Originally Posted by Cid
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I feel the need to comment here because my experience (or complete lack of, actually) with the GMs recently is in direct contradiction to what you are preaching.
I can pretty much guarantee that I have put in more effort to help improve the server than anyone, player, GM, or Dev. Rogean has repeated "the logs exist forever" and I encourage you to check them if you think I am lying.
I do almost nothing but help people, especially newbies. I spend several hours just running around the world checking hundreds of merchants just to find Words and gear so I can make free spells for people desperately looking for them.
I do like helping people, but I have done this ever since I was capable of it for the benefit of the server. I want people to play here, and I help them to give them encouragement that not everyone is an asshole with the emotional control of a bi-polar tasmanian devil.
I am disgustingly nice and helpful to a near massochistic level, and I am always respectful. I have put in the ingame time trying to keep people around on a personal level and the only payment I have ever asked for or accepted is that they pay it forward down the road.
Most people know Neefin or Cid, or Yawgmoth for making necro spells, and I don't believe anyone has a problem with me unless I'm considering guilty by association.
I am not saying this to stroke my ego, fuck my ego, this is purely fact the logs can back up. I am even doing this on my piece of shit dialup internet, and better yet, it only works at half speed. You have no concept of what lag is.
You guys asked for people who wanted to be Guides and I truly wanted to be one. I am not interested in power or authority. I understand exactly what pressures and responsibility I would be asking for, a nearly thankless job with constant anger and bitching directed at you.
I wanted to be a Guide because I am 100% sure I can be selfless and I can smile and work for the greater good with absolutely no bias while people are throwing every curse they can string together at me. I've been there and done that.
Before I submitted an application I sent Sirken a pm asking about my shitty internet, which cannot be helped, and whether it would automatically make me unable to be a Guide. He is the server GM after all, and I titled the PM clearly.
I waited I believe 10 days for a response with nothing, then I posted in the topic to ask more noticably for him to check. You were all online posting during those 10 days as well. Multiple people posted supporting me and several more days passed. Eventually in the resulting discussion I was informed that your policy is basically to ignore us.
In a total timeframe of something like 15-17 days not a single one of you so much as acknowledged my fucking existence.
You're just hypocrits. Don't say things like ignoring people is not a solution and we should be respectful to each other like adults when the actions of the GMs are in direct contradiction to what you are saying.
I have the utmost respect and gratitude for the Devs and Coders and the time and effort they put in, and I will continue to do what I am able to in order to keep your efforts from coming to naught.
As for the GMs, fuck you guys. If you show zero respect for us, why should I respect any of you? I am the one trying to keep people playing instead of asking them why they quit after the fact.
I don't really care what the hell your big secret plan is because Phase One dropped the server population by a third. Red consistently averaged 15% of Blue's population at pretty much all times for months. Now we are lucky to stay at 10% of Blue's pop.
Any plan to increase the population that begins with losing 33.3% of the population is stupid. It's not the assholes that chase people off that left, you know. It doesn't matter if you are giving out character transfers with complimentary blowjobs, because math says it's a bad plan, not me.
Why couldn't the xp bonus be left on until the super top-secret mega classified plan is ready? What purpose could driving away a third of the people on Red have unless you are actively trying to kill the server?
P.S. I am not even the slightest bit mad, I'm disgusted. And whomever decided on the zero disclosure policy is an absolute moron. It's not building anticipation, it's fueling an exodus.
TL;DR: Read it anyway!
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03-30-2014, 09:48 AM
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