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To clarify my post is stating that the idea that staff shouldn't play PCs but be restricted to NPCs is not exclusive to Armageddon and its staff. This means someone who wanted to argue that staff should be able to do whatever and that it's just players being blah blah blah unreasonable blah blah blah goblin bile needs to remember plenty of other games have discussed this policy too.

Okay so ShaLeah if you are out there in the ether. Are you part of the problem? Does it take two to tango? Have you ever been uncharitable or abrasive in your interactions with staff? Have you perhaps broken or bent a rule at some time? Have you made a mistake?

For what it's worth I have done...

1 - Walking from Nak to the Arabeti camp on my way to Luirs within 1 hr of creating an elf because I wanted to play in the post but wanted a southie accent to start. (spam walked like I pre-entered all the commands)
2 - I have spam crafted to run to the merchants after reboot for $$$ money.
3 - I have apartment murdered, shut the door bebe the knife will take you away.
4 - I have gotten crotchey with the staff either because I was in a mood or inferred tone into their written response.
5 - I've discussed IC things OOCly!
6 - I've coordinated playtimes OOCly! But not for murder.
7 - I don't think I've twinked but I'm sure by the staff standard I have twinked which is hunting regularly and without needing skins or bone or meat just for ze fighting.

If there appears to be a recurring issue of a 'Great Satan' than that is likely a culture or policy issue and not specifically an individual issue. Like back when Nyr was a dick it was theorized he was the staff 'no man' the guy who was always tapped to decline player requests or administer discipline for rule violations. This theory was based on the fact he came off like a huge asshole but a lot of other staffers seemed alright. So people went oh he's supposed to be the bad guy so all the other staffers can be cuddly. That didn't appear to be the case in the end.

Now I know you may be tempted to say ah but all staff come from players so it is indeed players who are the worst and the staff are a reflection of their playerbase. To you I say look at HavenRPG who has toxic staff AND a toxic playerbase because of it and it's been the same 2 people on staff for years. Culture informs behaviour.

So your theory is that Nergal and Cayuga doing this means nothing. That Anaiah doing it years ago means nothing, because the players will always find someone to demonize. Kay...

But if all the staff just self reflected and had a human moment to go like hey I HAVE MADE MISTAKES. I'm sorry for those mistakes. I see now that there were some things that led to those mistakes and I am going to be mindful of them. The players (who are human beings as CLEARLY shown when Nergal posted and no one took a shit on him but Qwerty) will be like. We appreciate that. Will someone, somewhere, have a bone to pick all the time. Sure but we're talking about general views.

What Nergal, Cayuga, Anaiah have done should not be viewed as "where does it end" but as "oh well I guess that might work afterall"

I appreciate your comments about the TMC situation.

You often discuss a feeling of not enough manpower/being to thin at staff for different activities. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Many other games are able to service very large player populations with less staff than Armageddon has traditionally had. Is there something about RPIs that make it more time consuming? Something about how stuff was handled on the back end?

First thing that came to mind was, is this loin cloth shaming?

And yet MUSHes have their entire system published because a lot of them don't have automation and many people would claim they are more roleplay centric than MUDs, even RPIs >_>