Public Raid Petitions: P99 Freedom of Information Act

[Phats]

The adjudication of petitions will not be solved by making them public. Most guilds are privy to the petitions they submit. The ex parte conversations will still occur, hours of Skype calls, pages of private messages and profanity laced tirades when attempting to resolve the issues.

I support your effort for petitions to be made public but the petition process will only improve when GM Sirken and GM Derubael learn how to be proper arbitrators. Both GMs have shown prevalence into trying to be personalities within the P99 community. (http://www.twitch.tv/sirkenp99/profile, http://www.twitch.tv/derubael/profile) These two vastly different roles of enforcer of server rules and P99 personality popularity contest do not go hand in hand. If a petition involves raid disputes both GMs should recuse themselves for a long list of conflict of interests. (previous guild affiliation, personal relationships with players they preside over, inflammatory remarks regarding the players they preside over, previous infraction of server rules while a player)

Both GM Sirken and Derubael enable the behavior they contend leads to the problems with the petition process. Neither GMs follows any set of rules or precedents. Both GMs frequently contradict each other in their streams and or postings or dealings in regards to petitions.

The OP did address the problem in regards to the "Petition Process." Currently the process is dysfunctional and the proposed petition process is posted in fragments through out various posts, ( and is not adhered to by any party (GM or Player). The posts outlined by Derubael and Sirken on how guilds were supposed to handle petitions are rarely enforced or followed.

The GMs mandated TMO & IB work out their differences between themselves and then after 7 days if the guilds were unable to come to an amicable solution, they should escalate the matter thru the use of a petition on the forums. Neither of the below examples followed the rule as set by the GMs.

• IB incurred a 2 week suspension for engaging a dracoliche that was FTE'd by another guild. The mob in question to this date still does not announce zone wide FTE shout messages, and agroing a pet does not produce an FTE shout. IB was suspended several hours after the infraction occurred. No guild to guild communication occurred.

• TMO was hit with a decade old petition and sucker punched with a suspension over some peculiar behavior by dragons in regards to training in VP.

A statute rule was put in place after TMO and BDA got suspended for very old petitions. This rule is a good example of the GMs attempting to put forth a process to alleviate the player concerns, the rule was positively received by all parties.
http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=149040

• IB was recently suspended for an alleged infraction from the beginning September. This infraction was not petitioned on the forums. It was allegedly discussed in Skype between Unbrella and the GMs three weeks after the fact. The GMs disregard their own procedure and process.

All guilds have been subject to petitions being left dormant for many week and months, GMs will only tell you to bump them, and yet nothing is done. Example TMO tracker getting FTE on Severilous, the subsequently TMO pulling Severilous, engaging Severilous with a raid force only to wipe. GM Sirken was present at the incident and had real time communication with the raid leaders prior to Severilous being killed. GM Sirken denied any involvement of the event or knowledge of it on his stream when Chest address the matter several days later. This was blatantly in violation of the rules set forth in http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=162920 (another example of a fragmented rule set, where you only know the rules if you listen to every stream or read over post in all the server forums) GMs took no action on this incident.

Then after weeks and months of no action regarding any dispute, GM Sirken public broadcast to the server:

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If the GMs would address petitions in a timely manner then neither of the guilds would have been in the position that led to the incidents that GM Sirken was referencing. I am more disgusted with GM Sirken and Derubael for ignoring matters for so long that he was forced to broadcast such a message.

The common theme I hear from our guild members and voiced by other guilds, is we want consistent rulings, fair arbitration, prompt resolution of petitions, and stiff but fair punishment. Currently none of this exists on P99.

Another issue is in regards to the Raid discussion forum. The GMs put this tool in place for guilds to have a means to communicate with GMs in a moderated setting. Recently TMO and BDA were faulted for exceeding bag limits. This specific bag limit question was posed over 8 months ago, http://www.project1999.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=141585 and GMs either let the players arrive at a conclusion to interpret their poorly worded rule regarding bag limits or ignored the question entirely. Fast forward 8 months to today and Rogean rules that bag limits are to be interpreted in a different manner than all the guilds had been operating under. This is an example of a communication failure on the part of the GMs and those penalized are the guilds who try and follow the rules.

To conclude GM Sirken and Derubael are volunteers. They choose every day to continue in their current roles as GMs of P99. I think independent of raid decisions both GMs perform admirable. When it comes to raid petitions both GMs are currently graded with a failing performance. Neither GM supports the rule set Rogean instituted, both privately bash the rule set and the Class R structure.

Petitions made public, with a formal process, and new independent arbiters will be a step in the right direction.