Community Warning

[EisenSeele]

1.0 - Don't be a dick. It's a game, try to keep it fun for everyone playing it. Behavior that falls within the technical letter of the rules but not the spirit won't be tolerated.

This rule covers toxic and unsporting behavior like ganking. It's difficult to define ganking, but we really want people to think for themselves:
If there's a lone enemy cap left, is it really necessary for me to join in cruiser missile spamming the guy when there's a good mix of seven other heavy caps that's already going to make certain the one guy is dead?
Is it really necessary for me to join in my snub to join the six other snubs that are already chasing that one dude that's left?
Are people going to enjoy playing with us when we've got a bunch of caps sitting on top of an enemy base somewhere instagibbing people as they log on and undock?

We absolutely want everyone in the community to start thinking for themselves - how can we make fights more fun and less shit for everyone involved? It's hard to decide what is ganking or not, so until we have a more elegant solution on how to decide what is sanctionable - we're going to start cracking down on the absolute shittiest of behavior and work our way in until we arrive at a happy medium. It won't be easy or pretty, but we want to shift the community culture to where people think twice about quality of interaction instead of just winning at the cost of thoroughly shitting on other peoples' fun.

Official Factions are given (and will be given more with the coming rework) privileges with the trust and obligation to exercise restraint in its membership and indies - and failure to keep that trust and fulfill that obligation will lead to reconsideration of privileges.

This thread started off as a warning for DTR - and we already made note that we thought this was as good a place as any to start making note of when people do something shitty. After some discussion, we've decided it's better to open the warning up to everyone so DTR doesn't feel singled out - because while the incident that started this happened to involve DTR, they're not special in this regard. We recognize that DTR is a very beginner friendly faction that makes balancing by numbers a bit ambiguous, and that DTR has been on the receiving end of unsporting conduct just as well - but a push to encourage mutually enjoyable gameplay has to start somewhere.

As this is the first time the Staff team is bringing about an official action on this sort of behavior, we will limit this particular instance to a warning - future instances will be met with more tangible consequences for both indies and OFs alike.

To recap, try not to be a dick - and maybe we can make the game more fun for everyone.

If you require evidence, you may request such via PM from a Staff member. Only the accused or an official faction leader of the accused person's faction may request such. Once you have the evidence, and if you wish to dispute it, you may post in the Sanction Thread below. Do not continue PM'ing a staff member, as that will result in your Appeal being denied. If you PM a staff or post in the sanction thread and you are not directly involved, you are consenting to be subjected to the reprisal of my choice which may involve in game repercussions up to a ban. Blaming members of your immediate family, neighbors, friends, pets, and assorted Orcs, Trolls and any other legendary creatures may result in the use of Admin Right #CTE 750AE

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