Been here, done this about four times in the last three years. Idiots will quit based on some great wrong they perceive to have been committed against them, new awkward people will fill their roles. New Tenacity's will pop up and make 3000 posts in their first month. It is the circle of life here. I'm not going anywhere now, pending any unforeseeable circumstances.
There's a rather simple thing to do about the Q-Q and the Ragequit and the Whiny and the Whimpering threads... ->:D
That's what actually goes through my mind. I mean, you'd seriously have to have no life whatsoever to take a game so seriously that you forget much of everything else !
I've been lurking long before i was posting, and i suppose situations like this are inevetable, Some people fear change, hence the "elite" Stigma,
At the end of the day, it's a game, I don't know about some people here, but i have fun each and every single time i log on to a character, Yes. Some times i'm not to happy about things that go on, but it's not like it affects me for long....
Beacause it's not real
' Wrote:I've been lurking long before i was posting, and i suppose situations like this are inevetable, Some people fear change, hence the "elite" Stigma,
It's always about who has the biggest prick.
It's pvp elitism or even worse rp elitism which in most likely has even worse results than the prior.
Some others just refuse to give a crap and plays fallowing the rules as they see fit their needs and have fun at it.
I come here to have fun, and to play freelancer multiplayer with many players, and to role play while playing it.
The rest of what you are saying is true and not so short and easy to answer.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of mob mentallity in this community. With mob mentallity I mean: strive to power by forming groups, try to take a high place in the pecking order by pecking on anyone who doesnt follow your mob pecking order. Use ridicule (mostly looking like: lol you just made a spelling mistake and didnt read this and that in the forums so you msut be a stupid loser in real life) and intrigue (mostly done through skype chats which look like: lol this noob turd is attacking us three pirates... get on your merc/military/police and screw him over). Its the normal thing to expect on any privately run internet gamiung server. The problem is, that there is no more real alternative to this server. The other larger ones arent RP server, and the smaller ones are RP servers, but with very low population. And the lower the server population, the lower is the threshhold for starting this sort of gang mentallity like "ur new Im old you gotta please me or you gotta go".
There are several things that keep the mob mentatlity on the large GC server alive: handing out priviliges to players who go well with the mob, like SRPs, nomads, phantoms, scra, and any invite faction really.
And of course, at the end of the day its always down to the admins. Either they support this mob system (I think an ex admin who quit the admin team called it a "thugocracy"), or thy dont. On discovery GC they do, they were the ones who chose to go this way, by making "superfactions" like IND, nomads, phantoms, and handing out SRPs, which are basically a license to be above rules that othes have to abide to.
If someone points to this, the old "ridicule the heretic" card gets pulled: its a conpsiracy lunatic. And everything gets brushed aside, because it doenst matter if you and the mob are a liars, mean, corrupt, unfair, and so on. Because... its just a game right?
Well, yes its a game, and more than one side can play it.
