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Buckingham Palace Suggestions
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Hi, I’m Eleanor and today I want to talk about a recent change that has caused quite a bit of frustration in the community. In the past, Chief Officers of both the Royal Guards and the Metropolitan Police Service had the ability to sanction players who broke the rules or abused their roles, which kept professionalism and quality roleplay intact.

However, recently, a significant change has been made: the Chief Officers no longer have the responsibility to issue sanctions, but instead, it’s now up to the official moderators, LiveShield. This has created a major concern, as now players can break the rules without facing any sanctions, as long as they don’t directly disrupt the gameplay of others. This means that, for example, a player can shoot into the air without any reason, or use a knife without justification, without being penalized, as long as they don’t affect other players.

This has led to a situation where more and more players are violating the rules without consequences. Recently, I recorded a video where some Royal Guards were using knives without reason, and running around the map when they should have been at their posts. This behavior clearly goes against the Royal Guard Handbook, which should be respected by all players.

I decided to open a ticket to report this situation, as these Royal Guards were directly violating the rules. But the response I received was disappointing. They told me that they couldn’t find anything noteworthy in the video I provided, and although the recruits were going inside Buckingham Palace (which goes against the Handbook), it hadn’t caused significant disruption to gameplay. Essentially, the response was that no one would be sanctioned because there was no clear abuse of roles or equipment.

This is a problem, because now players know they can break the rules without consequences, and that affects everyone’s experience. My suggestion is that we return to the old system, where the Chief Officers of the Royal Guards and the Metropolitan Police had the authority to sanction players who violated the rules.

I hope the team considers this change and reverts it to improve the experience for everyone. Thanks for listening, and I hope action will be taken soon!

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Absolutely. The new change is just terrible. Removing CO’s permissions to sanctions is insane and this has went far enough. I have seen multiple abusing guards getting away without punishment and it’s really not fair anymore. I believe that if we ask the developers to change it back, we could potentially get the old ticket system back that we all thought was fair.

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They’ve made it pretty clear it won’t be reverted sooooo

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Absolutely, if we have LS Moderators discipling teams they aren’t even qualified for that would be a mess

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It changes everything, it is even a handicap for the Royal Military Police. I don’t want to reveal important things, but what if a guardsman, while being transported to WB, is constantly rejoining or just doing what he shouldn’t be doing and he doesn’t get anything for it, he just does it ‘because it doesn’t affect the gameplay’. It was much better before, because even if a guardsman rejoined while being transported to WB, he received sanctions from the CO, but now we have to catch him always, even if he left the game and rejoin.

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Yes, COs should really get back their powers. All they can do now is just cuff users and verbally warn them to not continue with the rule breaking. They have lost all control.

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This is actually a really good point, and is a good scenario. I believe that it’s just a waste of time if this actually does happen.

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Yeaa I hope they make it so ltaa for rg is sanctionable or they get teleported to jail like civs do

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Yeah! CO’s were actually stricter and there was barely any abuse. Now it’s abuse left and right.

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RMP from my experience tend to do one of these things:
Forget you’re in jail
Give a really long unnecessary time there
Leave the game without releasing you

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If that happens please do make a report

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However, if that happens you can make a SPA.

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If you complain about time in “jail”, write it to RMP HQ. Thanks!

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I Totally agree. There is a lot more people taking advantage of this and it’s not good. It’s a roleplay game not a game for people to mess about. People should be punished for the rules they break but instead they are let off the hook. COME ON VOLUTE BRING BACK THE OLD TIMES!!!

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I agree! Even though I’m only a sergeant and this change would not change my authority, I think that this change to LiveShield being the only ones to issue sanctions needs to be reverted! In every server I play in there are at least 2 Royal Guards not doing their duties or following the handbook and most of the time there isn’t any RMP. Even if there is RMP they are unable to do much as they are no longer able to sanction people! Because of this change anybody can do anything and as long as they don’t bother people they are let go without a second thought. This means that people could completely disregard most of any handbook in BP but as long as they do what’s necessary to avoid being moderated they get away with it!

This has to change.

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Actually a volute suggestion on here probably.

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I’ll just answer something that’s gotten people confused lately.
The fact that you receive such reply has nothing to do specifically with the fact that LiveShield has taken over team moderation aswell; but rather a policy change.

Handbooks are not official game rules, and thus even if they are broken, and as long as they do not affect someone else’s gameplay in a major way, they will not get penalised for it as the game restricts common ways people can interfere.
This was an intentional change made by Volute Management

So please stop the hate against LS Moderators or Chief Officers for not being able to moderate <3

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If people are getting angry maybe liveshield should adjust rules…? just saying since current moderation is not good.

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liveshield isnt even qualified to moderate divisional in the first place since they arent CO’S

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exactly the point, bad change.