Bones, I think Virg read my name, got in a state of aggression, and simply missed everything written in the post (typical for males, in a testosterone and adrenaline rush, vision is blurred, and rational thinking even more).
As I have written from the beginning:and:
Further on, I am hardly the one who has ever been blaming the devs or CSR much less ever showing "hate" against them. As to the patch, it might indeed prove useful because agro dragging out of neglect (a sin I confess having been guilty of more than once while I never dragged agro onto others on purpose) will happen much less often. So I do not say that the change is useless.
As to policing, this is not at all the job of the devs, Virg still has to learn a lot, obviously. Rather, this unpleasant chore is left to the CSR, fellow player volunteers who certainly like many things better than disciplining other parents' spoiled and misbehaving brats. I am fully aware of that.
And I took the phenomenon of abusive agro dragging only as an example, a minor transgression compared to botting and cheating. Yet I think that the punishments used and available are nothing less than abhorrent to the perpetrators.
In a wider perspective, the admins of this game have few effective punishments at the moment. Permaban removes a customer, it is abhorrent towards the CSR and WG not much less than towards the villains, and is used rarely, therefore. Other punishments are temporary bans, which are fairly ineffective, every ban beyond a couple of weeks will result in an unsubbing, hurting WG and thus the whole community.
Therefore, not out of hatred or any other silly male phantasy, I suggested more effective means of disciplining, making the perpetrator feeling the pain and not the company or the community likewise.
As I have written from the beginning:
So I am sure that healers, as well as (other) co-attackers, were never excluded from being aggroed.
So I fail to see the point that healers of agroed players should not be considered attackers, too, regardless of team affiliation.
Further on, I am hardly the one who has ever been blaming the devs or CSR much less ever showing "hate" against them. As to the patch, it might indeed prove useful because agro dragging out of neglect (a sin I confess having been guilty of more than once while I never dragged agro onto others on purpose) will happen much less often. So I do not say that the change is useless.
As to policing, this is not at all the job of the devs, Virg still has to learn a lot, obviously. Rather, this unpleasant chore is left to the CSR, fellow player volunteers who certainly like many things better than disciplining other parents' spoiled and misbehaving brats. I am fully aware of that.
And I took the phenomenon of abusive agro dragging only as an example, a minor transgression compared to botting and cheating. Yet I think that the punishments used and available are nothing less than abhorrent to the perpetrators.
In a wider perspective, the admins of this game have few effective punishments at the moment. Permaban removes a customer, it is abhorrent towards the CSR and WG not much less than towards the villains, and is used rarely, therefore. Other punishments are temporary bans, which are fairly ineffective, every ban beyond a couple of weeks will result in an unsubbing, hurting WG and thus the whole community.
Therefore, not out of hatred or any other silly male phantasy, I suggested more effective means of disciplining, making the perpetrator feeling the pain and not the company or the community likewise.
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