I can’t offer intelligence responses to such a large amount of baseless stupidity 8 pages later but I’ll just skim over some.
1. Level 140s: If you don’t like servers that allow levels over 99, you don’t like more than half the servers that exist today. Why pick on us specifically? Simply select a server better suited to your tastes. Sure, 140s can kick 99s around…but 99s can kick 50s around too. Level up or complain. Still, in order to better satisfy the majority of people we’ve been discussing ways to better balance the playing field, including discussions on the best way to go about this. The most likely outcomes are lowered stat point gain over 99, or delevels to 120. A decision has not yet been reached.
2. Sticktuna says something about PaDo’s items and @warpto. First, his items are legit. Seriously, if you have absolutely no evidence whatsoever (not even a shred of circumstantial evidence) please keep it to yourself. It’s pathetic. Second, command logs exist. If this situation happened how about reporting it instead of bringing it up two years later? Seriously, sometimes I think you folks just like having something to complain about. This is akin to the following: O HAY A UNICORN GAVE ME SOME CHEEZ 3 YRS AGO. U CANT VERIFY IT NOW SO BELIEVE ME LOL.
3. About Henhouse and all other accusations of corruption, these were adequately rebutted in the other thread. Repeating the same baseless trash over and over will not change my responses, so please read them there.
4. re: “Thanks for playing! See ya!". She meant it. This is in no way rude. Regardless of circumstances surrounding a player quitting, they were members of the server for a long time and a thanks for playing was still in order.
5. re: Over a year without updating. I’d like to know which calendar standard is in use in your countries. The server was upgraded at the end of May, after which I was stuck with a massive amount of work to rectify the exploit which existed between March and May. Had this not happened another upgrade would have been out by now. We usually did one every 4 months. We’re at 8 now, so it’s almost like we had to skip one because of the backlash from the last one.
6. Events: I’ll accept that there’ve been very few events thrown by myself in awhile. With the amount of incoming messages received on the forums and other crap to deal with, there’s been little to no time. Finally, consider the way everyone’s been acting - would you want to throw an event for you? When I reply in a thread like this saying “this is why the server is not updated†I’m not referring to the time wasted reading the thread, but rather the psychological effect.
7. I work 60-hour weeks including most weekends, and still fit server work into the vast majority of my free time, as well as some of my sleep time. My overworking has not only cost me most of my friends, whom I see perhaps once or twice a year now, but has caused significant problems with my girlfriend of 6 years. Say what you will about the total amount of time spent working on the server, but don’t dare say it’s due to lack of effort. I even script during my lunch breaks at work, most recently having completed a revamped, more in-depth summoning system there.
8. re: Nos on page 2. Are you serious? I feel like saying that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read, but my feelings upon reading this are utterly ineffable. Wow. Are you suggesting that I hired people to abuse an exploit for several months causing irreversible damage? Really? Are you suggesting that I orchestrated an event which would force me to roll back the server? Are you suggesting that I orchestrated an event which would force me to spend months on tracking logs to restore whatever items I could in order to reduce the amount of trouble experienced by the users? Are you suggesting that I orchestrated the worst thing that’s happened to the server, which kept me from working on everything I wanted to? Allow me to make a suggestion. An assertion, rather – that, sir, was the dumbest thing that has ever been typed and will ever be typed, and I am ashamed to have responded to it.
9. Nobody who’s posted defamatory BS on other sites has been banned yet, so I don’t see why you’re even discussing that.
10. Why is Sting a SubGM instead of anyone else who speaks Spanish? How about the fact that he, acting of his own volition, translated every single sticky in every single forum section, and posted them in the then-meager Spanish forum. How about the fact that he then came up with titles for every section and Pmed them to me in a request to create them, then moving all topics to their own section, translating all relevant news posts, and helping everyone who came there and asked a question? I didn’t see anyone else do that.
11. Why is Hyper’s account banned? A player contacted me saying they bought items from him not knowing it was against the rules and was afraid of punishment. Oh, and his own friend confirmed to me that he did sell his items. I haven’t had time to deal with adjusting the other cases yet. I actually took a weekend to stay with a friend.
12. Merc not being permabanned for arena PK? At the time, the punishment was 30 days. He was given the full 30 day punishment. I don’t remember right but I think I also increased it because he should have known better. The standard punishment was extended to permanent only months later, and only after an endemic of arena PKs.
13. Re: Remus. Congratulations, you’ve insulted Melz, a native French speaker, for not using perfect English. A shining example maturity for a 57 year old.
I give up on replying to the rest of this. I see a lot of accusations and no evidence. Most importantly, I see a waste of time. Those of you who don't like how the server is run can just as easily move on instead of annoying those who do.
