Laws and justice

[Euler]

Hi everybody!

There is a proposal I think would be of great interest, there will be some laws in Planeshift, i supposse. Well, what about creating some city guard job or even judge. i don\'t know how a judge work would be but I can imagine how guard job could be. You would receive some log when connecting with a list of crimes commited and not resolved and your job would be to find those criminals fight them and, after defeating, give them to justice.

The other players could look for those criminals, as rewardhunters. There could be the same log as the guards receive in the city hall, what everyone could see.

I have read that the moderators of the game will throw players out so easily because the server won\'t have too much capacity. I think that better than throw out people, they could punish them by blocking their characters. This way, when they connect, they would see their character in a prision everytime for hours or days if the crime is too bad.

[Icefalcon]

That doesnt really solve the problem of the server having too much capacity...the players will be online, they just cant do anything

[saberknight]

well a jail could fix server problems if the jail was generated on the local computer other players couldn\'t see them that way but the players that play by the rules wouldn\'t care if they cant see scammers and cheaters

see i was thinking of something a little like the silvers knight like off of .hack sign but not as judgemental

[Euler]

Well, even if the jail is administered by the server there won\'t be a problem. The player will surely disconnect if the only thing he can do is just walk a few steps.

some idea for the guard job?

[roguewolftamer]

not exactly euler, most of them would probably realize that their taking up resources (or space on the server) and that by them being there they can alt+tab out and do whatever while they take up space just cause they got jailed, if PS\'s mods have to get involved the IP needs to be either banned for alittle bit or even just forever, and besided a banned IP, a banned acct. (even deleted), and whatever else they plan on doing

[Skizzik]

Instead of downright banning them it would be wiser IMO to give it a twist like \'you have been jailed, you may not enter the world of Yliakum until you have served your time\'. Something like that...
What roguewolftamer said could become reality if there was a real jail were people would reside. Lamers would hog up server resources on purpose. And what about the jail overcrowding?

[Euler]

Well, I don\'t know how much time i will have for this (examination time is coming), but I\'d like this thread to be a general discussion about the laws in PS too, not only about how to bring justice, I haven\'t heard nothing about them for the moment.

In fact, I think that the players must be those who do laws in this world and the devs must heard them. There may be different laws in different countries, of course, but we can choose those differences too.

I have no legal suggestions for the moment; I wait until I see if the idea have some following. One advice: the funniest thing of the videogames is that you can do what you can\'t in real life, don\'t be so hard doing laws.