Kudos to the Gm's of p99.

Turbs · #1 04-11-2015, 07:26 AM

I had a problem a few minutes ago where I was trained twice in Oasis by the same person, and so i petitioned. I just wanted to give a huge thank-you to Eunomia for helping me within seconds. You are awesome, sir or madam. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ando · #2 04-11-2015, 07:51 AM

Eunomia is solid.

Swish · #3 04-11-2015, 12:47 PM

Eunomia changed my surname in record time a while back.

10/10, would petition again <3

Ivory · #4 04-11-2015, 01:47 PM

Yea, the GMs on this server are AMAZING.

It is even more amazing when you consider that on live (where they are paying and it is supposed to be a real company), GM support is apparently non existent. People grief each other and all sorts of things with no official help.

I wonder if they could get officially sanctioned by the EQ owners and be able to run this server as an off-shoot of the "official eq". Basically just "you can do subs now and make money, just give us 50% of what you get" type of thing.

If not, then hopefully they are making something off of donations...because they really deserve it!

Guide.Chroma · #5 04-11-2015, 02:16 PM

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

Yea, the GMs on this server are AMAZING.

It is even more amazing when you consider that on live (where they are paying and it is supposed to be a real company), GM support is apparently non existent. People grief each other and all sorts of things with no official help.

I wonder if they could get officially sanctioned by the EQ owners and be able to run this server as an off-shoot of the "official eq". Basically just "you can do subs now and make money, just give us 50% of what you get" type of thing.

If not, then hopefully they are making something off of donations...because they really deserve it!

No one profits off of the server, especially since doing so would likely bring lawyers from Sony. All donations go straight into the costs of running the server, no one is pocketing it.

Being picked up is interesting, but I don't think it'd ever happen. Rogean has well earned his spot as the top of the server, and to become part of the company would potentially take all of his work away. I don't see it happening unless they made him CEO, and even then I'm not certain.

Volunteer work is almost always higher quality than employed. Volunteers want to as much as they can, employees usually only want to do as much as they have to.

Lev_Mer · #6 04-11-2015, 02:37 PM

power corrupts

everyone except eunomia

pras voice of wisdom

Erydan Ouragan · #7 04-11-2015, 03:00 PM

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

Volunteer work is almost always higher quality than employed. Volunteers want to as much as they can, employees usually only want to do as much as they have to.

That is correct, once you start paying someone for doing something, it becomes a job.

I remember reading a story about a scientific study being done by people studying gorillas behavior. They gave them canvases and paint and showed gorillas how to paint. The gorillas quickly understood and started to create elaborate and colorful paintings.

This went on for a while and the next step of the experiment was to buy the gorillas' paintings with peanuts. For every painting they would get a set amount of peanuts. It didn't take long for the gorillas to understand that, and they stopped making intricate paintings and started to put just the minimal amount of paint, a few lines and spots, in order to get more peanuts, quicker.

Painting was no longer a fun way to express their creativity, it became a way to get peanuts.

I hope p99 never becomes something "official" or bought by daybreak, because it'll become a job for the dev/CSR team, and work is modern slavery. Then what would happen is Daybreak getting their noses in p99 and would go "well you're official now and get money off our intellectual property, so if you could add this and that it'd be great. Oh and make it quick, we're on a deadline and we need to please the investors."

Nah, thanks.