Random thoughts and comments

... were privy to options handed down by the staff to her player behind-the-scenes about how to proceed with the character?

You mean when the character was being booted from Borsail for her behavior? Staff wouldn't force the change to Tor on the player. It's not exactly rocket science to suppose staff will generally ask what you'd prefer before a major change like that.

Nah, there's no way somebody could solve that puzzle. Way too complex.

Ah, I see you've once again shifted the conversation to avoid answering for all the shit you've stepped in. So here's a reminder: it's incredibly easy to reference past, evaded points on a forum.



So, getting back on-topic: do your fellow staffers know you're breaking policy by posting here, or was this approved of?

You've offered no explanation for how you know what options Friday was given by staff behind-the-scenes, and now you're basically making scoffing noises using words. I know you think you're coming off as haughtily condescending but it's being picked up as you're completely out of ideas.

Well I appreciate you admitting you were making shit up off the top of your head in the hopes we weren't better informed than you. Though if you paid more attention you probably could have avoided admitting it.

Look, whenever it is you get back to the GDB to whore your activity here for some cred, can you ask them to send a troll who's at least noticeably less incompetent than you are? A little effort from our immigrant shitposters would be appreciated.

You do realize in the context you posted this in, you mean you care enough to post about it and are incapable of not caring enough to drop the matter, right? Because that's the kind of vulnerability you shouldn't advertise. Again: please request a replacement troll who is less incompetent.

If you think this is what you need to be successful as a Guild leader, then it's not the Guild that sucks, you do. The Guild doesn't suck any more than Armageddon as a whole does. The fundamental issue is that most Arma players can't do crime. It requires a certain amount of chill and savvy to play a criminal, even in an online game. I ran Guild leaders that lived for ~2 RL years (and could well have kept going, but for the usual issue of having nothing left to accomplish at a certain point). We collected protection from every single house. (And sure, some of them may have thought they were just "playing along," but any that didn't play along learned how quickly a twink assassin or two they'd never heard of and would never see again could ruin their day.) We owned the entire top floor of the Merchant's Road apartments back when any commoner could rent them. There were nobles that went to Templars trying to claim the apartments for clan staff and the Templars rejected bribes to help them (even though we were barely paying Templars ourselves), explicitly warning them that the people living there were dangerous. Because we were -- I was liberal about PKing both inside and outside of the organization to keep things quiet and tie up loose ends. And I wasn't worried about giving suckers some sense of closure about why the lights went out. We were the epitome of "there might have been an IC reason for that apparently senseless PK."

You don't have to be a flashy, attention-seeking celebrity Guild-boss like Serpent (although that's a fine character choice too). If that's the path you choose, yeah, you need a team of mindbenders and ghouls. I worked primarily with mundanes, rarely left the rinth, and still accumulated a vast fortunate without ever really doing any work of my own. There were PCs a couple rungs down the ladder from mine that would frequently mistake me for an NPC, and I only worked through intermediaries. (These are the PCs that 95% of the playerbase probably thought of as "the current Guild boss".) If you're willing to play like an actual criminal, stay the fuck out of the public eye, and ruthlessly reject and murder losers that try to join your crew, you can crush it as a Guild boss. There were times I was running crews of 4-8 active PCs, collecting protection from most houses, collecting on highly-paid contracts, and making direct threats on Templars (one of whom sent me kudos because my threat was the only thing that could give him a chill as a jaded Templar player).

Meanwhile, at this exact same time, ignorant yahoos on the GDB would spout off about how "the Guild hasn't been active in years." Of course you think that. You don't remotely have the street smarts to get anywhere near crime, even on a MUD. You're supposed to think that. That's because I was doing a damn good job at it. For Christ's sake, I remember GDB morons talking about how "the rinth is dead and rinthers never hang out in the rinth," while the Folley was literally packed with 4+ active crew planning jobs at that very moment -- people would think the rinth was dead because rinthers were actually staying in the rinth, and according to the GDB common wisdom (replicated here because in many ways the head-in-sand mentality is just as real here as it is there -- just about different topics), THAT NEVAR HAPPENS. And you want to know how much I asked staff for: approximately jack shit. I asked for and received a handful of shitty lockpicks at a high price once, and about 2 years in, I asked for an additional promotion. Everything else was accomplished with no staff support whatsoever, because only a sucker relies on staff to get things done, especially as a criminal player. Shit, you know how long I operated my crews entirely from Folley backroom with no office? A LOOOOONG time. And yet I didn't have problems with PCs staying active in the rinth and working to get trusted for access. I didn't have problems with the entire backroom contents walking off. I made the rinth interesting for PCs with the resources I had, and I managed access to the backroom carefully. You know, I filled the gap with actual leadership rather than just demanding more coded resources to make leadership unnecessary.

I realize you're coming fresh off the heels of some bad experience, and as a result, we all have to collectively pretend that Armageddon staff and the failures of its game design are solely responsible for every single way in which you failed to live up to your potential as the greatest most perfect and epic Guild boss ever. However, consider this: Stealth is overpowered on Arm, as is poison. As Guild boss, you control a lawless area that is basically one giant sparring and twink arena. If you can't take control of the city with those resources, or if you can't make the rinth an interesting-enough place that rinth players will want to hang around there, then I'm sorry, but you just aren't an especially good boss, or you lack patience, or you are too enamored of attention, or you are relying too much on staff, regardless how many people dig your colorful character with a catchy name and your great emotes and whatever.

I mean shit, you murdered a noble or something, right? Good for you! You're obviously doing something right. And you were upset because there wasn't enough applause from staff? That they didn't have NPCs mention and chitchat about it? That is an utterly pathetic complaint. A hit should be a strategic move. Your reward for executing a hit is that the PC in question is dead, not a pat on the head from mommy and daddy. If you're lucky, and good enough at it, the only people that even know you're responsible are the ones you want to know for specific strategic reasons. Why on earth would you care about or even want staff's approval? Most of what you do as a criminal is going to ruin (aka improve) staff's corny little noble plots, so you should be prepared to meet with less than enthusiastic support.

This is the point people are trying to make.

There's nothing TO accomplish in the guild other than swinging your dick around and trying to extort money that you don't really need because of already having a overabundance. Maybe if the guild could actually do something meaningful with their influence or wealth then we'd stop measuring the success of it's current leader by the number of people they've backstabbed.