On signs, disclaimers, web site rules, verbal briefs etc …… nobody pays full attention & you cannot assume.
People don’t read the part of the disclaimer that says that you are signing to confirm that you have read it.
At our first ever event the site planned to use their standard disclaimer - which was aimed at rental players, not own gunners.
So I went through the disclaimer with management & discussed what can and cannot be changed - particularly in the terms of site insurance.
I could allow players to have guns in the safe zone - and therefore add all the rules on ensuring they are safe
I couldn’t allow players to self fill due to insurance terms on the fill station - which caused a dilemma in complying to a new event organizers collective set of rules which included air safety rules with training - I was permitted to run training, issue passes (valid for a year) and but not allow self fill for the rest of the day
(I expected that nobody would take up the training - but they did, and that allowed the next organizer to run a smaller session of only those that hadn’t been to our event)
Safety must be covered along all methods - and therefore not be reams of paper and hours of waffle
Core rules should be repeated, no matter how many regulars are there
Particularly at our events as we have ‘standard’ rules, our preferred rules and also specifics for how we want to run that event or mission - we’re probably trying out a rule or respawn option - we like barrel tags/knife kills & surrenders but there are specifics on what is an enforced rule (tag/knife) and what is an option (surrender) and also in certain formats we don’t allow them such as our Battle Royale format has no surrenders permitted (though I permitted one surrender when two players met face to face seconds into the session rather than force a 2 inch kill)
