(11-27-2015, 03:35 AM)Laura C. Wrote: I´m not sure what you mean by "accidental rule breaking", because most common rule breaking is quite intentional (F1 to get out of unwanted interaction despite server gives all the time warning to not do that, swearing, threatening with sanctions...). Though as far as I noticed permabans are issued only for serious violations against game environment like hacking/fidling with files, or against community as whole. And by the way, I seriously doubt there is one permaban per week, from what you got that?
Also, current admin policy is a lot more friendly than it used to be towards typical "newbie violations" - instead of silently simply deleting ships or removing equipment, violators are often moved to Bastille what forces them to look to the forums and rules, and once they reply to sanction thread and explain they understand what they did wrong, they are usually released.
I meant:
Being in the wrong zone of influence, wrong ship or wrong IFF and willing to take steps to respond to constructive correction once pointed out to them.
First time F1 offender who may actually have legitimately DC'd
First time F1 offender who clearly did not DC and should be punished, but not with instant banishment (three strikes you're out)
First time swearing not directed at another player
First time swearing directed at someone who was clearly being antagonistic - while it is still WRONG, perhaps Warn, Warn+Fine, Character delete, Temp ban and then perma ban as a last resort should be employed.
List goes on. Basically anything that starts with "First time".
In a game, unless someone was clearly being premeditated malicious, I am typically willing to forgive most misdeeds if the offender apologized and attempted to make amends. Maybe I have an unusually high amount of tolerance because I have to put up with all kinds of malicious nasties constantly IRL so I kinda know when someone means ill and when someone does not.
Maybe my impression is 3 years old as I haven't played for a while, and thankfully haven't gotten into trouble for much longer. I still remember that verbal reprimand I copped for docking my zoner vessel on a house station. I just consider myself lucky I didn't get fined. Thing is, I genuinely didn't know, because last I played was 6 months before then and there was no rule against docking my whale anywhere. I am not saying this as a complaint, just saying I felt rather intimidated by the tone used and didn't play for a while. Maybe the admin was having a bad day. However if someone just told me "Hey check your ID you're not supposed to dock there" that would be enough to inform me of the change and I wouldn't do it again.
