Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.02.03 13:58:00 -
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 Originally by: Prant
Here is what I believe you should do. Immediately.
1. Publish a written policy on the subject of ingame comportment for your personnel, covering GMs as well as all of your direct staff. Put it where we the players can see it and leave it there.
2. No GM or CCP player should ever receive a T2 BPO in the lottery.
3. CCP agents should not be in player corporations. Period. A CCP dev or GM in one player corporation is inevitably collaborating with some players and competing against others. The potential for a conflict of interest is too high. The temptation to provide teammates information is human and it is too much to expect anyone to be aware when he is crossing the gray line between sharing his expertise and sharing information that is not publicly available.
4. The policy should be clear and unambiguous about all the comportments that are permitted and that are not permitted for your employees when playing Eve. It should speak clearly to the question of using, and for example of trading on, knowledge about forthcoming changes, unpublished algorithms and tricks, etc.
CCP agents would be free to play from the NPC corporations and it is perfectly possible to appreciate a great deal of the game from that perspective.
Or they could form their own corporation of all CCP personnel - several corporations, if they fancy a bit of competition - and that corporation could be easily monitored to insure it stayed in an appropriate level and did not unduly dominate the game.
The suggestion has been made that the CCP personnel play as the Jovians. The idea is fun, you can think about it. But don't put off fixing this problem to develop another release.
Before this is locked (IBTL!), I might aswell have an opinion.
1. = good. I'd go for 1. A simple code of conduct would go a long way to stop the rumour mills.
2. = probably good. I know theres no ACTUAL reason for it, but it simply makes life so much easier. Just as, in real life, employees aren't allowed to take part in their company's competitions, so goes for CCP- you inevitably have rumours of cheating. Best just avoided.
3. I disagree. Not playing in a player corp is barely playing at all. I know some people like to play that way, but they miss out on so much of EVE its unbearable. While thats fine for players, I certainly don't want the devs only playing half a game. Big big disagree.
4. Same as 1., really.
To summarise- 1, 2, and 4 are good. 3 is bad.
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