6 Oct 2024, 16:02

@Ashkuri said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:

Obviously Cujo is Cujo, and various Cujo policies/decisions are always inexplicable. The ships, the cargo, the econ, the Stuff, the fairness or lack thereof, the BBpost Metaplot, the… whatever the deal with Aryn/Poe is, this weird “you can come back” moment, etc etc, you can pick on all of it.

I think it’s important to remember, though, that the whole debacle that started this was:

On this game if you are harassed, and particularly if you are harassed by a popular player who appears to generate activity, there is no help for you.

Cujo doesn’t need to be like “guyz you can have your toon back,” Cujo needs to be here saying “I won’t tolerate bad behavior, I’ll take it seriously, this is my house and I’ll keep it clean.”

But that’s never gonna happen, so. Oh well. Super fun time simple, big IC grid awaits, lol.

It’s not just the lack of support for harassment victims, either, though that’s certainly the worst part. Cujo & Company keep trying the same things over and over again and expecting different results. The only result is usually that the policy/code makes players’ lives harder for no good reason.

The code is particularly good at impeding and discouraging RP. Trading and spaceflight code are the most obvious impediments to RP, being time sinks, but the coded injuries and bacta tanks are worse: Spaceflight can eat up a few hours easy, even if you won’t be locked down to have cargo loaded, but bacta tanks can easily take 12 hours or more to work, and cost more than a week’s pay for most PCs. The worst part is that the coded tanks are the only way to heal if there isn’t a healer on, and the healers come and go as often as everyone else after suffering ‘the AoA experience’.

One of the side grids, the one for The Old Republic Era characters, suffered from a lack of healers (and nearly everything else as well). The players there simply added penalties to their rolls when they got injured, commensurate with the injuries suffered. Of course, Cujo would never allow anything that sensible on the main grid, especially with Aryn being a healer. It’s entirely possible that the TOR players simply never told him what they were doing…