Threats From Armageddon Staff (Nyr) And Misc. Awful

Since I played devil's advocate for what I guessed a staff response might be, here is something I picked out. If Jazet and his wife both played ARM at the time and both had accounts. Why was Jazet being informed of his wife's punishment? Shouldn't they have both received separate e-mails because staff don't discuss request tool & punishments for one player with another?

Okay I think that's all I have for this thread until someone posts another log.

maybe some other wife got the right e-mail and got force stored and some other husband was like wtf?

Would you be pretty pissed if you had spent years working for max karma on ArmageddonMUD and was dropped down to 4 because of stupid shit from a staff member who had creeped on you and who you had blocked from AIM? A staff member who had never really even had any leadership characters and who had not played as long as you? And who has stolen some of your weed when you met her IRL?

That's what happened to me. I was pretty pissed. 

Out of 15 years playing, that instance is the only time I have lost karma, not counting anything that has happened since I started posting here. 

Despite being a good player for years and years afterward, the last point was never restored. 


Go ahead, people... Don't say anything about fucked up imm practices. When you rub a single obscure imm the wrong way and they take away a lot of what you worked for out of pure spite, don't say I didn't warn you. 

I know you are just kidding, but I was just a boy when I started playing Arm in 1999... And it probably hurt my feelings more than it should have, but I spent my teenage years looking at people like Sanvean and Karianna as the internet equivalent of coaches who taught me what to do and not to do.

And to have the rewards of trust given to me by people who I grew up respecting and trying to emulate, simply smashed by others who wanted to be spiteful, well, again, it bothered/bothers me more than it should... But I have never thought that it was justified.

It's not. 

To Nyr's credit, he restored some of what was taken - after I said something about how unfair it was - and he agreed.

But no one ever apologized for it happening. No one was ever like, "our bad spartibas, that was actually sorta fucked up... Sorry."

And even after years of playing merchants afterward and not getting in trouble a single time, the last point was never restored. Why?

To hold it over my head, maybe, or just to never fully remove the punishment. Or maybe just out of spite.

Eventually, it was this argument - in small part, anyway - that led to me posting the thing that caused me to come here. And you see what that has helped do.

Karma does not only apply to players. It applies to the staff as well. Players may not be able to prevent staff members from having their psionicist and sorcerer alt characters, but we can damn sure let it be known when they start accruing their own form of negative karma.

i b4 ppl treat arm like its a civil rights thing...

Well, almost all of my long-lived characters have been merchants, but really, it is the point of the matter.


It has far more to do with spiteful behavior and unreasonable punishments than it does with actually being able to play a bunch of magickers. 

Umm how long have you been playing the game, hackem?

I have been playing long enough to have been friends with people in game and OOCly who would disagree very much so that you need to have staff support or interaction to play a psionicist.