[violet] wrote:You gotta let raiders gloat. You ban that, you might as well abolish invasions altogether.
*(whistles innocently)*Naivetry wrote:Bears Armed wrote:Forbid boasting about conquests in WFEs, RMBs & these forums: If the griefers & empire-builders can't gloat to the NS public about their "triumphs" then maybe that will discourage them...
That still leaves the offsites.
The offsites are outside of the game's direct control, of course, but hopefully the admins of most of them would support such a policy anyway: Okay, so we couldn't do anything about any offsite forums that were actually griefer-run, but hopefully only being able to boast
there -- rather than much more widely, as is currently the case -- would still make it seem less worthwhile...
Naivetry wrote:And then what counts as "boasting"? "This region is now allied with The Macedonian Empire" might be a boast; "This region is now allied with 10000 Islands" probably isn't.
Hr'rmm, so maybe a blanket ban on mentioning any such alliances in WFEs & RMBs might be the (admittedly rather heavy-handed) only solution?
Naivetry wrote:Plus - who's going to police 6000 RMB's looking for raider insinuations of ownership?
Their aggrieved natives, or former natives, would presumably be willing to post complaints about this in the Moderation forum...