What powers do GMs have other than the ability to close a ticket without adequately communicating it hasn't been resolved?

Demoyn wrote on Nov 6^th, 2017 at 1:36pm:

lol.

Carpone wrote on Nov 6^th, 2017 at 1:25pm:


Theoretically they would have invulnerability and 1-button kill-commands, which they can use to test dungeons and reproduce certain glitches without having to be good enough to actually beat them. At least that's what GMs have in other games.

Commands like spawning items or auto-completing dungeons would be monitored, but stuff like that would just be commonplace(if a GM has to come into a dungeon to help you, for example, they don't want to waste time clearing trash).

If you were a bored prisoner abusing your game access, you could slay through content and collect end rewards easy.



Demoyn wrote on Nov 6^th, 2017 at 1:36pm:


Shockingly, that's not even remotely true. In fact, some prisoners had broadband before many American homes did 

This is the sort of thing that is going to vary HEAVILY from state to state and even just prison to prison(the rules at, say, a federal prison are going to be completely different from a state-level for-profit prison).

In some prisons, well-behaved prisoners just get occasional access to a computer-lab style environment, in others prisoners can actually have fucking laptops and wifi. Again, its going to vary by state and local ordnance, and it'd be the ultra-well-behaved folks that get those priviliges.

Working outsourced jobs, of course, is another matter ENTIRELY. So while, yes, a typical prison inmate probably won't have unrestricted, on-demand access to the internet, they could very easily end up working a jail-job that involves answering phones and using a computer with internet access.

In fact, prison out-sourced call centers(yes I know SSG doesn't have a call center) are the main reason call center jobs are so shitty: a call center has to compete not only with third-world outsourcing but also prison outsourcing(which is even CHEAPER). And, now, outsourcing to fucking prisoners in the third world(if you ever had a particularly shitty experience with a CS rep who sounded unintelligible, that's why).

So of course this raised a further question: has some poor dude ever been shanked so another guy could steal his job as a shitty DDO GM?

You get better service when you drop the soap in a prison shower than SSG provides.

noamineo wrote on Nov 6^th, 2017 at 4:50pm:


A) 2003 - 2006
B) Government-run state prison (they're ALL for profit, fyi)
C) I was a prison guard years before I was an inmate.  I quit because the guards are legitimately worse people than the inmates on average, so yes... I'm well aware.  However, the people telling us this weren't mouth-breathing guards - they were college professors with prison access who complained about the law more than we did.  Maybe I was wrong about the federal law, but if so (and it appears so) then I'm pretty sure there was a state law stating the same.

noamineo wrote on Nov 7^th, 2017 at 11:10am:



Arpaio opened that... but it was in Arizona

well they can outsource it to Frog prisons... we are unable to keep inmates from getting smartphones.

and it would make some of them actually do something for living.

Skrilla wrote on Nov 12^th, 2017 at 6:48pm:


It's not unusual in the slightest for inmates to sneak smartphones into a prison.