Telanir

yeah you have to hand it to him, two years of sustained support and trying again and again—dedicated, consistent, reliable. those are great traits to have, clearly someone who wants to better this server.

Hi folks, Congratulations and warm welcome to @Spoopy_Duck, our newest administrator! He will be handling the moderation team and related affairs, try to give him a few days head start before drowning his DMs. :) I heard he has dogs so unfortunately that puts us at 2:3 on cat to dog admins. Good luck Spoop! - Max & Admins

Thank you everyone :) … too smart for your own good …

Hello, Josh3738 is departing the admin team. LotC is stable, but that doesn't mean we can't invest in a clear vision. We can rally behind a common cause, but we're never going to unite for long over what bothers us (except maybe admin inactivity). We’ve been discussing heavily what kind of foot we want to start off in 2026, and this is not the one. We’d like to close a turbulent chapter on LotC’s administrative history. First, we’ll be reversing the recent changes to the mod team. Second, we agreed a few days ago on a Community Admin and we’d like to welcome @Smol to the team. We hope that together, we can create a unified vision built on trust, accountability, and most importantly, the betterment of the server. We are stewards to a monument of player creativity and passion, we will build upon it moving forward. Sorry for the chaos today.

On this day Farmer Billy did lower his hat and offer a firm, approving nod.

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Hey Shiny, the facilitating or gathering of roleplay is not only wonderful for you, but for all of us. We allow that explicitly in the new ruleset. But, whether metaplay is cooperative or antagonistic—it endorses metaplay. It plants the seed for more metaplay. And this conduct is not only rarely done in goodwill, the spirit of roleplay, or responsible cooperation—it is genuinely hard to do so in a positive way. It is just not genuine roleplay. It's faked, and any goodwill feels similarly empty. (for example, take how you feel if a scripted event does not allow you to be creative in your roleplay, but strong arms a certain outcome) I would say reminding someone about an eviction notice (the cd's are inherently an OOC thing by law of our rules) does not relate to roleplay as it's mainly a mechanical requirement. What happens before a character is spawned into the world is also an OOC consideration—like how we write our applications (backstories) prior to entering the world of RP. It is clear to me these examples are in good-faith, you are safe. :)

Everyone, We’re adding a new section to our Player Conduct Policy. Here it is. It is our duty to protect young folk from malicious behavior on this server. In parallel, we recognize that adult content is not inherently harmful. Adults engaging with mature content in their own spaces is a natural facet of life and we aren’t looking to police what you do in your spare time. With that said, underage members must not be guided/coerced into this content. We find that advertising or otherwise distributing sexually-explicit content in the LotC space falls dangerously close to that territory, and that neither we nor our community are comfortable with this activity. If your LotC-related space has a sexually-explicit section gated behind thin barriers like “roles”—please take this opportunity now to eliminate these areas. Then, please do your part—ensure minors don’t find their way into sexually-explicit servers.

Hi everyone, @The60th is parting ways with the Administration. This weekend we reviewed a substantial amount of evidence regarding a particular case and his involvement—and we found the roots are far deeper than we anticipated. We're sorry it came to this. We don't see an alternative, and I believe it is the right path to heal and restore community trust. Thank you, Telanir & the Admin Team

Going to miss you. Welcome to the team @The60th!

I've read a lot of posts in this thread and much of it is genuine, high-caliber feedback. Thank you for that. I made the mistake not to to point this out but please focus on the state of the server and not individuals, for example "your idea made me ill" is not a valid reply lol There is no need to defend your opinion, a well thought out reply will do that more than hitting reply on someone else's musings. Thanks for reading through my obligatory janny insert, I hid a bunch of posts, if yours was hidden it will be discussed anyway, admins can still see them.

How do we balance this with red-tape? Giving notice…is that RP-friendly, or dynamic…or even interesting? And, suppose we do remove ladders, then the problem of perma-locked settlements returns—gates down, 24/7. (my problem here is not that players behind gates are safe, it is that it's that community interaction is (literally) gated, and new players be sad for sure). I liked the beginning of this map a lot, gates were wide open come-on-in—but flat turning off conflict would be worse. What else can we try?