Drewbag wrote:
I tried the PM route to no avail, so now I want to know the rules here.
Help Disguise wrote:
Note: Disguising yourself with the same keyword as another person or pet
in your party, or with one you intend to oppose in battle is in bad form
and may be punished by an imm at his or her discretion.
Help Polymorph wrote:
Note: Using the same keyword as another person or pet in your party is
bad form and may be punished by an imm at their discretion.
Since the community is so small, and since people often use specific cabal skills IC and others know what they are, I -hate- dancing around this topic. It is asinine. BUT to conform with the rules, I will do the dance...
Don't those rules above apply to ALL manner of changing one's appearance? It should. However, I have logs of players using a super sekrat ability doing quite the contrary--either [SEKRATMOVE]ing their target or their charm/party members--yet no one has responded to my inquiry. To me, this should be punishable as a pretty clear violation, but what do I know.
Thank you for bringing this up again. It seems I looked at it, got to work on something of a response but then lost it in the mix.
It also seems I missed some room for clarification on this in rewriting/reviewing. We hadn't had a discussion on it in a while and it just escaped my sight.
Right now, I hate this kind of rule and lack of clarity. My opinion is that disguising one's self as pets, or naming pets after one's adjective, are the only things that
should be against the rules. Disguising as an enemy is fair, I think - I mean, why have something that changes an adjective if you can't use it to change an adjective? I think the pet abuse is the real problem. However, that is a knee-jerk opinion of someone who rather likes PK and ways to excel in it. Let's be real - what classes have disguise? Generally underpowered ones that get deuced on regularly. The advantage should be theirs to use.
I will be contacting the staff about this issue and talking it out, so stay tuned for a more official response.