This has been split from the Multiple Account Trials thread.
The Game Rules do indeed permit members of the Global Role-Play Team to run second accounts in certain circumstances. To quote section 19.2:
19.2 At Moderation's discretion and with the agreement of the Team as a whole, Team members are permitted to run an authorised second active in-game account in a separate nation, in order to advance the objectives of the Team set out in section 19.1, most particularly with regards to the encouragement of role-play. Where they do this, they should use their party description field in both accounts to explain the situation and provide a link to the other account involved.
I acknowledge Autokrator's point that this was not clarified in section 2, which deals with multiple accounting. That section has now been amended, to take note of the change.
The rule change was introduced on
September 2nd and was intended as an experiment. If it is successful, we intend to continue with it and possibly explore the options in terms of extending the privilege more widely.
The purpose behind this is to promote role-play by enabling some of our strongest and most committed role-players to extend their reach beyond what they would otherwise be able to do.
At the present time, Kubrick has accounts in Vanuku and Trigunia, and Doc has accounts in Telamon and Kalistan.
As most of you know, Particracy Classic is over a decade old and is not being developed further. It is my view, and has become increasingly my view, that if we are to maximise the game's role-play potential and keep the game vibrant, then we need to pull out all of the stops and not be afraid to experiment and take the occasional calculated risk. I appreciate this particular experiment is radical and controversial, and perhaps unwelcome to some. If it goes wrong - and that is a possibility, of course - then I will accept full personal responsibility. However, I am confident this will be of benefit to the game and that this is a great opportunity.