January Update #2

[Z3r05t4r 855]

 

Those are probably the best changes we had in a long time.

[Major Dom 1297]

so happy with these canges and proud of the admin team for making them happen good job

[domainoft 191]

*A small tear is shed at the wisdom displayed by the Administration.

 

Although it might seem obvious to all, these changes will play a very important role in LotC's future.

 

Thank you for your deliberation, patience and wisdom.

[Cyndikate 2303]

Viper for president

[Matheus 559]

Viper for president

This

[Splitchris 11]

Viper for president

 

 

agreed!

[knightly11 | lotc_fox 111]

This is the best update ever, seriously. 

[Aptrotta 162]

Now we just allow pugsiers a chance and we are all good! Good job admins! Great choices!

[VonEbs 1224]

The VA's will be back. Probably sooner than most of you think.

[nordicg_d 1847]

Good news for cyberers, do the same for Pugsy's :)

[monkeypoacher 8055]

Change #1: Villain applications and the Villain Application Team (rank) are being removed from the Lord of the Craft. You will no longer require a VA in order to perform villainous actions in roleplay on the server. With that said, however, we will be modifying a few noteworthy VA rules and adding them to the official server rules.

 

 

Change #3: Many of you likely thought that the so called controversial changes that I hinted to earlier was the removal of VAs, but it was not. We are making a modification to our cybering policy. Yes, you read that right. Our stance on cybering is still the same -- it is a punishable offense that we do not tolerate or condone here on LotC. The rule is also still the same. However, our banning policy is now modified (this also applies to those currently banned for cybering). From here on out, players found to be cybering will only be banned for 1-3 months on their first offense, depending on the severity of the situation (borderline cybering 1-2 months, blatant cybering 3 months). The second offense, however, will be permanent (and by permanent I mean indefinitely, forever, for an infinite amount of time). Wow Viper! You just opened up the server to a bunch of cyberers! No, no I have not. You're likely face-palming right now and wondering what is going on inside the crazy heads of the administration team. Well, the simple fact is that many people cyber due to foolishness and immaturity (young kids like to fool around, you know?). Whether it's ignorance of the rules, a joke, or a little kid who's giggling behind his keyboard because he thinks what's happening is funny. Many good roleplayers have been banned for cybering even though they realize what they did was a mistake. On the other hand, some players decide to quit the server and cyber in order to get permanently banned rather than pugsying. However, we have decided to make it possible to appeal on the first offense in order for us to allow those genuinely good players to return. Is there a chance that some players will appeal even if they haven't learned from their past mistakes? Of course there is. However, if they do it again then they are permanently banned for good. We only want the players back that realize what they did was wrong and intend to never do it again. Keep in mind that cybering is one of the easiest rules that we can catch you breaking, and finding offenders isn't hard at all. It's easily discovered through various methods, which makes it easy to control. I hope you guys understand the core concept behind making this change, even if you think it's a poor choice. We aren't inviting cyberers back onto the server to allow them to repeat their actions again. We're giving them the chance to show us that they truly learned from their mistakes. I'm sure many questions will arise from this, and we will do our best to answer them. I will be rewriting the guidelines on how to avoid breaking the cybering rule as well (tip: just don't do it at all!), so stay tuned for that in the near future as well!

Edit: If you would like your cybering appeal to be private, feel free to PM an administrator or the moderator that banned you.

Have fun LotC, and remember, it's just a game! We're meant to have fun here, and we want to give everyone the chance to enjoy what LotC has to offer equally. Don't trouble yourself with the problems that the staff teams have to deal with too much -- that's what we're here for!

Stay safe,

-Viper3X, Head Administrator

-The rest of the Administration Team

 

I LOVE YOU

[Watyll 1104]

The thing I have campaigned for since a month into the server has come to pass.

[Anderssn 1115]

So I was requested to post this here for my friend since he is not able to do so himself. 

 

 

Hai, I like the changes you made, quite nice. ^_^

I made quite some mistakes, heh. x3

But then again that one mistake that got my forum account banned did have the end result..

My appologies though for it, that was quite a grave mistake.

 

I dont know or it is possible, but if it were possible.

Would I be allowed to appeal ?

 

 

My old forum account was called Rissing, and I used to be Aster, ingame.

Hope you can give me another chance, if not, guess I deserved it.

 

 

Thank you in advance.

Aster The Risen.

[Viper3X 1056]

So I was requested to post this here for my friend since he is not able to do so himself. 

Your friend, Rissing, has been unbanned from the forums. We'll be addressing the pugsying change soon.

[spqrSancus 175]

Woot! Glad to see these changes, Viper!