Re: Etiquette -- The Four Lands

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2] ]

Subject: Re: Etiquette

Author:
Malik

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 18:41:03 06/03/02 Mon
In reply to: Jason 's message, "Re: Etiquette" on 17:48:41 06/03/02 Mon

>-READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY--
>* Never, ever steal or do something bad to someone who
>is AFK, LD, or otherwise not actively online.

There's several occasions where one needs surprise to pull off an action against an enemy. Such as an ambush or a steal attempt. Bad things. People are not going to wait for their target to show that he's actively playing at that moment. They're going to go with it. Its not 'bad' roleplay or etiquette.

The personal touch that was added to the rule leads me to believe its an attack against another player's roleplay.

A game set link dead notice in the character's long description could help deter a rush because the predator would know immediately that the person is unable to respond or even connected to the mud. However, there are people that will abuse this just as they use 'quit' to avoid pursuit.

As far as being protected while AFK, as far as I'm concerned thats the away player's fault.

Now, it is wrong to attack someone just for the fact that they're link dead or afk due to their being an easy target.
Should they be innately protected by rules or code because of it? No. Too abuseable.

Malik

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

Subject	Author	Date
Re: Etiquette	Jason	19:58:07 06/03/02 Mon
Re: Etiquette -- Malik, 20:39:20 06/03/02 Mon Re: Etiquette -- Jason, 22:26:08 06/03/02 Mon