Religions & Canons:
1.) Staff no longer sanctify, alter or in any other manner, mess with canons.
This has been decided, as of this post, Law has 36 members, Imperial 22 members, this should be more than enough to get your merry band of men together and macro up canons, foci and symbols, after all, I was reasonably assured that this part of the religion system was/is not an issue for people, when I was talking about cutting it out from religions, so I am expecting people to prove that to me.
2.) Piety, you join a religion, 30 piety, don't ask for more, feel free to ask for less.
Due to a miscommunication, I will take the blame on this, I have been bumping people to 40p regardless of placement time in a religion. This ends today, sorry folks. Again, I don't expect there to be any dissension for this, because people just loves their piety timers.
Macro Checks, Macro Check Alarms & Leniency:
1.) Macro Checks are here to stay, they are not going anywhere, they are not going to be touched anytime soon. Let me clear "touched anytime soon" up; will not be modified, will not be changed, will not be removed, will not be switched out for a new system, will not be disabled, will not be in any other fashion altered, adjusted or refitted or even retrofitted. Don't ask and I shan't tell.
This has been a recurring curse of a discussion for me brought on by players, skills no longer are dropped to 0 and stats no longer dropped to 10, staff have also been more lenient on the rule of every three macro checks failed that player is jailed, so for now, they will remain as they are.
2.) Macro Check Alarms are legal, in other words, "permitted by law; lawful". They are allowed to be used, punishment for use of a macro check alarm has no penalties, you are free to use them barring one or two restrictions found in the rules section of the main page.
Now that is cleared up, my thoughts on why I brought this up. The legal status of something is defined as:
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adjective
1. permitted by law; lawful
2. of or relating to law; connected with the law or its administration
3. appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law.
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noun
1. a particular, detail, or point (usually preceded by in)
2. relation or reference: inquiries with respect to a route.
3. esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability, or something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability
4. deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment
Do I respect the privilege given to players to use macro check alarms?
yes.
Do I respect the people who write the alarms?
More or less, yes.
That clears that up, you are free to use them and there are no repercussions to be had, however, you've just been down a couple rabbit holes of definitions so I will get to my point, while staff respect your ability, your tenacity, your vigor, your privilege in using these tools, it will not, will not, WILL NOT be made any easier to use them via a system message or any other server side code that expands the use of Macro Check Alarms. As I told a person the other day, we are not as staff obligated by any sense of duty to maintain, expand the uses of or in any other fashion make Macro Check Alarms easier to use by putting in code server side. It is simple, if your macro check alarm is failing you, ask for assistance. If your sound is not playing, I bet you are doing something wrong as an example I know happens quite a bit and I have had to diagnose for people many times.
3.) To grant leniency or not? That is the question, leniency is granted every so often on some occasions. Now, there are a couple points to be made about leniency and threats made to staff.
When one fails a macro check, one does not need an intercessor to do what intercessors do, to intercede on his/her behalf. Knowledge or ignorance of the person who failed the macro check of someone interceding on their behalf does not really matter, this is here so that everyone knows, if there is a dispute with a macro check fail, it needs to be made by the complainant and not by another player believing it is their civic or chivalrous duty to intercede on another's behalf. If you fail a macro check, if there is an issue with the problem, you, yourself, need to make that complaint to the staff. You are all capable of typing fairly decent English, the only language I speak and read at any great adeptness, so go to one of the staff and make your complaint known. IF you are thinking of interceding on another's behalf, don't bother, this will only prolong any judgement made and may in fact hurt the actual result and find the person that failed the macro check wanting.
Let's discuss threats, the one I hear most often. First it should be noted, there is absolutely no money to be made in what we do, if I spent the time I have spent working on stuff for this shard working, I'd be a happier person likely, my bills would not be in the state they are in now I'd hope. Second, we as staff actually like having players, however, there is one threat that cuts no quarter with me.
"This happened and I am QUITTING!"
quitting, the threat of that is, this has been brought up from players starting with the letter A all the way to Z, I have heard it before, it sucks to see a player quit because they themselves are frustrated by something that occurred. I know full well what it is like to have someone quit because of something shitty happening, I know about 5 people in real life that quit Ultima, Pangaea specifically who quit because of PvP or Macro Checks or some other shitty thing happening. But threats of quitting, the hypothetical discussion about changing/removing xyz because of people quitting and any other discussion or threat made about quitting because "I did not get my way" or "This happened", I will not be held hostage to this.
You are free to play here, it costs you nothing in fact, the mansion you might think I live in was not made off the backs of your hard earned Euro or Dollar or in the case of Candanavia, Dollarettes. Shitty things happen, we have certain rules in place that have consequences, if you did not read the rules, I suggest you read up on them, if any need to be revised to reflect current policy, feel free to let me know and I will, but as I told one player, IF we were to take all the reasons why people quit Pangaea and try to fix them, it would be an impossibility.
Boredom, training skills too hard (they're not hard but that is the complaint), heightened is too slow, I died and was looted by a Troll, I died in PvP and was looted by Bob Smith, Fred visited me at the bank and thieved my Indestructible robe of Macefighting, Tactics, Meditation, Healing and Anatomy, It is unfair I have to start out as a brand new character when everyone else has well trained characters, it is unfair that my house is smaller than that persons, it is unfair that I don't even get a free house, it is unfair that I can't have this name, it is unfair that PvP is allowed in towns, it is unfair that religions are so powerful, it is unfair that the <insert class> is so sucky compared to <insert class>. I know that does not cover all the complaints but you get the idea.
4.) A staff member's decision is final.
If you have asked one staff for something, they say no, do not try to play the staff like the child playing the parents. What do I mean, when you were children, and your Mother said no you can't go outside to play, invariably you went and asked your Father hoping to get a different response. If in the future it is discovered that this occurred, consequences for the offending player will be swift, just and harsh, we're adults here, don't try to play or pit the staff's decisions against each other. Simple!
Notes:
This post nor any of it's contents are directed toward any one person or groups of people. These are issues that have cropped up over the last couple to few weeks and have festered and today just boiled over into the post you have hopefully just read. Sorry for the length, I had to cover a few things in here and make sure that certain things were hopefully made more clear.
No we will not be giving out free fully trained characters, don't post the idea, it ain't happening unless someone else wants to script it and by that point I think my job will be done here.
No, we are not going to mess around with macro checks, don't ask, don't even message me about it, I have spent close to 8 hours with players discussing macro checks, so ya, kind of sick of it and one person made it on my ignore list for a month or two for going on and on about it so, if you would like that, by all means.
I hate to see a player leave, but don't threaten that and expect staff to bend over backwards to accommodate you while others have had to take their medicine, let me put it simply, if the widespread belief amongst players is that threats of quitting will get staff to give into a player's demands, I say this knowing full well that I would have just wasted a year for you guys despite it's bumpiness, we shut the shard down now and shelve it. Solution solved, you have nothing to quit, we have nothing to give into.
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