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Chief type ideas Final post
The last item on the list – inactive members of tribes. Okay, yes this can be a significant problem. For instance, an inactive healer (or other magic user) pretty much seems to guarantee a tribe has no healer, for all practical purposes. Given a healer’s uses in TP’s, I have to admit that an idle healer does affect the TP’s I am willing to run. Maybe it shouldn’t, but that’s another whole discussion.
In general, though, if I do a +tlast on my tribe, I’ll find there are maybe 2 characters right now, who haven’t logged in during the last 2 months. One of which is having access problems and we know about it. Most of the characters have been logged on within the last couple of weeks. Was it just to check +mail? Maybe. I did send some, after all. However, I expect there was some rp in there, and that if there’s anything that happened, that the IC chief needs to know about, my players (!) will tell me. As a personal note, there are times when I log an alt on, check the bb’s and the +mail, and then discover there’s nobody logged on in that tribe. I tend to frequently be rping on 3 or 4 screens at a time and I don’t like to have too many idle characters. What’s the point to keeping the alt up, if it’s not doing anything? So, if I log on, there’s nobody there, I might stick around 10-15 minutes, in case someone shows up. Then I log off that alt, and play with who’s around. I expect the same is true for many other players.
This particular topic, I think should be dealt with on a tribe by tribe basis. I think it’s up to individual chief teams to decide this. If MCI’s and idle characters are a problem in your tribe, then having a mechanism to deal with it is good idea. When to use it should definitely be up to individual chief (or chief teams)’s discretion. Which is what everyone is saying, so far as I can tell. Once I wade through the acrimony, the frustration, and the anger. (And once people very kindly take the time to explain things to me. Thank you!)
I know what my own personal policy is on it. And both my seconds agree. I am debating whether I should post this in the Briarholt OOC area, just so folks know. I’ll post it here for now, while I’m thinking about it.
For regular characters in Briarholt, so long as you meet the requirements to not be idledested by the wizards, you will be considered active. We encourage players to post to the +bb if anything happens during rp that the rest of the tribe would reasonably know about, and to +mail the chiefs if anything happens that the IC chiefs would be expected to know. Otherwise, relax and enjoy your rp.
If I end up having a problem at some future time, then I’ll deal with it then. For now, this is where I stand.
*gets down off soapbox now*
In general, though, if I do a +tlast on my tribe, I’ll find there are maybe 2 characters right now, who haven’t logged in during the last 2 months. One of which is having access problems and we know about it. Most of the characters have been logged on within the last couple of weeks. Was it just to check +mail? Maybe. I did send some, after all. However, I expect there was some rp in there, and that if there’s anything that happened, that the IC chief needs to know about, my players (!) will tell me. As a personal note, there are times when I log an alt on, check the bb’s and the +mail, and then discover there’s nobody logged on in that tribe. I tend to frequently be rping on 3 or 4 screens at a time and I don’t like to have too many idle characters. What’s the point to keeping the alt up, if it’s not doing anything? So, if I log on, there’s nobody there, I might stick around 10-15 minutes, in case someone shows up. Then I log off that alt, and play with who’s around. I expect the same is true for many other players.
This particular topic, I think should be dealt with on a tribe by tribe basis. I think it’s up to individual chief teams to decide this. If MCI’s and idle characters are a problem in your tribe, then having a mechanism to deal with it is good idea. When to use it should definitely be up to individual chief (or chief teams)’s discretion. Which is what everyone is saying, so far as I can tell. Once I wade through the acrimony, the frustration, and the anger. (And once people very kindly take the time to explain things to me. Thank you!)
I know what my own personal policy is on it. And both my seconds agree. I am debating whether I should post this in the Briarholt OOC area, just so folks know. I’ll post it here for now, while I’m thinking about it.
For regular characters in Briarholt, so long as you meet the requirements to not be idledested by the wizards, you will be considered active. We encourage players to post to the +bb if anything happens during rp that the rest of the tribe would reasonably know about, and to +mail the chiefs if anything happens that the IC chiefs would be expected to know. Otherwise, relax and enjoy your rp.
If I end up having a problem at some future time, then I’ll deal with it then. For now, this is where I stand.
*gets down off soapbox now*