Board General.old [context]
Sender Astark
Date Sun Jan 8 22:52:50 2017
To all
Subject re favortism, rules, complaining
Every time I log in I get to write a real long note giving a history lesson. Here's the Sunday night lesson. The rule that was created which you see in "help networking" was created for a pretty specific reason. We used to have married couples who would play here together and they wanted to be able to play at the same time. Multiplaying here, plain and simple, is not allowed. There is no favoritism involved in the enforcement of the rule. In your specific case of cheating, you thought that playing your 2 characters from 2 separate IPs was ok because they were on separate networks. By the letter of the law, this is semi- permissible, but it breaks the spirit of the law. Specifically, the rule even says that if you will be playing in advance with someone on the same network, you need to notify the imms ahead of time. Shared characters or not, you're not allowed to play 2 characters at the same time. There is no favortism here when it comes to enforcing the rules. For better or worse, all of the "old" players who I caught cheating have basically stopped playing here. Maybe people don't like playing a game where they can't cheat. Ask Zion about the time he was punished for abusing a bug with behead mechanics. Or when Malachi was botting mob kills in Sunrise Mountain. Or when Tyrr was botting spellups. Or when Diekan and Peskibum were nochanneled for language. Or when Harmoni decided to abuse the "charm" spell and mprogs to solo-run Spectral Realm and farm a ridiculous amount of gear that he shouldn't have been able to obtain. Like I said, all of them have pretty much stopped playing. The players who stay in our good graces are the ones who find bugs, report them, and work with us to reproduce and fix them. If you think a player is botting or cheating, the best thing you can do is report it to the imms with your evidence. Not ignoring it and thinking that it's ok. Development have slowed down here, but we've poured decades of our lives into building this game. Cheating ruins that. One more note in response to your comment: "And in this place, my greatest accomplishment is hopefully not the memory of being the Most Creative." Finding creative ways to abuse the rules, game mechanics, or find "loop holes" in the written rules, is not creative. It's just annoying.