Yea, I agree, -250 imm xp is not much. Practically, it won't have a huge detrimental impact on my character (this is me personally - I'm fairly confident in my abilities that I can easily rectify that somehow). But realistically, it links my character to a negative attribution that will likely affect my character someway in the future. At least, that's how I feel - it may not be true, and maybe I'm the minority, but I don't think I'm the minority.

Coming from the player side, what I'm getting is that people think that this punishment is disproportional to the violation. IE the violation is not egregious enough to warrant getting the -imm xp. And this arose from the fact that a) observation/exploration xp for edge points has changed and b) this appears to be something NEW that's happening, and it started happening without the players noticing it.

Essentially, the -imm xp was a surprise that added to an arguably hugely disfavorable change to the game.

Notwithstanding the disfavorable changes (which is up to the imms - I'm not touching that, nor do I particularly care), before putting the -XP hammer down (and I don't think that just because imms are awarding more xp necessitates creating more situations of subtracting xp - these are different issues), I'd suggest having some mechanism to track violations (maybe a databank where imms put in various violations that they see). It's being done anyways in a way for each character's PBF. If it becomes a common problem, put an announcement in stating that this is the official stance and these are the penalties. Don't leave it open for discussion. That way there's no "surprise" when it comes to detrimental effects on players.

I said this once before, and I'll say it again. You guys should get someone to be in charge of public relations concerns. There are those naysayers among the players who are just douches, ####s, and wants to point fingers at one of the imms for every single insignificant affronts that they perceive is being done to them (or not even them - they just like to argue), but generally, I think the playerbase is more mature than those people.