[RHA] Reputation Adjusted

[Oggdo Bogdo]

I am not involved in the roleplay around the Freeport involved, nor Zoners broadly, nor am I involved with the destroyed player base, or indeed the [RHA]. To my knowledge, none of the GMs involved in the decision are, either. We recuse ourselves and abstain from discussion when we are involved in the factions at play, where practical, to reduce the risk of conflicts of interest.

Respectfully, this is also precisely why the GMs should not get involved; you do not have the inside knowledge of the FP1 administrator of FP1 politics/environment, or indeed Zoners as a whole. A consequence like this could have easily backfired and inspired [RHA] to start attacking Zoners, not that such a thing is in the works because [RHA] is most likely uninterested in this.

The situation could have easily backfired on the owner of the PoB as well. Why did he not pay the fee? His PoB isn't a random useless storage depot, but an ore depot, which could easily make so much more than 150m a month. His refusal to pay brought all that firepower to FP1. Not that I wish any further consequences on the owner after losing his PoB, I am just illustrating another way in which this situation could have played out.

Mixing roleplay with server administration is when GMs might approve their own SRP, or use access privileges to advantage themselves somehow, like repsheet modification on their characters - abuse of power stuff. I do not believe that this obligation has been violated.

The point is that you still used your administrative powers to evolve an RP situation, even if you did not directly benefit from it yourself. While I do not wish to accuse you of abuse of power, I would like to suggest it is still possible to do so even if you did not benefit from it. I would like to further suggest that this obligation was designed to also protect GMs from these kinds of situations where players are upset at GMs for dictating how an RP situation continues.

That analysis and judgement at the intersection of the server's roleplay and server administration is how SRPs, player requests, faction requests and most things are assessed.

I think the reason why people are upset is because SRPs, player requests, faction requests are the means for players to conduct roleplay. The administration team assessing these things is not interfering with server roleplay, but rather, protecting the player's means to roleplay.

But here, rather than protecting a player's rights to roleplay, you have enforced your ideas on how this roleplay should continue, without at least giving the Zoner 1ic a heads-up before enacting this. In so doing, you have interrupted the chain of roleplay consequences, and jumped straight to the final result, in addition to undermining the official faction's authority on FR5. Of course this is not a full FR5 and the consequences are pretty mild, but the point is that any consequence at all is up to the official faction to decide.

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