Right, but all it takes is one of these groups who will not agree to a
compromise to force an intervention by "Big Brother". They make it
perfectly clear that No One will like the decision that "Big Brother" is
going to make so you better sort it out yourselves. This is just an
invitation to get someone to officially irritate someone for those who
desire to irritate. They know they won't like the compromise already, so
they are perfectly willing to use the threat of forcing others to accept
"Big Brother's" unacceptable ruling to bend reasonable people to their will.
Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Illian [mailto:
jeff@...]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 10:03 AM
To:
eqbards@onelist.com
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Worldly Issues & "Play Nice"
From: "Jeff Illian" <
jeff@...>
Found this posted on EQ Vault from a discussion with Gordon:
Sharing Spawns
We do realize how long it takes. If I had my way, many items would be made
much more rare than they are, to the extent that no one would camp for them.
People would then do the dungeons, and if they got something cool it would
be a real reward.
No, we're not going to force you to camp. However if you insist on camping,
then you'll need to deal with others who insist on camping in a civilized
manner.
These rules change nothing for people who already work well with others. For
instance, lets say you are camping something that always has a list going.
If someone new comes in, putting them on the list is perfectly acceptable,
much the same as you did before.
These rules don't let them come in and demand that they get the next loot,
they only say that you need to work something out, or a GM/Guide will work
it out for you.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Illian <jeff@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Worldly Issues & "Play Nice"
> From: "Jeff Illian" <jeff@...>
>
> Interestingly enough, much of the Prexus community as a whole has chosen
to
> ignore the new "Play Nice" rules and continue with what has worked for our
> server up to this point. Most high level people and guilds want to
continue
> with the "group list" concept in order to manage the number of players at
a
> particular spawn point. Additionally, they are talking about letting
"high
> level politics" take care of themselves when it comes to the "whiners"...
> Those people simply would get left out of the larger undertakings such as
> dragon raids and plane incursions.
>
> Will this work? Depends on how many whiners out there force Verant to
take
> action. I've got a feeling that the moment another party shows up in the
> Lords room in Lower Guk after the spawn has been broken and demands to
share
> the spawn and Verant enforces their policies you will see a TON of people
> quit the game outright...
>
> For me, this "Play Nice" policy is a GREAT reason to keep my Asheron's
Call
> account active and ready for me to move back to...
>
> Taneran Dreamweaver
> <Clan Jax>
> Bard of the 43rd Song
> Prexus
>
> > Play Nice is doomed to fail. The number of issues that will come up for
> > resolution is so much greater than the resources that Verant has
allocated
> > to handling them (ie not enough Guides to handle all of the whiners that
> > will surface.) Verant should have stuck to the mechanics of computers
> that
> > gives them power: program code. If a program lets the user do
something,
> > some user (or many users) will do that thing. If Verant wanted to stop
> > KS'ing, they should have done it in code. That way they stop each and
> every
> > instance and rules get applied to everyone.
> >
> > Sylly
> >
>
>
>
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