[Discuss] Angry God?

[Mark Moss]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 07:09 -0400, Anthony Anderson wrote:
> > Nonsense. They're the only ones playing the game properly.
> >
> > All of you people are honestly worrying too much over too little. There's a
> > lightning bolt that happened. Even if you disagree with the reasons, you now
> > know what you did was out of line. The thing is handled and after a day or 2
> > you can just continue your game. It's not as if you're suffering too badly
> > for that, is it?
> >
> > The trouble is not the people who take lightning bolds not serious enough.
> > It's the people and realms who worry about everything they're about to do,
> > because they're unsure if it's going to be illegal or not. Play the game
> > fair and honest and if you still get punished, live with it and continue on.
> 
> No, I completely (for the most part) agree with that statement.  The
> problem comes when people laugh it off, vote the person back in, and
> the abuse continues (even if to a lesser extent).  Unfortunately, it's
> happening.

Has anybody been struck by lightning, removed from office, etc. twice?
If not, it probably means the system is working:  The player is punished
and does not continue with the same behavior after their character
recovers.

If a character is voted back into office, and then continues doing the
same things that got the character lightning bolted in the first place,
they're probably going to receive a worse punishment then a
lightning-bolt induced wounding.


On a side note:  A MUD I used to play on had a concept of 'freezing' an
account.  Basically, if you pissed of a GM seriously enough, you would
find your character encased in a block of ice, which would take some
amount of time (hours to weeks RL time) to melt.  While your character
was encased in ice, you couldn't do anything.  Other characters who
happened accross you would see something like:  "Here lies Bob, encased
in ice."  Sometimes, there would also be a plaque attached to the block
of ice detailing why the character was frozen if the first place.  I
some sort of public time-out could be useful in this game.

Mark Moss