Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2014 9:46:20 GMT -5
So, alright, I'm sure many of you who've read these boards a while know why I quit two weeks before I would've had to resign. But for those who don't, allow me to recap:
A few months prior, I had been assigned as a ST under Nyr due to the magic (ugh) of staff rotations. I was given the task of writing up new 'tattoo' piercings (uses tattoo code, but sdesc/desc show it's a piercing) for the gypsies. I go in and look at the way the tattoo code at the custom tattooists in the bazaar/RSC work to see how to write something like that up for piercings, do, and submit it to Nyr. He refuses to even look it over, and since shifting servers, I as a ST had no access to the test port to test new code things and as a ST I also had to have admin or higher sponsorship to even do anything with it. I go in, write up a proposal, and talk at length about the ability to make new npcs in the city-states/tribes that offer the same, thus offering people another way to customize their pcs. Get shot down. Am told he's too busy working on a code so that new 'instances' of critter nests (like spider nests) will come into their own without staff loading them, and disappear the same way, and that he more or less can't be bothered with it. Later I took it to Rathustra who was entirely on board, and even seemed enthused before whatever he and Nyr talked about privately, and then summarily refused me. Needless to say, I decided to put in my notice 2 weeks early because anything I tried to do to improve things for players even as staff was shot down by higher ranking staff.
So a question to those of you who still play: Which would you have actually enjoyed more? Killing more spiders, or the ability to get custom piercings (custom stone/bone/material, and bead color, as well as details like 'nose', 'lip', 'left eyebrow', 'right eyebrow' 'inside of wrist' and so on)? Which would you have preferred, and why?
A few months prior, I had been assigned as a ST under Nyr due to the magic (ugh) of staff rotations. I was given the task of writing up new 'tattoo' piercings (uses tattoo code, but sdesc/desc show it's a piercing) for the gypsies. I go in and look at the way the tattoo code at the custom tattooists in the bazaar/RSC work to see how to write something like that up for piercings, do, and submit it to Nyr. He refuses to even look it over, and since shifting servers, I as a ST had no access to the test port to test new code things and as a ST I also had to have admin or higher sponsorship to even do anything with it. I go in, write up a proposal, and talk at length about the ability to make new npcs in the city-states/tribes that offer the same, thus offering people another way to customize their pcs. Get shot down. Am told he's too busy working on a code so that new 'instances' of critter nests (like spider nests) will come into their own without staff loading them, and disappear the same way, and that he more or less can't be bothered with it. Later I took it to Rathustra who was entirely on board, and even seemed enthused before whatever he and Nyr talked about privately, and then summarily refused me. Needless to say, I decided to put in my notice 2 weeks early because anything I tried to do to improve things for players even as staff was shot down by higher ranking staff.
So a question to those of you who still play: Which would you have actually enjoyed more? Killing more spiders, or the ability to get custom piercings (custom stone/bone/material, and bead color, as well as details like 'nose', 'lip', 'left eyebrow', 'right eyebrow' 'inside of wrist' and so on)? Which would you have preferred, and why?
