Threats From Armageddon Staff (Nyr) And Misc. Awful

I don't get why people are making suppositions or asking questions here when the post was clearly made on Optional Realities. I mean it is highly probable that any ARM player who posts on OR also reads or posts here but still. If you care enough to ask, you should ask.

Nah if I wanted to bump OR, I'd pay Bitters to do another sponsored post.

I found this hilarious since it is against the "rules"  for us to "work as a team and consult with each other."


"The game changes over time; what was true 5, 10 or even 15 years ago doesn't always have bearing on how the game works today."
Unless, of course, it was something you did to piss staff off 5, 10, or 15 years ago, which most certainly has a bearing on how things work today.

Yeah I didn't really get that, either.

It's very typical behaviour for this generation of staff. They'll occasionally indulge a player when they think it's harmless, like giving out the R/W skills; what are you really gonna do with those? Usually the answer will be fuck-all, so some admin probably felt like this was a good opportunity to do something that he could later point to when someone complains about not being allowed to do anything. But then it turned out that you wanted to actually do something autonomous and significant, and staff is all about savagely preventing this from happening in today's Armageddon. They feel so threatened by anything that isn't their own idea and under their direct control that they'd rather run a game where nothing happens than a game where things happen which aren't of their making.

Keyword: certain staff members. Not all staffers are bad, but the ones who are have proven themselves to be pretty terrible.

It's like college professors with tenure. Everybody established is so good IRL friends with each other that they'll never take criticism (even legit criticism unlike the sometimes hyperbole here) seriously. Nobody will ever ask Talia to leave for example because she's such good friends with everyone, despite her obvious incapacity to hold admin+ in a MUD from a coding experience standpoint. She's just clueless but that doesn't matter because she's friends with all the other staff. And staff are more concerned about having fun pulling puppet strings than offering a complete product in the form of the game itself.

And Nyr isn't going to leave because he's practically the golden boy from what I understand. Have you seen his recent posts where he's attempting civility? It's the difference between a rat blatantly crawling across your floor, and a rat trying to hide in the drywall. No matter how hard you try to hide it, the issue is still there. Yeah I admit he's damned if he does and damned if he don't, and from what's been compiled here on the shadowboard if there's ever been an admin who deserved such it'd be him. You got to pay the blood price for retribution at this point.

The way it's set up, with everyone being one unified front against the shit playerbase? There's no accountability, and there's no real point for improvement or action at all because the status quo is "acceptable".

Yeah it's shit, and yeah it's harsh. This should be discouraging. Armageddon is in the position where it cares so little about its players that it needs to die out. Someone leak the tarball to me and I guarantee I can do it better, can collect a better admin team from here and other places, and even offer the position to the staffers who've proven they're not part of the problem (at least by not proving they are).

TL;DR you can kill the game and it will come back better than it is now. I'd bet on it.

dont stirr thr tird :0)