Empire Discussion Thread
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From reading the log, I think @Warma-Sheen comes across as a little disrespectful and impatient toward the staffer. Had I been the staff member in that situation, I would definitely have asked them to go away, come back, and try again after an attitude adjustment.
However, Ada does also come across as a little thin-skinned here. It does feel like she has jumped to the nuclear option very quickly. If that is her definition of brow-beating, she should prepare to feel that way a lot with the average MU crowd, honestly.
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Especially in light of the extra info provided later, where extra detail had been provided superfluously, that’s not how I read Ada’s no about submitting logs.
I read that interaction as no, logs don’t need submitted with the job, because the @scene function should have already provided them. But since no scenes were auto-logged, she was asking if there was any OTHER verification for the RP she was expecting to have happened to go alongside such a large request for resources - including even just a basic confirmation that RP had occurred between the person who would be given the resources and the person making the request for them.
No, you’re not supposed to SEND logs, because the mechanic is there that will track them. Since I don’t see them tracked, can you tell me more about why this NPC should give you their ENTIRE pile of resources, and what RP has supported such a major ask being made, much less granted.
It’s text, so tone is always a guessing game. But that’s how I interpreted Ada’s responses.
When she made that request, she was accused of ignoring a player and accused of being frustrating, by a player who despite not having followed the game systems was still being given a chance to explain the request anyway. I saw a busy staffer offering to help a new player on a new game find a way to do what they wanted in case the game’s setup had been confusing and RP happened that somehow hadn’t gotten logged.
And instead of working with her so they could do that, the player came in hot because it wasn’t just an unsubstantiated approval.
I’m not going to say what is and isn’t worth banning on someone else’s game. That’s not my energy and time investment to navigate. But I don’t see Ada acting in bad faith in that interaction at all.
