chademaster

Wurm is more like living in a suburban area with a very aggressive and annoying Homeowner-association. It is a hilarious and sad.

Police yourselves, it is a sandbox game. Leave the GMs out of it. Fix game mechanics if required.

Griefers don't care about rules or GMs or forum posts. They work within the game mechanics only. Changing the game mechanics to not allow griefing is the only possible solution. Anything else changes nothing.

I think what people are getting at is 'life isn't fair'. That is true. Wurm doesn't have to be life.

Real: Dragons Giant Insects Magical Spells Crops that keep growing in winter Goblins and Trolls Unicorns Ghost Guards Fake: Wheels attached to a plank of wood You say I'm the one who lacks knowledge of history or reality? This is a fantasy game with the styling of the Dark Ages Europe.

There is no 'era' that has dragons and magic. Your argument is nonsense.

Just reset the servers every few years. It is the only way. We all die in the end regardless.

and I wanna eat that booty

Yes. +1

People saying -1 are jerks. I say -1 to the server you happen to play on!

Do you lock your doors at night?

Why do irl banks even have huge locks and vaults? Stealing is illegal therefore why even lock up the money? Item security need to be coded into the game, you can never trust someone do the moral thing all the time. That is just the way humans are.

A hypothetical situation: You are walking around in a forest, just wandering around not following any specific trail. You find a small brown envelope and inside is 10000 Euros. Legally you need to put in 'reasonable effort' to find the owner of the money before you claim it for yourself. But how is it enforceable?

these people must not know that minecraft is wurm 2

I propose this alternate system to ninja-deletion and PM-moderation: When a mod determines a post is against the rules, the post should be edited by the mod to delete the content and be replaced with why it was deleted and by whom. This doesn't need to be a huge essay, it could be single words like <spam> or <scamming> or <trolling> or whatever it needs to be explain the reasoning. (gross images or excessive spam can still be ninja-deleted in this system) For example, this post could be replaced with <Challenging Moderation> -WurmMod234 This would have several benefits: 1. Reduce general confusion when posts mysteriously vanish without reason 2. Reduce the number of 10-15 long PM exchanges when a poster questions the decision 3. Reduce the future incidences due to educating the public on what is and isn't acceptable 4. Increase trust in the forum mods by have justifications for their actions, instead of being perceived as arbitrary aggressive moderation

How so? I don't understand this logic. Often posts and threads are deleted that don't break the rules. How do you explain this.

This is not a solution to the problem. People can't even tell if a post was deleted (except for remembering reading it and then it is mysteriously gone). How do you expect people to be able to change their behavior if you never tell them that the post was bad and why the post was bad. The solution is transparency while moderating, i.e. no ninja-deleting posts or threads that aren't straight spam or gross images. Your moderation style is doomed to repeat these situations with more and more frequency until something changes.

I love the people assuming the tweaks will be 'better'

lets scrap this goofy stuff and get back to basics with challenge round 3

challenge update please

challenge update please

fatboy what is your point in your above post? Did you even read the thread? You are making points that have already been discussed and invalidated in previous posts. Your mindset is exactly what is trying to be changed: that the people complaining are just petulant children who need to be scolded into being quiet and take their weekly medicine from Dr. Rolf. This is not the case and is being disingenuous to the entire point of this discussion.

Challenge update please.