Discipline

(See “help rules” for an explanation of the rules on this MUD)

Typical Punishments on this MUD

• One warning against such actions, after which more severe tactics will be implemented. Note: You are not entitled to a warning. In cases of particularly severe offenses or cases where it must have been obvious to you what you were doing was wrong (blatant sexual harrassment, for example) harsher penalties may be enforced for a first offence.

• Character punishments may take various forms, temporary or permanent. The administration may use a curse of sorts to disable certain actions or may lower stats, skills, hit points, wealth, or equipment, as decided by the staff.

• Character destruction, more commonly known as “dest-ing”, in which the current copy of the offending character is instantaneously destroyed, yet your ability to log in again, and use your character as it was last saved is not affected.

• Character banishment, also known as “nuke-ing,” or “ridding,” may be employed in extreme cases, so that the offending character is dested, and erased from all files, as if he/she never had existed.

• Controlling a site. If many “problem-characters,” start springing up from one single site, or internet connection, and we are unable to convince the offending individuals to cease and desist then any new characters logging in from your site may be required to e-mail the staff of this MUD in order to get a character.

• Site Banishment. Perhaps the most severe form of punishment, may be used as a near last resort. It means that all users from your entire site or internet connection will be banned forever from connecting to this MUD. If this happens, one player may have “blown it” for hundreds or thousands of potential players in the future. It is truly sad when we have to do this, as our experience is that there are always some ‘good’ players along with the bad. If you do this to your site, your peers will not be at all pleased in “real life.”