Board Thread:Event Discussion/@comment-5722194-20140402005508/@comment-24135210-20140402064008

((I posted this without logging in, hence the deleted comment, here's the repost while logged in!))

I post again because I want to clarify something I don't think I did a good job of.

As I stated (And Maxen agreed with, huzzah!) the court system should be a resource to create roleplay, however this doesn't really solve the guard's dilemma. By the very nature of their guild, the Guard are in essense forcing consequences upon criminals. If we really want to get philisophical about it, this is hardly different from real life situations. No mystic force of nature punishes us as people for doing ill deeds, that is the responsibility of the police. However that changes in WoW, because we're all here to have fun. That, on the most basic level, is the reason we play this game. There are going to be people who enjoy criminal RP, but not the consequences of it. So how do we as a server help encourage criminals to accept these consequences? This is, perhaps, the one situation in which I think "forcing" (while I hate to use the word, I cannot think of an alternative) people into consequences is legitimate.

Now I'm not saying force them into court cases, I am specifically talking about the matter of arrest and jail time here. Should there be some sort of guideline we try and set up, or is that overstepping our OOC bounds? Should we leave it up to each guild leader of the guard to ensure the stability of their own RP by working it out with criminals both petty and extreme? Or even, what can we do, as people NOT in the guard guilds, to help facilitate/encourage Guard RP without taking away their autonomy?