Admin Notice: Policy Changed

[Dusty Lens]

They have to use admins as a crutch because there's no other way to enforce loans. Loans are in many ways a contract between players. If I take a loan for 800 million from penpen it's not my character doing it, because there's no rule governing what I can do with money in my possession.

Cannon will tell you that if I default on pen's loan that he can put a bounty on me or something. That's great. I don't care. I just gave that money to another character and bought myself a battleship. If pen puts a bounty on my battleship I'll ask for the rp reasoning and likely have valid grounds for reporting him for holding an oorp vendetta.

Because that is exactly what he'll be doing. Following an oorp vendetta.

Admins enforcing loans was a very simple, very easy job. Sometimes someone might get burned because the other party quit disco or something similar. But for every 1-2 cases of things going wrong we have the evidence of dozens of transactions going right entirely because both parties were operating under the notion that the admins would step in if things did go wrong.

I think this whole rule change smacks of lazyness and apathy. It cheapens the environment by removing a mechanism.