The "One PC Limit"

[Reiloth]

I think that the multiple character thing is an exception as opposed to a rule for most staff. Are you gonna ask for Stata as to which people on staff play? Who play one character? Who play more than one? Would it make the player base happy to know these things?

I feel like that doesn't have a whole bunch to do with this discussion. Staff are staff because they're trusted to be staff. Players are players and are only allowed one character. Players don't have the same trust placed in them, simply by being players. I'm sure there are checks and balances in place.

Sure -- I guess i'm saying that Staff aren't some other race of being. They're humans too -- And they seem quite capable of separating information they've learned on Staff from information their PCs will know. They aren't some race of Reptilian Overlords. Is there this assumption that Staff are 'better' players than players who play the game? I mean, I guess that is true in one sense, but there are plenty of great players, incredibly trustworthy, who never have and never will apply for Staff.

The point i'm making as well is -- We as players have no idea who Staff is playing. Which sort of flies in the face of 'knowing someone's playing an alt' or 'they're acting on information they found out through illicit means'. It's sort of like a conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality, beyond a complete lack of trust in the playerbase to be mature.

I'd never ask Staff to divulge who they are playing, or how many PCs they are playing. I don't think that's important to the discussion. However I do think that making the distinction between a Staff member and a Player is important to the discussion. Staff (as an exception) are allowed to play multiple PCs. This hasn't broken the game so far.

[Patuk]

I know staff have some rules in place for their characters, at least. No playing sponsored roles is one of them. I'm not sure if there's others, but I imagine the oversight is much better. Still, I will say that, yes, the conflict of interest is possible, and yes, staff should prooooobably stick to having just the one character around also.

[Molten Heart]

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[Reiloth]

And sometimes people have issues with staff characters allegedly taking advantage of their IC info knowledge.

How can they have issue if they don't know who a Staff PC is?

[boog]

TINFOIL HAT SHADOWBOARD SPECULATION

[Patuk]

People can't really know outside of staffers telling players about that in confidence. Regardless, this is an issue already, and making it worse is probably a bad thing.

[Reiloth]

I fail to see how it's an issue beyond a perceived issue, like a fabricated issue. It actually -isn't- an issue because we don't know who Staff plays, and the game is fine.

[Nergal]

Players can only play one PC because we want them to have one perspective on the world at a time. One perspective on plots, characters, locations, and so on. We want them to be in one place at a time.

Staff already have omniscience in the game through the ability to go anywhere in the game and monitor anything. Playing multiple PCs makes no effective difference in what we can see. In any case, the vast majority of staff who play mortal PCs have one active character. The ability to have additional characters is usually utilized for testing purposes, or applying for a new character while waiting for one to be stored, or to simply try something new.

[Molten Heart]

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[Raptor_Dan]

or to simply try something new.

Catgirls, amirite?