[Discuss] Re: Status ? (Tom Vogt)

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 7/1/06, Jonathon Taylor <jonathon.its.never.enough at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/06, Anthony Anderson <phoenixsunrise at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > One thing you should know about lightning bolts: Unlike bans, they don't
> > > "follow" or "mark" you. Punishment dealt, price paid, end of story.
> >
> > Not that hard.  Bans leave a permanent record in your family history.
> > Lightning bolts are swift, do their job, and everyone moves on- your
> > family page will never keep record of how many times you were bolted,
> > or for what reason.
>
>
>
> Is this why the ruler of Old Grehk and  Melhed we're also lightning bolted?
>
> "Ruler position vacant   (1 hour, 40 minutes ago)
>
> Old Grehk is without a Ruler now. Vagabond, King of Old Grehk was hit by a
> lightning bolt and seriously wounded. Here is the interpretation of a local
> priest:
> Stop spreading the whining of one unhappy player throughout the game. The
> discussion list is for these things, and you are spamming the in-game
> message system.
> One thing you should know about lightning bolts: Unlike bans, they don't
> "follow" or "mark" you. Punishment dealt, price paid, end of story."
>
>
> "Ruler position vacant   (1 hour, 39 minutes ago)
> Melhed is without a Ruler now. Aldo, Prime Minister of Melhed was hit by a
> lightning bolt and seriously wounded. Here is the interpretation of a local
> priest:
>
> Stop spreading the whining of one unhappy player throughout the game. The
> discussion list is for these things, and you are spamming the in-game
> message system.
>
> One thing you should know about lightning bolts: Unlike bans, they don't
> "follow" or "mark" you. Punishment dealt, price paid, end of story."
>
> Once again these are going to go to complete waste, these two we're just
> this morning re-confirmed as being the leader of the said realms and you
> think they won't be voted back into power? If they don't leave any messages
> in you're family history then, apart from a nuisance for 12 hours and a
> message that most of the damn game won't understand.
>
> What on earth does it achieve? It would hardly make me shivver in my boots
> knowing fine well i'd be voted back into power with no real punishment
> behind it.

Well it taught me to read messages I forward to the forum in their
entierty, and to not forward messages to the forum that deal with this
kind of stuff. Lessoned learned and we can move on.