Is someone spam pledging?

I have only one Fortie. I'm pretty sure I deleted all the rest.

38 people pledged. Next question!

More like a handfull have several characters pledged. I think that shouldn't be allowed if it's happening.

Unless you want to change the very nature of how you log into CF, and I don't see the immortals being willing to do that much work.

Sure, maybe a few players have multiple characters pledged in the same cabal. However, I'm betting most of those will either auto or delete and the very, very rare player will actually bother to get two inducted. Even still I doubt that those players will play both.

That retard Welverin who actually did do that and promised not to.

I doubt he's doing it again but I wouldn't exactly be surprised if he is.

Fortress has an inordinately high amount of apps just due to how easy it is to RP the basic nature of the characters, most folks empathize with it especially most noobs. But yes, 40 apps is ridiculous.

What would be a better solution to silly #### like this is to let the cabal leaders reject pledges while the given characters are offline, let the cabal leader see a list of offline pledges, and then finally cause pledges to count toward the actual member limit of the cabal, forcing the cabal leaders to manage pledges heavy-handedly.

Of course the imms don't like doing things that will almost necessitate a cabal leader to get flamed and char assassinated on the forums but it's what actually needs to happen lest the imms find themselves having to start rejecting pledges on a case by case basis by themselves.

A lot of pledges isn't really that big of an issue if they aren't really playing.

I don't see how this is really much of an issue other than adding a slight amount of confusion for cabal leaders.

Retard? Really? Come on now. And it wasn't 38, more like 4 or 5.

I think the count was 12, but I'd have to spend more time than it's worth to figure it out.

I'm glad you've turned over a new leaf, though.

Man, 12? You really think so? Oh well.... Yeah, you don't need to figure it out... I'm really only playing one char now. I had another in Outlander, but deleted him....

Yeah, if I'm remembering right you'd get to a point where you obviously had moved on but you didn't actually delete.

Probably cause I couldn't remember the names of them all.

How would you prevent it? For that matter, why is it even a problem?

Most people who pledge never send a note. About 1/3 of the people who send a note never actually get a recommendation. Probably because they stop logging in because they're playing their other character(s). I guess I don't get what the problem is with having a lot of superfluous pledges as long as they don't end up wasting the leaders' time.

They might be recommending themselves on the back side.

Mention how great character B is to Player C etc.

That would be called "cheating", and they could do that even if each person were only allowed to pledge once. I.e. roll up a non-caballed non-fort-pledge goodie character, then talk up the pledge character to active Fort guys.

We're probably more interested in violations of the rules where someone can provide evidence and not merely speculation.

If someone pledges more than one character, they aren't breaking a rule.

They might be recommending themselves on the back side.

They might also be passing gear, but we're not going to bust them unless they actually do, and we have better things to do than monitor a group of 38 people because of what they might do.

valguarnera@carrionfields.com

It was because they were looking at all cabals and it looked like Fort was getting more attention that it was. I contend, that i was not the only one that was doing it at that time, just the only one who would admit it. And at the time I had only 5 or so that I remember pledged.

Some new players roll up new characters after dying a bunch in the mid levels.

This is probably someone who wants to play a Fortress but keeps giving up on characters before getting inducted, and so they roll up a new one.

Hutto, the Sleepy Nitpicker