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Aug 21st 2010, 7:37:07
Great post Viceroy, we'll all accomplish a lot by personally insulting each other and focusing on the type of rhetoric used instead of the actual ideas.
I don't know what every single player does on every single server. However, I do believe that both of you play in MONSTERS on the alliance server? I remember MONSTERS raising a big stink on the boards after dibs suicided, banning dibs from the alliance and explaining that "this isn't our way".
Yet, here is your friend/clanmate ViLSE bloviating on this board about how he plays primary only to suicide on other players. For some reason, you don't have a problem with this.
This is one of the major problems facing the community today. As an admin, I'm going to do my best to fix this problem. This is the code of ethics I follow as an admin of a free online text game:
1) Don't use any admin only information for personal reasons or to cheat.
2) Care about the game and try to fix problems.
3) Try to grow the game.
These are the ethics that some people expect me to follow:
1) Use my free time to adjust variables in a php file to fix all of the game's problems.
2) Be respectful or don't comment while the players fluff on the game, each other, or the admins.
It's ridiculous, self-serving, and entitled. Not everything can be fixed by writing lines of code. We encourage new players to play in primary or the other individual servers to get a feel for the game. When players who have been around forever treat the server like a joke and play only to ruin the fun of others, what do you think the new players are going to do?
The game is free. That means that the customer isn't always right. It also means that I don't expect every player to contribute positively to the game. Can we at least try to all have neutral contributions? It would go a long way towards restoring my belief that caring about the game and speaking to the players is preferable to Mehul's way of doing nothing.