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Post by gringoose on Mar 14, 2023 19:00:57 GMT -5
It's like their shitty way of getting around the fact that they're not technically allowed to PK you with animations.
I had staff animate a guard NPC using sponsored role PK tactics in the Gaj to attack a character of mine, and every guard there including the half giants piled on my character.. And I've had a character attacked by a d-elf animation using high speed shoot and run PK tactics. I got lucky and killed that d-elf after chasing for what felt like 20 rooms. The whole time that staffer played that animation with no fear of death and waited until the last second to run so they could try to get as many shots in as they could. That character would have been dead if I didn't have Ruk buffs active. I thought the d-elf was a PC until I saw its corpse. If I knew it was a staff animation I'd have ran rather than chased.
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delirium
Clueless newb
grumpy cat
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Post by delirium on Mar 14, 2023 19:05:27 GMT -5
Be kind. What a radical concept people were able to understand 34 years ago in the hyper-masculine "bad boy heydays" of 1989.
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Post by Prime Minister Sinister on Mar 14, 2023 19:36:40 GMT -5
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pinkerdlu
Shartist
The evil bad guy of a desert sex simulator. Real Necker
Posts: 521
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Post by pinkerdlu on Mar 14, 2023 21:00:27 GMT -5
Staff wandering the empty, ghostly streets of Allanak looking for a player to harass until they unwittingly run into the alt account of a shadowboarder.
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Post by jcarter on Mar 14, 2023 22:27:32 GMT -5
here's my issue with staff responses and rebuttal. i accept that staff are amateur volunteers with no experience, yadda yadda yadda. that's fine. but there's no actual concern for the complaints. the responses, lifted from two pdfs of bebop complaints, are pasted at the end of this post. before those get read, i'll point out the following -at no point were any questions or further inquiries made into bebop's complaint. no dates, times, specifics, or engagement were made to probe what actually happened. -staff showed they were completely uninterested in the issues OTHER PLAYERS were facing, because those other players didn't put in complaints -staff did not care at all about shalooonsh's activities, and in fact outright stated they weren't going to address it. this is an issue, because armageddon frequently blurs the line between real life and internet encounters. players meet IRL, communicate IRL, and have facebook groups with their IRL identities. any reasonable person, amateur/volunteer or professional, would try to get more information and seek to address issues in their organization. if I receive a PM and a poster has allegations of sexual harassment stuff and mentions other posters suffering as well, i'm not going to throw my hands up and say welp they didn't submit complaints! i'm going to reach out to them and ask about what's going on. you don't need a fucking guidebook to apply some semblance of common sense. if the goal of staff is to ensure a fun environment (which i don't think anyone will disagree with), then the bare minimum means making sure players who complain about getting date raped in your game probably have this taken care of. i'll also point out that none of these complaints are novel. there have been allegations for years, which staff such as Obtulus a.k.a qwerty a.k.a forearmedlurker have been aware of for years and actively tried to suppress. not only on this board, but on others much more broad and influential.
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ask
Clueless newb
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Post by ask on Mar 15, 2023 0:45:47 GMT -5
I mean this was Brokkr's response to me during a request thread in which I objected to how I was treated by Hestia and asked for an apology: He did not respond again in that request chain. I guess I was too toxic for him. Brokkr should not be allowed to converse with players. Period, period, period. There is a distinct lack of care, compassion, and even baseline respect from his end. He is someone who would not be a good fit for any sort of customer or public relations in any field. I've had my own incredibly shitty-from-his-end exchanges with him, and he proves time and again, that he is simply unfit to discuss anything, of any nature, with just about anyone. ARM: TAKE MINE AND ORYX'S SUGGESTION FROM YEARS AGO AND HAVE A COUPLE OF STAFFERS WHO ARE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED TO SUMMARIZE REQUEST NOTES FOR PLAYERS IN A FRIENDLY MANNER. It'll save you a fucking heap ton of trouble.
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mehtastic
GDB Superstar
Armers Anonymous sponsor
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Post by mehtastic on Mar 15, 2023 3:32:14 GMT -5
Error: belittle.exe cannot function if Botkkr cannot reply to requests. Please check if Botkkr is not being used by another application requiring logic and reason, and try again.
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Post by alicatsam on Mar 15, 2023 11:51:21 GMT -5
I am so furious on bebop's behalf.
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Post by Azerbanjani on Mar 15, 2023 12:03:12 GMT -5
This is hard to word without sounding like an asshole but I'll try to make it clear. Bebop isn't wrong at all in this, everything they've written is true (Well, likely. I believe her) But is anyone else just tired of this? Not like 'Oh stop being so negative!', that shit they do on the GDB, or 'Oh I don't believe it so stop talking about it'. But like.
We get evidence staff is shit, someone goes 'HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN', then a day later there's more evidence and we've talked about how staff is shit, then someone goes 'I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY WOULD DO THIS', then- and it just keeps going.
I think I'm just like...acclimated to Staff being bad and seeing people do this 'How could this/why would this/they should just-' feels redundant. They aren't. They won't. They will keep doing it. I didn't say this earlier because I kinda held out a 'They might improve' but we've seen them consistently half-ass their entire response to this.
If the 'Well if they just-' keeps continuing it's going to get stockholme syndrome-y.
Like in a perfect world we just move on and come back and talk about the next hit-new staff explosion that will happen next month.
I'll still engage and what not but this has just been nagging me.
What's the solution to my annoyance? Well there isn't one unless everyone just instantly stops talking. And then I'll bitch about how no one is talking. I dunno. Just how I've felt recently.
In summary: Bruh I'm tired.
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Post by alicatsam on Mar 15, 2023 12:11:22 GMT -5
I took a week off, decided to check in to see if anything had been done, and a misrepresentation of bebop's issues and another not-apology. I had hope that something would eventually get better. And it got worse in my eyes.
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