Banned by Nessalin - thanks jcarter!

FTFY

lol I wish they would shut down the forums. Not only would it force those sycophantic to defend their opinions on much more relatively neutral sites (like here and Optional Realities), but it would also frame the debate and discussion away from such suppression and audacious mismanagement.

Also, look at SoI. Can you say dead game? The tipping point, as far as I can tell, was when they shut down the official forums. I think Arm's staff is self-aware enough to not follow in the footsteps of its potentially largest competitor at some point in the past.

lol, you only have asshats calling each other cuntsmacks and the occasional wannabe hipster nazi.

but re boards: just don't let the prison guards IG be the prison guards on the boards; butts will get hurt.

Gotta be honest: I agonized over this when considering making a MUD. It's not an issue to be taken lightly.

@oldtwink touched on this earlier, explaining the pointlessness of watching tone, but he didn't get into why.

Most people on the GDB, save for the sycophants, build up a negative opinion of the staff from basically watching them take a piss on people with contrary opinions or complaints. If the player is polite, sometimes the staff slap the players in the face with their collective dick for a while first, until the abused player finally lashes out and "earns" that golden shower. Lately they've put a little bowtie on their dick. You know... to make it classy. I doubt many players viewed the staff as any less hostile or deserving of mistrust because of this step, but it has been passed off as progress.

This has been going on for... what, a decade now?

The staff have created an atmosphere where any player who doesn't already have a long, positive relationship with the staff who posts contrary opinions or complaints with anything less than an opening salvo of crotch-punches is an idiot. When players open with hostility it's because they've seen the worthlessness of any other approach with the staff. It's a waste of time and effort to do anything other than beat the staff senseless publicly because that is the only outcome other than silent withdrawal that their culture of abuse allows.

sirra: Nessalin's advice about keeping a copy of your post available for an hour "just in case" should have been the highlight of your response to everyone on page 1 who was calling you too caustic. Keep a fucking copy of every post in case someone accidentally replaces it with snark is supposed to be wisdom from fucking heaven, passed down by thy Lord thy Ness?! Seriously?

Then maybe that coder could steal the codebase, and they could open up another game, and we'd see Armageddon become a ghost town in about a month and a half.

It's no surprise to me why Armageddon doesn't have competition. As we've seen on this board, it takes a mountain of man hours and a ton of soul-searing data entry to even get a decent MUD off the ground. It's not really hard work persay. But it is numbing work. You can go into it with all the enthusiasm in the world, and after like two weeks, it's very easy to be like 'fuck this shit', no matter what your passion. Not to mention, if you're going to get this project off the ground and run it well...Then you're either like in high school, or you've got other shit going on in your life that precludes devoting a thousand hours to getting a MUD on the scale of Armageddon started.

Armageddon came about at a time in the 90s, where you had a lot of people working on text games, and it was like the 'thing', which probably crested right before WoW.

You can't give much credit to building Armageddon to the current staff. They've mostly tweaked it. I read somewhere on the GDB that even Morg doesn't entirely understand how the chargen code works. I mean. They haven't even done much building. You, or I, or ANYONE reading this board, could be taught how to code an NPC monster, or an area, in about 15 minutes. You could really have a 12 year old do it. It's not that hard or time consuming. If you REALLY wanted to, you could probably knock out a hundred rooms in one day, and have it all be set up and working perfectly. Meanwhile, Armageddon's current staff have probably closed off more rooms once accessible in the game than they've ever added, since like 1999.

So basically, the current management of Armageddon largely inherited it from those who invested a lot of time and effort into it when text games were briefly in vogue. This same crew already tried to build their own MUD. Arm 2.0 was an atrocity, whereas after like 7 years, they probably spent more time moderating the discussion dedicated to it than working on it. Let that sink in. Armageddon's current staff would be incapable of launching a MUD, if they didn't already have this one.

You combine this with the fact that people like Armageddon. It's a fun game. The only thing that makes it unfun, is the dumb cuntsmack management which Nyr, Adhira and Nessalin have so much to answer for.

All this combined makes it extremely easy for people to either A) just stop playing MUDs and walk away or B) Eat their shit for as long as you can stand it, until you're so burnt out and jaded, you wouldn't play anywhere anyways.

I'd wager that about 80% of the playerbase (possibly more) would be overjoyed at playing somewhere most of the current staff involved, and which was more in the spirit of the game's pre-Nyr golden age.

I JUST read this whole thing, and I can't stop laughing. Not because sorta, the cuntsmacking, the debauchery, or the oppressive regime flags being waved, but because jcarter called us basically an autonomous, self moderating board though no one has the power. For the record, I think the shadow boards are basically three sorts. The extremists, the jaded but functioning, and the laid back sorts.

Sirra may talk shit, and be a bit cranky at times, but he's actually really mellow by default. I spent all day yesterday telling him to get his imaginary cock out of the way of his arguments in regards to skilling up, and then all night having a chill sort of kick back going on in the Discord. We will welcome you. We will also tell you when you're being a cunt smack. Then devolve into a little civil war and back to peace after a bit. I love it. At times, half the fun of Arm is chatting about it, for me.