[Darren Brimhall]

A way of proving truth/lie is to delve into the Game's Data Dump.

Yes, logs can be altered--especially if they were recorded in a 'Copy and Paste' method. But the Data Dump will have everything that was ever done In-Game by all players, and that would be very hard to get around.

Outside communication is much harder to police, because, simply, people are going to do what they want reguardless of the rules. And if it means helping out a friend, or taking advantage of someone down on their luck ,they will do it--even at the exspence of the Game.

Now, if you had the legal means to do it, you can have the Court petition MSM/ Yahoo/ AOL/ Whomever for the records of said users to see if they were in contact with each other. They may not have the exact, word-for-word, record. But they will have a record that A spoke to B at this time, which fits perfictly with what B said about them speaking.

But honestly, most of us don't have that kind access, or money, to even try floating such a petition. So the best bet would be the Data Dump to see if there ever was an exchange of OOC information occuring between individual players.

Another method would be the Group or Guild Mailer, as some games will have allowed groups, or Guilds, to set up a private mailing system for their Guild/Group's use that is control by the Game's Staff. But compaired to the reach of the Data Dump, this is rather small and tightly focused--and more depended upon weither or not the whole group was involved in the OOC actvity.

But simply, telling players not to share OOC info outside the Game is impossible. Concentrate on the Data Dump catching them in the act.


Darren Brimhall