Therefore I have deleted characters often. In the following text, you can read, how this will be handled, why you should change your playing style and what makes me (and I suppose most GMs too) angry.
About the email system:
Sooner or later players won't be accepted to the game if they write an email to a gamemaster and get an account created. This email will require verification of your RPG understanding. No RPG, No Account.
If you manage to get to the game without doing RPG, you are very likely to get kicked out fast. A new account will need some time to get it created, so you will be excluded for a while. No fake emails will be accepted.
As far as I see it, the most players currently online will not get into the game if this system is applied!
Therefore, if you want to keep on playing this game, START ROLEPLAYING NOW, the way you act in the game these days influences the way the GMs see you and will affect the way they judge your RPG skills and if you will still be able to play in a few month.
Here are some things that make me angry. Some things will lead directly to a deletion. Other things just show me your understanding of the game and add up to my person specific "angry value". If this "angry value" reaches a certain amount and you do the slightest (how slight depends on the value) thing against the rules, you are gone.
All these things are taken from my daily work (=spare time) for Illarion. Its my daily personal hell and one reason why I want the email system, so we can save time and use our efforts for the players we care about (that most likely won't be involved in any of the following points).
Names:
1) If you create characters with names like "asshole", titles like "the smile" and descriptions like "smile you! I don't have a description", these characters get deleted right away. There is a big chance, that I will search for other characters from this player and delete or ban them too.
2) Names/titles: A name is something your parents give you, when you are born. "Superdude" and "The Necromancer" are therefore no names. "Kerklan the Mage" isn't a name too. "Kerklan" is the name. "the Mage" is a Title. If you create such names, you will be mailed to change the name. If you get mailed, don't change the name and the character gets deleted after a few days - don't create it again. Consequences pending.
3) A name also doesn't consist out of words put together, like "Trollsmasher". If you put words together, at least add a name before it ("Fredegar Smellyflower" might be a Hobbit name).
4) Try to think of an original name. It takes me 10 seconds to create an own name - it would take me longer to look one up in some book. If you try to create a name that matches your race characteristics, it will perhaps take you one minute.
Examples:
Elf: Qwetzar'al Charim
Dwarf: Kafnakaz
Hobbit: Fredegar Smellyflower
Human: Elfanon
Lizzard: Zzatass'Zanwa
5) Names most likely start with an upper case letter ("el Chaduzon", "al Tawanzan" are counter examples)
6) A name doesn't get more medieval if you put a "Lord" "Sir" or "King" before it. Most people I mail, because their names don't fit into the game, write me back "Ok, than name me 'Lord KillEmAll' instead of 'KillEmAll'". I doubt that 90% of the medieval folk have been Lords or Sirs - in Illarion you can get this belief.
Email addresses:
1) We use the email address only to mail you, if we need to get in contact because of a punishment - if you don't want us to write to you, you can just ignore the email you receive.
2) If you don't provide an email, we won't send you lost passwords for instance.
3) We don't give your email away, so it is save to tell us your real email address
4) Don't provide us with fake email addresses or addresses that you change usualy every two weeks.
5) If we have a problem with your characters and want to give you the punishment "warning", we can't send you the "warning" by email if you don't provide your address. Therefore we select another (stronger!!) punishment like ban or deletion.
In game and RPG Board talk:
1) "You suck", "smile Off", "Asshole" are clearly no signs of roleplaying. Some insults might be roleplaying, but select words, that might be used in the dark ages like "bastard", "heretic" or "witch" (please no discussion about religious discrimination - this is meant to be an IC insult, not a RL insult against any Wiccan or other religion)
2) If you talk permanently out of character, this its at least a point that adds strongly to my "angry value"
3) Telling lies about the GMs and administration, or telling other person that you are a GM adds to my "angry value"
4) Write full sentences and words. "u", "4 u", "c u", "y", "lol", "peeps" etc. is no sign of roleplay
5) There is no need to randomly enter some letters and push return.
6) Postings with no content except lol,
etc. are concidererd as board spaming.Passwords:
1) Select password that others can't think of. "abc" or "illarion" is no good password -"eF3g5tZ" is good.
2) Don't share your password with friends. Character sharing is forbidden anyway, but we also had many situations, where the friend of someone used the other ones character, violated the rules and received a punishment for his friend (that owns the character).
Emails to me:
1) I am not very happy if I get emails with
- completely lower case letters
- no punctuation marks
- missing or wrong placed blanks between the words
- the already mentioned abbreviations "u", "4 u", "y"...
I can understand, that not everyone is a german or english native speaker, but a point between two sentences is placed in every language I know of.
Emails with such style are very hard to read for me. Often I don't get the point about what they are talking and even if I do, I am not very motivated for a friendly and complete answer.
If you know that you write in such a style, it would be a good idea to read the text a second time before you send it. I do this almost every time.
2) Illarion is a free game in alpha stage. You don't pay any money, so you don't get any service, that we don't want to give. Emails that include things like "I demand" or "I want compensation" are turned down no matter what has happened. Mails with friendly pleas or proposals are concidered.
3) Emails completely in uppercase letter have a good chance to get ignored by me or receive a negative answer too.
Multiple Clients/characters:
1) Don't log in with two characters at the same time.
2) Seperate your characters. Don't run around and say "I am the other character of xyz" etc. Don't give money from one character to another.
3) If you have a brother or sister: Think about it, if you want them in the game. It happens often, that they don't have the slightest understanding of roleplaying and violate almost every rule in their first hour. If they use your characters or your computer/internet connection, it might get some confusions, because we can't always distinguish between your characters and the others. If an IP ban is the only solution to get rid of this trouble maker, your characters will be included too.
PKing / powergaming
1) If the only thing we see you doing in the game is killing and training, this makes us at least suspicious
2) If you kill or powergame think of a reason. Make this reason be visible in the game! Use #me commands
PS: I have started a new post, since I thought, the persons that this txt is dedicated to don't read long posts (most of them don't even read the boards anyway).
