My view on this whole thing in general is pretty neutral, while I do actually want it the way we made it (basically the way we've had it since 2013) where if you disconnect and come back later on you will have a new life; Now for people stating that this would be abused please note that I yet to find anyone after my 4 years of playing on the server who's done this, there is essentially no one who's done this.
On the other hand I do stand for the fact that the rule should not involve someone disconnecting from the server, obviously this is after all a roleplaying server where we should always take responsibility for our actions and sometimes pay for them, this means if you disconnect one day and come back back the next you should be able to be dealt with regards to the situation, one flaw with this would however be if someone does disconnect from the server and comes back would there still be a chance for the player to get acted upon something they did 10 days ago? Even though I sort of stand for this I do believe that there should be a limited timer, maybe it should be higher than 1 hour, I have no idea. Now I know a lot of people will say; Well what's the issue with someone being dealt with for something they've done a couple of days back? Now in the meeting it was discussed wether or not we would get more reports regarding 2.5 if someone's passed away and been essentially randomly killed by someone.
In the staff meeting that we had it was discussed up to almost an hour about this whole thing, now it was brought up obviously as it caused a pretty heated discussion between both users and staff members (some of the replies have been deleted) In the meeting it was discussed how we believed that this is the way it's been for a while, we decided to open a poll about it in the staff team where we all voted for what we wanted.
In this poll we came to an agreement that after leaving the server you should have to act as if you have a new life (under 3.5) however we were still not really there as some still had feelings regards to the whole system as they believed that it would be abused where people would leave in-order to not be killed which to be fair is a completely valid argument in this situation considering this is after all a roleplaying server where we try to develop our characters. Now I myself stood for the decision to have it the way where if someone left the server they would have to act as if it would be a new life, one of the arguments I used towards the whole that people would abuse it is that technically if you left within this hour (if you were being actively chased or whatever) you would be disconnecting from an RP situation as your character would still technically be in an active RP situation (If not obviously asking OOCly if you could leave)
After that general discussion we decided to open another poll for the staff team during the meeting where we would all vote for a timer regards to the whole NLR on disconnect, most staff members were at this stage very positive towards one hour, that's when we essentially decided that it should be acted upon this way. Now I can understand why players believe that this is something rushed which I can agree with to some extent, however our reasoning for this was because we didn't want a hostile discussion in this thread (which it was at the time) so we decided to get into a meeting regarding. What could've been done in my eyes differently after looking at the situation once again is that we as a staff team came into a meeting and discussed the whole thing and come to the community of what we believe would be the best and ask them how they would like to change it, instead of just changing it with a snap by our fingers.
Now as seen by a result of this sort of brawl on the forums caused by this whole situation the Senior Staff team decided to open a new suggestion box by a google forms document where players could easily come with their opinions and changes that they would want regards to the rule, now in the thread
Please remember to try and be as constructive and as detailed as possible when filling out this form, as wasted and unhelpful responses don't solve anything.
Obviously by this thread we as a staff team have realised that the change and how the situation was handled did not satisfy the community at all, and obviously has given us as a community to come with our opinions regarding the rule, I think it is pretty damn disrespectful by some community member to come with no respect to the form whatsoever and put replies such as these;
*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS WHERE YOU SHOULD VOICE YOUR OPINION TO A CHANGE NOT WITH THE CURRENT CHANGE*
These are firstly not constructive to the whole subject and are simply not useful for the staff team in general, it kinda just ruins the purpose of the whole document, I'd rather have you type why you want it to be the way you would like it and also to write your version of the rule if that kind of makes sense.
