[imported_Hate]

Because GM's have mortal characters here which shouldn't be allowed because they can favor it in their own say to protect there mortal if they aren't good. I'm really against GM's having mortals should be like the good old days where if you have a GM you don't have a mortal so you can't cheat etc

Haha, the good old days? What free-shard have you ever played where staffmembers haven't been allowed to have mortals? I for one haven't played any such shard, and I've played and staffed at A LOT of shards.

Staffmembers having mortals is a positive thing in many ways. A staffmember who has a mortal is usually way more effective in fixing small flaws and annoying bugs that they come across. It is way harder for staffmembers to find the flaws if they aren't able to experience them from a players point of view. That plus the fact that the staffmembers are working for free to make you happy, so I think it would be pretty much cruel to not let them "have fun" on an mortal at times as well.

The only downside I see with staffmembers having mortals is that they may get "attracted" to cheat for their mortal, but if staffmembers would abuse their GM powers, like for example spy on mortals and then log on to kill them, or add potions for themselves, or anything even remotely similar to that, then they'd get banned in a heartbeat.

We do not take lightly on hiering staffmembers, it is hard to find good trustworthy staffmembers that can both staff well and whom do not try to cheat for their mortal in any way, but we have such a staff team here. I'm not saying all of us have mortals, but the ones who does do not act partial towards their mortal, and they do not cheat, and they deserve to have a mortal very much, so lets not go there Smoke, feel free to PM me if you notice any staffmember cheating, but I doubt you'll ever find anything like that, these staffmembers have been handpicked because they can be trusted, that plus the fact that we're monitoring logs daily makes me very confident that you won't find any cheating staffmembers here.

Regards,
Hate

[COLOR="Green"]Edit: I'd also like to mention that all the things that "could" make a GM with a mortal have an advantage over any normal player is pretty much always illegal, so there is no need for you to worry, and like I said, feel free to PM me if you notice anything illegal being done, and I will deal with it myself.

Also.. these staffmembers that we have here are very objective in their posts. No matter if they have mortals or not they always try to look at what's best for the shard, not for their mortal. Do you really think that these staffmembers would say something like "lets add coords to the exact locations where players are at right away!" just because they didn't have a mortal character? They think about it from the players point of view, and it is true what they say, if we would display the exact location and you would go to these locations 24/7 and kill the hunters all day long as soon as they leave pits then they will stay in pits 24/7 for sure, or in their house, and be even more scared than what they are now, so those arguments are not made up just to "protect their mortals" or whatever you seem to think.. :/ Try to think about it from an all-around perspective, because if we make it too easy for you to hunt newbs then the newbs will quit and then the shard will be empty, and then it won't be fun for anybody, not even for you. :/[/COLOR]