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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."
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.
It would be neat to have trolls crucified somewhere with their accounts suspended.
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As much as I'm against it in RL, for the simple reason that a one-time criminal is going to be branded as a criminal forever, it's a bit different for games. You can, after all, toss your character and start another one.
Is there a more literal way of "changing completely and becoming a very different person"?
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Interesting how this hubbub and article come out shortly before the game is scheduled to go live. Pre-order today!
Regardless, only a 7-day suspension? If they really wanted to punish the guy they'd change it so that on his next logon the offender was stuck playing an SOE game.
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Not being able to play is actually a fairly effective punishment. We used to use that back on the MUD I worked on. We would "hell" players. You just issued a command in the form of hell . They would then be sent to hell, which was a location where they couldn't do anything. They could still talk to people, they just couldn't play the game. In more severe cases, we'd ban them from connecting, but hell provided a good intermediary. It also had the deterrant effect in that they'd sit and whine to all their friends about it (it was amazing how much time people would spend logged in when they couldn't play). It was actually generally more effective in cases to hell someone and silence them so they'd just sit and stew about it (why they didn't just log off I'll never know) than to outright ban them.
So I imagine it will not be so much about the shame, but just about not being able to play. It's just a more amusing way to do bans for all involved. I know if someone had broken the rules and it affected me, I'd take pleasure from seeing them up on a cross, knowing they were in time out effectively.
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Far as I know there were several crucifixions in the 20th century.
Didn't the Nazis crucify a few people in a concentration camp as part of an experiment?
Also. In some catholic cultures a few zealots are crucified on Good Friday each year. Unlike other crucifixions however these people 1. Volunteer for the "procedure" and 2. are removed from the cross on the same day and provided medical attention. The usually survive.
Crucifixion was a very slow torturous execution. Men would hang on crosses for days before they died.
Well it did say Britain. All the crucifixions of which I spoke are in other countries.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
I seem to remember that modern experiments, first by the Nazis on prisoners and later by professors on grad students, showed that if you were crucified as shown in the screen shots you'd probably exhaust yourself then die of asphyxiation within six hours.
It they REALLY didn't like you they'd give you a little seat to sit on. Then you could last until you died of dehydration (a couple days) or I guess of starvation if they really, really didn't like you.
The hits that actually spell it incorrectly include Kriyayoga (whatever that is), outdoor BDSM, deviantART, a couple of things I can't even really follow (blogs), some article saying people need to lay of Dick Cheney, and "Tea House Rappers."
I'd say they're quite likely to be confused spellers. The one that surprises me is danielpipes.com, supposedly a Christian site. Hasn't the author ever been to church?