Politician Archive
Thread: Thanks to the Devs for the City Ban...
It'd be nice to have the /cityban (or that /cityshield sounded cool), but the evil's that can be done using it vastly outweigh the goods.
In your example, you were protecting your husband, but from the bounty hunter's perspective, you were "griefing" him by affecting his game play. (Because you banned him, he couldn't fullil his bounty.) All mayor's would most likely do the same for their jedi too. Then all bounty hunters would complain about it, rebels will not be allowed to go into imperial cities and vice versa. The list includes many different was players will have their gameplay affected by having it back.
Im sorry but i do AGREE with the original poster in this case. I do the same thing when a BH comes to my town. If they come into my town just scouting, that's meaning they are after someone and not something. As MAYOR, as a roleplaying event, this is the only way we have to police any actions going on in our cities. I have no problem with 1 BH coming trying to claim thier fame but knowing the world events, You hardly find 1 BH alone. Once the Jedi is TEF.. he's open game for a ghanking... and to snip that in the bud, I agree we as mayors and our militia's have the right to police the actions in our towns. Its not griefing... the game is bigger than our city, do like BHer do... scout and wait for another opportune moment. It could be considered griefing and stalking to attack someone in thier own city aswell. You know they live thier... blah blah.. but that's okay since it's the BH way??
I have a question, Where does the line get drawn? Griefing a BHer because he can't complete his bounty at the present time? or Griefing a mayor from actually having some fun and interaction in the game? A Politician is still a profession. In this scenario, the mayor created another stumbling block for the BH to overcome, just like when chasing a Jedi through a cave, you'll get agro from the mobs there, is that griefing that you die from the mobs and not kill the Jedi? Game mechanics are thier for a reason. There was no exploit in either of these cases that i have brought up. Honestly, Ryann probably wouldn't have noticed anything if the BH would have been nice to her in the beginning.
Good luck
Perill
Message Edited by Perill on 06-19-2005 02:21 PM
I also support Rynn's actions. My city has a strict policy against any BH hunting our jedi - you will be banned on sight. Because we fashion ourselves to be devout supporters of the Empire as a whole, that penalty extends to anyone hunting any imperial jedi within our town.
I do not believe these actions are in any way griefing the BH. Is the BH griefing the jedi by hunting them? No, because that's what BH's do, hunt certain other players. So then is the mayor/militia griefing the jedi? No, because that's what mayors/militia do, protect their own.
I agree with how you did this 
Keep in mind you can set the City Hall to private where only citizens can enter it, you can also do that with a guildhall where only guild members can come in.
MeciniaLua wrote:
you can set the City Hall to private
No
You can't
The city hall terminal has one command and one command only
destroy structure
Sighryn wrote:
MeciniaLua wrote:
you can set the City Hall to private
No
You can't
The city hall terminal has one command and one command only
destroy structure
Hmm... Perhaps you CAN after all. I know the terminal doesn't list the options but I know that if I type /createVendor, I get to make a vendor there. MeciniaLua, did you set it private via the command line? If so, what exactly is that? I'd love to have that in a macro.
You can type that in any building and create a vendor.
Cigaran wrote:
Hmm... Perhaps you CAN after all. I know the terminal doesn't list the options but I know that if I type /createVendor, I get to make a vendor there. MeciniaLua, did you set it private via the command line? If so, what exactly is that? I'd love to have that in a macro.
Why?
I guess I've always seen it as a mayor's right to /cityban anyone for any reason, like houses. I don't really see protecting a friend as griefing.
RynnnDraggon wrote:
MTolwyn wrote:
Such kind of griefing, yes i call it grieving to abuse /cityban to stop a BH from doing his missing and getting his reward, caused alredy the loss of /citywarn. If this happens too often it s just a matter of time till we also lose the /cityban command.
And if i d be the BH i would report you for griefing in this case.
Pardon me, but the guy was trying to get into other peoples houses, as well as ignorning me.
I was not only Protecting one of my Citizens, but it is my right as an mayor, and the person who Started the City and Guild to ban whom I like if I find their actions unreasonable, as his were.
I asked him Three times if I could help him and was ignored. He was also stopping at all the houses trying to get in, and than with the little nasty death threats, I made sure he would not be allowed to use my city for anything.
It is attitudes like yours that ruin the game for others. Since I am not only the Mayor of a City that I built ground up, and we aren't really included in the GCW, than I was making sure that my Role in this game is played out to the extint. I had reported Him for trying to Camp out my city, and was told I did nothing wrong.
If the Bounty Hunter was honest, and told me that he was looking for the Jedi, I would have told him to take it Out of my City.
I do Not tolerate Death Threats, either in game or RL, and this young kid was directing them to me as a RL threat.
I will ban Anyone that Harasses my Citizens and myself, Plan and simple, and there is nothing wrong with that at all.
Message Edited by RynnnDraggon on 06-21-2005 12:27 AM
/applaud