Post by Barsook on Mar 3, 2023 20:44:29 GMT -5
I never indented to share this but I really think the world needs to know:
This last fiasco was the last straw for me on Armageddon MUD for multiple reasons and the lack of the staff willing to change is the biggest one. We always hear, "be the change", and yet does not the staff listen to their own advice! I have a guess that all of the Hate Cycle threads stem from this and I don't think most who post would be called haters. I was also a part of the Helpfile project where some of us looked through those files, discussed, and submitted changes. It started as five people plus the staff member who was in charge and quickly went down to the staff member getting busy along with all but two of us. At that time. I focused on working on adding details that I thought that could be useful, non-FOIC, from what I found on the Staff Announcements boards. Nothing came from that and I doubt if I used the request tool, they would have agreed to change those files.
I even applied to become staff and after waiting after my in-game interview for a week only to be rejected! I will share the details for those who will ask.
Personality, the other major issues that other players (especially females) never affected me. I never was harassed directly but from what I heard from another player, I was spoken about negativity behind my back when I played my most recent leader about how I was boring. I did try to roleplay them. I might not be the best, but I try. When I feel like I need feedback, I send in a request for it. Then I worked on improving my roleplay, but did I get anything out of that? No. Maybe some reason for the staff to reward me karma for roleplay and communication but honestly, I found that karma roles aren't my cup of tea like they were ten years ago.
Maybe I matured (for the lack of a better word here) to where I'm finding the high-karma roles are ones that I don't want to play. I never was a in-the-wilderness roleplayer nor a solo roleplayer but a social-political one. That means I get stuck idling more than anything which is boring. I think I get a or two meaningful interactions a IRL week. It's always been like this ever since I started to play 15 years ago. This goes back to the lack of the willingness to change.
Looking back at how many were on peak 15 years ago to now, I don't think those numbers really changed except they are going down now. I'm aware that Arm has a stronger off-peak player base, but that only shifts the numbers a bit.
I only think I had one character that had some impact before all of that was destroyed because they were a Tuluki. And my recent leader tried to help to rebuild Tuluk as an outsider. And my recent is a True Inked that I tried to use to help the PC leaders of Tuluk to rebuild. No luck at all. Sure, I might not have the patience for the change but I fear that change would not be what I wanted.
That last fiasco opened up my eyes to the shitshow is the staff and I'm happy that I quit.
I even applied to become staff and after waiting after my in-game interview for a week only to be rejected! I will share the details for those who will ask.
Personality, the other major issues that other players (especially females) never affected me. I never was harassed directly but from what I heard from another player, I was spoken about negativity behind my back when I played my most recent leader about how I was boring. I did try to roleplay them. I might not be the best, but I try. When I feel like I need feedback, I send in a request for it. Then I worked on improving my roleplay, but did I get anything out of that? No. Maybe some reason for the staff to reward me karma for roleplay and communication but honestly, I found that karma roles aren't my cup of tea like they were ten years ago.
Maybe I matured (for the lack of a better word here) to where I'm finding the high-karma roles are ones that I don't want to play. I never was a in-the-wilderness roleplayer nor a solo roleplayer but a social-political one. That means I get stuck idling more than anything which is boring. I think I get a or two meaningful interactions a IRL week. It's always been like this ever since I started to play 15 years ago. This goes back to the lack of the willingness to change.
Looking back at how many were on peak 15 years ago to now, I don't think those numbers really changed except they are going down now. I'm aware that Arm has a stronger off-peak player base, but that only shifts the numbers a bit.
I only think I had one character that had some impact before all of that was destroyed because they were a Tuluki. And my recent leader tried to help to rebuild Tuluk as an outsider. And my recent is a True Inked that I tried to use to help the PC leaders of Tuluk to rebuild. No luck at all. Sure, I might not have the patience for the change but I fear that change would not be what I wanted.
That last fiasco opened up my eyes to the shitshow is the staff and I'm happy that I quit.
If anyone wants to discus in private, please PM me. We all here for each other. Together we are strong.