Rules Violations Reports

[Athenian]

In keeping with the suggestion made by the Administrators, I'm putting forward a proposal.

From now on all faction members wishing to post a rule violation report witnessed by them on one of their BHG faction characters should be requested to wait twenty-four hours before posting the report.

And if possible, ask one of the other faction members to review the report, or one of the faction leaders. Not just me. Cause I have a life as well. And I may have to ask you for advice.

What do I think of this suggestion?
We witness a lot of violations in our faction generally speaking. In the past, we have tried to deal with violations within the faction internally and through role-play. Some of you may recall how annoyed I was when a faction member reported another faction member for something relatively harmless. We now are being asked to collectively extend the same maturity and courtesy to every other player we meet by trying to talk to them first - (and you know some of the ones I'm talking about are hard to talk to at the best of times)

It's a lot to ask. I'm sure many faction members balk at the thought of devoting their time on Discovery educating others. To be honest, as a special needs teacher (which some have joked makes me over-qualified to manage the Guild faction) and soon-to-be father (yup) my real life is quite busy without my hobby becoming a parody of it. But we are an offical faction, with all the benefits it brings. I can fly through Omega 56 and say to the scans of my kid "One day all of this will be yours"

I've posted two reports ever in my time here (nearly two years now - less on the forums). I never posted reports for a whole load of things - including personal threats against myself - that I witnessed. I thought, Why bother? - someone else will deal with that.

And then I remember the nasty experiences I had that made me hate this game when I was new here. The real bone of contention is the "Engagement notice" rule. Which came about, you may recall, to prevent the worst excesses of players who wanted to turn this game into a PvP game. I know some of you are probably laughing at the idea of a member of a Bounty Hunter faction complaining about that, considering our purpose in the game is to hunt and kill pirates. But when you are trying to Role-play and you get the same three words time and time and time again...

"Enagaging BHG"

...your patience with this whole thing becomes a little thin. Especially as the rule is so vague. Well, not really, it's three words. (Is BHG one word?)

But do this

"Engaging BHG scum"

..and you are within the server rules.

Although you haven't said three words. Most likely you said /1 and relayed the message that you used /setmsg to set up earlier.

I'm not one to lose my temper with a game. Having seen my father die last Christmas and the scans of my unborn child this last month, I know to keep things in perspective.

I play Discovery for fun. It's a game. But rules are rules. You have to have them. They have to be obeyed. The engagement notice rule causes a lot of grief because people do the bare minimum to bypass it. And that's what appals me. The ridiculously low standards that people have to meet to get away with. Maybe it's just me. I think the rule should be removed. Let people choose to RP or not. I know that our members try to RP as best they can. RP opportunities are there in every encounter we have with other players. I probably need reminded of that myself sometimes.

Opinions?

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Former member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
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