Caex...do try to be civil please.


And Karl, Levi was not online at the moment that the ban was decided upon, furthermore Ash had to go due to RL issues.

Fact however remains, that Levi had been given several warnings and a deadline even, she failed to produce a card to us despite everything, the verdict was made.

A offline IM wasn't possible? Ash, and you all as a sim staff had enough time to decide the character would be banned, and didn't have enough time to type out "We are sorry, but you have run out of time regarding your character card. The character is now barred from the sim. Please contact us for questions."

That took me all of 30 seconds to write.

Over this past month, I barely have seen this character RP, none of the 'abilities' used, and a obvious notation there with the conversation I had with Levi that she was in the process of working with Xela to try and put one together, and told you that it was being worked on. That even more fuels the fact that this wasn't in my mind the best of decisions, and only one to get rid of the problem so it wouldn't have to be dealt with anymore.

I honestly, as much as the whole things annoys me, am not as pissed off at the fact she got banned for what she did.

I am pissed off because very little was thought out for the after effects of what this is going to cause, beyond "Oh, it will sort itself out." Really? You, as a sim staff are perfectly okay with going through and enacting something like this, and not worrying that this could kill off a already hurting factions RP activity, and potentially drive players away, because some people, the only reason they do RP is for a select few, and when they are gone, so are they. I find that disgusting and irresponsible as a ideal, and I have /never/ run into a RP that seems to not care about the fact that something they do would have that type of effect. Every time, it has been thought out, worked on, tweaked, adjusted, in instances even myself assisting in doing so to minimize the effect something like this would have. All this seems to me is a tactic of lighting the problem on fire, and going 'oopsie' as everything unrelated catches fire.


Edit: Caex, I am not going to just shut up, make a pretty face and go about my business if I feel something is wrong. If no one is every vocal over a issue they have,  complacency and bad decisions start to occur because no one has a compass to know what is wrong.

I realize the issue regarding the fact the character hasn't been carded. I just am looking at this from the players side and realizing that this is going to effectively neuter Phoenix, already hurting for activity, into barely having any players left. You can't just shrug off a character that has been in plots and act like nothing is awry when they "disappear." There are going to be a good deal of people that are no longer going to have any reason to RP in Phoenix, are going to leave because Levi was the link that kept them there. 

My real concern here is whether or not the fallout of this was thought out. You said right there that it was well known how involved this character was. It seemed to be thought out well what your plan was to deal with the initial problem of the character, but very little was paid in attention to the effects said action would have.

I already voiced this out to Asha, but I do want to make sure it is posted here as well.

I felt like those who were part of the initial contact of the monster, notably what occurred to me, basically made me feel insulting disregarded with how little anything I did made a difference. Note here: I am fine with losing, and that is fun. But when the losing is scripted, and I have zero chance that anything my character will make a difference, what exactly is the point of me posting at all? It is the same thought of me telling someone to go ride their bike into a brick wall five times and tell me what happens. Who would do that? No one. Everyone knows that you don't even need to try to know what will happen, which is how I felt after my interaction. Everyone needs to be able to make a difference, even if it still ends up in the same place.

Next point regarding it was how I was handled when I said I had to leave because of RL constraints(I am sorry that happened, it was out of my control.) I was given three choices of what I could do, summurized as followed:

1.Do something that was completely against how the character was setup and how they react.

2.Run away, but be effectively disabled to the point I could not continue the RP when I was able to return

3.Your character is dead.

I hope this is not how things are handled, because if someone has to run out of the scene because of RL complications, I don't want to see the reoccurring theme that "If you step away, that is it, you are done."


I guess basically what I am asking is to make sure that kind of thing doesn't ever happen again. It shouldn't be as forced that if you are the first to encounter something, that you are auto-screwed so hard that there is absolutely no way that you can continue RPing with everyone else. This also goes with the second point I made, that because you have RL taking hold, and have to step away for a bit, that you are effectively barred from joining back when you are able. I sat and watched for hours upon hours, wanting to join into the RP but completely unable because I did not have a character that would have been able to join. That is something that is going to make me really have second thoughts about weather or not I will just log off and do something else next time a major event comes by.

This is my 2 cents.

tl;dr:

-Less scripting to the events
-More flexible with the people who join first
-More flexible with people who have to step away
-Try and refrain from disabling characters so early in a event so they can enjoy at least a good bit of it.