Demi-Pharaoh/debates

debate notes and questions

For September 5 debate. Time will be at 2:00pm EST on Sunday.

Please create an intro for yourself and post it under the INTRO heading

Each candidate, please answer each question listed

INTRODUCTIONS

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

Hello fellows Egyptians :)

I'm an old player (an old man too ?) from T1, I was here too in T2 and T3 so I have a lot of experience from the game, the main laws, the gameplay, the 'ethics' from the game. I'm french, living in Paris and I'm adult's trainer in health and safety at work : my last english lesson is far, very far, so be tolerant of my spelling and grammar, please :)

• Murtha

  hello Egypt! I'm so sorry i couldn't be here today, unfortunantly my schedule won't permit it. 

But, before I say anything, I'd like to send good thoughts and prayers to Spooner whom I've been informed is in the hospital. He is an amazing person and player and one of the reasons I love egypt!! We miss you Spoony! Anyway, my intro-I'm a fairly long time player. I've seen the ups and downs of Egypt, rather like real life in that:) I'm a bit 'older', a retired psychologist and a mother of 10 awesome kids. Conflict has been a way of life for as you can tell. I try to interject humor in most everything, I find that to be a great diffuser if you can get folks to laugh at themselves. I'm really into the creativety of egypt as any of you who have visited my CP and sheep playground know.

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows

Questions

1. Please explain why you think Egypt should vote for you for DP

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

• Murtha

Well, my RL experiences of psychologist and mom of a herd stand me in good stead here. I have people from all over egypt chatting me for advice on how to handle one situation or another already. I think my biggest strength is being able to help folks find their own solutions, which is much more palatable. I also know when something is beyond me, and have never hesitated to ask for advice ( just check with my early mentors)

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows

2. Please tell us what some of your accomplishments are this tale

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

• Murtha

well, one of the things i'm proud of is helping to bring together 2 guilds that were suffering from misunderstandings and now they are working together to build an aqua line that so far has i believe 40 towers and has not run dry yet. Most of what I do is not in the limelight, helping people with beetles, giving advice and mentoring as much as I can.

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows

3. Land disputes are the main cause of conflict this tale... how would you handle this? (example: someone builds an oven in someones camp, or a mine too close to someones cp)

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

• Murtha

That is a toughie. Egypt doesn't have defined land ownership, so there are many things that are in grey areas. If something is obviously a case of not knowing, I help the offender with mats to move the offendindg structure. If it is a case of pure griefing, usually reasoning will not work, though i do try. The best a DP can do in that situation is try their best to effect a reasonable solution. If TOS has been violated, then the GMs can be called in.

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows

4. What do you believe the role of DP is?

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

• Murtha

A DP is basically an impartial third party observer, whose job it is to mediate and/or negotiate solutions to the problems players might have with each other. The role is NOT a policeman, or to force your views on others. I see it as a chance to help correct misunderstanding educate new players and help the stress and frustration we all feel, that sometimes gets the better of us.

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows

5. Explosives are about to come out... is this a bannable offense? Would YOU ban someone for this?

• Aku

• Dreasimy

• Dustitwister

• Ephemere

• Murtha

If a person blew up a critical structure, like a CS or a public facility, then in my mind they are asking to be banned. In the cases i've seen where someone has been banned, they have done things in order to BE banned, they wanted it. But i think we ought to draft some very clear laws so that we do have direction, maybe define the restitutions etc. My thoughts of someone blowing up private structures is that the offender should be responsible for the mats needed to replace/rebuild.

• SpicyXX

• Twoshadows