Ah ok, np

Gwynedd, Noir, Zarf and a few others are treating this as if it were a real, legal binding contract. its  a video game people! Does he uphold the NAP and open up a can of worms nobody wants or does Parrot do whats right?

Parrot did the right thing. He, unlike most of this gaming community understands the 'metagame' factor. (If you dont know what 'metagame' means google it.) Ive been in this position many times as a 'moderator' of sorts for the games i have been running for the past 25 years. YOU DO WHATS RIGHT. Its that simple.

Ive been a hardcore gamer for longer than some of you have been alive. Ive moderated table top RPGs, large scale miniatures war games and strategy games for years. I cant even begin to tell you how many times ive had to make decisions just like this. You are never gonna be able to please everyone all the time. Not everyone is agree with the decision he made. You guys can argue until your blue in the face but im telling you this...

Parrot was right. You guys are just gonna have to move on and deal with it as it stands. The sooner you accept that it was the right thing to do the better off you will be.

Now close this thread already. Arguement over.

hmmm...really, implementing nap enforcements wont help the game, it means people cannot break a nap anymore

don't do it! I know there's too much bitching about this but this is Imperial Conflict, if you implement an algoritm to reduce the conflict then you are reducing the game within.

and Zarf pls forget about those 'legal' contracts, come on, this is a text based game, we hve already TOO MUCH text to read and you want people to read even more, and to read the small writing below before signing a contract, NO NO NO, for god shake!

yeah, the point is hes lazy and likes to break naps:P

the point is if you don't allow people to break naps the conflicts in the gals will be drstically reduced and the rounds will be boring, that's the point.
What you're trying to implement is an extreme solution for the problem, that's waht I mean, right now we have IMPERIAL BITCHING, if you enforce naps in the game code we'll have IMPERIAL PEACE & LOVE, so what I say is we must find another solution so we can still have IMPERIAL CONFLICT

right?

> Render wrote:

> the point is if you don't allow people to break naps the conflicts in the gals will be drstically reduced and the rounds will be boring, that's the point.
What you're trying to implement is an extreme solution for the problem, that's waht I mean, right now we have IMPERIAL BITCHING, if you enforce naps in the game code we'll have IMPERIAL PEACE & LOVE, so what I say is we must find another solution so we can still have IMPERIAL CONFLICT

right?

Or you could just not make NAPs if you want more war, and try not being a lying weasel.

Meh, once again something gets blown out of proportion by the IC community.

My 2 cents (i just learnt of the situation):

Absoultely, it was wrong of the mods to offer this kind of service, it's not in the game policy, and is impossible to enforce. In NAPs there are so many gray areas, not to mention that it's impossible for mods to find all the facts.
However, I fully 100% believe that this was done with best intentions at heart, in the hope it would once again restore honour in the galaxy.

Once again I would like to remind people that even mods are just human beings, we make mistakes, deal with it. If you can't, play a game you host yourself, with no other players than yourself. I suggest masturbation.

As for the suggestion that mods should not be playing the game. Bullshit, I haven't been playing the game in a long time now, and I find myself forgetting everything about it. I don't remember the rules  and game mechanics clearly at all. Besides, by having the mods not play, they lose all contact to the community. They will become pretty much like Stefan. And I don't think that'd be a good development.

primo u do that alot right coz u aint playing IC alot nowadays lolz

> Disposable Heroes wrote:

> Primo is getting old Picking up 30 year old hags and stuff

lol, did you not know? Primo IS a 30+ year old hag

I think you should all watch 'Hot Fuzz' and remember that society and civilization are built on rules and laws, not on the overall (greater) good.

Zarf is right. Any agreement, especially one written down, is legally binding. Lyv had nothing to do with what was happening; neither was he part of the fams signing the contract, nor was he meant to be the mod enforcing the terms. It was KT's decision and he should have stayed out of it. His 'intervention' is absurd. It is not his place to question which rules or agreements should be enforced, because they all should be!

Perhaps the nap should not have been made with those terms in the first place. But that does not change the fact that it was made and should have been enforced. Maybe that would have created a difficult situation, but it would not have been a wrong one - everyone agreed to the terms and no one could justifiably argue against what was done. If it resulted in a bad outcome, then such a nap would not be repeated and the mods and community as a whole would learn from it and move on.

lol Archangel Thats society and civilization. This is IC.

Also keep in mind that the NAP stated 'punishment up to and possibly including deletion'. They didnt administer punishment cuz the team that had been wronged was cheating. You dont stick to principle for the sake of principle alone in this situation.

its also against the rules for an empire to be deleted if that empire didnt break any rules of the game such as multi, account sitting and what have you. Deleting them would of been even more messed up.

We did learn and we have moved on. This thread should of been closed a long time ago.