@thrax said in Numetal/Retromux:
When Staff came to speak to her she did not hide, nor keep information from them. The thing I wonder is how can they ban someone for avoiding conflict from someone known to be a problem. Yes she did hide herself, but is that in itsself worth a full gameban?
Hiding yourself from players you have a no contact with in order to RP with them is something I think deserves a gameban, regardless of how open you are with staff.
It really feels like Ganymede has just decided to let Derp drive it into the ground out of some need to avoid losing face from reversing a decision.
Well, I’m reducing my MSB activity to lurking now. Gany just basically said that the only person who needed to be apologized to on MSB for what happened was Derp.
I get two things from reading stuff from this thread.
That I definitely am not the target audience for Lords & Ladies roleplay.
That Arx, even with all of it’s trouble throughout its history, is a pretty good example of ‘doing it right’ in our hobby.
Congrats to all you Arx players and staff for doing cool stuff.
@Cygnus said in The 3-Month Players:
Without PVP acting as a failsafe, these players often cause games to fail because no one can stand not being able to meaningfully stand up to the bully.
The failsafe against toxic players should be staff action. Going PVP just because a player is toxic seems toxic in it’s own right.
@Pacha said in Empire Discussion Thread:
My assumption (perhaps false!) is that when opening a game one wants to develop a large and diverse base of players.
I feel like we’re reaching a point where new gamerunners are going to focus more on just running the game they want to run rather than running a game that attracts a large crowd.
Starting a new thread, for a new year.
First up, and this one hit me hard, David Lynch, legendary director of such weirdness as Eraserhead, Twin Peaks, and the original 1980s version of Dune.
Please stop. If you actually care, stop, step away, and come back in a few days or even a week or two. You’re making yourself look bad with each new post.
@somasatori Keep this up and people are going to expect you to start a game. 
Also: I can’t make anyone else on this forum switch topics from your dumpster fire of a character to the dumpster fire of Eddie and the people on Staff that did toxic shit to you. Mostly because you keep running back in here and throwing gasoline on your character dumpster fire and making it a much bigger, brighter spectacle than the other.
@Ominous said in Prove Tez Wrong:
It’s also good advice for Blood on the Clocktower.
Tangentially, it strikes me that Blood on the Clocktower could easily be hosted using a MU codebase.
After 25 years of MUing, I’m of the opinion that people try to give others way too many chances.
I think the sweet spot for me as a staffer is 1. You get 1 screw up that I don’t ban you for, and I will let you know when you have spent your 1. When you screw up the second time, pack your bags.
Even then, there are exceptions. Particularly awful behavior will result in an instant ban with no discussion.
@Yam said in Empire Discussion Thread:
Man IDK guys is it really that hard to avoid bans? Are people just tripping into bans these days?
I feel like it’s less tripping into bans and more toxic players will be toxic players and staff have finally, at the end of 2025, reached the point where just throwing down the ban is the least headache and anxiety of any option.
@Lemon-Fox said in Missed Settings:
Exalted Battletech. When your mech is destroyed, you leap out with your sword.
I would only play Exalted Battletech if I could use Call the Blade to pull my Mech to me in the same fashion that the charm works for weapons. So I hold out my hand and my Mech just Kool-Aid Man crashes through a neighborhood to scoop me up and deposit me in the cockpit.
@Meg & @dvoraen If you both like PEAK, I would also recommend RV There Yet?, which is basically PEAK + chainsmoking + getting an RV to the top of the mountain.
@Pyrephox said in Empire Discussion Thread:
If Ada removes a lot of people, or removes people who aren’t, uh, pretty well already established as being Problems across several games, then the game will die and the problem will self-correct.
I don’t even think it’s that. It’s consistency. Staff needs to be consistent with how they respond to problems. The player in this case was being rude and pushy in Ada’s opinion, so they got a one and done ban. This needs to be consistent going forward. If other people are rude and pushy to Ada on the same level, they should also get a boot.
I can’t count the number of games I’ve seen with inconsistent staffing.
@Pavel said in Empire Discussion Thread:
Honestly? Probably curse of prior knowledge. She knows the system is there, expects it to be used, but also expects everyone else to also know the thing that she knows. Because psychology. It’s not a satisfactory thought, but it’s the only one I can think of given that I am, as yet, unable to read minds.
I totally agree with this. I think this also occurs when players don’t read all of the available game documentation and just assume something is X when it’s actually documented as Y. So this may be something documented either in game or on the Empire website that is just assumed as known in every interaction.
I know if I ever get the time to build a game, I’m going to have a big disclaimer that applying for a character indicates that the player is aware of the game’s policies and rules, and that lack of understanding of those documents is not accepted as an excuse for negative patterns of behavior.
@Pacha said in Empire Discussion Thread:
My assumption (perhaps false!) is that when opening a game one wants to develop a large and diverse base of players.
I feel like we’re reaching a point where new gamerunners are going to focus more on just running the game they want to run rather than running a game that attracts a large crowd.
