to put an end to the fighting everyone has been having over what is legal and whats not...Whats so funny and sad at the same time is all shards go through this its not uncommon. The shard crisis where one person may make a mistake (GM or Player) then you got the whole mob (GM's or Players) in an outrage which then causes even MORE turmoil and whipping out the ban-batons and Jail Grenades egh.
I was a GM for quite some time, Admin of my own little private getaway shard for a time with friends. In my time as a GM I had, well a code I went by. Nomater what I try to do, nomater how quick I am with the draw, I never will win period. Interesting in that in a position with responsibility and power I was perceived as being burdened with being a GM.I was not burdened. I just did my part, tried to stay ontop of exploiters, while at the same time keep public matters under control, and events
. The real meat of what was so funny was other GM's usualy frowned upon me but the people always would rather deal with me because of the way I went about handling the situations I was assigned to. I acted not like a simple GM tagged character there to throw down upon them to the exact law, but a buddy there to see what was the matter, and remedy the situation, and try and make the best of it, nomater what the issue. We had someone mad cursing in chat, I would mute him/her, warp to, and ask what was wrong and to vent it all out (if public place invite somewhere else), then after he/she was done and everything was fine and dandy explain to them that I had to give a mandatory warning but its no big deal, just be more carefull next time, and if they ever wanted to get angry and vent to page me and I would be right there. Everyone I did that too never done it again, and never had any hard feelings afterwards. I know it seems like alot but thats just the way I am. HA HA WHICH REMINDS ME of this funny thing I did for those occasions, I called it the venting area. I made this boatdock where upon request or sometimes a alternate form of punishment I would warp players to it (non-accessable to others unless warped in by GM), A or B, A would be for powertrip players with mobs running randomly they could kill crying and screaming random sayings, B would be a podium and arena with NPC's the player could shout out whatever and the NPC's would pickup on keywords and say funny sayings to them.
Crazy? Maybe
, depends on how you look at it, lots of people got laughs out of it, even I sometimes played with it not even mad. I agree law is law, but there is a difference. Like Cops for instance, you get some that write you every ticket they can write you for, then there are the cops that reason and understand and do what they must. Do not get me wrong we still need strict down to the T people in the world for justice and order, for what fun would the world be with just 1 race, or an icecream shop with just 1 flavor. Peace and Harmony, everybody love everybody, seems non-existent these days, but maybe a chat system will calm and cool the masses down
. Take away peoples reason for fighting then you have no war. Eh to put it more clearly I will end with a quote Please Note: I have no intentions of being staff. Only mentioned to help understand where I come from.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of WarTo fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting
