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Short comment on the term bisounours or carebear in gaming environments: I denotes a player who overly cares about taking damage, and is used as a derogatory term with the meaning of whiner, weakling, or coward.

Ryzom - Power to Players. Not Power to event team.

Power to a few griefers who want to dominate the much larger crowd of other players or to drive them out of the game? It's the CSR's job to prevent exactly that.

And it's not the "job" of the Event-Team to break their characters and act against the Lore to support griefers.

Power to the players, yes, but power to the players doesn't mean passive NPCs.

The players may decide what's happening, but whoever presides over the assembly should take steps to make things right if the players don't -and also have a word with the assistance for their lack of reactivity when witnessing an assembly of their nation being defiled by somebody.

My opinion on the solution hasn't changed. The CSRs can't do much regarding this. Besides, I've seen a player thrown out of events repeatedly for his bad behavior and the result wasn't all that glorious. Unless you ban people or suspend their account -and even then-, the attitude doesn't change. You just see a bit more trolling in Universe for a while.

I had a realization a little while ago about the "founding concepts" of the different nations:
Fyros: Truth, Honor, Discipline, Justice
Tryker: Freedom, Equality, Sharing
Matis: Loyalty , Aesthetics, Structure
Zorai: Sprituality, Harmony, Meditation, Respect for Nature.

((Adapted from the recently re-introduced Lore Pages.))

Note that there is not just one concept for a people; there are at least three.  A table with three or four legs is stable, but it is only *useful* if it is level, i.e. if the legs are of equal length.  Just so is a nation only stable if its people hold to *all* of their virtues.

I think that if those engaging in political roleplay would remember that, and *act* on it, that there could still be conflict, but that it would be based on philosophy and actions, not on simple personal disagreements.  Event Team NPC animators could keep all the pillars of each nation in mind and gently remind participants of them when needed.

Well, I can dream, anyway.

--- Bittty

P.S. Clearly this has nothing to do with accusations/actuality of bullying behavior.
P.P.S. Thank you Daomei for the translation of the connotations of "care bear" in FR and DE, since they are significantly different from the connotations in American English.

I consider respect of other homins to be central to my own philosophy. I started out as neutral, only taking up with the Matis/Karavan after much consideration - as anyone who has read my Biography will know.

I have said elsewhere that I will res any player if I can, whatever the circumstances. I must add an exception; OP Battles.

To most players who are not full time PvPers, OP battles seem to be either a) madness or b) an opportunity to try PvP under relatively controlled conditions. I thoroughly enjoy them and attend as often as I can. During these battles I respect and honour my opponents as warriors and have no problem fighting against players I consider friends (Hi Virg, Hi Amiko). The next day after the last Battle I attended I joined a team lead by players I had been fighting against the night before.

As far as behaviour in assemblies is concerned, I would think it is obvious that in all politics, respect of your opponent is pretty far down the list of priorities. I am not saying this is right, just making an observation.

use the profile page folks!
if ye wanna be a baddy write it down...

Respect is overrated.

lol