Marks against your account don't really affect you until you get caught doing something else. It's a cumulative effect, like Baseball's three strikes and out rule.
People are asking what you did, but I'd be more interested in what you have planned.![]()
Neither did nor planned, actually.
It ain't practical when marks can build up over the years and ring the "3 strikes and out" bell..........
My concern is that since minor offenses marks can be given for a number of reasons sometimes even inadvertedly for a player (like a bad character's name or trash talking etc.), letting them build up to 3 without anything to wipe them off after a few years, eventually CAN get players to hit that 3 marks even when they felt not doing anything much wrong.
For example, I have heard of instances of players playing the game without ANY intention to disrupt others' game play and eventually ending up with a 24 hour ban and a bad mark for luring critters when they just were trying to play the game and seek shelter.
As others have pointed out, while there may be marks deserved, there also may be marks not deserved and yet received.
They ALL build up to 3.......
And with a game 13 years old, how hard it is for older accounts to end up having 2 marks, perhaps both undeserved, and closing up to the 3rd one, who knows, perhaps also undeserved but yet received ?
Some said the 3 strikes and out is not a policy. Well, as a starter, it would really be nice to hear whether it does is a policy or it is not because as it is now, it looks to me like a grey area where it "might" be a policy or it "might not be"....
Which is which ?
If it is not a policy well, then fine, minor offenses stay what they are, non perma bannable minor offenses.
But if it is a policy, then I think that as years go by marks should wear off as it looks unreasonable with a game so old to have 3 marks determine the fate of an account, especially when minor marks can be received, as many have pointed out, undeserved.