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Hail to the King Baby -DN
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As you know part of the situation here is that the King, whomever he is throughout the game, has the ability to silence members of the team in his court (aka the forums). This is an important part of our meta game because we don't want the politics of our team to interfere with the actual game.
The problem is that Civfantics doesn't have the ability to give the Administrator, or the King, rights to just delete single posts. Furthermore, as part of their policy they don't generally delete posts. This is reasonable because their policy is based on modern thinking and not the totalitarian government that we are going to be emulating throughout the game.
So we have a couple of options (that I see - perhaps there are more).
1) We move Team Merlot to a privately hosted forum. I could potentially host these, but its a big pain. Mind you we do have a lot more control, security, and tools then. Still... it's a big pain.
2) We police ourselves. I'm not convinced of this - lets face it, if someone puts an idea on the forums and there is no way to delete it then the idea sticks out there. This doesn't represent a Monarchy where the idea is killed. More importantly it makes the forums more of a potential for political-blah instead of a tightly controlled court under the domineering thumb of the King.
3) umm... I'm open to suggestions
Keep in mind this one thing - Forum warfare is incedious, and I don't want our team to be bogged down by it, particularly since we have the potential for so much internal struggle as the game goes on.
I'm looking forward to your thoughts!
Cheers
This is a heavily moderated Out Of Character [OOC] thread. Please keep your comments to the topic at hand. If the Administrator feels that a comment should have been made In Character [IC] then he will flag it as such and the King can do with you as he pleases
As you know part of the situation here is that the King, whomever he is throughout the game, has the ability to silence members of the team in his court (aka the forums). This is an important part of our meta game because we don't want the politics of our team to interfere with the actual game.
The problem is that Civfantics doesn't have the ability to give the Administrator, or the King, rights to just delete single posts. Furthermore, as part of their policy they don't generally delete posts. This is reasonable because their policy is based on modern thinking and not the totalitarian government that we are going to be emulating throughout the game.
So we have a couple of options (that I see - perhaps there are more).
1) We move Team Merlot to a privately hosted forum. I could potentially host these, but its a big pain. Mind you we do have a lot more control, security, and tools then. Still... it's a big pain.
2) We police ourselves. I'm not convinced of this - lets face it, if someone puts an idea on the forums and there is no way to delete it then the idea sticks out there. This doesn't represent a Monarchy where the idea is killed. More importantly it makes the forums more of a potential for political-blah instead of a tightly controlled court under the domineering thumb of the King.
3) umm... I'm open to suggestions
Keep in mind this one thing - Forum warfare is incedious, and I don't want our team to be bogged down by it, particularly since we have the potential for so much internal struggle as the game goes on.
I'm looking forward to your thoughts!
Cheers