Greetings Sapience,

For a while now the Garden has been aware that organisations have chosen
to be reliant on OOC means of tracking IC information especially with
regards to the reasons why people have been enemied. As much as the
practice of storing IC information and making IC decision in an OOC
context is frowned upon strongly, we previously had nothing to offer as
an alternative and so there wasn't much we could do to directly stop it.

A new change I've just loaded opens the door to addressing this problem
and the Garden is committed to assisting all relevant organisations in
the transition to this new IC system. As of today all cities, divine
orders, houses, Oakstone, and high clans have access to the new systems
of crimes and charges. With the crimes system, an organisation can
define 'template' crimes with an associated fine and term length for
enemying. These predefined crimes can then be used in conjunction with
the charges system to charge an enemy with said crime or even charge
them with a custom crime that has not yet been defined.

The new system will track the history of the charges (changing
fines/terms/dates/etc, adding custom notes) as well as the actual reason
for a person being enemied/unenemied. There are some restrictions at
this stage however. Presently any member of the organisation can check
the list of crimes and charges as well as the history of charges but
only those who have the authority to enemy or unenemy someone have the
ability to charge someone or add/edit crimes.

For those special cases, these organisations will also have the ability
to give charges a 'Permanent' term and/or a 'Special' fine amount.
Setting either of these things, however, will restrict that charge so
that only the organisation leader or patron can edit or drop the charge.

To assist in the administration of these charges, when a player is
unenemied, all outstanding charges will automatically be dropped. The
only exception to this is that if an enemy has a charge with a Permanent
term or Special fine, only the organisation leader or patron can unenemy
them.

Once a charge has been dropped (irrespective of whether the person is
unenemied or not), the history of the charge will remain stored in the
system for up to 200 IC years. We'll be monitoring the performance of
the system with keeping 200 years of inactive charge history (history
for active charges has no time limit) and this figure may change in the
future.

This system will not be used to automatically unenemy people when the
term is served and fine paid, that will still remain a manual task.
Please refer to HELP CRIMES and HELP CHARGES for further details and
syntax for these new systems.

If you come across any bugs in these new systems, please file a BUG with
as much relevant information as possible.

Cardan.

Penned by My hand on the 21st of Sarapin, in the year 591 AF.