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Event host powers
Currently, if an event needs any "control", you need a guide to supervise it. If someone is greifing your event, something which is actually against the rules, there is no real action you can take against the greifer yourself, unless you're a guide. "Action" in this context being teleporting them out of the event sector.
If you want to change the environment for the event, there's no way you can do it. That severely reduces the creativity you can excercise with your event.
Lack of these abilities in-turn discourages non-guides from hosting events. Relatively new players like me can only listen to stories of times where there used to be 10+ events hosted by many different players. Currently we have 4(?) events regularly hosted by Phaserlight, 2 by Luxen and 1 by me.
Anyway, enough bitching and on to the suggestion:
Event host (when applying through the website) can request some powers to help in their event. These powers would be active only during the event, and only in the area where the event is being hosted. With the application they would have to provide reasons as to why this power is needed for their event.
Similar to guide powers, any and all use of the powers would be reported to the developers. Misuse would lead to administrative action (deletion of ill-gotten gains, ban from hosting future events or even penalties like a game-time KoS from all factions). To ease the workload of this administration from the developers, maybe guides could be allowed to validate applications as well as take action on misuse.
The addition of such a feature would vastly increase the freedom and incentive to host events. It would expand the scope of non-guide-hosted events from just making do with the status quo to actually making something new just for the event. It would also reduce the annoyance of being helpless against trolls and greifers.
If you want to change the environment for the event, there's no way you can do it. That severely reduces the creativity you can excercise with your event.
Lack of these abilities in-turn discourages non-guides from hosting events. Relatively new players like me can only listen to stories of times where there used to be 10+ events hosted by many different players. Currently we have 4(?) events regularly hosted by Phaserlight, 2 by Luxen and 1 by me.
Anyway, enough bitching and on to the suggestion:
Event host (when applying through the website) can request some powers to help in their event. These powers would be active only during the event, and only in the area where the event is being hosted. With the application they would have to provide reasons as to why this power is needed for their event.
Similar to guide powers, any and all use of the powers would be reported to the developers. Misuse would lead to administrative action (deletion of ill-gotten gains, ban from hosting future events or even penalties like a game-time KoS from all factions). To ease the workload of this administration from the developers, maybe guides could be allowed to validate applications as well as take action on misuse.
The addition of such a feature would vastly increase the freedom and incentive to host events. It would expand the scope of non-guide-hosted events from just making do with the status quo to actually making something new just for the event. It would also reduce the annoyance of being helpless against trolls and greifers.
I empathize with the sentiment, but this would open up a huge can of worms such that whatever benefit gained would be overwhelmingly negated by abuse and pre/post-requisite administrative ramifications.
You might be an honorable, honest person who would use teleport for stated purposes, but you can bet your first born child someone else will not and will instead use it to cart goods/characters around or get someone out of a bind in a way that's wholly unrelated to whatever "event" was happening.
You might be an honorable, honest person who would use teleport for stated purposes, but you can bet your first born child someone else will not and will instead use it to cart goods/characters around or get someone out of a bind in a way that's wholly unrelated to whatever "event" was happening.
You might be an honorable, honest person who would use teleport for stated purposes..
He isn't actually asking for full "teleport" access per-se, he's simply saying that's how guides currently eject trolls, and that some method of maintaining order would be useful.
Basically, what the OP outlines has already been planned for some years. It's part of why we ask people to register a specific sector, in the Event Registration system.
There could be a lot of different options. Event coordinators could eject players from "their" sector during the event (without having access to the full "teleport" command, just dumping someone into an adjacent sector and disallowing them jump-access back in). Or entirely new constructs could exist, like "spectator" mode where players who were not directly flagged to "participate" would not be visible to anyone in the sector, or able to interact physically with the sector (or spawn shots, etc).
There are plenty of "limited" powers that would make Events much more feasible to run, without creating any meaningful risk of exploitation.
Obviously, there's some engineering involved in this, and a lot of testing, and I'm not claiming this is "right around the corner" or anything. But, it is something we've thought about, and will likely add in due course.
He isn't actually asking for full "teleport" access per-se, he's simply saying that's how guides currently eject trolls, and that some method of maintaining order would be useful.
Basically, what the OP outlines has already been planned for some years. It's part of why we ask people to register a specific sector, in the Event Registration system.
There could be a lot of different options. Event coordinators could eject players from "their" sector during the event (without having access to the full "teleport" command, just dumping someone into an adjacent sector and disallowing them jump-access back in). Or entirely new constructs could exist, like "spectator" mode where players who were not directly flagged to "participate" would not be visible to anyone in the sector, or able to interact physically with the sector (or spawn shots, etc).
There are plenty of "limited" powers that would make Events much more feasible to run, without creating any meaningful risk of exploitation.
Obviously, there's some engineering involved in this, and a lot of testing, and I'm not claiming this is "right around the corner" or anything. But, it is something we've thought about, and will likely add in due course.
having events in a separate instance that can't be reached without the host teleporting you... this is one way you could give quite a bit of power to a host right out of the box... wisdom states, the players should have a mechanism for requesting ot join the event, something like challenging someone to a duel.. you can't tele them unless they have asked formally..