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Hello all,
During this break the admin team have reviewed some of our rules, and have gone through suggestions that the community has made regarding some of our policies. Please take the time to read through the following rule amendments. Feel free to ask any questions, or to PM the Official account!
During this break the admin team have reviewed some of our rules, and have gone through suggestions that the community has made regarding some of our policies. Please take the time to read through the following rule amendments. Feel free to ask any questions, or to PM the Official account!
- 1. Everyone will now have an OOC account
- After many suggestions and much discussion, we have decided to implement new OOC accounts for everyone! We believe that having a centralized OOC account will help us better get in touch with you (without having to guess which account to send messages to, or to look up which characters you have out, etc), will help us better organize the absent board (easy searching!) and prize lists, and will help us with some administrative difficulties we've encountered (people voting twice in polls, tracking, etc). In order to get the OOC Account rank on your OOC Account, please post in rank updates!
Before you make your accounts, please note the following:
a. Your OOC account name should be the same as what you currently use for an OOC name. If you would like to 'change' your OOC name, please message Official so that we can make the relevant changes elsewhere.
b. Your profile should not contain explicit or inappropriate material. This should go without saying :)
c. We will be transitioning the absent board to reflect these new accounts - if you are not on absent, please go and ensure that you don't have a current absent thread. If you do, please delete it. The next time you make an absent thread, please use your OOC account.
d. OOC boards will now be limited to OOC accounts.
e. [b]THIS IS IMPORTANT: You must UNLINK all current accounts and LINK back with your OOC account as your MAIN! This will ensure that the whitepages and other functions work properly! [/b]
Please go make your account now!
- 2. 0 HP now means your character is dead.
- After reviewing the meaning and purpose of HP, it is now determined that 0 HP means a loss of life. This was carefully discussed and evaluated before being put into effect, and what was determined is that the likelihood of being reduced to 0 HP in a fight is incredibly rare. That being said, you do have a 'tap out' range of 15 HP or less where you can forfeit the fight and still earn the completed fight bonus of 1 EXP. This rule is applicable to immortal or undead characters, however their death is only permanent if their restriction criteria is met (i.e. stake to the heart). The bonus earned for killing a character is only given in 1 vs. 1 fights, not invasions.
- 3. The teaching bonus for fights is now given win or lose.
- After reconsidering the rule that stated teachers who lose their fight do not earn the teaching bonus, we've decided to do away with it going forward. Because we now evaluate teachers with the approval process and because the dice system involves some luck and focuses on your character's skill rather than your skill as a player, we feel it's no longer a useful restriction. So now any teacher that doesn't default will receive the teaching bonus - defaulting teachers earn no bonus.
- 4. Partial judging verdicts only affect the non-defaulter
- When a fight defaults, the non-defaulter is awarded 0.5 VP. If each fighter has 2 attack posts or more each, then the non-defaulter could request partial judging which would result in a rubric. In the past, whoever the verdict of the partial judging named the winner earned 1 VP, even if that was the defaulter. Going forward, defaulters will not earn any reward. What this means is that if the non-defaulter loses from the partial judging verdict, then they go from the 0.5 VP to 1 EXP. It will still be the case that if the non-defaulter wins the partial judging verdict, then they go from the 0.5 VP to 1 VP. This rule still offers some risk in requesting partial judging, because you could lose the certainty of the 0.5 VP for either 1 VP or 1 EXP, but it does so without rewarding defaulters. We encourage everyone to complete their fights!
- 5. Over word count in fights
- Any fight has an 800 word maximum. Failure to adhere to this maximum will result in a -10 HP reduction from your rubric for each post that it occurs. We know it can be difficult to keep under 800 words in fights, but that is part of the challenge! It also helps keep our judges sane :)
- 6. Only list 1 clue per phrase of a stealth
- Example:
Stealth line: "Look here, lonely excalibur boy"
Phrase: Excalibur
Clue(s): Excalibur is a famous sword, hence unicorn. Excalibur belonged to a king, meant to reference Paladin.
Since excalibur is the phrase it can only be scored for 1 clue, but 2 are provided as unicorn [species ref] and paladin [relationship ref]. If you have multiple ideas, as is shown here, please only list one when revealing your stealth to ensure it gets properly and easily judged.
- 7. If an incorrect rank blocks a stealth...
- It is a site rule that anyone can steal anyone [aside from foals and unclaimed whom cannot write stealths/unclaimed cannot be stolen] - herds may have different restrictions, but the breaking of those herd rules only results in IC repercussions, not sitewide and administrative ones.
It is also a site rule that only leads and sneaks with rank magic (2 total per herd) may block stealths for members of their herd [outcasts can block themselves]. Going forward, if the incorrect rank attempts to block a stealth and it is not noticed before a response to the guess is given, herd leaders can select from the following options:
1. Outcast the character and count that as an outcast guess. The character must thread IC to rejoin the herd.
2. It counts as a herd guess.
Ideally someone will notice that the block is void and say so before an answer is given, but in the event that doesn't happen, those are your options for proceeding.
The admin team are working to add these rules to the guidebook - although please note that this currently has not been done.
If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to PM this account or post below.
Thank you,
The Admin Team.
The whitepages have been updated to reflect the new change. Right now you may notice it is a lot shorter than usual, because master accounts with no "slaves" (active attached accounts) do not show up. You might notice that, for example, Yewrezz is missing- which will not be an issue once she's set up and linked her OOC account. Then Maren will be the legitimate "slave" of her master account and it will show up! :)
The Whitepages operate this way as a safety against it being spammed with left-over OOC accounts from people who have gone inactive. :) Once all your linked characters are hidden, deceased, or abyssed, you will not be displayed on the Whitepages.
Also please note the player count is probably off, but I'll correct that later.Corrected.
a. Your OOC account name should be the same as what you currently use for an OOC name. If you would like to 'change' your OOC name, please message Official so that we can make the relevant changes elsewhere.
I've seen some people deciding to change their OOC names. This is totally fine, but you need to let us know. Your prize lists and previous trades are all listed under whatever OOC name you were using previously. If you don't let us know these things, records wont' be updated properly and you will have some very grumpy admins hunting you down.
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