Hi. I thought it'd be worth checking the sticky in this forum to see if I was somehow misinformed about what it's for. Part of the issues that the stickied post says this forum is for discussing includes:
Quote:2) Abuse of faction rights, i.e. the exercise of power for its own sake without sufficient justification.
3) Poor in-game behaviour, characterised by repeated incidents which are harmful to server gameplay, and not merely once-off incidents or the exercise of tactical advantage, such as outnumbering, outgunning or outthinking an opponent.
I think both of the above apply to the subject of this post.
I've described the recent behavior of the administration team to several outside observers who understand how Discovery works but do not play here, some of whom have never even played Freelancer before. When I say "recent behavior", I refer to most administrative actions taken since the so-called
Heavy Decision, including the extremely languid response given to the community during the ensuing flurry of forum rage, statements made by admins regarding the bans, the decision to unban only four of the six, the justifications given, the
suspicious activity of some members of the admin team in third-party programs like Teamspeak and Skype, the unprofessional attitude of the administration in posting
obvious bait and salt, the upholding of
the sanction on the BHG| players for that incident with the Recruit ID'd A/) ship, St.Denis's
statement in that appeal thread:
Quote:As for interaction, they may just want to avoid your, and your friends, type of interaction/RP.
in response to accusations of A/) ships deliberately trying to avoid interaction (implying that griefing other players by intentionally avoiding them is acceptable behavior), and, most recently, the total shutdown of the
XTF birthday event, complete with entirely unwarranted abuse of admin privileges
Quote:[5:51:14 PM] Clavius: like i spent 15 minutes to come from gamma to tau 23
[5:51:15 PM] Phantom: wasnt
[5:51:15 PM] Clavius: and that shit
[5:51:17 PM] Clavius: teleports me
[5:51:18 PM] Clavius: to crete
[5:51:27 PM] Phantom: are you fucking serious?
[5:51:30 PM] Werdackel [早苗 ミヤス]: oh wow
[5:51:33 PM] Clavius: ye
to punish players for doing something that isn't even against the rules (leaving one's ZoI), and the "questionable" choices of who to elevate to staff positions and who on the staff isn't worth trusting, not to mention the total failure to successfully run a
simple event that was pre-planned for weeks and the horrid lack of communication with players responsible for
another event, resulting in something that could have and should have been really cool, involving dozens of players, remaining at a standstill for
weeks. And that's not mentioning things like the way the
dev strike were handled.
When I describe this behavior to these outside observers, the reaction is the same.
"Does this server's administration want people to play the game?"
Multiple significant player attempts at creating activity, both pre-planned and spontaneous, have been shut down by the administration, whether through intentionally saying "no, you can't do that", or just incompetence.
Simple1,
routine2 housecleaning takes weeks or even
months3. Things like the Exiles ID fix
still aren't done. It really feels like the administration is actively trying to chase people away from the community. So, looking at all of this, I have to ask,
What is the admin team trying to do?
I don't ask this maliciously. I ask this out of concern, with sincerity, and a longing to see order restored. There is great disharmony in the community, and, for the most part, from where the average community member is standing, it's because of poor planning, incompetence, or stubbornness on the part of the admin team, as well as a complete lack of intuition regarding what the will of the community on any particular issue is. Talk to us and do it now. Tell us what you're going for, and start listening to us more. Don't let people sit and be angry. Have the courage to apologize if you honestly think you were wrong (and you should). Just reach out.
.. We understand that there is always lots of work on the administration shoulders and the time is not enough to process the issues faster. We just want to remind you that 12 days passed since the last reply we received here quoted above (next week). Please excuse our curiosity, it is very exciting for us and we are dying to know the result of our request. Thank you for your time.
