"A player committee of five trusted players will act in an advisory capacity in two areas. One, when a staff complaint is received and the Producer Team makes a decision, they will relay that decision to the Player Committee for advice before finalizing it to the player making the complaint. Two, when a player is banned from the game, staff will notify the Player Committee of the details of the ban for the sake of transparency."
We are now looking for five trusted players to serve on a Player Committee. The purpose of this Player Committee is to help provide transparency over Staff Complaints and Game Bans. I'd like to get the people lined up as a first step, then we can work together to figure out the logistics of it (do we create a separate discord channel, or GDB forum, or what). Members of this committee will
not divulge any specifics of anything learned from their time on this committee. By limiting this to five representatives of the playerbase, we feel this is a good compromise between staff wanting to keep private certain situations and the need for transparency .
What the Player Committee will do:1. Once a staff complaint is received and the Producer Team makes a decision on how to handle it, they will first relay that decision to the Player Committee for advice before finalizing it to the player making the complaint. The Producer Team retains the final authority on how they are handled, but will be seeking counsel from the Player Committee when doing so.
2. When a player receives a ban from the game the Player Committee will be notified of the details.
RestrictionsIn the beginning, members of the Player Committee will have similar restrictions as staff avatars:
1) You may not be in a leadership position, this includes templars, nobles, GMH family/leader, Byn/militia sergeants or the equivalent. For this use case, leader means anyone who has the power to hire/fire, or can enforce serious punishment on others in their clan. Examples that would not be allowed: Bashurit Thasik, Salarri Crew Leader, Player Clan Leader. Examples that would be allowed: Tribal mages as long as they're not also leaders, noble aide, Byn First Trooper, Militia corporal.
2) You may not play a psionicist. It is too difficult to always remember where you learned a piece of information.
(Sorcerers would be OK)
We could potentially lift these restrictions after a while if we realize they're not necessary. But we would rather be cautious about any possible conflict of interest of the members of the Player Committee as we kick this off.
If you are interested, put in a request as a Role Application with the title Player Committee. You don't have to give much detail, just a quick little blurb about why you want to be on this committee.
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