@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:
When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?
Hiding yourself from players you have a no contact with in order to RP with them is something I think deserves a gameban, regardless of how open you are with staff.
It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.
Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.
I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.
That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.
That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.
Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.
@Cygnus said in The 3-Month Players:
Without PVP acting as a failsafe, these players often cause games to fail because no one can stand not being able to meaningfully stand up to the bully.
The failsafe against toxic players should be staff action. Going PVP just because a player is toxic seems toxic in it’s own right.
@Pacha said in Empire Discussion Thread:
My assumption (perhaps false!) is that when opening a game one wants to develop a large and diverse base of players.
I feel like we’re reaching a point where new gamerunners are going to focus more on just running the game they want to run rather than running a game that attracts a large crowd.
Starting a new thread, for a new year.
First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.
Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.
@somasatori Keep this up and people are going to expect you to start a game. 
Also: I can’t make anyone else on this forum switch topics from your dumpster fire of a character to the dumpster fire of Eddie and the people on Staff that did toxic shit to you. Mostly because you keep running back in here and throwing gasoline on your character dumpster fire and making it a much bigger, brighter spectacle than the other.
In my case, I think I’d prefer a very short pre-made list combined with a behavior filter. 99% of people get the filter, but there are a handful of people that would be on my pre-banned list, and if I discovered they were actively on my game, I would remove them. Even barring the potential for them to have learned from their mistakes, there are a few people in the hobby that I would immediately remove from my game just on past experiences.
@Cobalt So then is Saulot pretending to be other people? (Referring to the character list where Saulot claims to have been the same PC on TR as Warma.)
@Roz said in Empire Discussion Thread:
No, that’s not the behavior being described. It was using secret alts to give stuff to/generally benefit their main alt.
Yeah, but continuing to attempt that is just pestering Ada, right?
Yikes, secret hidden alts to keep pestering people that don’t want to be pestered by the player anymore. Bad look for sure.
@Tez said in Tough Calls:
I used to be a very evidence-based staffer.
I think evidence is still worthwhile, as sometimes, people can pass the vibe check, but still end up doing some horrible stuff, and evidence will get past the “oh, they’re good people, they pass my vibe check”, and can also indicate that maybe a review of the vibe one is looking for might be needed.
@Lemon-Fox said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Cujo taking the time to talk to me rather than banning me speaks fairly well of him as a person.
@Ominous said in Prove Tez Wrong:
It’s also good advice for Blood on the Clocktower.
Tangentially, it strikes me that Blood on the Clocktower could easily be hosted using a MU codebase.
After 25 years of MUing, I’m of the opinion that people try to give others way too many chances.
I think the sweet spot for me as a staffer is 1. You get 1 screw up that I don’t ban you for, and I will let you know when you have spent your 1. When you screw up the second time, pack your bags.
Even then, there are exceptions. Particularly awful behavior will result in an instant ban with no discussion.
@Yam said in Empire Discussion Thread:
Man IDK guys is it really that hard to avoid bans? Are people just tripping into bans these days?
I feel like it’s less tripping into bans and more toxic players will be toxic players and staff have finally, at the end of 2025, reached the point where just throwing down the ban is the least headache and anxiety of any option.
