Got sucked into a few extra posts last night Pudge, shit happens.
And yes, I'm going to bring the tilde back. Naming one person that got banned on a server because 200 PDM people were /petitioning it doesnt really prove the point. Training happened on TZ on a daily basis.
Xant, I think what your failing to see is that the community can enforce it better than the GMs and with out needing any transparency. I am not exactly sure how deep you got into P99, but with how you guys are talking about it and speaking as tho it is some oasis of gaming. Its not, it has the same problems you see on most servers.
People hate Uthgaard, cause he moves with authority. There are several guilds / tons of people that think the server is already not legit because there are guilds with guides etc. One of the better GMs and definitely the most friendly got griefed off the server in the short 2 or 3 months I was there adjusting to the P99 setup. There are cries about trains, FTE, camping rules, spawn rights, spawn definitions, pull rights.
The easiest way to eliminate all that hassle, is to do 2 things: Make the server PvP, and remove the GMs from ANY PnP enforcement.
You can always say "Oh, well so and so got banned for X on Live, so it was enforced" but we both know its complete bullshit.
And you make it worse by saying "oh if they have fraps or happen to be there"... as soon as you have 2 people from 1 guild banned in a row, we know whats coming. Rage quits, QQ posts, accusations of corruption.
Even with logs, and fraps, how do you derive the intent? If one guild has 50 players, and is trying to engage another guild with 30, bringing some mobs is not something they will worry about. Is that a train?
Bringing in human error and decisions into a game that is made so well for PvP is pointless. If someone is a shitbag, or a guild is a shitbag, then people should treat them as such and return the favor 100 fold. Thats what we used to do on TZ, maybe before your play time, but that is how it was done. The players handled it.
Not to mention, 300 players at peak during classic, will be so crowded it will be insane.
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