Adoptions

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

This is simply a reminder that adoptions are currently frozen, and have been for quite a while.

Adoptions shall reopen later this week, as soon as I am able to juggle the adoption process when I am no longer on vacation.

A note in the change of adoption policy: From now on, all adoptions will be run through me. No player may simply hand a character off to another player. All characters up for adoption will be handed over to me, and then people will fill out an application to take control of said character.

This method is utilized to make fully sure all players are fully aware of the game and the game's rules and regulations, and the administration has a file for who exactly is running what characters. There have been issues in the past, and we wish for these to not arise again. We apologize for any inconvenience, but the "first-come, first-serve" adoption policy of the past simply does not work.

Thank you.

Comments

[chasingangela]

Do adopted student characters count toward the limit of 20 new enrollees?

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

Adoptions are a special case. There currently is only two student characters having been handed over for adoption, and neither will be put up for adoption until processing the new student applications, as they come from our highly represented fandoms.

So, currently, they do not. As only a few current, active students possibly changing hands in the near future (assuming the players go through the proper process as requested), the adoptions would not count against the 20 limit.

[sensethevisions]

What about adopted characters that we took back from the person who adopted them?

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

"Taking back" is adopting a character. Adoptions are frozen. Having previously controlled the character gains you no special rights in this regard.

Adoptions which took place during the freeze period are against the rules and unrecognized. Any illegally adopted characters will find their memberships and/or posting accesses revoked. We must be kept in constant knowledge of who is playing what, and "under the table" dealings simply does not give us that information.

Sorry.

[sensethevisions]

*nods*

So I would have to reapply for her when adoptions open again?

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be the idea.

[demonbelthazor]

Out of curiously, why the hardline stance?

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

Thirteen year olds adopting characters, for one. Being unable to get a hold of players of characters simply due to having been adopted and the userinfo not updated. Players adopting in and being totally unaware of the game's rules. Players secretly going above the four character limit due to adoptions.

While yes, somewhat of an unassociated set of reasons in comparison to this particular case, special treatment, especially for ones such as this that will be easily resolved by walking through the adoption process in a few days, sets a horrible precedent.

It may look like a mess of red tape, but it'll be very simple once it is up and running, I promise.

[demonbelthazor]

Ah, I wasn't aware there were problems like that. Thanks for the explanation. :)