Suggestion: Fix raid drama, increase GM response lower staff stress.

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If you have raided on this server you know that people constantly petition each other for everything and the GMs and guides often give decisions that can change from incident to incident. I was drinking a cup of coffee a few minutes ago and i was pondering the situation.

Here is my situation that will create more guides that are free from corruption because they are already corrupt!

Amelinda and Ambrotos do a great job keeping this server safe from hackers boxers and helping players with petitions not based around raids. But, when confronted with giant raid disputes they can sometimes fall short or be imconsitant.

I suggest that any guild who would like to can recommand to the staff a player who is willing to be a psedu guide that while doing normal guide duties is also 100% in charge of that guilds petitions and it is HIS job to present his case to the powers at be.

I call these "guild patrons" and the reason i chose to make them actually staff instead of just a player is that being a patron is a responsibility and agreeing to be one is not to be taken forgranted. When not dealing with disputes they will will handle very basic guide fuctions such as answering petitions and doing general low lvl stuff.

If a guild patron abuses his power then both his guide account and attached player accounts will be deleted.

The second part of this would be what i would call a judge and this is the hardest part of my idea to flesh out..preferably it would be nilbog but if he didnt not want the stress he could elect another 100% nuetral person. They will not post on public forums as a judge will never log in game and his identity will not be known to players. His job is to hear the evidence from the guild patrons and make a decision. The decision will be passed down to Amelinda who will enforce it. This takes the resposibility of the decision out of the player facing GMs and also stops corruption claims from guides before you have a guide on your side fighting for your case.


example:

Zeelot petitions that BDA trained them on trak ledge he has a fraps showing a BDA necro coming to them and FDing

He hands this information to his guild patron who then posts it on the forum or irc channel or who ever you want to discuss it.


The guild patron contacts BDA and tells him of the petition and bda contactcs its patron tells him there side of the story and gives them a fraps showing that the train was originally caused by tmo member and it chained onto the necro.


Both patrons discuss there case before the judge and reviewing the evidence he makes his decision.