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Raising Stats With XP

Posted Thu Dec 31, 1998 by Becky Thatcher

Just a reminder -- when spending XP to raise stats or to gain new abilities, you cannot gain more than one dot in a stat in one spend. Okay, to clarify - if you have Alertness 1, you may spend for Alertness 2 and nothing more. Likewise, if you have Streetwise 0, you can start with Streetwise 1. The logic of "Well, I would have had it but I forgot" does not apply. One dot at a time. This does not mean that you have to wait 3 years between dots or anything. Naw, we're not /that/ bad. Discuss the situation with the person you send your XP spends to and the two of you can come to an agreement on an appropriate timeline. Thanks and happy XP spending! :)

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'OOC Abuse' and Code

Posted Tue Aug 25, 1998 by Judge Dredd

'Friend pager' code is code which helps keep track of other MUSH friends and typically does so by dbref#. There are lots of different types of the code and even a few objects from the Free Code Room which offer it. It is generally handy but lends itself to some unfortunately easy abuses. Use it nicely and you'll get to keep it. Abuse it and it will be taken from you.

OOC abuse and/or harassment of any person by any person is not tolerated on Dark Gift, regardless of the form it takes. Any instance of OOC abuse/harassment should be reported to the co-gods (with a log of the event, if at all possible) immediately and will be investigated very seriously. Violators will have two chances:

Let's keep it civil (at least) out there guys.

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RP and In-Progress rooms

Posted Mon Jul 6, 1998 by Judge Dredd

Dark Gift policy prohibits any roleplay in floating rooms or in rooms linked to the Building Nexus. RP is only allowed in on-grid locations. If you have any questions about building policy, contact BuildStaff.

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Self Voting

Posted Mon Jun 15, 1998 by the Co-Gods

Lately the crack investigators at Darkgift have uncovered a major nono. It appears that certain players have been using their alts to +vote for their other alts. This is a serious offense. So serious, we are going to reaffirm the repercussions for engaging in this activity:

  1. FIRST OFFENSE: For every +vote you give to one of your pcs four times that amount will be deducted. A note will be set on your PC indicating the infraction.
  2. SECOND OFFENSE: In addition to the repercussions of the First Offense you will lose your PC for 1 week.
  3. THIRD OFFENSE: You forfeit your pc regardless of how long you have been playing her or him, regardless of how important that PC may be, and regardless of what race the PC may be.

Similarly, staffers and SPCs are held to a higher standard. Staffers are subject to being fired for their first offense. Furthermore, staff pcs may be forfeited. Also, anyone using their builder logins to do this will lose the builder and the property will be forfeited to the game.

We take this very seriously. Please do not vote for your alts. It's not nice. Questions or comments? Please direct them to the Co-Gods. Thanks!

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Rape policy

Posted Thu May 15, 1998 by Judge Dredd

Rape is a highly sensitive topic and one that should be dealt with very carefully. Rape happens in real life and can be very traumatic to the victims. Therefore our rape policy on DarkGift is as follows:

OOC-non-consensual rape is an @toading offense. If asked to judge a rape scene, staff will make sure that it is consensual to both parties. If you hear of an OOC-non-consensual rape, please +mail the wizards immediately. (OOC-non-consensual means that a player, not the character, is not consenting to the scene.)

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