Rules : Why you get more of them...

[Grumblesaur]

Heh... I've been playing this mod since... What? 4.76? Second mod version, after the first that was only released for a month?

Let me tell you. We needed no government, then. We had no rules. We needed no rules. We were fair to each other, we accepted our losses and celebrated our wins. So when Xoria tells you that we have rules for a reason, I can ensure you there are reasons, and they are very good ones... They weren't made just to annoy the folks that could get along and talk-out their differences. Though, there were often flames, we all were friends in the end, or at least friendly rivals. Such as Dab and myself. Never quite a friend, but nothing against him, except his huge ego. : P
Exactly right, mate. Sort of what I was saying above. We played to have fun. What people need to begin to realize is that this a combat game. We fight, we kill, we die. We respawn. We have added a role-playing community around this game to make it more realistic. We made it more fun, gave it more depth, more feel, made it even more escapist that it already was. It is still, however, a game.

[Sorry for the double post, but...]

When I started on the server, I was a n00b. Seriously, I worked my way up to a rhino and my brother, who showed me the game, loaned me a few million to buy a transport. Usually I spent my time mining in Colorado or floating about in New York. I wasn't very wise to the rules. I argued in OoC, said OoC things, but I got the gist of the RP idea when I made my IMG character. It was only back in August, and those rules mentioned were normal to me. I had no clue they hadn't always pre-existed. I've become a decent RPer, and a skilled fighter in bombers.

My story, for some relevance.:P

====Xoria Quote: Sanction Threads====

There is no way for us to tell if you used F1 intentionally, or if your internet connection was lost through no fault of your own.
If we accepted people's claims about it everyone would always get away with using F1, so it's very simple, if your character is disconnected from the server during an encounter with another player, you are subject to the penalty, whether it was intentional or not, no exceptions, and it's permanent. You'll have to earn back whatever you had.

If people played by their honor, not only would we not have so many sanctions, but we'd have more trust. If people have dial-up and their connection gets screwed, I honestly don't think they should lose their stuff. I had a similar thing happen to me once - my internet acts up on occasion, or my network cable comes unplugged. A couple of harvesters were pirating me as the cable came unplugged, or whatever happened.

I tried talking to them, they didn't care to listen, just got me sanctioned. Yeah, I know I engaged with my battleship, in that I was wrong, but sanctioning someone because their internet crashes or something of the like, when they ARE telling the truth, to me seems unfair.

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