You can report them on the forums and get them punished.
In real life, when you come to the store and see something, do you steal it even when there is no police officer/ guard around? Answer this question yourself.
First off, the first example you just gave has 2 days and 10 hours of time on the server with 132 connects to the server so I would say that's a good bit of hours and the click me links lead to a least of people who have been banned and just glancing at the list I recognize the names of regulars to the server. Second off the analogy you put wasn't accurate. It would be more like this, "There is a street that has only one crosswalk on the block you are on, you need to get to the other side of the street but you don't want to walk all the way down to the crosswalk because to get to your destination you'd have to walk back up the street, and there is no crosswalk connecting your side of the street where you stand to your destination, You look around you and there is no crossguard or peace officers (Or any authoritative figure). You also notice that the other people facing this same dilemma choose to just J Walk across the street to their destination. You may notice in small hand writing on the street that it says do not cross. You look around you again and notice that nobody else is hesitating to cross the street, and some are even eager to cross it, they look like good people you see them here everyday. So the next day you come back to your job or whatever your business on that side of the street was, and you see those same people again, and after you do your job and you're ready to go home, everyone quickly walks across the street again ready to go home. You do this every day for about two weeks. Then one day you or someone you know is going about your business like you always do, you go to cross the street, then some cops come out of nowhere grab the first person who walks onto the street gets grabbed by the cops and thrown in prison for 12 hours.Off-topic: Like talking to the wall. a
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In real life, when you come to the store and see something, do you steal it even when there is no police officer/ guard around? Answer this question yourself.
Oh where are those "lots of hours"? The poor ppl...
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I really like this post cause I feel the writer understands the purpose of it, and i've really been encouraging all panda players to come write a reply on here for their feedback not just my own personal friends like was stated by someone else I believe. However I won't discredit NA DB Admins opinions, but I will only accept their opinions as an individual player on the server and I feel that them being an admin should have no more sway on the topic than that. Because for a player to become an admin they have to enforce the rule and usually that goes hand in hand with actually supporting the rule, there are also people who have quit being an admin because they don't support the rule so I think the actually admins opinions on this are just as equal as the regulars who come on every day except with a predispostition bias towards the rule.
I recognize Spanky as a frequent player of Panda TX and i'd like to start by thanking him for writing a reply, and I really like the proposal he made about eliminating the rule but instead encouraging no stealing in another less permanently harming means.
~For some support for Joos~
So far you have been very helpful and I really enjoy reading and replying to your responses, Now to answer it, I really am trying to remove the rule not for my own personal benefit but because it hurts our already existing players. I mentioned the fact that our player base COULD grow if we remove the rule as a possible incentive to those who have the power to make the decision. But I personally don't care about whether it grows in population to much or not, what I do care about is that we increase the quality of the server and also the reputation of it. I play Panda DB everyday and I play it because I like the game mechanics of it, as a player yourself (I assume), then surely you also know that different servers are different to play on. I think that Panda DB is the second best rocket, (ES Custom being the better rocket IMO), and I think that combined with the removal of the rule that deters other server players from joining our server, we can become the best in Quality, Reputation, and possibly even in population. Our server will get more traffic with the removal of this rule I can guarantee it, I however cannot guarantee that it will be greater than the loss of players if the rule is removed. But as a person who plays on the server every day and witnesses the players playing first hand, I am confident that the removal of this rule is in Panda's best interest and will benefit not only Panda TX but the Panda DB community as a whole, because as you say Panda is the server that has this unique rule, but I argue that we could be the Panda server who also has a bit of difference from all the other Panda DB servers, and that can happen if we just remove this rule from Panda TX.
I understand what you're saying but this clearly shows that you don't play on Panda TX, the thing is it's already as if the rule doesn't exist. It isn't enforced so nobody follows it, play on Panda TX just 1 time while there is people on it and you can see for yourself. What i'm trying to do here is prevent further banning of our loyal players. Here's the thing, if we keep the rule, the people who like the rule will reap no benefit cause it's not being enforced either way. If we get rid of the rule, the people who are against the rule (And I argue that they are the majority), will stop getting banned, and people from other servers who avoid our server because of the rule, could become more loyal to our server in the future.
...or you know, take your time and report them on the forums? the players will get punished if necessary and eventually will be perma banned if they were to continue. it's not difficult.
Exactly there are few reports and the reports that do get made get players banned without recieving a warning from an admin, if you ever play on the server on the rare occation that an admin does get on it's as if the teacher was out of the room and the students were talking, the kids who know the drill stop stealing and players who have only been playing for several weeks and are looking to play on our server for weeks to come end up getting banned, this happens because with the amount of admins we have and the times they get on it is common that you can play for weeks and never actually see one. Then as soon as they are punished, realize that this is a rule and a bad one at that then they usually stop coming after their first ban.
