards are some inviolable force that could easily deal with any threat.
I can't say that your way of Rping is any better than mine. After all who are we the players to say what is in the game and what isn't? What's implemented is the safest way to go about rping. However I still feel when you RP you should look at the game as a whole and not an unfinished product because the fact that it is unfinished is OOC.
Im not saying my style of play is in anyway superior- just that it's valid. Further, no world is ever in a 'finished state'. It is very easy for me to say blasters dont exist, cause they dont. At such a time as they're invented(implemented), then they exist. I simply choose to view PS as a living, growing world, where the flurry of rennaissance and invention is firmly in place. Things like bows, and riding beasts, and more spells are being devised by the learned of the realm every day.
That's how i look at it. Ylaikum is alive and growing.
PS: As for you being at a disadvantage in fights because you train only mage stats/skills- i will tell you that mages (especially massed mages) totally dominated the war that spurred this thread.