[Discuss] Banning Characters

[Rob Croson]

On 6 Jun 2008 at 10:44, Lyle Esau wrote:

> And now with Pian en Luries. I sent OOC to ruler saying I haven't time 
> to play much. Next time I logged on I wrote RP reply saying character 
> sick. And then finally log on a few days later and I'm banned and lose 
> another Duchess title.
> 
> Yeah so what am I suppose to do in this situation

Other people have mentioend the whole Titans aspect of this issue: If 
you just couldn't play for 24 hours and you got banned as a result, 
then that's against the rules, and you should report it. Knowing some 
of the players involved in this issue, even though I know next to 
nothing of the circumstances of it, I would shocked to no end to 
learn that this was truly the case.

However, there is another thing to consider. The following example 
comes from my recent personal experiences in another case, and has 
*nothing* to do with this one. Maybe it's applicable to you, and 
maybe not.

The game doesn't stop because someone has trouble keeping up, whether 
its because they lost interest, don't have time, or lost their 
connection. It keeps on moving, period. I don't mean that if they 
can't log in every 4 hours to check their messages that they should 
be banned/exiled. What I mean is that if they have a position, and 
them not doing their job causes problems, then they should expect to 
get fined/banned because of it. If they are a region lord and they 
have no knights, bad estates, stats suck, and it's been this way for 
months, then expect to get banned. If they are the judge and 
infiltrators never get banned, prisoner agreements never get 
followed, all region maintenance is suffering from lack of 
organization, and it has been doing so for months, then expect to get 
protested out of office.

While it *is* unfair for a realm to ban a noble for inactivity, it is 
unfair for a single player to constantly make other people wait for 
them to do their job. People want to move on and play the game. If 
someone is given a reasonable, or more than reasonable, amount of 
time to respond or get things done and they just don't get it done, 
eventually people will just get tired of waiting.

You have a right to play the game at your own pace, and no one will 
deny that. But if you do your job poorly, whatever that job is, then 
other characters have a right to be dissatisfied with your IC 
performance, and take IC action based on that dissatisfaction. So 
long as appropriate consideration is given for your possibly playing 
at a slower pace, or being away for the weekend, etc., then there 
should be no problems at all with them taking IC action to resolve 
the IC problem.
--
Rob
My Go , this  amn keyboar   oesn't have any  's.




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