By "hassled" I am referring to things like: items being taken away by imms, imms switching into mobs and telling me I'm a prick (and arguably implying my pfile might be altered in negative ways accordingly), being ROTD'd to "pull me aside and tell me something" (what, you couldn't have sent me a character note instead of putting me in jail for 24 hours?), and so on. I should consider this a gift and a chance to RP? In some cases, maybe. It would just be nice if just once this came in the form of something that was fun instead of pissing on my character from the get-go.

I don't think the current admins are bad people (well, maybe Dest. Just kidding. Sort of.) I never said that. I think, by and large, they are awesome. I'm just not really trying to get into a competition over who can brown-nose the best here. If my posts have given you the impression that I think the staff is corrupt to the core, I will state again: this is false.

RE: transparency, rewards, and so on: if there's currently some kind of oversight on this in immland, it's plainly still insufficient. Should they have to ask permission from us to give rewards? I'm not really suggesting that, but at the same time, if a huge portion of the playerbase can agree that a particular reward is overpowered, maybe something ought to be done. And of an imm consistently gives out rewards that are out of whack, maybe they shouldn't be allowed to give out rewards anymore - I mean, if you're ignorant of the mechanics of PK to that extent, there's no shame in admitting you maybe shouldn't be the one handing out shotguns to halflings.

You know, this would all be solved if we just got rid of powerful PK rewards entirely. I don't mind if some guy roleplays learning magic on his warrior and maybe gets "c invis", but personally I believe there are some things that are just ridiculous and unnecessary.