Who here has been contacted by the PD?

[cpkangaroo]

I've just received a second request from the Player's Department to explain the "goals" of two different sets of characters who spawned in the same location. One set of characters did interact, but in my opinion did so as complete strangers. The other two haven't interacted at all (they joined the same organization and, surprise surprise, have ended up in the headquarters of this organization).

Maybe I'm just begging for hellfire to be rained down upon me, but I'm starting to feel that a major part of this game is defending the actions of my characters. Has this happened to anyone else? I am making a very strong effort to stay within the CR and it's pretty heart-stopping to get a message from the PD saying "Explain so and so".

[Dee]

Something like that happened to me.. But that was ages ago.. Back in the 800's. I tried to make a map of the whole world but someone contacted me and told that one character can't do that because there is no way they have seen the whole world. Or something like that. LOL.

[kinvoya]

Don't let your heart stop. I was contacted by PD a few times when I first started playing for doing things which seemed innocent to me at the time but I now know are not considered a good idea. They are very nice and just want to help you to not get into sticky situations.

It is generally not allowed to have two chars in the same organization since this is considered cooperation between your chars even though they may never speak to each other. If you have two then why not three or five? And then unscrupulous players would take advantage of this powerful grouping.

[mortaine]

Yeah, one of the two who are part of the same organization should suddenly discover that they want to go do something else and leave. It's bad news to have more than one character in the same org, whether they speak to each other or not. It requires you to step in and alter their personalities a little bit, a bit of god-tampering if you will, but in the long run, that's better than the potential for abuse if you leave them together.

I usually am pro-active about CR boundaries, and have contacted the PD myself several times to either make sure I'm not crossing the line, or that they know what I'm doing in advance and I won't get into trouble for it. That said, I've still been dinged for crossing over the line once or twice without really thinking about it.

[SekoETC]

Oh, I have never been contacted. *halo* I wouldn't mind though. Hih. It would be cool to explain what my characters' goals are.

Many times I hear rumors behind people's back that so-and-so has committed serious CR-breach in the past, or has been suspected of it, or has reported their friend of CRB. Yay for backstabbing. I've heard of at least five or six mostly nice people to have been CRbreaching in the past. No one just admits it, unless you ask them straight and then they say yeah it was in the past. So it must be quite common. Sometimes people do it accidentally, sometimes on purpose, sometimes it's serious, sometimes just a little thing.

And many things I hear complained about are far less serious than what Jos admitted of playing with the town of Quillanoi. That's my opinion.

[The Sociologist]

Only time I was contacted was when I announced in public that I was killing off characters with poor hunting skills. Now I make sure they die in jail, eg by yawning during Maily Yumm's funeral. To be fair, that was also my six zillion and fifty-fourth character in the KDS, or so it felt like. And then I had two more spawn there... *yawns again*

Well, wouldn't you yawn?

[Sparkle]

Hmm...

Well, I must say alot of people have been contacted by PD and you shouldn't be alarmed are offended by it. We understand that the CR is confussing at first. We all make mistakes. I know I have when I first spawned. Anyways, it's just to keep you on the right track. You will appreciate that we do this when one of your characters witness first hand the damage it can cause when others breach.

[The Industriallist]

I was contacted once (I think it was by the PD). They wanted to know how my character had gotten killed (still only have lost one, ever). I never found out why...

[Surly]

I have been contacted by the PD numerous times. Now they just seem to investigate me for fun... *shrugs* Doesn't bother me. I have nothing to hide.

Occasionally they even have evidence. But don't worry, play the game right and you have nothing to fear. Hopefully...

[mikki]

I was once on the PD, and I contacted many people.. I have also been contacted because someone thought that there was OOC information being used in a particular incident.. *shrugs* Their investigation turned up nothing. *covers her face* One thing that I can tell everyone is that knowing the people you rp with makes it difficult because you talk about those certain characters and then you sometimes forget that your character doesn't have this information.. I have done that, and I also have come to find that talking to everyone is a bad idea.. I have had my share of problems and have learned from them.. That is one reason that my list of contacts off the game have been cut down tremendously..

As of chars interacting. I dont think that the PD said that your chars can't talk to eachother, but it is another when they are in the same organization. As an example: You have two members of say TBR *which I am not sure if you do or not* If Lord Nick tells both of your chars to do the same thing, it can be considered a CRB because theyare cooperating. But in the same sense, if you contact the PD first then there is a lesser chance of getting into trouble..

[Oasis]

That is why it is preferred that one doesn't have two in the same organization. Not only do you run risk of having them cooperate, but it increases the support one player is giving to this organization........unfair to other organizations/players who make an effort to not do this.

It becomes really sticky if said organization becomes involved in a war of some kind. The PD looks very closely to make sure that neither side has multiple chars of any player on one side, as this would be unfair to the opposing side.

[west]

I was contacted only twice, and both about a year or two ago.

The first was when I had 3 chars in SF at the same time (on totally unrelated business)

and the second was when one of my chars was travelling with another of the same last name.

That was also easy to explain; they were married.

[black knight]

i was contacted by PD only a week after i created my account... why?
because my brother liked the game and he created an for himself.... the PD thought we were the same person and contacted me... on another occation, just a few weeks back when his and mine chars were in the same location, PD thought they ought to warn me and still were'nt convinced we are two different people, only with the same sirnames...

[rklenseth]

There is nothing wrong with having two characters in the same organization. This is not a breach of the Capital Rule.

And come on people, what are going to do when parts of Cantr such as nations and empires and businesses are in control of one continent or more. There will be no way to not have character parts of different organizations.

I had two characters and later three all at the same time part of the Quillanoi Government. There was Easle Quathak who was on the Council of Supervision and was President, and then Awaq Hera who was Quillanoi's Diplomatic Messenger and Richard Lenseth if you count him since he was the Siom Sheriff Deputy Commander sent (he didn't request this; he was ordered by the then Sheriff Kardos) from Siom to help protect Quillanoi (and a few other things ). Each of those characters had different goals within the organization and different personalities. And the only time that any of them cooperated was when Quathak was President otherwise they didn't really say anything to each other because Quathak wasn't in a leadership role. Someone else was, usually Jonathan Russell.

[Surly]

I got contacted over having multiple people in Quillanoi government. I never breached, but the email scared me slightly (I was still new at the time) and... actually, that message was from Jos not the PD. Does that still count?

Anyway, the result was one of my chars falling asleep for several years. I didn't handle it very well. With what I know now, I could have reacted much better.

Anyway, I'm rambling now. I'll stop.