FireFly Interference

[cyckuan]

Considering the additional powers and privileges that FireFly (or simply any game developer) possesses, let's debate about whether FireFly should allow its staff and moderators to intervene or interfere with the actual game world.

Having been one of many game moderators myself in the past (other game), I have seen game moderators justify their intervention with the reasoning that "they would like to spice things up and make things more fun".

Fun adds to the life of the game. In that sense, it is prolonging and constructive. That said, if the intervention is partisan, it can drive people away.

Normal players do not have the ability to make global proclamations that transcends worlds. (We will disregard the baseless and defamatory nature of certain "proclamations" for now.)

The problem is, once power abuse starts, it is hard to know when to stop. Till the world is ruined for good.

If the game population finds that there has been interference and such interference is partisan, what avenue or recourse does the game population have to set things right?

[pmpdru]

War on the mods?




We are players just like you. We have no advantages.

[LuCkY7s07]

Using fictitious quotes is quite dangerous and unprofessional, however you look at it, especially as this game is very perception based.

As for the mods, lets do this (you guys are basically the only ones on the server anymore)

[LuCkY7s07]

too late!

[RobertScott]

I agree that the text that announced the House 1 victory was out of line. Yes I am in House One, and yes I realize that the blurbs there are meant to be humorous, but I do not ever recall one being that nasty in tone. It usually goes no further than what witty adjective is attached to the Marshall's name.

There have long been posters in these forums that have diligently worked to create this image of H1 as lawless knuckle draggers, and you just reinforce this image by choosing to subject H1 to this "special humor". We do not speak to people as "snivelling".

The reality of how house One has gotten where it is is because House 1 has superior internal organization and particiption level. I knew this before I joined, and always respected it. I never knew of a single instance of the sort of nonsense that gets posted here by dudes who find trolling and utterly making things up out of whole cloth to be more interesting than actually playing the game. Now that I have been in H1 for a while I can confirm that House One is hard core but honorable, so thanks alot for smearing * on us undeservedly.

[thekpd]

This just in..... Anonymous house 1 leader says "We wear womens underwear, because of the way it feels on our male bits."

[RobertScott]

Problem is the damage is already done. They need to do more than remove it, they need to run a retraction.

Never before have they gone so far out of their way to meddle, they need to admit that this was a mistake and let the caual player know that they did not speak the truth.

[Merepatra]

The mods had absolutely nothing to do with this or any news posting.

I'm sorry that you could not see the humour in it, we will take this into consideration with further news postings. But they could end up extremely boring.

This thread is now closed.

[Lord Alacrity]

I am responsible for the Glory News posts and I fully admit to fabricating large parts of them. As Lord Benevolent pointed out, if you've read all of the past glory announcements in English and German, you will recognize some fairly cookie-cutter lines. In the past, when there were only three worlds, I had tried to contact each winning house marshal for a quote, which was both fruitless and time-consuming. Now that there are 15 game worlds, this is impossible.

If any House Marshall would like to send me a PM a day or so in advance of their win with a victory statement I would happily take a real quote from there.

As Merepatra stated earlier, this thread is locked.