Problems with Arm

Every word I say is true. ... Though I do at times misremember things. Frequent times. Very frequent times. But I admit those mistakes ... occasionally.

 You ... post a thread to discuss the games 'problems'.

Actually. I would. Maybe not perfect. But 10x times better. And considering that from those days and current days, 80% off staff are now different people. I think I pulled up the data once. Majority of current staff have been around less then eight years. Many a lot less. That's what makes me chuckle sometimes. You say staff staff staff, without realizing that those "staff" are people you used to play with. Twink with. Enjoy the game with. Probably still are.

Don't lie. Either come clean or don't answer, but don't bullshit when you've admitted otherwise.

Meanwhile you've got Trooper Amos who has spent 45 days playing in the Byn, following the rules, and he's been sitting at journeyman skills since day 8. Not much is going on for Amos, but he's attached to the character after spending so much time with it, so he just waits around hoping something cool will happen eventually. One day he calls an elf the n-word and the elf destroys him in three seconds because that elf was played by someone who knows how the world works. Amos' player doesn't want that to happen to his next character. He wants those years served as a gritty, bloodthirsty mercenary to actually be reflected in his skills, so he starts asking his friends how to do that. He rolls up a character, twinks out, becomes skilled, and suddenly he starts getting involved in all kinds of shit. People try to hire him to kill other people, or hunt rare and dangerous prey. His clanmates all agree that he's the next candidate for leadership, at half the time played as his Bynner. There's an RPT and he excels in combat, earning respect and a line of communication with the templar he assisted. He survives PK attempts and lives long enough to become accomplished and well-known, and the character is a thousand times more satisfying to play than old, forgotten Amos who never amounted to anything.

So he keeps doing that with every character he makes, but now and then, the necessary methods land him in trouble. Staff doesn't like him anymore. They've caught him lazily grinding skills on gith without emoting or stealing from every NPC for no reason. They stop giving him karma, they stop animating for him, they might even send NPCs after him to show that he's playing the game wrong. He thinks, am I supposed to go back to playing Amos, about whom noone cared and for whom nothing ever happened? Fuck that, he says.