Post:The one year wipe - 05/07/2012 - 20:29

Re: The one year wipe · on 05/07/2012 08:29 PM CDT	775
>Just curious if anyone can confirm that after a year an account with a warning is wiped clean. Well, there's not exactly a straightforward answer to this question. Let me see if I can clear it up for you a little bit. When we look at a player's history, we don't just look at warnings. We look at all of the GM notes on the account and see how many times a person has been talked to, how many times they've been on the edge and given the benefit of the doubt. We consider whether they're polite or belligerent when dealing with staff members. We take into account whether or not the account holder is generally honest (if we've been able to prove otherwise). All of that said, Official Warnings stay on your account forever. We just don't always consider ONLY the warnings, we look at the entire history. If you got a PVP warning in January of last year -- you were clearly in the wrong but gave the full story to the investigating GM without a hassle, treated the GM with respect, and accepted responsibility for your actions -- * and then refrained from repeating the policy violating actions again in the future * -- then when you get pulled up next week because of a misuderstanding, we're much more likely to take your word for the fact that it was a misunderstanding. If, every time you end up in a consult room, its a game of 50 questions and circular discussion trying to get to the truth of the matter, just to have the investigating GM discover that you weren't actually being 100% honest about the order of events or the base reason for the consent, and this is routine for the account holder -- in other words, if you're habitually in the grey area, then yes that warning will effect things. AFK warnings are a completely different animal. Mistakes happen sometimes, and we recognize that. If you receive an AFK warning, you wont be hit with the skill/stat penalties associated with that warning UNLESS you have been caught AFK scripting within the past year or so. If you have been busted recently, then the penalties for the warning are applied, and compound with each additional warning. See NEWS 5 17 for more specific information there. AFK warnings do not generally have any effect on PVP warnings unless the account holder seems to have a problem with policy in its entirety and the account is one big mess of all different sorts of violations. Then we start talking about things like HMC. Any clearer?
This message was originally posted in DragonRealms Policy Discussions \ Scripting policy, by DR-LYNEYA on the play.net forums.