The system is fine as it is - it works and does it's intended job all day long, whether I'm asleep or not, whether I'm coding on the RPG or not.
As for being "too lazy", a comment I've heard here now and a comment I've heard regarding the anti-rape triggering thing - often times over the many past rounds and years of running Bushtarion, when people bend the rules or abuse mechanisms, they do it in such a way that there is no chat logs, no IRC logs, no evidence at all that it was mutually agreed or planned or that anything is happening - the only evidence is merely an in-game news entry... ie there's more than enough "plausible deniability" to claim innocence of abuse there. So then if I tried to actually lock somebody - after spending far too much time researching every bit of politics, news, mail, and asking around for IRC logs from private rooms - without any ACTUAL evidence, they then come on the forums or spam my mail about how the admin is abusing his powers locking people for no reason and start posting threads like "Where's the evidence?", and then they start reporting EVERY SINGLE CASE of somebody that happens to swap alliances or EVERY SINGLE CASE of somebody that just happens to trigger anti-rape (or something) and start with the whole "You admin locked my friend without any other evidence except just "knowing" they cheated, so you better do it to this person too!". (I'm quite sure even you've been guilty of that yourself Twigley in the past, if not about yourself then defending one of your members that had something or other done to them
)... basically, from past experience, I do not wish to be so stupid as to rely purely on manual investigation and admin intervention on shaky grounds and spend hours investigating a single case, when a simple mechanic can automatically prevent the majority of abuse while I continue coding and
avoid the conspiracy theories of a biased and unfair admin!
Edit: Just to add, to those that say it shouldn't apply to people that were solo classed, yeah that would be fine I think, it's only a necessity for people jumping from one alliance to another. I guess the check could be skipped if they were classed as solo (ie allowed to receive gov defense) upon joining a new ally.
