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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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Me neither, p1999 is generally a 'spirit of the rules' place, not 'rules as written'.
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Heh ... and they also write down as few rules as they possibly can in the first place: the word "charm" literally doesn't appear anywhere in the
Play Nice Policies.
On the one hand, I totally get that the staff does that on purpose, and I don't want to have to read a "big book of elf law" to play either. But at the same time, if you make it harder for players to know the rules, by definition it makes them harder to follow.
When I think back on all the times I had issues with other players (whether or not a /petition was involved), the vast majority were
not from someone genuinely trying to break the rules: they were players who misunderstood and
thought they were in the right. Based on that, I think this place swings too far toward not writing rules down.
If they did more to iterate on the rules ... for instance, by adding a sentence or two on "how to charm while being respectful of other players" ... I really don't think it would create the "big book of elf law" problem, but it
would reduce conflicts between players caused by no one knowing what's expected.