everyone is suspended

[heartbrand]

Originally Posted by Slathar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

when the administrators all have sigs with venril sathir holding "banhammers", referring to themselves as general and/or agent smith youre going to have problems. gms should not interact with the community and should be more or less invisible.

Some truth to this. On EQ Live, staff were for the most part invisible, apart from Server GM's such as Lady Daegarmo, but even then, you would rarely if ever see them, and never engage with them in dialogue on a forum. Most offenses were met with polite tells from a Guide telling you to stop Action X or suffer a possible warning or future action. Only the most severe of all acts such as shouting the n word repeatedly, egregious intentional trains [not 2 frogloks that followed you to a 60 v 60 pvp by accident], cheating/hacking, were ever met with instant suspensions, and even then the staff would first port you somewhere and discuss with you why they were taking action against you if you were online.

Being banned was something that was hard to accomplish on EQ Live, the same with being suspended. Here, simply looking at someone the wrong way will result in a 7 to 14 day suspension.

The way staff and players interact with one another is just completely different than it was on live. Staff were not allowed to use internet slang, get involved in arguments with players, curse, etc. They were "above" the fray so to say. It is my personal opinion that staff should have little to no presence on the forums, should not be skyping players, IMing players, etc. They should observe actions in game, and act accordingly, notify the player as to why they are taking said action, and then have an appropriate review method in place.


While staff are volunteers, so were guides on EQ Live during the Petition Era, which remained in place throughout the classic timeline this server strives to emulate.

/duck