Gems From The GDB

Remember when you'd subdue someone and attack them? It was like a super easy way to pkill. If you attacked a subdued person they were TOAST. And it was (maybe?) unfair. Well, let's not say it's unfair because someone who is essentially tied up should be able to be killed pretty damn quickly. But it's so easy and so tempting to exploit that some measure of fairness had to be set in place. For years people would die to this. They'd request a rez and be denied. Pearl gets ganked by youknowwho and has her corpse ldesc changed to show body parts strewn about everywhere. Her death was announced through the streets. Word got out about it fast. Not only did she get rezzed, they also changed the code so it wasn't possible anymore to pull this off. Some things never change. And that was a previous regime who were responsible, in an era where (female) player coddling was rampant. But it's hysterical how nyr referenced pearl some time this year as an example of a character who changed the world and grew to power and 'you can do it too!!' It's so over the top and so blatant you almost have to wonder if the guy is joking.

I know staff has a history of some shady dealings. It's the same on any game, it's, sadly, human nature. These things cannot be eliminated entirely, although they can be adjusted somewhat, and I could be wrong but it appears that's what staff's trying to do... but current staff can't really be held accountable for the mistakes of previous administrations, that's not really fair, not to say that's what anyone is doing, just wanted to make that clear.

What's alarming to me is an increasingly systemic toxicity that needs to be observed, identified, and curbed before it reaches the proportions I witnessed firsthand with the Hellmoo meltdown. Players would very much like to have their efforts appreciated more, and subject to less instensive scrutiny and judgement. It seems, many times, to me at least, that staff, when dealing with players, start with some assumptions and preconcieved notions as to the intentions of players. It's possible staff would benefit greatly if they had a policy of speaking only in E-prime while communicating with players.

Nyr admitted, when addressing requests for an apology, from what I saw, that staff are human beings, make mistakes, and can't know everything. Well, that's a great start, I think. Now time for staff to find ways to observe their own attitudes and behaviors, and make adjustments. I'm not expecting a change to occur overnight, that would be foolish. I know many of you have a good deal of dislike for him, because you feel he is ruining the game you love. You're all very passionate about the game, and I know I read a profound post a while back that Dman made on the GDB about passionate players, and how people being passionate, intelligent, and confident can brew up some serious conflict and result in contempt, and concluded by saying that, with the quality he's seen in the RP on the game, he wouldn't trade the playerbase for one that ISN'T passionate about the game. I think this is a great observation, and while I'd like to see staff accept, observe, and adjust this, I think everyone's situation could change for the better if we ALL did this.

There's no way to deny that the crimcode made the NPCs behave in ways that were totally at odds with how they should have. The half-giant soldier who grabbed the templar instantly made himself a traitor when he did so. No NPC soldier with the templar should have defended the half-giant. The templar screamed "Kill him!" at his followers, a direct order to kill the half-giant. Case closed.

So now you're trying to say that new characters, who may well have never played in the AoD before and almost certainly had no experience in attacking soldiers while part of the AoD before, should have known exactly how to navigate the crimcode in the heat of the moment while their templar was in danger and screaming "Kill him!". Good grief, I can just hear the rationalization wheel squeaking as the hamster runs.

The staff should have said "Yes, it was not their fault and the crimcode does not work optimally. Nevertheless, we won't resurrect them as we feel it would be too jarring to the game. Sorry". That is all that would have been needed, instead of bullshit justifications like yours here.

Do you think its possible to just paste the whole log of that event? The one I read was pretty heavily edited. Just totally data dump it. Way I recall reading it was that the recruits attacked ahead of the Sargeant.

I think there should have either been a resurrection or apology. There should be documents on AoD boards explaining crimecode for fuck sake, AoD gets a lot of new players and having crime code not in the hands of these recruits is ridiculous.

That being said....

You spent too much time on your cross though, Purg, and you did Kronibuster. My sympathy was with you to begin with and still is for the first part, but staff really had no choice but to ban you. They didn't even ban you when you posted on here to begin with just when you went all Tropic Thunder.

I saw a crimcode, ahem, "feature" up close and personal not long ago. I was mad at first, but when I calmed down and really thought about it, it wasn't the soldier, or the officer's fault. I won't discuss specifics but I hope staff sees it as a bug and clears it up so they can do their job properly.