password for server?

[badkarmasix]

We don't need to encourage more players to join?

I disagree. That's just a touch elitist. There's always room for more players - new ideas, new perspectives. Keeps things fresh. Keeps all the old campaigners on their toes. Prevents complacency.

The problem isn't the influx of new players. It's weeding out...well...the weeds. This has been stated.

*Warning, sarcasm approaching. Batten down the hatches, furl sail and secure yard arms.*

A password? Sure. And put up a sign that says "Please hack our server!" too.

*Sarcasm ended.*

I can't agree more with what has already been said about NOT passwording the server and policing OORPers ourselves. There's what, six server admins? Surely to God(or what ever deity/entity/Sacred Chao you revere) there are enough of us RPers out there to give them a little more assistance with this than suggesting they just lock up the server. I'd think it would be a lot easier, and less time consuming to wade through a few hundred sanction reports a month, then it would be wallow through a few thousand eMails requesting server access. And burying the server password in the rules is not an effective background check. I mean, that is, in effect what is being suggested by recommending that the admins lock the server, isn't it? A background check to determine the bona fides of a player's RP intentions.

Why not bolster the ranks of the admins? By Crom's Bristly Blue Beard there has to be a least two or three likely candidates out there who might be willing to police the server in an admin capacity.

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