What actions were "holier than thou attitude"?
I realize that simply because one works on a game does mean that should moderate. Our team however is small and sometimes, people cannot be here. We put trust into eachother.
I have said nothing that proves Mettool correct. Misquoting me is a poor arguement. I never said his other reasons had no merit. Those are opinions, and he has the right to believe what he wants. However, when he claims that we ignored him and treated him as just a host, this is the basis of fact. The problem is that this fact is not true.
Having a spam rule does not prove we have short fuses. Some could say it proves we strict, but that is different than having a short fuse. Asking someone nicely when they break a rule is proof that we do not.
I was not referring to a couple of level ones. There have beeen many higher level parties that are small and have worked out well.
I was not using it as an excuse; I was simply making a point that many games have rules to keep things in order, because that is what they are there for. Games need rules otherwise people do what they want. I do not believe they are dumb either.
I never said the staff was perfect; no one is perfect. I had even stated that some things have happened. | |
Kija:
I have said nothing that proves Mettool correct. Misquoting me is a poor arguement. I never said his other reasons had no merit. Those are opinions, and he has the right to believe what he wants. However, when he claims that we ignored him and treated him as just a host, this is the basis of fact. The problem is that this fact is not true. My question is...what is defined as fact and what is defined as opinions to you? Let's put it this way..."My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard." That could be argued as a fact, because it either brings all the boys to the yard, or it doesn't. "Damn right, it's better than yours." That would be an opinion, because what constitutes as 'better' could be debated. I would think that treating someone being 'ignored' is an opinion, but if you've got the reasoning... | |
What the fuck, Poto. O_o
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The general assertion is that we have brushed Mettool's suggestions aside and ignored them, abused him, and treated him as nothing but a host.
The facts: All suggestions were listened to and discussed throughly among the members. Nothing was ever ignored. I am curious on what events that could have happened to say that we abused him. That never happened either. Unless someone wants to claim ignoring his suggestions were, which never happened. He was never treated as nothing but a host. He did more than just host anyways. Everyone is treated equally, and if there is a problem brought up, we have always discussed it. I hardly see that is treating him as just a host. | |
Well, surely something had to have been going on to make Druid feel this way. I had been hearing similar rants from him in AIM for...a year, I think?
I don't know much of anything from the staff's point of view, but when I played I remembered there being grievances and complaints about Druid's hosting schedules and untimely reboots from the players. That wouldn't reflect in any ban list because as he wrote in the journal, he didn't like digging deep with moderation so I doubt he would have banned anybody for that. | |
The reason he feels this way is because even though the suggestions were discussed, some came to the conclusion that he did not like, such as the swear filter. Because of this, he has turned into having a group discussion and not getting everything he wanted into we ignoring him completely and abusing him.
There is a difference from coming to a conclusion as a group who listened and discussed things and a group who ignores someone and abuses them. | |
This thread is beast.
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Look what you did, Druid!
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/4811/nabeshinsr1.gif Man, never pull machine guns out of your afro like that again. | |
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THG sucks anyways. I was a previous player. It was fun only because there were sometimes others to play with. The gameplay, however, was horrible.
The battle system just plain sucked. Players had all the time in the world and it was 100% turn-based. Not fun. Also the part where you get to TOTE or whatever the hell it's called just completely ruined the gameplay. Why make monsters that high of a level and then just boost players up 20 levels? That ruins the game. THG sucks, however it's story was fairly good. | |
I don't think it's fair to write off the game that it universally sucks simply because you don't find the kind of battle system fun. I agree about the level-boosting, even if you overstated it.
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The battle system is basically everything in THG, seeing as how it's the only thing you do in the game. You follow a single storyline. It's not like there's other things you can do other than train and do the storyline.
The skills in the battle system were a fairly ok, but the battle system was just plain not fun. There are no minigames or anything as you'd see in most console FF games and other features. A game where you go around killing stuff all the time is just plain not fun, and I think a lot of people would agree there. Tell me one other thing in THG besides the battle system that YOU would consider fun that has to do with gameplay only, this doesn't include things like chatting with friends, because that is a lame excuse. Grouping with friends is also having to do with the battles so that doesn't cout either and it also goes into chatting kind of. I didn't write it off seeing as how I could be considered an 'olbdie' and have seen mostly everything that game has to offer, which is not much, by the way. | |
Eh. I found the battle system quite fun. It was the grinding that brought it down for me. Maybe it'd because of my limited selection of Byond games I've played, but the only one I've seen with a sort of minigame was one of the beta versions of Dragon Warrior Online, anyway.
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And yeah, plenty of games have those chatting rules. Plenty of games are also shoddy Dragonball Z rips. Because other games do it is your excuse? All those rules are going to do is discourage growth of your game while creating an illusion of order. You don't need dumb chatting rules to create order.