[Discuss] Fined for inactivity (attn: Titans/Tom)

[Michiel Schneider]

being fined for inactivity is an abomination. May lighting strike those who 
deal IC punishment for OOC circumstances.

>From: Eric <ericsp at pcisys.net>
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>Subject: [Discuss] Fined for inactivity (attn: Titans/Tom)
>Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:39:48 -0600
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>In all honesty there was a time i would go to great lengths to try to stay 
>connected to the game even whilst on vacation... let me tell you that time 
>is long gone.  I have rarely been one that has the ability or the 
>inclination to inform people that I will be going inactive... as I never 
>planned to be inactive and frankly never thought it was anyones business if 
>I was... same goes for realms that I have had control of... activity has 
>always been optional... you know the light weight game part.
>
>But go on vacation and decide that spending time with my 80 year old aunt 
>(her birthday was the event) and with my family that I never get to see 
>(most I last saw some 30 years ago, and at the current rate might be never 
>again) and when I get back from 11 days away from the game I find that my 
>character Dyre in Ethiala has been fined... for, of all things, inactivity.
>
>It is odd that it happened.  One reason that FE is a interactive RP Island 
>and I didn't do any interaction to get fined for... because I didn't even 
>get on a computer for 9 days much less log into BM to cause trouble to 
>warrant a fine.  Another reason would be of course that fines are RP and 
>inactivity is OOC... that is a big no no on all worlds.  Last of course is 
>that Tom decreed that the next person to say /inactivity, /or use it as an 
>excuse to punish/ /would be zapped... and as i understand it the Ethiala 
>"Senate" was warned that Tom forbade punishment for inactivity.
>
>I did not making an initial in game report to the Titans because my goodies 
>had run out and I wasn't not even sure I would play again, especially with 
>BM being so tied to IRL, so I did nothing with my account and had no 
>inclinations to until I had a good RP experience with a Ethiala player... 
>rather a RP encounter out of game... something that was more satisfying 
>than anything that Ethiala has offered to day which is a whole lot of "I am 
>going to go ____ my net access will be dodgy at best".
>
>Which is all part of the point.  The game I started playing was one were a 
>person could involve themselves as much or as little as suited them.  IRL 
>was not intruded upon by the game unless the person did it themselves.  Now 
>the game, or rather those players that tend to run things, demand the game 
>have equal footing with other things in a persons life.  Like the plethera 
>of online games for those without lives and/or real friends, conform or be 
>cast out societies that has a log in (conversely /"keep us updated on your 
>real life"/) or be punished mentality.
>
>To be frank I thought I would get time to play a bit (I did do part of the 
>set up for FE while vacationing in the same place).  I got there and things 
>didn't work out.  So I get fined?  And part of it to prove a point... the 
>point of "We need to know what people are doing every second or we will 
>fine innocents" tripe.  Well how about people letting others be and using 
>IC punishments for what people do, instead of what they don't do.


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