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New Griefer Punishment - Crucification
garylian writes "I found this interesting little news snippet from the game Roma Victor. Apparently, the game designers have decided that since their game is going to be based on realistic events that happened in the Roman Empire in Europe, there is nothing wrong with handing out punishments that were handed out in that time. The game's site has a letter from the Publisher's CEO explaining about how crucification is an appropriate form of punishment for in-game behavior. There are also pictures of the avatar hanging from his week-long perch."
As far as I know, it should be Crucifixion. And it's in the title even! We really need a -1 Spelling/Grammar mod.
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Most Christians don't subscribe to the idea that only Christ was ever crucified. The Bible itself states that two criminals were crucified alongside Jesus and that crucifixion was a relatively common punishment. The uniqueness was in Christ himself, not in the exact means of death. Go troll somewhere else.
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That's "crucifixion", not "crucification", just for the record. As in "to be fixed to a cross (crucis)".
Crucifixion was in fact a fairly common form of punishment throughout much of the Roman Empire. It was both a particularly painful and notably humiliating way to die; victims often lingered in agony for days while being jeered at by passers-by. Few understand that Longinus did Jesus a huge favor when he stabbed him in the side with his spear.
It will be interesting to see how this punishment works out in Roma Victor. As the player will feel no pain, and loses only a week of game time while on the cross, the real punishment will come if others in the game take having been crucified as a mark of shame rather than a boastworthy accomplishment. Given typical online-game culture, I fear the latter is more likely.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
I don't care what youre doing so much as the idiotic way you're doing it.
To check that he's dead. The fact that both red and clear liquids come out is the medical evidence that convinces doctors that he was in fact dead.
In my day, we put their heads on a pike and fed their bodies to the dogs, and we liked it.
If you're going to use an old formula for a joke, get it right. The formula is:
In my day, [we did something horrible and exaggerated to ourselves] and we liked it.
Examples:
- In my day, we walked ten miles to school in sleet and hail, uphill both ways, and we liked it.
- In my day, we played computer games off of LP records. If you wanted to write your own, you'd have to get a needle and a magnifying glass, but we liked it that way.
The whole joke is doing something ridiculous and unpleasant and liking it ('cause you weren't spoiled like rotten kids today). It's not really all that incongruous to say that you did horrible things to other people and liked it. That's just human history right there. What exactly implies that kids are spoiled today for not getting to put their enemies' heads up on pikes?
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He led a raid on a Dev Run city, took it over, and the Devs punished him by a 7day ban, ie, crucification ingame. They made the mistake of not putting an NPK timer after death, and thought that people wouldn't be spawncamped? I'm sorry, but that's just plain stupid.
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None of what you said is actually true. I'm going AC because I'm a tester at Roma Victor and I was there. The game's still in development and the guy was exploting a spawn point on a test server while your "NPK" mechanics weren't working. They have no problem with PKers at all as it happens - it's griefers that get crucified. Probably best to find out a little bit more information before declaring your undisputed intellectual superiority.