Luis1p wrote:Several players raised questions regarding GRC members who play or have played in nations which opt-out of the Global Role Play Accords. Some players specifically pointed to CCPs role as a prominent player in Hawu Mumenhes (which is currently opted-out of the GRA) while simultaneously serving as a prominent member of the GRC.
This question has been raised by a small number of players in the past. FIrst, it's important to keep in mind that Game Rules do not currently require GRC members to confine their game play to GRA-affiliated nations. Additionally, moderation hand-picked or approved every member of the GRC including CCP. So there has been no violation of the rules and moderation has observed no malice or purposeful unfairness within the GRC when compiling the Rankings.
However, because this question has been raised before, moderation did discuss this issue with CCP to sound out his views. CCP addressed this issue publicly in a non-GRC capacity here (http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?p=135692#p135692), and his reply to moderation questions on the issue were substantially the same as seen in the link.
Since that time, the GRC has taken the decision to move in the direction of a more transparent Rankings process which has been discussed in this thread. In response to player questions during this consultation, moderation queried CCP's views given the impending change. CCP responded that while he currently does not play in Hawu Mumenhes or any opted-out nation, he would support returning that nation to the GRA if he were a playing there due upcoming changes to the Rankings process.
Finally, this should not be taken to mean that any rules have been changed or violated. Any changes to the GRA opt-out process would be handled by moderation through a separate rules change announcement. This is simply provided as an answer to several players who have raised questions about this
Is this supposed to be CCP's response to the questions which he specifically was asked to answer, which he stated on Discord he'd do yesterday evening when he closed the ranking consultation, or is this a response from you, Luis? If the latter, the rest of my response is irrelevant.
If the former, to summarize my thoughts... "what?" I'm supposed to read through a wall of rambling text made in *June* which Luis states was written "in a non-GRC capacity", tease out answers to a few specific questions from this thread from a post otherwise caught up in the weird and non-binding (political protocols), and just be cool with that as the final say on the matter?
No thanks.
Here's my questions for CCP:
- Why should we as players put any stock in the Rankings compiled by a person who specifically does not want his own nation to be ranked among those rankings, as far as I can tell, because he is angry that his own nation is not regarded as a world power like he sees it to be, personally?
- Why did the many GRC members just acquiesce to Hawu being upranked (seemingly without question) simply because CCP suggested it should be? It was only after this consultation that Hawu was dropped back down.
- Do you believe that the player base can and should trust a GRC member (much less a GRC chair) who can't bend his own will to the consensus of the community enough to participate in the one thing (the Rankings) which the GRC is really responsible for creating? Put another way, if you're too touchy to play along by the rules on the playground, why should we let you be in charge of the rule changes?
- More personally, why have you refused to respond personally to the questions we've put forth to you? You've been active on the Discord, changed your forum signature, posted in the Moderation forum making demands about the GRC, but not said a word in here despite being Chair of the GRC and having several days to collect your thoughts. What gives?