Unfortunately, you did not introduce yourself, but preferred to hide behind a silent nickname, so I will answer Mr. X (I hope you at least write to me personally on the discord who you are). In addition, judging by the way you respectfully wrote about me, now I may lose a good friend, acquaintance or just respect from a person, but as I wrote above, I simply cannot get past what is being done - my hands are in pockets, down the eyes and behind the teeth tongue – the position not for me. "Let friends and truth be dear to me, but duty commands me to give preference to truth" - a very famous man =)
Im sure an uninterested person will not write what you wrote, because it is clearly visible how a half-truth is presented at the “right” angle, what is not there is attracted by the ears.
“His response to the review bombing is simply that the reviewers must be in cahoots with the banned player, therefore he can ignore everything they said” - and these are the words of an uninterested person who did not take part in this? Come on! And again (I wrote it previous post), what answer you waited for? "Oh-yo-yo guys, I was wrong, I remove the ban from the player for breaking the rules"? I will repeat: “Thus, this guild is above the law and can violate any rules, each time in the event of a ban, threatening the GM with the departure of the entire guild from the server and the consequences in the RMS rating”. And I will add: they will not only be able to break the rules, but simply push through their ideas (and ofc you are not a person from this guild and not a friend of banned player). If I were a server administrator, I would take exactly the same position - it is obvious that proving something to someone is unrealistic, it is obvious that no one will take a position that is different from their own. Why swear? It makes no sense. There is no point in even discussing it normally, because everything that differs from the position of those who write is incorrect by definition. People had a friend banned and they started writing nasty things about the server - what can you discuss with them? By their actions, they showed their complete bias and dishonest position - we are fighting not because the server is bad, but because the banned player is our friend, what can you discuss with them? You banned our friend and we will take revenge, that's the whole position. And everything else that is presented to the administration here is just cunning debating tricks - those who are smarter among you are well aware that the banned player was wrong and answered for it, but the position of the guild is set - you need to take revenge on the administration, and if you just pour s*** on it like this was done by the first speaker, then it will become quite obvious to all third parties who is right and who is not, and the goals of revenge will not be achieved. Therefore, right now, on this very day (what a coincidence!) all the displeasure that had accumulated over 10 months was dumped on the administration at once! To somehow justify their dissatisfaction with the administration.
Perhaps you are not specifically interested in the fate of the banned person, but you are interested in something else to influence the administration. Perhaps you are not happy that you proposed something, your proposals were rejected and you just found a perfect opportunity to hit the administration for it (and you, of course, at this very moment, being completely unrelated to the situation, not being an interested person, it was on this day that you accidentally went to the RMS forum, it was in this section, you accidentally stumbled upon this topic and decided to write, being in no way associated with the banned player and having nothing to do with his fate).
Now a little more specific:
You blame the administration for what it did not do, but that you are afraid of what it will do. Those, you blame people for your fears. Are you serious? You are afraid that you will be banned for this, you are afraid that you will be banned for that, you are afraid that tomorrow he will close the server. Maybe you are afraid that tomorrow he will come to you with a knife in the house? How is he to blame? I've been making a bunch of offers since the opening of the server and I've never been afraid. For some reason, other players made a bunch of offers and never banned anyone. You yourself came up with what could be banned for this and began to accuse the administration of what you yourself came up with.
"I am genuinely concerned about the longevity of the server..." - It's quite obvious that what you're doing now is to make the server feel bad, not to be concerned about its longevity. You just write one thing and do the opposite. A man is what he does, not what he says. If a person cuts another with a knife with words about how he wishes him a long life, then who is he, a virtue or a murderer?
"People honestly fear interacting with Fluxion, even posting suggestions because of his response." - On what basis do you claim this, on the fact that you personally and several of your friends think so, you are trying to extrapolate this to all people - this is just a cunning discussion trick, nothing more. "Genuinely good suggestions and quality of life improvements are denied (without reason)" - is again just not a true. So you or your like-minded people put forward ideas, they were rejected and you write what you write. And at this time, for example, I and the rest of the server may consider these ideas bad, but you forget to write about it. Moreover, many ideas are put forward repeatedly, i.e. they have been discussed for a long time, the administration, sometimes, together with the players, came to some conclusion and eventually adopted some point of view, which naturally does not like some of the players. And this part does not give up and after a couple of months again tries to sell what it wants, spitting on the fact that they have already been denied. The clearest example is the multi-client restriction. Hot heads for a very long time and tediously claimed that everyone wants this with rare exceptions. They held a vote, and it turned out that a clear majority was against the restrictions. And what? Several months have passed and the question is being raised again, but with a slightly different sauce. People do not want to admit that they are not the majority, but who is to blame? Of course the GM who, upon resurfacing this question, simply said no without explaining. Those, if your idea is rejected it is always "Genuinely good suggestions and quality of life improvements". But I read all the sections with ideas and I can confidently say that they are ill-conceived, one-sided. I don't see any ideas at all that could really improve the server's life.
