New news event

[EEL123]

I just saw this

National tragedy ensues in the República Democrática de Tukarali as people mourn the death of Presidente de la República Democrática Captain Spear Raider. The late Presidente de la República Democrática of Tukarali was assassinated by an unknown frustrated psychopath. Shortly after stabbing the Presidente de la República Democrática, the suspect was killed by local law enforcement. Deputy Presidente de la República Democrática Victor Martin has assumed power, as prescribed by the Constitution of the República Democrática de Tukarali.

In world news (http://classic.particracy.net/viewnews. ... sid=365974). Now, I'm assuming that it's one if the game mechanism-generated events like terrorist attacks, school shootings, environmental disasters, job losses, sporting victories and corruption scandals. Now, the problem I see with this new type of news event is that it can kill off our characters without our consent. In other circumstances, people would come bitching to moderation, crying to the heavens "Godmod! Godmod! Save me!". So what makes moderation feel entitled to essentially indiscriminately breach a rule which they are in charge of enforcing, a rule not just of Particracy but the ''natural law', if you will, of all RP?

[catparty]

This is not moderation's doing, but rather that of the game itself.

[EEL123]

This is not moderation's doing, but rather that of the game itself.

I know that it was randomly generated by the game, but for it to be randomly generated, it must be coded into the game - which implies the complicity of the mods. Given that I haven't seen an assassination before in world news, I'm assuming that it's the current batch of mods that is culpable.

[Zanz]

This is not moderation's doing, but rather that of the game itself.

I know that it was randomly generated by the game, but for it to be randomly generated, it must be coded into the game - which implies the complicity of the mods. Given that I haven't seen an assassination before in world news, I'm assuming that it's the current batch of mods that is culpable.

No, I'm sure I've seen it happen previously. Not just these mods.

And in any case, the mods have little, if anything, to do with the actual mechanics of the game. Coding is wouter's territory. Mods are restricted to activations, deactivations, multi-killing and law writings, as far as I know. They don't run these.

[Liu Che/Zhuli]

This happened to me before. It is somewhat inconvenient, but easy enough to fix. Just call new elections.

[EEL123]

No, I'm sure I've seen it happen previously. Not just these mods.

And in any case, the mods have little, if anything, to do with the actual mechanics of the game. Coding is wouter's territory. Mods are restricted to activations, deactivations, multi-killing and law writings, as far as I know. They don't run these.

How long was that ago? I haven't seen one since I arrived in 3323. 100 isn't very long compared to some of you, but given that the other news events appear once every couple of years, that it quite a long interval.

[Valdštejn]

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.

[EEL123]

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).

[Aquinas]

I acknowledge Moderation has no control over these assassination events thrown up by the game engine, but I do see EEL's general point. Still, presumably players are free to ignore these generated events if they collectively agree to disregard them?

[EEL123]

I acknowledge Moderation has no control over these assassination events thrown up by the game engine, but I do see EEL's general point. Still, presumably players are free to ignore these generated events if they collectively agree to disregard them?

Yeah, but then "the system comes first", as people like to say. Enforced hypocrisy?