grumble
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Post by grumble on Nov 3, 2015 17:18:45 GMT -5
Considering past abuses from staff, it's become apparent to me that there needs to be some accountability to players from staff, with the occasional player strike if reasonable concessions aren't made. I, by no means, am a rational, well-spoken individual, but I can think of several members of this board who are. Should this be a thing? Any thoughts on the matter?
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jesantu
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Post by jesantu on Nov 3, 2015 23:16:54 GMT -5
I think that's what this board already is.
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Post by topkekm8s on Nov 3, 2015 23:23:54 GMT -5
I have thought about this concept a lot.
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rotten
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Post by rotten on Nov 3, 2015 23:24:09 GMT -5
Honestly, the best thing you can do is plan to take over a clan by yourself and run the game without staff assistance.
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Post by sirra on Nov 3, 2015 23:27:28 GMT -5
We need an Armageddon magna carta. Armagnacarta.
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grumble
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Post by grumble on Nov 3, 2015 23:31:29 GMT -5
I know this board is about being discontented, I'm talking about getting more organized, electing a small team to make decisions based on the opinion of the whole and decide whether an act merits a reaction or not, and what reaction is warranted, and, worst case, tell staff, professionally, that the whole group will vote with their feet if a particular issue doesn't see improvement. Fuck, somebody better with words than me needs to discuss the difference between these boards and a player union.
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Post by sirra on Nov 3, 2015 23:47:21 GMT -5
I know this board is about being discontented, I'm talking about getting more organized, electing a small team to make decisions based on the opinion of the whole and decide whether an act merits a reaction or not, and what reaction is warranted, and, worst case, tell staff, professionally, that the whole group will vote with their feet if a particular issue doesn't see improvement. Fuck, somebody better with words than me needs to discuss the difference between these boards and a player union. The playerbase is always going to be split between the majority that either fuck off, or wash up here, and the mix of GDB diehards/clueless newbies that remain oblivious to every injustice. Honestly, I'm just grateful that this forum even exists. |
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rotten
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Post by rotten on Nov 3, 2015 23:48:25 GMT -5
No offense, but trying to shut the game down with a boycott will kill the game.
Best thing you can do is organize a group to play toward a particular goal. Like making a king in Ten'Sarak, or planting a Byn Outpost outside the gates of Tuluk.
If it gets popular, then the staff will have to kill their game in order to stop it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 23:51:05 GMT -5
Supposedly, RF camp began when two players just kept planting tents in a spot and rearranging them to look like a camp for a month or two.
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grumble
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Post by grumble on Nov 3, 2015 23:52:06 GMT -5
Nope, no building without staff support. It's doomed to fail from the start, and further, results in much the same, according to you. One is doable, the other will get stomped to dust before you have the eleventy billion blocky pieces of grey stone you need. Plus, Byn is supported by staff. I fail to see how a Byn outpost outside of Tuluk would change a damn thing.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2015 23:55:25 GMT -5
Well. I'm not commenting on how wise the Byn thing be. Sounds pretty silly to me. I'm just saying ... two players made an RF camp, despite staff refusals to do it, by continuously buying tents and dropping them in a location and re-arranging them. Granted they had to do it for ages, and they had to find every new RF before they died to whatever, bringing them to their makeshift camp. But ... it worked.
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rotten
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Post by rotten on Nov 3, 2015 23:59:28 GMT -5
No, I don't think organizing a group to issue complaints means anything at all.
Just go in and play the game. Get things accomplished. If you have a group of five or so players coordinating toward a specific event in-game, you can get it done.
This idea that we desperately need staff to get things done is stupid. The fact is they need to start being players in the game.
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grumble
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Post by grumble on Nov 4, 2015 0:19:40 GMT -5
Thing is, you're missing the point. We need players to be protected, within reason, from abusive staff, and for staff to have to answer to someone that's not their own echo chamber.
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rotten
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Post by rotten on Nov 4, 2015 0:34:34 GMT -5
And the best way to get staff to listen to players is to make it too much trouble to control them.
I'm down for it. Let's make a king of the Salt Flats.
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grumble
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Post by grumble on Nov 4, 2015 0:42:52 GMT -5
There already is a king of the flats, his name is mekillot.
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