predominantly what anna described, because between the wardens (together) trying to gain the trust of the inmates, it's become almost sacred to do anything other than solitary, where they still have a lot of freedom and might not learn anything. i don't think it's just locked to bucky being harsh, but if any warden were particularly harsh, it'd be like a collective gasp moment almost.
Also as per the conversation with Anna, I do feel that we need to give wardens more reason to come down hard on inmates –– wardens need a bigger leg up on inmates to criticize their behaviour. On the flip side, I think the extremes of this might be a difference in perception, too. The Warden Command page has a place for wardens to put in incident reports for this reason; there's a lot of ways inmates are being punished, including solitary! Travis has been handcuffed to different locations twice, and put in solitary for a full week, and to my knowledge no warden even complained about inmates being put in solitary. I think we can do something about balance as far as inmates having opportunities to do things bad enough to warrant solitary, though.
i have held back because i don't want to impact the story some people are in the middle of still telling. is it something i can ask and check with them each independently? yes, but even icly right now a lot of wardens would take it very poorly and that's something i'm trying to avoid as a player.
Absolutely. I respect that it's a lot for you right now and you're trying to avoid wardens taking it poorly, but I do think that communication regardless can determine whether wardens would actually react negatively to this: as above, multiple wardens HAVE used solitary, deprived characters of things, etc. I think it's wise to be cautious about basing your choices on what you feel their characters will do if you haven't confirmed with their players what they know their characters will do, you know?
thank you so so much for all your support, jenn. i really really appreciate it, and i'm sorry if i've done poorly with explaining anything or letting my anxiety color things a particular way i wasn't intending. a lot of the ooc anxiety i expressed about people reacting negatively has more to do with not knowing if i'm speaking well enough or not and less to do with anyone directly.
You're most welcome, I'm happy to help with whatever makes gameplay smoothest for everyone, and I really appreciate your ability to step back and look at this objectively in discussion.
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Also as per the conversation with Anna, I do feel that we need to give wardens more reason to come down hard on inmates –– wardens need a bigger leg up on inmates to criticize their behaviour. On the flip side, I think the extremes of this might be a difference in perception, too. The Warden Command page has a place for wardens to put in incident reports for this reason; there's a lot of ways inmates are being punished, including solitary! Travis has been handcuffed to different locations twice, and put in solitary for a full week, and to my knowledge no warden even complained about inmates being put in solitary. I think we can do something about balance as far as inmates having opportunities to do things bad enough to warrant solitary, though.
Absolutely. I respect that it's a lot for you right now and you're trying to avoid wardens taking it poorly, but I do think that communication regardless can determine whether wardens would actually react negatively to this: as above, multiple wardens HAVE used solitary, deprived characters of things, etc. I think it's wise to be cautious about basing your choices on what you feel their characters will do if you haven't confirmed with their players what they know their characters will do, you know?
You're most welcome, I'm happy to help with whatever makes gameplay smoothest for everyone, and I really appreciate your ability to step back and look at this objectively in discussion.