We can indeed rely on the existing dispute process to handle things-- we've been doing that more and, as you note, our PAs manage to slap some kind of closure onto the vast majority of complaints that come into their offices, but usually at significant personal expense. Consider the state of ALFA2's PAs on their way out of office (Mirabai, Demson (half term), Rotku (other half), Rotku again, Audark, Oldgrayrogue, Vendrin, Rotku again, Daniemn)-- it's not kind to these people, and I note that we don't see very many second terms in ALFA2 (Rotku being the one crazy enough to do it).
Perhaps the cold merciless mechanics of a scripted system lacks that charming 'hand-crafted' feel, but computers take no emotional toll when telling someone to cool it after three statics in an hour, or when saying that goblin #20 isn't worth as much XP as goblin #1. Computers don't protect their friends or persecute their rivals; they don't miss anyone for lack of reportiong, attention, or willpower. You can tell a computer that its mother does depraved things for your gratification and it doesn't much notice. Their action is immediate, their feedback is direct, and that's one less piece of drama sitting on a PA's lap. That's why I designed a system with PA Dan-- shocking, I know, but I don't like watching people suffer-- and why I want to know if the next PA would use it.
I would note that this is something that doesn't happen without a de facto majority admin vote: DMA must approve of the rewards, PA must think it's useful, TA must approve of the system, and LA must at least approve enough to not veto it (though, given previous conversations with Veilan, I suspect there will be more support than grudgingly accepting that it's not worth bringing out the veto power). I would like to think that we're a compitent enough group that we won't push through a doomsday (I also like to think that we're good enough at what we do that things will be better when we're done).
Responding a nitpicky point:
This will cost you somewhere between a quarter and half of your RPXP. If you know of someone doing it to try to exploit the system, laugh mightily at that person. Tell me about 'em, too; I want to laugh too. Like Bender.But logging into and out of BG every 7 minutes or so is ridiculous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
(the moral of the story is, of course, that the ability to delay gratification is the primary indicator of success in everything)
