One-Time Only Transfer for 90 Day Restriction Players

[Kurando]

Long story short, I have a friend who transferred to Spriggan and has been subject to ongoing harassment from some players. The blacklist and reports are only going so far but their experience of being on the world/datacenter now just makes them then want to leave altogether, though obviously they can't because of the restriction. An in-game GM told them it's currently not possible to bypass or reduce the 90 day restriction, so for the time being they'll have to deal with it the best they can until the duration has passed, and then they can look at moving to a different world.

They would like to suggest for the developers to consider implementing a one-time only (per account) service that let's a player currently under a restriction to be allowed to transfer to another world. If necessary to avoid sudden movements of population, the player would have to provide sufficient reasoning to an in-game GM first and if they accept, the character is flagged to be allowed to use the transfer service again. The service would also only be limited to players who transferred to the restricted world to begin with, so new characters would not be allowed to take advantage of this (as they could just make a new character on a different world anyway without losing much).

*The GM said to post feedback/suggestions in the forums and my friend is banned from here (incase anyone is wondering), hence why they could not come to do it themselves.

[JediFirefly]

my friend is banned from here

I read through the post until I saw this small print item which makes me wonder if the ongoing harassment and other issues weren't a two way thing, otherwise why would they be banned from the forums?

[Kurando]

Well I'm not privy to every single detail, but if someone is willing to remove themselves from the situation (by transferring) that's got to be worth something so least, and there may be other reasons for players wanting to move from a restricted world so this is what the suggestion is for.

In regards to the forums, this place is infamous for having players banned for the strangest reasoning (many threads about it). You could be extremely respectable but a simple mistype of a word, having a signature someone doesn't agree with or posting images have been enough to get someone suspended temporary or outright banned from here.

[Krotoan]

You could be extremely respectable but a simple mistype of a word, having a signature someone doesn't agree with or posting images have been enough to get someone suspended temporary or outright banned from here.

I would hate to see what someone mistyped once to be permanently banned..

While I sympathize with someone having to endure harassment, this doesn't seem like the kind of situation that would come up often enough for the option to be readily available, even as a "one and done". Truly I think you got passed off to the forums because they couldn't really do anything further for you and that's it.

[Nabiri]

I've dealt with harassment and extreme stalking in another game (where the GMs did nothing to help me) and I eventually moved servers and name-changed, so I sympathize.

While I doubt SE would allow such a thing, I'm all for the idea.
A one time allowance, at a GM's discretion of course.

[Barraind]

I would hate to see what someone mistyped once to be permanently banned..

I got a 10 day suspension for something I quoted once.

I think we had a LOT of bans for one of the otter threads.

The moderation on this forum is... "less acceptable" than anything I tolerated when I ran a mod team. It is gross incompetence, "we're not going to let you moderate anymore" levels of bad a good amount of the time.


With regards to the 90 day transfer time, theres reasons its there, and people would happily abuse the hell out of any one-time exception.