Not a breach, but a couple of questions.

[mortaine]

When a player decides to stop playing a character and they notify the PD, does the character die, disappear, or what?

(I suspect I know the answer to this one already) Is it a CR breach to create a bunch of characters in a language area for the main (but perhaps not sole) purpose of cleaning up a problem? If one did this legitimately, can one have the PD remove the characters, or would they have to continue to be played or die?

[Revanael]

In my oh so humble opinion, I think if you start a character, you should have to play them. No dropping characters just because you don't like them.

As for the rest, wait til a PD member turns up...

[joshua johnson]

I am not a PD, (notice it is the same initials as Police Department? )

Anyway, I think if you start characters in an area to "clean up a problem" as you say...it doesn't sound like the right reasons. If you started them their so they could change or influence a situation there then that is not a good reason to start them there. If you would have started them their anyway, then that's okay. I understand, though that some of the language areas are small, so you may have to be very careful so that they are not helping each other.

[mortaine]

I fail to see how multiple characters helping each other, as long as it's in line with a character (i.e., all the characters benefit from helping), would be a breach. But I do agree that the motives involved are not entirely, um, honorable. In most cases, one simply cannot spawn a character to aid anotehr. In this particular case, there are only a couple of spawnpoints for the language, so there's a very high chance of spawning in or near each other.

I will wait until a PD member answers my other question, about what happens to your character if you leave and notify them.

Oh, and thanks for answering my questions with your opinions. I appreciate not being jumped all over for asking-- after all, better to ask in advance than to commit a CR breach.

[Pirog]

mortaine>

I think the rule is based on that it will make it harder to detect if it was allowed.

Some people would be able to RP their characters in a good way that wouldn't give them a benifit, but some people wouldn't...and then it is easier to ban it for everyone.

[mortaine]

Again, I'm not sure where this idea that your two characters in the same place can't help each other came from; I understood the rule as your two characters can't help each other without reason. Just as I might help another player's character for my own RP reasons, so too might my character help my other character for their own reasons. I interpret the rule as "no special favors just cause you're the same brain behind the personae."

[Chrissy]

Trust me from experience in getting talked to about it, if possible, don't even have your characters breathe next to each other. I know what your saying though, it's against the natural order of your characters personality. All my characters are helpful, and when one needs help, and the other one has to just stand there and stare at her, it's ackward and unatural for the char who would like to help, BUT, rules are rules. And it is for the best, and more fun, for them to not even know each other. If my characters have to interact, I talk to them, even in private, like it's a whole another person. But they can't help each other, with anything, ever. That's the rule.

C.

[jeslange]

When a player decides to stop playing a character and they notify the PD, does the character die, disappear, or what?

The char is deleted, which looks the same in-game as a char dying. Any items the char was holding will fall to the ground (unless he/she had some clothes on), and the char's body will also fall to the ground.

(I suspect I know the answer to this one already) Is it a CR breach to create a bunch of characters in a language area for the main (but perhaps not sole) purpose of cleaning up a problem? If one did this legitimately, can one have the PD remove the characters, or would they have to continue to be played or die?

It is a breach to create chars in any language area that you don't know well enough to have at least basic communications in, which are necessary for society-building.

What kind of problem do you mean? You're welcome to PM me if you don't wish to discuss it publicly, due to possibly identigying your chars, etc. It is possible that what you want to do isn't a breach.

[Chrissy]

Which department should be written about character removal, for someones own characters? I know this is isn't the proper place to put this question, but I was wondering the same thing also, what happens to them and what not, and the subject was brought up here.

C.

[Missy]

Which department should be written about character removal, for someones own characters? I know this is isn't the proper place to put this question, but I was wondering the same thing also, what happens to them and what not, and the subject was brought up here.

C.

Players Department.

[Chrissy]

O.k., thank you.

C.