This whole thing is obviously going nowhere fast, but I can't resist one more post before I go to bed.
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Originally Posted by Messianic
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"Compensation" is a really poor word - and if you use it in its literal sense, compensation is absolutely never what actually happens on this server, because we are not customers.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/compensate
There's no need for the word to have anything to do with being a customer, especially since the way I used the word is basically #5 on that list.
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Originally Posted by Messianic
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The GMs offer rezzes as a bonus - they do not "owe" compensation, they merely care so they want people to be happy if it's not too much trouble - but they are not restoring anything that was wrongfully taken.
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Well... I'd like to argue along the lines of "In the context of p99, no. A GM turning you into a pegasus while you're peddling your wares in EC is a bonus, whereas something that the GMs make quite a point of providing every time there are server issues leading to character deaths is more of a 'we're sorry; let us make it up to you' thing."
But even if I didn't do that, ok, fine. We'll call those rezzes a bonus. And we'll go with your assumption that the GMs care about us players and that they want us to be happy, within reason.
Given these things I'm again going to have to ask "why in the world wouldn't someone who just got screwed out of playing days/weeks/months of p99 because he was banned for something he did not actually do deserve a 'bonus'?"
The dude got bent over because of a GM mistake/lack of diligence/ban frenzy. The least that could be done would be to give him an xp boost or some crap to help him get to the kind of position he'd probably be in right now if he hadn't been wrongfully banned for the last however long.
If you truly think that the rezzes provided after a server crash are bonuses for players that the GMs give out out of the kindness of their heart, but that the GMs shouldn't follow in a similar vein by giving some bonus to someone whose account they wrongfully banned... well yeah, I already said that I didn't think this was going anywhere.