Today a Subowner of NewFruitopia removed all but 5 members (28 players) of the town before leaving and joining another town. It would have been all non owners of the town if there had not been typos. Ultimately, we consider this town betrayal as they were not The Owner, and it was done just to screw over the town. However, we do accept that this is the first time an incident like this has happened and it is not super clear on the rules. They state '8. Don't Betray Your Town' but we do not specify things like kicking players out or messing with zones etc. under that rule. (they all relate to stealing)
As a result, we will be reinstating all the town members, so they do not have to wait 7 days to rejoin the town. Due to the 'grey' area of the rule, we also will not be banning/punishing the player responsible. To prevent this from happening in the future we will be clarifying the Town Betrayal rule to include maliciously removing town members, zones etc.
This player also disbanded the alliance as a Subowner. The only rank that should be able to disband an alliance is The Owner, as they are also the only rank that can join/create an alliance. The inconsistency is clear and it's an unintentional feature/bug that Subowners can disband alliances. The fact we haven't fixed that is on us. Because of this, we will be restoring the Equinox alliance.
edit: On further inspection of the code, it appears any member of the lead town was able to disband an alliance. This is now fixed so only The Owner can do so.
As a result, we will be reinstating all the town members, so they do not have to wait 7 days to rejoin the town. Due to the 'grey' area of the rule, we also will not be banning/punishing the player responsible. To prevent this from happening in the future we will be clarifying the Town Betrayal rule to include maliciously removing town members, zones etc.
This player also disbanded the alliance as a Subowner. The only rank that should be able to disband an alliance is The Owner, as they are also the only rank that can join/create an alliance. The inconsistency is clear and it's an unintentional feature/bug that Subowners can disband alliances. The fact we haven't fixed that is on us. Because of this, we will be restoring the Equinox alliance.
edit: On further inspection of the code, it appears any member of the lead town was able to disband an alliance. This is now fixed so only The Owner can do so.
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