They (guides & GMs) are currently empowered to take action and fix these
exact abuses. But its very hard to tell who is telling the truth and who is
lying. And they have not got well established precedents and experience.
They also don't have a lot of support from Verant who pretty much has given
them broad guidelines. They (guides & gms) hear lots and lots of lies,
storys, b.s. and wierd stuff. Sometimes (many times) they will say "nothing
I can do..." but I know for a fact that they can do things - including
character restores, item impounding, account banning (temp & perma.)

I fell through the world in Upper Guk and asked for a exp res. "Sorry,
nothing I can do..." Happened to a friend and he got a res. Same crack in
the world, different guides. And I have seen several other problems where
people have gotten char restores. One guild member had a partial corpse
after a zone crash on a dragon raid. Her corpse was there but her stuff was
gone. GM said, OK we can reload you from a previous time save but anything
you looted or exp gained since them will be lost. <poof> She was restored.
They can do it. I have seen it. Getting them to do it is another matter
entirely.

Sylly

> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Elijah Meeker wrote:
> >
> > >Unfortunately, none of the companies have really addressed the
> > >full implications of this.

> That's what I meant - eventually, we're going to need
> human-operated laws and enforcement in these things. Step 1
> would be empowering the GMs to actually do things based on the
> info they have available in these grey areas, instead of
> parroting "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do."