House, Military, Police and Intelligence IDs

[jammi]

Remember all the bases that we dropped to Core one in a recent sanction? Not one of them survived the day. Where was your love and respect for those player's RP then? Why should the Admins view your RP any differently?

Uh. The difference is the admins hit those bases for abusing an exploit.

Regardless, I understand where you come from. Thanks for being open with the player base when you don't have to. I'm glad the admins are (maybe) finding out that listening to one person whine doesn't mean it's the view of the entire community. I know a lot of people jumped for the neck when this change went up due to it's timing and how it seemed to be an impassible stone. Perhaps next time give a bit more background as to why changes are being made if you really care about not being accused of things. When this was posted, it was a "This is the changes that will be happening." I hate to suggest it, but perhaps more reasoning as to why the changes were put forward would help clear up a lot of the complaints.

Miaou, I think you just gave the nail a concussion. Breaking announcements up into three sections, "problem", "solution" and "implementation" would be fantastic. Problem being the issue that the announcement is trying to address, solution being the abstract about how the team is fixing the problem, and implementation being the nitty-gritty details (so the ID text in this case).

Using that format, even if people disagreed with the idea, they'd still be able to get a good idea for the intent of the action and the issues it attempted to address. Knowing what an action is trying to achieve is absolutely vital for keeping the peace between the team and the community, otherwise people will simply feel like they're being jerked around for no reason.

Here in this thread's OP, absolutely no explanation or context was provided as to the reasoning, and that blank space provided the fertile ground for stupid conspiracy theories to pop up. It took almost 20 pages of backlash and complaining before that explanation was forthcoming, by which point a fair amount of damage had already been done. Lessons for the future.