[Discuss] dead character

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 6 Jul 2006 at 11:02, Eric Kenseth wrote:

> On 7/6/06, LilWolf <bmdiscuss at lilwolf.biz> wrote: 
>     Vinnie kirjoitti:
>     
>     > Could you please forward the message?
>     
>     Why? So we can all enjoy the pointless nitpicking and 
>     arguing? Tom
>     punished the person and informed the rest of us that this 
>     is what
>     happens, so stop it. Lets leave it at that. 
> 
> If all the player/character said was "Logging in once a day is chronic inactivity", and did nothing 
> further... well honestly as far as I see it, thats about as bad as a general saying to a realm "We 
> lose battles when we don't get all the troops moving in coordnation" after a battle where half the 
> realm didn't arrive because half of them were either inactive or too stupid to manipulate travel 
> times for a multi-turn move.
> 
> How are these similar. Simple, they're stating facts, and nothing more. Indeed, depending on 
> circumstances, all the second one is could be a veil over the anti-inactive discrimination. That, 
> and the general(and other councle members) could easily RP an IC way to ban someone for what 
> was, at its root, inactivity. Just say something like "Wasting realm resources and, through 
> neglegance, causing the meaningless deaths of [unit size] men." Which accomplishes banning the 
> semi-active noble, but in an IC way that the judge would get away with... at least assuming the 
> character was in the game for at least around 3 months. Not sure if it would work on EI now 
> though. It has worked on the titans, I know that much. That or you could ban them IC for being 
> a spy... say an informant in any given enemy realm has found out that said charcter was part of 
> the spy ring. Have a few other councle members in on it, and noone actually has to give any 
> proof, save for the word of the councle.

So, what you're saying is that in order to get around the rules Tom has laid out 
for us regarding inactive players, all we have to do is lie.

> Of coarse, if the player/character who said the chronic inactivity thing was actually adding 
> anyhting to that, THEN I can see a warrent for something to happen.


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