A Humble Request for an Apology from Administration

[Cjmate 1252]

A Humble Request for an Apology from Administration

 

 

 

 

Yesterday, I was quietly being a good Oren boy and removing the locks and items from tile_91, so that it would be nice and clean for the new region owners. Now, I did this, of course, under the warrant and promise of nation leaders and mods that a one-week halt of conflict was in place on tile_91, and also because there was a war raid cooldown that said, "Do not commit hostile action within this region." With the Sky God's protection, I carried on evicting my things. In the middle of one of my trips, and with an inventory of chest goodies, this happened: 

 

 

I got Dwarfed. 

 

Now me, being a good boy, kindly asked these fine gentlemen, and goodest of Urguan boys, to wait just a moment for a /modreq because I was under the impression of mah boi Nectorist that I was safe for the duration of the week's notice of eviction: 

 

 

 

Now, I had contacted the most buff of santas, Buffsanta, who had picked up my /modreq, but he had to eat chicken tendies or something so he passed it over to Snacko. After waiting for a good 15 minutes or so, Snacko informed me to carry on with the roleplay, and that conflict was allowed. Trusting Snacko, who is a good mod-boi, I thanked him and carried on with the roleplay with minimal ooc distractions, having accepted the just verdict of Snack-boi: 

 

 

And then this happened: 

 

However, despite this, Idontmatta told me that the roleplay should not be voided because it had already happened, despite the broadcasts, and to carry on with the roleplay. I tried to argue my position as best I could, as I felt it unfair since I was told by multiple people, and it was posted in the tile that there was a cooldown, but he ignored me and did not respond:

 

 

 

Being a good Oren boi, and not wanting to waste the Dwarf's time, as they had already been waiting for quite a long time,  I quietly submitted to my fate and continued with the roleplay that, at the time, I assumed would lead to my death and PK. Feeling I had been wronged, HaraldMarron from Oren came by with two mods to explain that there had indeed been a forced-mod peace on tile_91: 

 

 

Snacko and Buffsanta argued that there was a raid cooldown and that the roleplay should be voided (Snacko had been wrong), however at this point this had been drug out for an hour, and I didn't want to be unkind to the Dwarves by voiding the roleplay after two mods (Snacko and Itdontmatta) told them they were OK to continue, even though they went back on it. 

 

However, Itdontmatta superseded both mods and told them the roleplay was to continue, and not only was it to continue, but Haraldmarron, who had come over oocly to explain the situation, was now apart of the conflict roleplaywise because he mechanically walked over, which resulted in the Dwarves being teleported back to kill Haraldmarron irply by Itdontmatta, who then escaped because Haraldmarron is slippery ninja in PvP-default. 

 

I carried on with the roleplay, all the while being rammed with messages from multiple people from Oren telling me void the roleplay, because I am a good boi, and I followed the moderator's orders. 

 

All in all, I feel this was handled very poorly by the staff as a whole, and I would like a formal apology from the administration, as I feel like administration handled this situation incredibly poorly. I feel a simple, "We messed up," would go a long way into rebuilding trust between players and staff. 

 

 

 

[itdontmatta 7192]

Hi Cjmate,

 

I'm really sorry for the confusion and lack of communication surrounding this event. I was multi-tasking, and responding to multiple people at the time this was going on. I will break down each of the points presented to help portray the moderation point of view here. Though, before I begin I do want to make it known that this is on me and no other administrator or moderator. I understand that you were trying to move items and evict your chests in tile_91, and I'm sure it's very frustrating to get bandited when you're just trying to follow an eviction notice. Further, there is no "Do not commit hostile action within this region" on tile_91, rather, it is on the all-encompassing parent region called nation_oren. Tile_91 is no longer under that parent region, and hasn't been since Oren lost the siege on Sunday. Conflict was allowed on tile_91 until yesterday in the late afternoon/early evening, when I made a change to tile_91's eviction notice to indefinitely suspend conflict so people could move their stuff out. Both sides were upset about this situation, and I was receiving multiple DMs from leadership & players alike as to why the Dwarves were being allowed to pursue conflict in tile_91. This is why I perhaps did not respond to you - my chat gets flooded pretty easily.

 

The reason why roleplay was allowed to continue was because it had started before I had changed the message to indefinitely suspend conflict. My local OOC moderation message did not explain that. I am sorry I did not communicate this thoroughly with you, and I hope you can understand that I will try my best to be more communicative in regards to these situations.

 

The whole situation regarding HaraldMarron was pretty simple. I explained this in a VC with him. He had pulled up to Urguan's tile north of East Hub, and tried explaining the situation to mods. While I can appreciate players wanting to be outspoken and convey their points to moderation, we can't defend people who take matters into their own hands. Even though he was there to OOCly explain / fight a ruling, as per rule 9, "Your inventory, actions (ex. punching), and mechanical location are considered admissible in RP", his presence was considered admissible for RP from the Dwarves. 

 

I'll be locking this post, though you're welcome to hit me up on Discord if you'd like to discuss further.

 

Thanks,

Alex