Here’s a slightly delayed update on a moderation policy change. Because we’re volunteers with limited time on our hands, we’re going to be skipping steps on the escalation ladder for in-game actions, such as griefing, in modded Raptors games, which take a very long time to watch and process. We thus want to dissuade people from doing so in the first place, and hope the modded Raptors community passes this along by word of mouth.

A typical modded Raptors game. Pretty? Now imagine watching that for an hour or so at 0.89x simulation speed.

I know what you’re thinking - “it’s just people chilling in PvE, what’s the harm?”. Sure, that’s one way of looking at it. But there are two possible ways this can go:

• we leave PvE to become a lawless Wild West - this would not be enjoyable for anyone
• we continue handling griefing in PvE, but take measures to protect the time of our volunteers in the Overwatch team

We’re choosing the latter. We’re thus going to be skipping a step or two on the escalation ladder, previously defined in the Moderation guide on the website, on a case-by-case basis, for offenders in heavily modded Raptors games. We’ll thus skip warnings and go with 3-5 day suspensions from the get go.

As a side note - do try vanilla Raptors instead :)