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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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Quality is not the same as quantity. If you actually did something about the violations instead of limp wristed slaps, the players would actually respect the rules and you wouldn't need to police shit so much.
I don't agree with authoritarianism in a governing body of the real world, but in a voluntary shared space, we all agree to follow your rules, and authoritarianism can be expected and even lauded.
The laissez faire way you guys have thus far gone about enforcing the rules, from official postings all the way to decisions in the heat of battle have been so disjointed and inconsistent that even those who WANT to respect you guys and your rules (myself included) don't give a shit because you don't even respect them.
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I'd like to point out a few instances here --
Raren. Oh boy, what is a person to say here? The guy duped manastones and other junk for months and then was caught one night when I lent money to a friend to buy a stone from him, but Rogean showed up, gave me my money back and deleted the manastone. So what happened? It took
two weeks for Raren to get banned and
then he returned a couple of months later. Apparently, duping manastones isn't a bannable offense here. Dupe away.
With respect to trains while raiding and guild-wide suspensions, they're about as consistent as a coin flip. Sometimes a guild is given a timeout, but it seems that more often than not a single player is given the timeout while the guild goes on as if nothing happened.
I recall DA being given a two week timeout for a player caught MQ/SEQing (in lguk...) while Perun admitted to using SEQ when pulling Talendor and TR wasn't given a guild-wide raid suspension.
There's the above Bumamgar incident where Rogean decided that Bumamgar's argument -- he claimed that he didn't have to abide by the rules the players' had agreed upon (and Rogean said in vent he'd agree to enforce them) because he wasn't here when they were made -- was a reasonable one. Using the same logic, I'd like to invite every new person to the server to train,KS, and ninjaloot all of the raid mobs because they weren't here when the rules were made.
This is just off the top of my head where I recall thinking, "Did they really just do that?"
I get it. It's your server and you can do as you please, but don't expect to follow blindly and respect some truly idiotic decisions.