Clearly enounced rulesets are what we need.
Being accused of breaking a rule when no rule has been defined doesnt make the game going forward. it leads players to boycot events, which is regretable, for me at least. Write the rules you want to be respected and place them where everybody see them, and they will be respected by the very great majority.
Communication is the basic of order. Threats and sanctions do nothing good. Avoiding to take sanctions is, and will remain the only good way to manage a population. This can e-a-s-i-l-y resolved by a few things :
- write rules and make people know about them
- never use the threat as a weapon, it leads nowhere else than to prove people how weak you are, instead, use respect and comprehensivity.
- talk to people if they break a rule.
- talk to people when you take a sanction and explain them why you took it
- update your rules when they need it
- always consider that taking a sanction is a proof of the weakness of your system, modify it to avoid new sanctions.
This is not things i read in a book. I m managing a 20.000 students population as lead system engineer, some of them are hackers, some of them try to cheat, some of them make errors, but for the biggest part, when something goes wrong, its only because they didnt knew it could be wrong. If you punish them for that, they start to break the rules each time you don't survey them if they think you consider them like cheaters and see that you're treating them that way. These are the basics.
To be honest, i m playing EQ on WR because i like the way the game is reworked, I like the way its balanced. I like the people who play on the server. I try to do my best with what i have, a very bad ISP, not enough time, a low level in english language etc etc ... I try to report bugs each time i encounter some, suggest things, i try to be online for raids, dealing with private and professional lives... etc
For now, i ll boycot events till a ruleset is clearly enumerated, even if nobody cares about that, its now clear.
I m playing during my spare times, for the fun represented by the GAME, not because i m addicted, mixing EQ and real lives, or such... if the game isnt fun, it looses immediatly all its interest, and i don't see why i should invest of my spare time in it anymore.
I know that i m not the only one who complains of how players are sometimes treated, no answer to tells or agressive answers, nowarning reboots, rude treatments and such... when this happens (even if its not each day nor each time) it seriously wastes the fun people can get of YOUR work, and, when i see the quality of what's done, I really regret it because it could be way more better again.
I certainly won't participate to any flaming/rants since i m way to old for those kind of things. Out of context quotes, insults or delibarate mis-understanding of sentences are for the people who have no arguments and attack you for the shape and not the meaning.
I hope that nobody will take that text with to much negativity. It's certainly rough, full of gramatical mistakes, but that's my point of view and i wanted it to be clearly written. I m not the kind of person that will say 'yes' because they think the boss will like them if they do. I say what i have to say.
Alexis,
Decimal on WR.
Being accused of breaking a rule when no rule has been defined doesnt make the game going forward. it leads players to boycot events, which is regretable, for me at least. Write the rules you want to be respected and place them where everybody see them, and they will be respected by the very great majority.
Communication is the basic of order. Threats and sanctions do nothing good. Avoiding to take sanctions is, and will remain the only good way to manage a population. This can e-a-s-i-l-y resolved by a few things :
- write rules and make people know about them
- never use the threat as a weapon, it leads nowhere else than to prove people how weak you are, instead, use respect and comprehensivity.
- talk to people if they break a rule.
- talk to people when you take a sanction and explain them why you took it
- update your rules when they need it
- always consider that taking a sanction is a proof of the weakness of your system, modify it to avoid new sanctions.
This is not things i read in a book. I m managing a 20.000 students population as lead system engineer, some of them are hackers, some of them try to cheat, some of them make errors, but for the biggest part, when something goes wrong, its only because they didnt knew it could be wrong. If you punish them for that, they start to break the rules each time you don't survey them if they think you consider them like cheaters and see that you're treating them that way. These are the basics.
To be honest, i m playing EQ on WR because i like the way the game is reworked, I like the way its balanced. I like the people who play on the server. I try to do my best with what i have, a very bad ISP, not enough time, a low level in english language etc etc ... I try to report bugs each time i encounter some, suggest things, i try to be online for raids, dealing with private and professional lives... etc
For now, i ll boycot events till a ruleset is clearly enumerated, even if nobody cares about that, its now clear.
I m playing during my spare times, for the fun represented by the GAME, not because i m addicted, mixing EQ and real lives, or such... if the game isnt fun, it looses immediatly all its interest, and i don't see why i should invest of my spare time in it anymore.
I know that i m not the only one who complains of how players are sometimes treated, no answer to tells or agressive answers, nowarning reboots, rude treatments and such... when this happens (even if its not each day nor each time) it seriously wastes the fun people can get of YOUR work, and, when i see the quality of what's done, I really regret it because it could be way more better again.
I certainly won't participate to any flaming/rants since i m way to old for those kind of things. Out of context quotes, insults or delibarate mis-understanding of sentences are for the people who have no arguments and attack you for the shape and not the meaning.
I hope that nobody will take that text with to much negativity. It's certainly rough, full of gramatical mistakes, but that's my point of view and i wanted it to be clearly written. I m not the kind of person that will say 'yes' because they think the boss will like them if they do. I say what i have to say.
Alexis,
Decimal on WR.
