Arm Hypocrisy

Nothing amazing about it. I've always felt that their efforts to 'punish' players were misguided. You can't really punish anybody because anybody with a shred of networking knowledge can easily multiplay. I've made this point but you can't argue with hypocrites as you have labeled them. Most people are hypocrites, and I am probably a hypocrite sometimes.

Anyway back on topic, yes the APMs are ridiculous, they are also real fun. It's unfortunate when people are two-faced though. In reality the majority of these sad people behind the keyboards are no more than lonely degenerates. Not all of course but most and it makes me laugh from time to time

tarrag you bring up some valid points and I understand where you're coming from and agree with some of them.

What happens at APMs doesn't just stay at APMs. Like just about every online game in existence, Arm has cliques. These people pay money to fly out and hang out with each other in real life, and iirc when Biscuits/OnlyHeStandsThere got married a ton of Armers came out.

Can anyone prove that there's not information being shared between these people who spend thousands of dollars hanging out with each other? No, just like nobody can prove that married couples who play Arm probably share information with one another. Does it likely happen? Absolutely. And just like I can't prove any of that happens, you can't prove that it doesn't either.

What seems silly though is the amount of effort that staff have put in towards punishing players who try to use this site. As far as I can tell little to no actual IC information has been spilled; what has been is years old or incredibly vague ("Soandso is a tuff warrior"). The mainstay of actual information is something that only newbies would find useful: skill lists, branching lists, easier ways to grind, and so on. Unfortunately, certain players have been punished for putting out "IC sensitive" information such as some of the people involved in making the bestiary that's posted here. This sensitive information involves relative difficulty, long descriptions, special attacks, and what they give when skinned...but shouldn't most of that information be public in the first place? Is it a mystery that bahamets are tough and that skinning them will get you meat and shell? ICly it shouldn't be at all, of course you can get a giant shell from a giant turtle. But as players we don't know that because this game is and written by dozens of people over dozens of years with no (visibly) cohesive direction or guidelines.

Most of this information should be public in the first place or not an issue at all; why do I need a 'long piece of bone' to make a toothpick and why can't I use a 'sliver of bone' or 'short piece of bone'? Because the codebase is god awful and the staff have decided they don't want to actively fix it. The hardest part of the game is wrapping your mind about how pedantic the aging codebase is and trying to understand it. As a newbie that's tough, and I don't see any reason why players should have to roleplay as an idiot or inexperienced person for the first two years they play Armageddon in order to even be able to function independently or be at least competitive to other players.

In the end, the game is an Old Boys Club composed of social misfits longing for friendship and the feeling of achievement. This site disturbs a decent number of them for reasons that I can only speculate as they feel worried their game experience will be "ruined" if new players learn things in a fraction of the time that it took them. What jjhardy and others are upset about are that these people will share bugs in the game with each other and nothing will happen of it but god forbid someone post on this board that mekillots are dangerous. I find it silly that people get so bent out of shape over their escapist fantasy entertainment, and I think that the time that the administration of Armageddon MUD has spent on here could be better used by actively improving many of the flawed systems that it has but they disagree and think that monitoring other forums is a good use of their leisure time. That should tell you plenty about what kind of people run Arm.

Yes; I've gotten PMs from more than one person regarding it and getting karma reduction.

I've said this many times before if you think this is bad you should see my trillian logs from days past. I have tons of logs of the old days swapping info with all manner of high-karma players from today I should post those but that would be pretty fucked up.

Post it Delarak