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Magistrates Case Archive / Re: Use of Rumour and personal information on irc, in forums, ingame and other places like skype and

« on: July 10, 2013, 01:25:12 PM »

Should IRC/Chat be so prominently promoted inside BattleMaster if it can lead to situations like this? Seems like a nasty, cliquey place based on all of this. Doesn't seem like a place we should be pushing newer players. Especially when some folk seem to think it's a place where they can do and say anything without fear of punishment. I'm not saying stop people using IRC, but certainly the game should not be linking directly to it if players are walking into a viper pit. This is supposed to be a friendly, collegial board game like you would play with friends

Just because there are one or two jerks doesn't mean everyone is a jerk.

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Magistrates Case Archive / Re: Conspiracy to use Titans as weapon against player

« on: July 10, 2013, 01:30:00 AM »

Even if a case had been filed...

A player is not notified that a titan case has been brought against them.

This is intentional. If a complaint is filed, and the titans see no grounds for it, it gets rejected and they don't examine it any further.

The system was designed so that complaints could be filed, and rejected, without starting a public outcry. This is in no small part why the Magistrates will never handle most the more egregious cases of cheating.

Basically: Everything Geronus is correct, and you can't have harassment if absolutely no one but the person complaining is aware of the act. Unless you can find actual ground to stand on I'll close this myself.

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Questions & Answers / Implied Threats from Powerful People

« on: July 02, 2013, 01:16:17 PM »

Is it...?

Yes, it is.

A suggestion from a position of power is not a suggestion.

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Dwilight / Re: Luria

« on: July 02, 2013, 01:13:37 PM »

All we need now is for an anti-Prophet to rise somewhere!

ahueahaueheueheuahaueheuahuehueheuehue

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Magistrates Case Archive / Re: Accusation of cheating with no proof

« on: June 28, 2013, 01:30:09 PM »

Funny how someone that's been "playing for 8 years" has an account created in 2011.

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Magistrates Case Archive / Re: Placeholder Duke

« on: June 25, 2013, 01:17:18 AM »

And here I thought this nonsense was a thing of the past.

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Development / Re: Region Economy rebalance

« on: June 14, 2013, 01:38:48 PM »

There seem to be only two people in the devs now. Can't really do a lot of stuff with just two people...

Especially when one of them just started a new job on the other side of the country from his hometown.

I haven't had time to contribute anything of worth in over a month: i.e. since the rebalance got put on hold.

But yeah, if you'd like to see something get finished, we'd love the help. Really. We're only two people, and Tim has been carrying 99% of the weight.

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Development / Re: Region Economy rebalance

« on: June 13, 2013, 03:52:20 AM »

That's hardly everyone's case.

And it amazes me how some people can so utterly lack imagination as to what to do with their excess gold.

Personally, I fund wars with my gold.

And gamble.

It's actually a lot of fun.

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Questions & Answers / Re: Appealing a Titan decision

« on: June 03, 2013, 04:30:16 AM »

The Titans, frankly, are pretty much gone.

They can't finalize any decision with less than 3 Titans weighing in, and in a good week, 2 of them might log in.

They only need two...

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Questions & Answers / Re: Appealing a Titan decision

« on: May 30, 2013, 03:34:10 AM »

At present, any case of IR or Social Contract violation could be at least as well handled by the Magistrates, and cases of suspected multicheating have been being referred to the devs for more in-depth investigation for years now.

The only specific task we can think of offhand that we do not, at this time, feel that another body is better to delegate to is the handling of SMA reports on Dwilight.

Also the ability to, well, actually punish characters.

Holy !@#$ do we need to make a proper Magistrate interface.

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Questions & Answers / Re: Misuse of the OOC message tag?

« on: May 28, 2013, 04:28:18 PM »

Which is not relevant on Beluaterra.

True. I didn't realize this was on Beluaterra. Damn near everything we've been seeing was from Dwilight -- I thought someone had started talking about some combat on BT on DW.

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Questions & Answers / Re: Misuse of the OOC message tag?

« on: May 28, 2013, 04:04:44 PM »

Unnecessary OOC messages are actually in violation of SMA guidelines. Something to keep in mind.

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BM General Discussion / Re: Long Distance Wars Impossible?

« on: April 24, 2013, 10:38:37 PM »

Also, way to spoil Fight Club for anyone here who hasn't read/seen it.

That book is almost twenty years old. After ten you lose rights to complain about spoilers.

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Dwilight / Re: Gold/Food re-balance

« on: April 24, 2013, 08:07:57 PM »

It would be nice if Uscala: http://www.battlemaster.org/testing/RegionDetails.php?ID=177 on Beluaterra could get a boost from the current projected statistics. It would go from an excellent region to an average one with more than good food (and food is for the birds on Beluaterra). The gold gets halved.

Food gets significantly reduced on BT, so that all continents have the same surplus size. As such, Dwi rurals will, on average, be much more productive than BT rurals.

Chenier is correct. Food production on BT is reduced by something like 30% total... or maybe more, can't recall off the top of my head.

You should be careful about comparing region stats between islands. Much better to compare between regions on the same island.

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Development / Re: Rebalance Clarifications

« on: April 17, 2013, 10:35:07 PM »

If they aren't food self-sufficient, this will be impossible.

I don't think there are any badlands that aren't self-sufficient...