@mnnielsen
Perfect! Thank you for taking the time to write that up. I know you're busy, but we're on a vein here and I'd like to continue.
1 Would you mind re-stating what the role of the fort battling strategist is, with an inclusion to their #1 job priority please?
- A: The Fort Battle Strategist position exists to assist the moderation team in the regulation of Fort Battles from the perspective of active players who better understand the current state of that PvP activity of the game.
Follow-up: Where it becomes gray for me is in the word "assist." Is it assistance or are they more at the helm than you care to let on? More on that...
2 Would you see it fit that a strategist also plays in the world that they moderate, despite it being stated on the team page that they would not? (
Source)
- Assisting the moderation team in the regulation of Fort Battles from the perspective of active players who better understand the current state of that PvP activity of the game is not considered moderating the worlds on which they play, because they only have very limited access to the tools . - and yes, I know we need to update the list to the current team members.
Follow up: "Limited access to the tools" Granted they cannot change the formulas, I would consider
cancelling, rescheduling and adjusting the amount of players allowed into a battle quite a substantial tool. Let's not forget when Goober decided to tinker with caps during an event, closing off maximum entries into battles, where more players got excluded in the name of "better quality." So, who is assisting who here? From my perspective, it is a player, namely Goober, who is a player in the CO world from said "player perspective" alliances that has control over forts in quite a impactful way.
3 Where in the rules does it state that a player, in order to dig on a fort, must request permission from other alliances to do so?
Follow up: Bar the initial statement of "This CAN include," what is written below that statement is only this:
- Generally declaring any battles within 3 hours of the previous declaration
- Declaring any battles with 2 hours before or after an Awesomia battle organized by The West Team.
So where in that does it state, one must be within a large alliance or given special permission by larger alliances to dig? Where in that does it state, that if no battle has been dug, no other digs can be made until outside the prime time slot by another player? How is it that any other town or alliance can even come to own a fort, if they are restricted in what they are tolerated to do, by a consortium of players, fueled by the "assistance" of a moderator?
4 Could you inform me of the game feature that hosts a calendar for digging schedules that all players are privvy to?
- There is no such feature built into the game. - but we are working in the team to make a calendar/schedule and make it public here on forum, but thats only regarding Awesomia.
Follow up: If there is no game feature, then how is a player supposed to know they are interfering with a scheduled battle? And furthermore if no scheduled battle has been made during a day, why would a legitimate dig be cancelled and in its place a dig that had obviously been dug as a multi? If its because the second battle was made by a more "esteemed" alliance, then I think we're back to where bias is a factor, and hence my concern for a PLAYER, acting as an assistant is able to make these decisions. Please consider pulling back the reigns on what Goober is allowed to do. I find it slightly offensive to say his tools are
limited, when I am impacted more in a day by his actions than any other moderator.
Why not see what outcomes we have, without the over-management of fort battles? I have been an active player there for 12 years and bar the naughty pumpkin episodes, we have managed ourselves quite fine. If that is not acceptable, then I highly stress that we need to implement some in-game feature to notify towns and players registered or owning a fort that it has been altered. Sometimes there are more than one changes to these battles and it is absurd to think we as players are expected to keep up with all those changes. Thanks again for your time! Have a pleasant day.