Rules: Allow Animal Theft • CCNet

Rules: Allow Animal Theft Back

ImperialCutter over 3 years ago

It's easy to understand why the theft of items is not allowed. It's harder to understand why the theft of animals is also not allowed. Ship theft is allowed on the basis that there is an easy way to protect against it, by placing a piston. Animal theft is as easy to prevent against, by attaching animals to a leash or keeping them in an enclosed area. It's a little absurd how you can get away with stealing a dreadnought that took some newbie a week to build but you can get banned for days for luring sheep outside of claims. It's a good way to entrap people and get them banned. Furthermore, the neccessity of this rule is really questionable. If it was only on Towny, that's understandable, but this is nations.

Disclaimer: I have never been banned for animal theft and I don't intend to steal animals, I'm only expressing my thoughts on the rule, I think it's a step in the wrong direction, into becoming a babysitting SMP like most servers

Comments

djmaximow2 over 3 years ago

Bad idea

Ineusia over 3 years ago

Rather than allowing animal theft, it should be more clearly outlined that animal theft is disallowed.

Animals are property, no different from items in their consideration as owned property.

The distinction for ships is that ship piracy is a great mechanic for warfare and other general purposes on the server.

It's also a nuisance for Zaify or myself to hunt down ships due to how Movecraft logs them and it's nearly impossible to restore ships that are destroyed, so allowing theft of unsecured ships takes burden off of us while adding threat to the server and reason to secure your ships properly.

Animals are not so complex.

Animal theft holds no purpose given once you lure them out of claims, you have to either lure them all the way to your town, be a donator to egg them, or kill them. It also takes one command to roll them back, or worst-case we just spawn new identical animals.

On the other hand, collecting animals can be a time-sucking activity to begin with, especially since mob spawns are lowered for the larger playerbase and animal spawning isn't always guaranteed.