Howdy Folks.
An awful lot of input here. So we are just going to remind everyone of these rules and what they mean as some are over analysing, misunderstanding this or plainly not reading things properly.
The term "vacation" is being used to cover any extended absence from the site, we can't possibly list every single eventuality that would cause you to be away from your pc.If you have legitimately been asked to sit whether this is to cover 12 hours or 2 weeks then you refer to rule 3.3, Sitting for the purpose of covering an extended break from the site can carry on as normal, turns can be taken whenever it is convenient, the sitter can add to chat, but the player on vacation must not take turns themselves during this time or add to game chat. Account sitting is for holidays, vacations and emergencies only.
Where possible please communicate via pm to cover yourself.
If you have had no contact from the player who is going to miss a turn, you cannot honestly say they aren't going to make their turn for example 3 hours in advance. They may have every intention of taking their turn. So emergency sitting to cover this situation would be an hour or less, as now the turn is actually in danger of being missed. We will draft a more detailed guideline of how to cover a person who has gone awol for a period of time, as waiting you are down to an hour in each game seems unpractical. We will do this is CDF with clan reps.
As far as the rest goes, Lets make this very clear. Being in someone elses account for any other purpose than sitting a turn has always been against site rules and always will be BGtheBrain wrote:Being on another player's account for ANY reasons other than taking turns when they are in danger of missing a turn, or posting to necessary Tournament or Clan related public forum topics, is not allowed. Abuse of this privilege can be considered account sharing and could result in a Bust for both accounts.
This misunderstanding is far more common than we expected, and is a very good example of what we meant when we said
2, The lines of what is acceptable in the Clan World have become somewhat blurred.
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As far a structured list of punishments goes. This will come. Setting a strict list of rules immediately could have had negative consequences. We didn't know exactly what we would face day to day. The last thing we want is to see is innocent members being banned for minor explainable things. That would destroy our clan world. A more structure list will be formed in the CDF with clan reps.
Our common sense approach. Lets take rule one for example.
1, The announcing in chat, of the name of the person who has covered a turn will now be mandatory.
Some examples.
Player one is covering player twos week vacation to the Bahamas. He takes the turns posting in most but forgets the odd one.No infraction here, there is no intent to deceive its just a simple oversight.
Player one covers Player twos turn with 4 hours left on the clock, player one does not post to say he has covered. Player two has been around in the last 24 hours and taken his own turns.
This is an infraction. Now while player one may have had permission to take a turn not posting just makes this look suspicious, and will give you less chance of defending yourself. You will earn you a noted or a warning depending on how long there was left on the clock.
Our advice is to use common sense if you cover a turn, just post to say why. If you have a legitimate reason for doing so you will be fine. If you don't post to say you have covered a turn you will be breaking the rules. If someone is blatantly taking advantage they will be dealt with.
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We thank you for the huge volume of input. Some of you have clearly taken considerable time out of your lives to comment on what is obviously a very emotive issue. We can not respond to every individual comment and suggestion but hopefully our responses have at least clarified some of they key questions.
These rules will come into force tomorrow and there are no immediate plans to make any modifications.
Having said all that, we will take all the existing feedback on board and monitor this very closely over the coming weeks and months. We don't expect it to be perfect and it's inevitable that some refinements will need to be made along the way. We just ask that you trust us.
Every clan will have a representative in a new group which will continue to discuss these issues and we would ask that you pass your ongoing feedback to that individual as we move forward.
Thanks
The CD Team
