Things that piss me off

Lmao, Role.*

Sometimes I feel like when I'm talking to someone in game, that seems AWFULLY newbish... they respond quickly in most instances, and then when I talk about something a newbie might not know about... they take an extra 2 minutes to respond.

For some reason, in my head, I imagine that they are talking to their AIM buddy who is saying "NO MAN DON'T JOIN THAT HOUSE THEY SUCK". But I also see a lot of like "So what kind of training do we get? Can I learn how to rescue people?" But sometimes, its tough to come up with wink-wink nudge-nudge ways of saying "Hey I'm a warrior and I want to practice rescue do u guyz got rough circlz?"

Also, send me a racing sled. I havn't seen one yet, I've only seen a chariot like once. Can I have one?

Lol, I think the racing sled would have been fine if it had appropriate visuals and echos or whatever. Like if it said it was being pulled by a team of gortoks or inix, but its doesn't. It has some weird echo like its rolling by or something of that nature.

Thing that pisses me off:

Missing the good parts about ARM and wanting to play after drifting about on other MUDS for a while, but being all worried that you will be noticed by a staffer and have to deal with a whole world of inexplicable stuff that will be inflicted on you, leading to fail doom in short order.

I'm not a banned player, I'm not an old or vetted player either. I just happened to end up involved in something extremely mundane ICly that marked me a target to some staff members off who were butt-hurt from something I never knew of, ICly or OOCly. I can't explain further because it's total giveaway, I think. Amusingly I would not have known why suddenly the game world animations and report responses grew venomous if I had not learned OOCly about it. (Hint it had not a damn thing to do with any code, hacks, exploits, rule violations, lore, PKing, behavior, consent, RP shenanegans, etc. I almost wonder if you'd believe me if I said it, honestly. I didn't believe it at first but it broke the game for me a little bit that I got singled out in such a middle-school recess kind of way.)

Now I want to play because the game was amazing, but I fear the hammer of no logical reasoning. Sad day.

I feel better having vented at least.

Being on the other side of this with other RPI's, several things are possible.

- Poor quality.
Unfortunately, a lot of people think they are good at describing things. You say it's 'top' quality, but it probably isn't, and it doesn't matter. Maybe they missed a rule staff tries to play by (no using 'You', no describing things that are up to interpretation, using Arm-centric wording, etc. Poor grammar, poor spelling. As a staffer, I'm never wasting my time reading what you describe as a 'shit ton' of content if any of these flags are thrown up, especially unsolicited.

- Unusable
Are there already things in the works similar? Maybe they have plans for it that sadly aren't coming in anytime soon, but doesn't change the fact there's already something considered you don't know about.

- Unwanted
This is pretty simple but unless they ask for it, and in my limited experience in Arm they do, maybe they just plain don't want it. In fact, after spending less than 5 minutes of effort, I discovered two things. There is no option to submit objects, descriptions, or anything related to that (except typo/bug corrections) and they actually tell you when you choose the only logical option (Submissions!) that you need to do it on the forums.

In short, These forums explain how they want it done. They don't demand it, but they offer ways for players to help. The fact your friend chose to waste his time doing something they never asked for is really his problem, not theirs.

Hey you can be pissed off about it, certainly - It doesn't do you a bit of good, but that's what this board is for.

If he was told, no, sorry.. it wouldn't be a big deal?

In my opinion, this is a pretty tiny gripe in comparison the staffs perspective, which I outlined pretty minimally, but still made way, way better points than.. but they weren't POLITE about me doing everything wrong and wasting their time. This is exactly what he did, when it boils down to it. You may not see it that way, but when you have probably a couple hundred players, a volunteer staffers time is immensely more valuable than any one player - again, especially when you're soliciting their attention the completely wrong way.



I'm sure it's frustrating to be told your work isn't going to be used, but not nearly as much as it's frustrating to constantly deal with tons of people not following the system put in place. He got a response, at least.