Kija:

I have seen many small parties, and all have worked out well.

Did you seriously just claim that all small parties have worked out well? Every single one of them? Statements like that are exactly why I think you're just saying whatever sounds good for your defense.


Kija:

Enforcing a very minor rule does not make one power hungry or looking for excuses to ban. I do not remember a single person who has any major discipline from using excessive capital letters; they are simple asked nicely to use less. I believe that is very fair, nor is it ridiculous.

Once again, no one is saying to not enforce rules. We're saying don't make stupid rules. Is there a law against people being annoying? No. That's all that capital letters are at their worst. Yet you have a rule against them. You don't need a rule to be enforced by moderation to keep annoyances from showing up on your game, the community will effectively haze anything it doesn't like. Power to people, man.

Out of curiousity...do I know you, Dever?

Okay, but have I seen you somewhere before? I think your name is familiar but I can't place it anywhere. :/

I was not claiming that enforcing rules was what you said was bad. I said that enforcing that specific rule you claimed was bad, as referring to the capital letters rule.

Even if the rule may seem stupid, it still does not make a person power hungry. There is a difference from viewing someone as strict and viewing someone as power hungry.

It seems as though an opinion of the general public is being voiced right now, that a lot of the rules on THG are unnecessarily restrictive, thus making people not comfortable on the game. And instead of listening to this very strongly voiced opinion, you are choosing to stand by your ground that there is no such thing going on. Just because this opinion wasn't filed in the correct place doesn't mean it's not a valid concern. Don't get me wrong, this particular post isn't any sort of a debate against your stance, it's a post to help you recognize that perhaps you should listen to the complaints here to improve your game, instead of defending why you behaved as you did in the past.

A few people on a blog post is hardly any sort of large voice. Some players do not like it, others do. Not everyone can be happy. People will always have different opinions.

What is wrong with disallowing spam? I believe that is a very reasonable rule. People do not need to spam the world with ten question marks when asking a question. It is just spam. I believe allowing three is very reasonable and fair for that situation.

Kija, I've played THG off and on for longer than I care to remember, and it has always been a game of horrible grinding.

That grinding was only made less insane by the fact that some high level people were willing to group people and powerlevel them as much as possible, now that's gone.

The moderation I've seen by some of your less-than-sane members (Hello Mahn, still believing fairy-tales?), and attacks I've taken by giving suggestions to fix rather poorly designed things have been met with nothing short of immature rudeness.

I know the 'brotherhood' suffers from bias and poor judgement like everyone else, but the only place I've seen where mods had shorter fuses, was FFL back when there was dozens of mods (and some of them are THG related as I recall).


I remember when Mahn banned me after I publicly made him look like an ass after he attacked me for suggesting a change to the dino's 'eat' ability, which is one of the most absurd abilities I've ever seen in a BYOND game. I PMed druid (via the dwo forums since I didn't see him on AIM at the time), and got unbanned. I also had a chat with him, and after that chat, I can safely call bullshit on the 'oh druid ment alot tto us' statements.

THG is becoming a horrible game. You might think that stupidly long grinding make a game good, but you'd be wrong. Making leveling a pain in the ass does not make a game fun. I'm glad druid stopped. It wasn't enjoyable for him, and people gave him way too much shit.

"Oh youre playing WoW, wtf you're making us lag hen you do that."

Shit like that makes me want to delete people, but I don't, because I've enforced on gaves for the past 6 1/2 years, and I don't just rush into something, not do I cave to the masses (like with insane baka's pk spres in FFO not long ago, yet now people who hated him then, are in a domain with him).

And unless you've learned how to balance monsters, small parties get destroyed unless they're cookiecutters of the 'good' setups, just like diablow.

Kija, do you really believe it is spam if you say "Ahhhh"? Does your staff really sit there and wait for someone to put more than 3 letters in a row so they can jump on them and get to be a moderator? Somehow I'm not seeing this picture perfect atmosphere that's being described. Instead, I see a highly hostile atmosphere where people are afraid to chat lest they accidentally incur the wrath of a GM who had a bad day and is itching to take it out on someone.

That's what I'm talking about. If your staff makes tiny rules like that, they are too active.

Oh, and stop telling people how to chat. That'll make people want to play your game. What an elitist thing to do, restricting the way people talk.

No, we do not sit there and moderate everything and wait for something to happen. We do have other areas of our lives. We are not hostile however, and people are still free to say what they want, and the "wrath" is that you speak is this: "Please do not spam multiple letters."

As a moderator, bad days should not affect anyone's actions, and must be within the rules. As I said before, just because a few rules seem strict, does not mean we are evil people who are waiting to abuse people.

Plenty of games have rules to keep chatting in order. It is not about being elite.

Kija:

Plenty of games have rules to keep chatting in order. It is not about being elite.

The rules that prevent spamming etc. are there for the protection/benefit of the players. When your rules start to intrude upon normal players enjoying the game, you've gone too far.

Even giving someone a simple warning over having "too many letters" is absolutely ridiculous and annoying. Ugh. This is just another simple case of a bunch of clueless developers having absolutely no idea how to properly moderate a game.