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Old 08-12-2009, 04:10 PM
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Ownership and Expectations

You spelled it out..

Ownership: "their enemies" The statement infers that somehow the person who was there first owns something when in reality there is no ownership and thus no duty to ask or an obligation to have another player allow you to do something.

Expectations: "expecting others to be polite" The statement implies that there are rules for politeness, ie don't attack enemies that someone else is attacking, when there is clearly no expectation or rule implying this. Rude behavior does not mean rep stealing, interrupting grenades/staff training or messing up enemies. That is called playing the game and everyone plays how they want too.

Common courtesy always implies a set of common values shared by all involved. With the multi-cultural, multi-age nature of this game I doubt you will find much common ground.

The word guide and the word guidelines are very different in meaning. A guide (as your using it) is a recommendation on the best way to do something while a guideline is a rule for how to act. Giving advice on how to improve your game play is always welcome but I'm not sure people react the same to others telling them how to behave. Disney has a code of conduct that spells it out very nicely so lets just stick to that without adding anything.