[Discuss] Buy Title issue (was: Infils stealing tax gold)

[Timothy Collett]

On Apr 11, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Alex Davies wrote:

>> From: "Jeremy Stephens" <jstephens at georgefox.edu>
>> Well, Since Nate talked about his plan months before in OOC while  
>> he was
>> in Alowca on the colonies I can safely say that what he did was very
>> premeditated.  Even if the city had a duke he was planning on  
>> using one
>> character to assassinate him and the other to buy the title.  The  
>> fact
>> that those in Luz were incompetent enough to not have a duke in  
>> the one
>> of the largest cities in the game is merely a side issue.
...
> So no, it isn't merely a side issue. I'm sure he had a plan to do  
> it, but that was easily thwartable (not sure if that's a word, but  
> meh).

...And even if that were not the case, it still doesn't make this OOC  
abuse.

Fact 1: the character had ample IC motives for doing what he did
Fact 2: the character had ample IC information sources for knowing he  
*could* do what he did
Fact 3: the actions he took exploited no bugs, violated no  
inalienable rights, and used no features in ways that Tom has forbidden.

If he had OOC motives for it, it doesn't matter.  Consider this  
scenario:
1) Player A dislikes Player B OOC
2) Player A's character is an infiltrator in a realm at war with  
Player B's character, who is ruler
3) Player A's character stabs Player B's character *because* he  
dislikes him OOC

Is that OOC abuse?  No, because there's no necessity of an OOC  
motivation, and there's no abuse.

What Nate did was kinda shady, it was annoying as all heck, and it  
was somewhat un-sporting.  It's certainly not anything I would have  
done, or suggested.

It was also perfectly legal, and did not warrant any punishment that  
I can see.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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