[Veneratus]

Hey everybody!

I was thinking about lamming rate reduction and think KR should think about an artificial prison for people who connects the server and will not be able to go out of it until change their name from "Padawan" to a proper one. This idea is stolen from Russian Public Server though. I am posting this because Padawans are the most lamers what breaks the atmosphere. There is still an uncertainty that even if they will rename to for example Dart Lamer or smth else they will not stop breaking the rules.... But after all why not to think about it? :O What council thinks about this idea? Is it possible it create those jails and is it worth it

[John]

No. We don't view padawan names the same as everyone else. Our admins use id numbers instead of names, so doesn't effect admin procedures. Having a padawan name does not predict laming. All such a feature would do is confuse and drive away new players who would lose the potential to enjoy our server until they figured out they had to change their name in order to play.

[Veneratus]

hey John!
That's what I claimed it is not possible to claim that Padawans are lamers. What about writing a few lines: Welcome to KR, we want to to name yourself in order to start the life in new society or smth like this. People from their first attendance will understand old traditions of the clan and will behave properly and follow the rules. Or maybe not a "jail" (not the best word) - spawning room! Personally I think, that if this idea would be seeing from all sides there are more advantages than disadvantages.
For instance, when I started palying this game I was not following rules and was laming because I saw other people laming. it took about 2 month to see the moral principals of the community.
This method is based on two pillars - non-anonymous players and laming decreasing strategy.
Since the naumber of padawans will decrease - it will be easier to monitore those padawans who lame. In other hand, there will be less people who names as Padawans and start laming until they kicked/banned, SO other players WILL NOT SEE that Padawans are breaking the rules. It is known that most lamers are russian speaking players. It is vital to Explain them What Are the Rules if they come first time. That should be added to the greetings lines for exmpl (On this server we strongly respect the rules (see web-site) or short list with red font).
I technical details I may be mistaken but from management side it works and I want the council to think about it and criticize it and rework or deny.

[Falcon]

Putting aside the fact that this is most likely not possible, we're not going to implement a "No Padawan name" rule and we're CERTAINLY not going to imprison people as soon as they connect. Who are these people antagonizing by having the name? What if they don't speak English? What if they're not watching the chat?

Just because there are a bunch of Padawans who lame does not mean they are all culprits, and we're not going to give in to that stereotype. If anything, we have always encouraged our members as well as other players on server to help them out as they are most likely a newbie and could use some guidance, and forcing them in to a place where they can't have fun is not the way to do this.

[Veneratus]

Well, now I see the logic of the process the players getting into the KR. It works and no need to fix it, right? This approach is controversial and radical. Anyway, it was just an idea Thanks John and Falcon

[Thunderbird]

Ahhhh the russian public server. Nothing gets more radical than this.

Yeah, you can also find Padawan players that come often on our server respecting the rules, Akuma. THEREFORE, I'm surprised you did not mention the "no laming area" in ffa3 in the russian server, which is coolcoolcool! But very hard to make.

[jawfin]

We have utilities to identify players besides their name, names are rather irrelevant.

Also, thread moved from Graphics, Modding & Mapping to Anything Goes.

[Sifodias]

Hmm I think that jail is a good idea. This is the only way to make them understand that laming isn't allowed