The server is stable, the server has absolutely clear rules and policies. When you write that you don't know what to expect, can you tell me what a sharp turn the administration has ever made that you didn't expect? Please, be so kind as to give an example. Quite the opposite: the policy with additions and the introduction of things is what it was, and remains so, despite all the pressure from some people (are you not one of them by any chance?). The rules are all clear and I wrote where the latter came from (by the way, do you think it's ethical to advertise one server while on another?). All other rules have been introduced since the creation of the server, nothing changes. There is such a good saying: "With your charter, you don't go to someone else's monastery." You came to a server with its rules and policies, if you don't like them, why did you choose this server? And if you thought they were normal, why do you blame the administration for being like that? Again, this is not the first time I am writing: they were like that from the very beginning, I know this very well, because I was one of the first players on this server – nothing global and important has changed. It’s like buying an SUV and blaming its designer for not being able to overtake anyone on a Formula 1 race track.
"He does not take responsibility for his mistakes or learn from them, only blames others and the community" - And what are you doing now? Not the same? Only instead of the community you need to insert the word administration. How many servers have you changed in your life? learned from your mistakes? Understand what is good and what is bad, what is possible and what is not? He does not learn from his mistakes - and you are the wise man who knows for sure that this is a mistake. Or maybe it's your mistake to consider the correct actions of the administration a mistake? But of course not, everyone is infallible in their own eyes, and all other idiots. Or maybe he just does everything right in the long term, and you do not have enough intelligence and experience to evaluate it? How to find out? Here, historians still argue whether the ruler of the 15th or 18th century was good or bad for his country. Comes to a fight! (I know this very well, because I was part of it). And you know for sure that if the administration did not make a new event, then this is their mistake, which will lead to the death of the server.
What should server administration provide?
1. Stability - is it there, when did you see the last stability issues?
2. A clear policy without changes during the game - it is also there (vanilla server, updates every 6 months, updates strictly follow the official server - everything is done as stated).
3. Write down the rules and follow them (catching cheaters and destructive people) - as you can see, this also exists and works. I repeat once again - he was not banned, having come up with a rule in hindsight! The rule was introduced 5 days before the ban - this is the first, and the second, thanks to this particular player, this rule came into being in part, i.e. he already knew not to do that.
4. Absence of corruption, playing GMs, etc. - fully complied with and you yourself know this very well.
And you constantly demand that the administration return the pleasure of the game to you. Only you yourself can make the game interesting - this is not a matter of inaction of the administration. No additional loot in chests in the form of ice picks will make the game process interesting. No restrictions on the number of clients and other nonsense will not make the game interesting. No GM of the world will make the game interesting. If you are bored playing the game, this is not a fault of the server administration, it is you who have played enough and aged, but you want to return the old feelings and are absolutely sure that you will make an offer, it will be introduced and the flowers will bloom, and the grass will trample on growth! We had one "offerer" who suggested 4 points to improve the server, 3 of them were completed and he left the server after a couple of weeks =) He suddenly found that his suggestions did not work, that he was not interested in playing the game, so and left.
And why do you yourself write "His response to the review bombing ..." - this is what I'm trying to show - there is an attack on the server due not to problems with the server, but solely due to the fact that someone formed a relationship with someone. This is what I call your dishonest behavior. Everyone wanted to spit on the health of the server and its longevity - everyone just wants everything to develop according to their scenario, and if this is not the case, then a war begins with the administration and everyone who holds a different point of view.
Many people think that I play a lot, but in fact most of the time my characters are afk. I am a very busy person and I know how to value time, but I had to spend a huge piece of it on this mouse fuss. This is my last post in this thread so that nothing else happens. I am not an English-speaking person, and not only did I spend a huge amount of time writing all this, I spent 10 times more time translating it so that the meaning of what was written was not lost.
I highly doubt anyone who comes here to pick a server has read all of this - no one needs it. Either interested people come here, or just those who just have a lot of free time and read all this just to have something to do with themselves.
But still, if someone, based on all of the above, concludes whether to play on the server or not, then I state my general opinion on the situation:
1) some of what is written in all messages above is slander
2) some is personal dissatisfaction and a good opportunity to kick the administration for the fact that she did not realize someone's desires,
3) and part of them were just made-up expectations that did not come true and an attempt to blame someone for this.
I am absolutely convinced that the previous writer sets the same goals as the topic creator, it’s just that the topic creator did it rudely and everything was clear to everyone, so a person who can write beautifully and use debating tricks got involved, correctly taking information from the angle he needed and hiding behind phrases about taking care of the server.
I think so, maybe I'm wrong. But let third parties, looking at all this from the outside, draw their conclusions on the basis of their experience and they will decide for themselves whether the administration is really so bad and it’s not worth playing on the server, or is it all right there and it’s worth playing.
