Post by dcdc on Jan 13, 2015 11:38:03 GMT -5
I'm trying to recall Catalina (Cat?) I think I might know who this is, but not 100% (and could be way off).
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -- Lord John Acton
"Just deal with it." --Azroen
The problem, really, is that you get people who are suddenly in charge and they let that power go to their heads. The folks in charge would often take the word of the immortals over the players, which is why you might get instances where someone is accused of OOC abuse, when in fact if they ever took the time to read the logs, they would be able to find a message (or something) tying it together. Who the hell is going to take that time? "Oh this guy pickpocketed this Templar because he knew he had this sword, so I"m gonna kill him for OOC knowledge and cheating" when in fact maybe that player just decided "I need a few more coins, oh holy shit a steel sword, omg". (this specific example has probably never happened, but just using it for illustrative purposes)
Force killing: This is one of the things that pissed me off to the point of a story I will tell some day (but not now). I had a character who's job was to be powerful (an immortal even propped his stats up to play the role he needed to play), but I stuck to character 100% come hell or high water, I was not going to abuse that privilege, and I was super careful on what I did. I always stayed in character, because that's what I do. One day I died the most brutal and piece of shit way possible: I was led somewhere, shit was being typed, I was responding, and before I could even finish typing a reply, *bam bam bam dead*. what in the flying fucking shit? I later asked the immortal RPing with me "sorry man but I had orders that he had to die, he was getting too powerful". What in the fucking flying shit??
If you weren't an immortal pet, your character was never safe. I don't care if I die from a player (that's fun!), or a random encounter with a Gith (also fun and part of the game), but that fucking power-play bullshit pissed me off beyond anything ever done. I have a feeling that I (as a person) must have upset someone on staff (probably a bullshit reason, too, I probably killed a player that someone on staff was screwing). IMO, unless there are *very specific reasons that should almost always never happen*, then any "force killing" should be done by another player. If an immortal thinks the job needs to be done, then they need to contact another player in the game and RP out a reason for the death, and let the player do it.
The way I view it, if Sanvean can achieve Overlord (I guess they're now Producers?) because she pretends to RP while power-leveling, then we're all fucked.