As the game has been transitioning this month from Tecton to finding a new producer, we've had a couple of problems get overlooked and pushed off. One major one involved a lot of harassment and extracurricular activities happening in the game, on the forums, and on other platforms.

Normally we like to nail this stuff as it is happening or directly after. In this case, it has taken a couple of weeks indicating that we have clearly dropped the ball. We are clearing through the issues and messaging players individually. We have also decided to update a couple of help files with better guidelines regarding these things.

You can find the forum post about this same topic here:

https://forums.starmourn.com/discussion/884/updated-policies-regarding-harassment-and-ooc?

Our HELP HARASSMENT and HELP OOC helpfiles have been updated to incorporate the following policies. Please review these helpfiles carefully, as our policies will be enforced.

- Players will be civil and respectful to each other out of character. In character, feel free to be a mean supervillain, so long as you are still capable of being kind to others OOC.

- OOC platforms are not avenues for roleplay. To be specific, they are not a place to pursue character development or interaction. Feel free to post logs and quotes if everyone agrees, and feel free to express appreciation for play you enjoyed, but in general, keep IC happenings IC. That means absolutely NO IC mudslinging or interaction on the forums or OOC chat channels.

- Justice for OOC grievances should be pursued through OOC means, and NOT through IC gameplay. If you are OOC upset or uncomfortable about something that happened IC, try to come to an OOC resolution with your roleplay partners, or use the IGNORE function. If you continue to experience problems, ISSUE.

- No trolling the newbie channel or faction channels, or posting inflammatory things in on the Forums or in News simply to get an exciting reaction from others.

- When in doubt, ask yourself if someone could construe what you are about to say or post as hurtful. Don't be hurtful. Follow the golden rule.