EXP Transfer

[Bloodrose]

You've got little to worry about here, Canen. Considering that you acted in good faith, and dealt through the proper channels, then any retraction on the part of the moderator staff shouldn't reflect badly on you. I'd say you're free and clear to use your new profile, and you can always discuss the situation with the thread's judge when/if something changes.

[Canen Darkflight]

Thank you Bloodrose, I appreciate it.

[Djakara]

May I say that I know exactly how much EXP was transferred. 1990 from the old account and 995 to Veatrix. If this decision is overturned, I will set things as they were.

However, I believe a similar transaction took place approximately a year ago between two of Call me J's alts, Workout Wonder and Djakara. In fact, he had worked it then such that all of Kdex's gold and equipment was distributed among several people who stopped him from completely destroying Underwood. Among them, Djakara.

That is the precedent that I used to base my decision off of.

Actually you have what happened slightly screwed up. While I did role play with the Djakara character before I transfered Kedx's EXP, the EXP I earned for Djakara pre transfer was deleted and I received half of the Workout Wonder EXP. For some reason, Raven also insisted on giving me level 0 EXP for the thread you brought up there, even though I had already completed the transfer by then.

Also, it should be added that Djakara got no more spoils from the "defeat Kedx" thread than anyone else who participated, and arguably less than some others that took other items of his.

I don't give a crap about what you do in this case, but following the Djakara precendent, Veatrix should have lost all of the EXP on the Veatrix account to have gained the Elazaar EXP.

Also, I'd like to say that in my opinion, no decisions that have been made in the past, unless made recently, should be undone if they hurt the players. To do so would be to punish players for the mods' mistakes. I only posted this to prevent further mistakes.

[Serilliant]

In the interest of transparency, I will announce that the staff is currently discussing this issue and that we will arrive at a uniform implementation of the experience transfer rules shortly. Whatever the outcome may be, however, it will only be applied prospectively. Even if the recent transfers in question go against the newly solidified policy, they will be permitted. No retroactive actions will be taken.

Please feel free to continue to discuss the issue. Any ideas anyone may wish to share in this thread will be taken under advisement. Sorry for the confusion.

[Cyrus the virus]

The EXP reincarnation in this case was fine. The reincarnation idea, created by Dissinger, was meant to allow people to give up on a character they were no longer interested in and give a boost to a new one.

Now, Falcon's new character wasn't 'new' in the sense that it'd just been created. But it had 0 EXP. The difference between a brand new character and a character with 0 EXP is... what? One has been sitting around a bit longer?

So I don't really understand the confusion. As long as he has 0 EXP, I consider him eligible for receiving EXP in this method.

EXP transfers from one account to another, and reincarnation EXP from one account to another, non-new account, is not allowed. We've allowed it before, evidently, but it's not policy or anything.

[Canen Darkflight]

I think a concrete rule in this respect should be that if a character, with the right intentions i.e "not created for the purpose of exp whoring", and with absolutely NO exp whatsoever would like to destroy an old account and recieve half the exp, he/she should be entitled to.

My arguement is not as much the exp itself. When someone posts on this forum they are making an effort, usually, to put some creativity onto the forum, expending time and energy and contributing to what is already possibly the best RP site on the web.

I think that under the circumstances given above, people should be allowed to kill off their old accounts in order to "start fresh". For one, it will motivate them to develop newer characters and start over. Two, it will possibly rid the site of all those dormant accounts and three, it allows the user to have a little piece of their past work to show for it.

Thoughts?

[Cyrus the virus]

I don't understand what you're proposing, as people can already do that. Maybe I'm not reading your post right.

[Canen Darkflight]

I apologise mate, I think I misread your post earlier. I was under the impression that characters were only allowed to resurrect if they were "brand spanking new", not just sitting there with 0 exp.

Ignore my post above, chaps.

[Cyrus the virus]

Yeah. That's not the be-all-end-all jist of it, but that's the way I've always seen it. It just makes sense to me.

But like Ser said, we're talking about it in the mod forum to get it all worked out and set in stone. If anyone has suggestions or ideas, feel free to pitch 'em out there.

[Veatrix]

Transfers like mine seem fine to me. EXP whoring takes a lot of work, so either way, creativity is laid out on the Althanas table, just as Canen said. It's natural for a writer to forget about an older character, but it would be nice to have the rewards of their writing from that older character mixed in with a new one.

Yes, this is both a suggestion, opinion and a covering-my-ass type of thing.