DrunkenMatey wrote:Tis a fair point. A detective who spends all round RPing in the bar isn't likely to spawn these kinds of threads.
A detective fucking around is a liability to their department and is actually not contributing to the experience. If the game was about extended eRPing in the dorms, then the playerbase would consist of people doing so exclusively.
DrunkenMatey wrote:Not really sure what the answer is; hoping isto finds a way to play det/sec without being such a miserable prick would be great but it is such a grey area with policy and rules that it is hard to point at any one thing and say "you can't do this anymore, because of this" So I guess we just see how it goes.
Dax pointed out that this was not about my playstyle or anything related to me. Just a random policy thread.
DrunkenMatey wrote:I would be quite OK with seeing the rules page on wiki reworked/updated pretty extensively but I suspect that isn't likely (my main beef having some rules that say not to go killing people and other rules saying you can murder people over pretty much anything).
Have to agree with you. The rules need to be clear and consistent. Players need to be able to look at the rules and know in advance whether their actions are going to be okay or not. No hypocrisy or double standards.
Example: Speed limit is 50. If you are doing 100 in the 50 zone, then you are breaking the rules, you know that you are breaking the rules. Your intent doesn't matter (transporting somebody else due to medical emergency [good], testing out your car's engine [neutral], trying to get your truck of peace to the speed in order to plow through a marketplace [evil]). One could start making addendums via exceptions, when it is okay to ignore the rule, could be "in case of X", eventually there will be a list of acceptable behaviour, which will be clear to everybody.
Rules come from Rules & Headmin Policies, everything else is fluff and fluff should never directly dictate how things are done OOC, things that are IC should remain IC and only be actionable, if they go against the OOC.