The Trial of Lanfor

[Vonor]

And for everyone else there is http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/gmt-converter.htm 

[Vannaka]

* Vannaka would really appreciate it if someone PMed him the logs of the trial after it's over...

[Akkaido Kivikar]

Nice event guys.

Only concern is that the evidence supplied had many people thinking it was not weighted enough. In my personal opinion I knew she should die for her crimes but there are now Lanfor sympathisers.

Great work on the story though!

[Xemmas]

The court house

Deliberation room, thought you may like to see it

[Nibbor]

Some more screenshots

[Xemmas]

that happened when you cast flame spire in the court room... XD

[Lepohi]

Great job guys, the trial was alot of fun! Well worth staying up for. 

[Oomi]

Mere words are not enough to express how excited I am to have been a small part of this great happening. It started off, simply enough, as a single session event. Then, by fortune, skill, or a combination of both, the players were moved enough by the story to drive it forward and ask for more. The team responded happily. Before we knew it, the players parried with creativity, passion and empathy, which made it well nigh impossible to just 'make it a 2 parter and wrap it up'. Suddenly, we found ourselves in the midst of a multi part event that had captured us as fully as it had the player participants. There was no stopping for any of us until the tale was told in full.

Mind you, I have been a part of many events, both as a player and a team member. Bearing this in mind, I must say that I have never seen an instance where so many pieces of PlaneShift have joined together to produce such a seamless, moving story that spanned so many days and so many emotions. Now that all is over, I can tell you with pride that GMs of all ranks, Devs of different flavors, and prospects from many disciplines spent many an hour working together to keep this story going.

What's more, all of us were struck by the thought and care that the players gave to the storyline. I cannot and will not speak for the rest of the team, but I personally was unspeakably pleased with the respect all of you gave to the tale as it was set out initially, and the cleverness you used to keep it going and bring more life to it. It was a rare and beautiful synergy between player and staff; neither pushing, neither pulling.

OK, praise spoken, applause given... let's get to the meat of the matter... can we do this again? Please?

[Donari Tyndale]

Now to a bit of criticism. I'm sure lots of players enjoyed the event, however, there are a few things that did not go too well. One, when a character of mine and some others tried confronting Jinil during part one of the event after the crowd had left, we were moved away with the explanation that the event location needed clearing. Why not let the event progress dynamically instead according to a fixed schedule? Someone else told the guards the group lying for Jinil was lying, but he was ignored by them.
Besides that, I found the trial far too much like RL, and more player involvement could have been achieved. Why not hire players as guards or prosecution for the trial? Furthermore, the trial could have been something more creative than a copy of RL. Jury, prosecution, defense, honourable judge. Felt somewhat like a tv show to me.

[Nykolai Raskaniov]

Great job folks, kudos to the organizers and participants! 

Why not let the event progress dynamically instead according to a fixed schedule?

I couldn't attend unfortunately, but the answer to this particular question is simple - because people from different timezones worked together to make it happen and they can only stay for a set amount of hours. Behind the characters there are real people, who may not be able to stay on for a lot of time. Some have jobs, have to get up early and so on.

[Sen]

 
Random link for criticisers: http://n8tip.com/the-hamburger-method-of-constructive-criticism-works-for-vegetarians-too


Sen

[Dadaren]

I wish i'd managed to stay to the end.

When the server went down i waited 15 minutes for it to come back up. But unfortunately bed was calling as it was 12.30 am my time..
Hope my dissapearance from the jury didn't cause too many problems

Oh, and what verdict did the jury pass? (I'd have probably gone for "not guilty" myself  )

Dadaren.

[Akkaido Kivikar]

Again, congrats on the event.

Yes it was TV-show-like... but that's what the court processes are like. And if anything, a TV-show like court is entertaining.

In real life, people that are in a similar position to devs/GMs are prosecutors and judges, and possibly a defendant.

You don't get to be a judge irl simply by deciding you will RP as one. You have to adhere to the system and work your way there.

Remember, PlaneShift is striving to create an emulation of society. This means the masses of players will only ever be normal people, and only the privileged are anything more.

So, the fact that we 'normal' players even have the honour of being witnesses and jurors in the court is good enough for me. I was VERY pleased with the amount of player involvement in the court.

For those who want more player involvement, I urge you to realise that the GMs/Settings devs ARE players, that have played long and hard and earned the right to be elevated to their positions.

Again, congrats on the people who took their time to put this event together.

Anyone with criticism, I invite you to work as long and as hard as them to get that status and then YOU run an event of equal or greater quality, because I believe the effort taken by the people on this event was... I have no words, but I challenge you, to be as good as them.

If you become better, than that can only be good for PlaneShift. But I am more than happy with the events as they are.

To sum it up: Quality is excellent, it takes alot of effort, either be grateful, or step up and do hard work yourself, and prove to us something better's possible, because in my opinion, the quality so far matches RL, which is unfair, unjust, etc...

Welcome to reality, in a virtual space!!

[Hanix]

I think Oomi has actualy spoken for the majority of us. What impressed us the most was the heart and comitment you players gave to all causes. Weather it be finding Morsh and Jinil, Protecting and lieing to keep Jinil alive and sitting through a long a tedious trial to the end to see that Justice was served. You all pulled together, you faught together and you took our one single event to a 5 part epic. I think most of you will agree that we did allow this event to progress dynamicaly, considering the first event was written with a specific outcome, you players changed all that for us. Just brilliant.

All i can hope for is that you treat future events with the same ammount of heart and soul, because you guys made these events far more emmersive and interactive than we could have hoped for. Great job indeed.

Finaly i woiuld like to thank the staff myself. Some got up at stupid o'clock in the morning to be there and others stayed up till way after their bed time to see it through. The dedication to a cause not of their department or skill set was proof that the staff are all dedicated to makeing PS a fun and exciting place to be. So, thank you team!!

Now to a bit of criticism. I'm sure lots of players enjoyed the event, however, there are a few things that did not go too well. One, when a character of mine and some others tried confronting Jinil during part one of the event after the crowd had left, we were moved away with the explanation that the event location needed clearing. Why not let the event progress dynamically instead according to a fixed schedule? Someone else told the guards the group lying for Jinil was lying, but he was ignored by them

Firstly you have every single fact wrong. The event you 'intercepted' was part two. Secondly, you did not try to join the event YOU tried to twist the event into YOUR RP and into something YOU wanted it to be. Like you said the crowd had moved on, meaning that section of the event was over, it was arrogant of you to think that we would completely restructure our event just for you. Get over yourself Donari. With your behaviour last night your lucky you didnt end up in a cell. Ignoring the courts orders and trying to buy your way onto the jury isnt RP its arrogance.

[Nibbor]

I've stayed up till 3 or 4 in the morning for this event, trying to make everything go as planned, along with the rest of The Team. I've witnessed Hanix working on the event, and I must say that some people here have no idea how much work they/we are actually putting in this. Setting the courtroom up, setting the deliberation room up, working together to find suitable roles for each player, trying to make it all go as smooth as possible. I have to applaud Hanix for doing this all, and making things work.