illex said:
Reb, I appreciate the detailed answer, as it makes me feel slightly better about losing my player, however a few things I still have issues with:

1. Mistakes happen, they're going to happen weather you're an unpaid admin on an internet game or you're the world's leading rocket scientist. I get that. However, why punish existing customers of the game for that mistake? it wasn't as if mp's players were all put on auction and sold for $5, they were all at varying hostile clauses just like a ton of other managers teams who presumably either forgot to log in, or quit quietly. I don't see the harm to the game to just let the hostiles stand, nor have I seen the harm to them explained. Hostiles always take place well under any sort of market value, or at least under the perceived value, so it wasn't as if these hostiles went down under some sort of sketchy situations.

2. It's not necessarily the time lost, it's the opportunity lost. I spent plenty of time looking for players to hostile and had compiled a decent list, but that's whatever, I waste too much time on this game anyways, so without the hostile period I probably would have still spent time screwing around here. However, I totally lost the opportunity to get a good quality hostile. Had mp been a system bot at the time, I would have just passed over her players and moved on to the rest of my hostile list until I found a player that was available. I would have taken no issue with this if the players were on auction and the player was taken back and @'s were just like sorry, they weren't supposed to be out there. I'd surely be upset, but the auction market isn't a one time shot type of thing like hostiles are.

I literally had no idea who mp was before yesterday when I lost my player, and it's very obvious she was a pain to many people in the game, but again I don't see the benefit of pissing off current, presumably happy customers because of one person's toxicity.

@rebsiot said:
*#### ... another 20 minutes of my life gone due to this problem, the game logged me out.

One person who skirted the rules, broke them, and used people both in and out of the game to achieve her goals, created a huge stir in the game. We devoted some 20 pages in the moderator forums and a week of debate trying to determine the fines for her original case, all the while fighting off attacks in the forums.

@rebsiot said:
No tangible (real) damage was done to your club. And I would be angry, too. But it shouldn't have happened. At least 2 @ also had transactions reversed in this manner.

@rebsiot said:
I really don't want to discuss this matter more, because it involves giving more attention to someone who doesn't deserve it and was rightfully expelled from the game.