And back then, there was absolutely no way CP's could lapse. Every nation was destined to eventually have a CP - as it was originally intended (protecting lore and people's contributions from blatant vandalism). Aquinas is the most "liberal" moderator we had on this matter at least since I came here in late 2011. Before Amaz we had Farsun/Zanz and even back before than Liu Che/JBN, the former who openly admit that they intervened and passed new rules to further the agenda of their own power bloc (that I happened to be part of, lol). Aquinas never does the later, I strongly suspect his ruling on letting CP's pass (which I disagree about btw, but look - I can still like the guy even if we disagree on something ) was made due his concern for new players and the problems some of them have with learning about the lore (which can be complicated at times, sure) and desire to form a nation in their own image.CCP wrote:The last moderation team was lead by Amazeroth who very much leaned towards none-intrusiveness and I think it was much more appropriate for the game (not sure if you were here then). So moderation can and does change, and player input can and does greatly affect changes. So don't hold back.
I don't. Yeah - there are a quite sizeable minority that we never see on the forums who only vote on bills and hardly RP and maybe don't even know about the forums/wiki or has no interest in them - but I really doubt it has anything to do with "belongingness" or moderation. Some people don't have as much time on their hands. PT has always been like that.Govenor12 wrote:Hear, hear. I think there is also a considerable minority of players which lost a sense of belongigness and interest into this game because of the very "active-style" moderation.
Don't address a veteran player like Aquinas in that kind of hectoring manner. Cut the crap out.CCP wrote:stuff
Aquinas is enforcing CP's on behalf of us the community, on behalf of those who wrote those protocols and all whose contributions are in them, as well as us others who don't want to let just anybody to come and raze other people's contributions to the lore. The continuity is about our "enjoyment" as well. If you don't like a certain CP - move to another country (or revise them after some well-though RP, which is piss easy). There are a multitude (way to many imho) of Culturally Open countries no, thanks to Aquinas.
Word.hts wrote:To be completely honest, I am starting to worry that there will soon be too many culturally open nations. As a person who prefers CPed nations, I am starting to run out of options (right now there is still plenty of options, but in time I worry there wont be).
I think that it might be necessary to lessen the requirements for making a new CP so that we can get more new cultures.