It has been very hard since Alpha is over. Back in alpha it all felt like a team effort, but now it just seems like developers and players are opponents in a silly game of snakes and ladders. The server GMs like to rule by fear and have antagonized the player base from the minute Beta started.
I just keep telling myself it is a team effort and hope I get unbanned/unsuspended soon, because I would really like to post some bugs I have found and keep contributing to the project. I don't really care too much about my personal character development or this server in particular, it is about making the code and the DB better so that 1 day in the distant future we will have a viable alternative to P99. Silly players and silly GMs (you know who I am talking about) likely will not survive very long in this environment
It just makes them look bad when they suspend/ban their top supporter/contributor because he ranted on the Rants and Flames forum. If you don't want to have people ranting and flaming and/or do not have the thick skin you need, stay the fuck out of RNF or get rid of Rants and Flames forum altogether. Right now it just seems like a trap to get rid of people that don't share your philosophy. FUNNY enough I was the one who was very vocal about this server not needing a RNF forum in the first place, I would link you the thread but due to being banned I don't have access.
This whole issue is so ridiculous, that the people who banned me are keeping it on the down low and didn't even say anything on the forum. They made it look like they replied in a calm manner to my inflammatory response and then proceeded to boot me without so much as a hint. If you have to hide your disciplinary actions there is obviously something wrong, it is weak and unprofessional.
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