EEL123 wrote:Valdštejn wrote:All these events are coded into the game, and have nothing to do with moderation. I can't say for sure how long the assassination one exists, but I've seen it emerging from time to time for the last four years at least.
Damnit. At least it doesn't happen much. But with the amount of stigma attached to godmodding, I find it inexplicable at best and hypocritical at worst (not necessarily on your part).
Well, if the game's mechanics kill of a character, it isn't godmodding. The Pax Cynica defines Godmodding as
"The act of RPing unfairly, unrealistically and/or ignorantly to benefit your own characters or nation at the expense of others following the rules and conventions of The Game."
which makes it pretty clear that if the game does it, it isn't godmodding at all, since the game doesn't RP, and it doesn't kill the character to benefit its own characters or nation, and it doesn't do so at the expense of others following the rules and conventions of the game. You might have a point if the mods or Wouter were deciding, randomly or not, who gets to die, but since this is done by a program's algorythm, this is about as far from godmodding as it can get. With the same logic, you might suggest the game to be godmodding if it gives you less votes than your opponent.
However, since these little things in the news don't mean much to the game, neither rule- or RP-wise, feel free to ignore it, or treat it like a false report and incorporate it into your RP.