Walk the plank?

[Edward Edgemenace]

I'm not sure I agree with that theory...that that is why they did it that way. Trying so hard to dream up an excuse for why they did it so blatantly wrong, yes, I understand you are trying very hard to be kind, Zep. But that theory just isn't plausible. Even if someone did manage to annoy several people - they would just get reported or removed from lots of people's friends lists. Again, big whoop...there are several mechanisms already in place to curtail that sort of thing. As you point out, they could fix it, so that people who had to leave ship before it docked, still get their rewards (just as sailors would a century or two ago...a lieutenant sent to another ship would still get his share of the reward when he got home.)

But either way, your theoretic scenario is just too generous. If the scenario is played out in any manner, the result is the same: the person trying to do harm is the only one who could be penalized in any way (e.g. getting booted from their guild or losing lots of friends or getting a 72 hour time-out.) With no conceivable benefit at all from abusing it, I can't see anyone concluding that "walk the plank" might be misused.

Now, they might have had a technical reason, but not a logical-based reason. Since regular sailing is so different from SvS sailing (even though it shouldn't be) they might have figured out how to add it to the SvS crew code, but got confused by some old code they were afraid to touch, for regular sailing. The fact that they only did it half-way in SvS (for the wrong half!) could be the same sort of technical limitation...that is, the code complexity at the lower code level might cause instability. Pretty hard to guess at, without being able to see the code.

With only 24 hours in a day, I for one, can understand why they might have done "only SvS crews" as a test. But it is a shame, since it is needed so much more, for people who are not in crew.