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A few of the Romanian players seem to be getting a little upset about the use of the word "Rotard", in the game. I don't understand why. That word doesn't apply to all Romanians, and they know it. So what is all the fuss about? Yes, there are a percentage of Romanians making a bad impression on the rest of us, but there are a LOT of Romanians playing the game so it's a lot of Romanians causing problems, and it's easy to single out that one group.

From the viewpoint of this league I can tell you that we have a fair number of Romanian players here, and very little problem with any of our members, let alone the Romanians. I've said a few times that the people who belong in the Disconnected League seem to find their own way here, and the ones who don't belong here seem to find somewhere else to belong. I rarely ever have to kick anyone out of this league. But, guess what? The two players who I have I kicked recently were Romanian, and true Rotards.

It doesn't take a genius to read the rules in our league, and as simple as they are, when Rule #2 is "Don't Get Scammed", do you think we're going to put up with scammers as members in this league? No, we aren't. What's more the guy that I helped to get kicked from the game lost a fairly high level character because of his scamming.

Healer-R-O, our most recent rotard had an EC3 level healer and when it was pointed out to him that his character would be banned from the game, he gave the gold back. No matter what, he isn't coming back to this league.

Anyway, Gene? Tali? And the others who are feeling insulted? I have a suggestion for you.

Why not give up your extortion of the Tibet epithet bosses for a little while and do something useful, like form a couple of language leagues for the summer. Teach these younger players what sort of behaviour is acceptable outside of the borders of Romania. I know very well what it can be like inside those borders, but now you're dealing with the rest of the world. A great deal of what is normal in your country, is not normal out here.

You never know, maybe all you need to do is change the behaviour of a few people before the rest start to get it. I wish you a lot of luck with that.

Edit: I don't very often point out the comments section on this blog, but this post has picked up a couple of very good comments from league members who happen to be Romanian.

- SpearDriver

A couple of days ago I got hit with something that I never would have thought could happen. Someone from this league was accused of scamming other players. Normally I would have just said, "no way, not in this league", but there was a problem. The person delivering the message to me was no one less than our Founding League Master.

Messages from goodgrrrl are more than serious and after a short conversation in the IRC channel I was in touch with a player who was apparently scammed for a really nice weapon. That player did the smart thing, and had a good screen shot record of everything.

That player had already filed a complaint with Acclaim and when I contacted him, he was kind enough to give me that ticket number. Tonight I had the chance to take up the issue with an Acclaim GM and our former member has been permanently banned. Here is a copy of the chat session;

dj64 hiya
neverserv yo
dj64 you have time for a league/scammer matter?
neverserv whatsup
dj64 in my league a member named Dr3cu apparently scammed more than a few people
dj64 you have an email ticket XXX-000000 with details
dj64 the item lost was a GL12 BD +9 spear 0/1 hardness with 1 free slot
dj64 the buyer was asking for a scale and a tear, for 50kk each
dj64 screen shots are attached to that email
neverserv uh dj
neverserv I can ban the guy
neverserv but
neverserv I can't return the weapon
neverserv Its the policy :\
dj64 I said only that I would ask, and I quoted the policy
dj64 can I ask for a perma-ban?
neverserv of course
dj64 then, yes please.
dj64 nobody, but nobody is welcome in my league if they are scamming other players
neverserv He's been banned
dj64 thank you
dj64 no chance on the weapon for the usual reason, because you can't actually transfer it, you would have to re-create it?
neverserv Yes
dj64 fair enough
dj64 I will tell the guy, and take up a collection to try to get him a replacement
neverserv And tell him not to get scammed so much
neverserv thats his third time getting scammed I think
dj64 ouch
dj64 BouHbT?
dj64 he's not online right now

Update: This guy is still on the game with a character named Dr3cu__. He was in Hefei today trying to sell some of the weapons he has scammed. If you recognize anything please get a screen shot and we'll try to get this character out of the game too.

- SpearDriver