(02-20-2013, 11:20 AM)sindroms Wrote: Well, since you are here and all, what stops you from just making a friend or two, coming back silently and just ignore the forum and ingame twats and factions and just playing and have fun?
I have plenty of friends, I just dont make friends with the people who mak4 sure I stay banned because they're all idiots and asshats. On disco you can make 3 friends per day, if you help a noob out, or if you just stick to the people with a post count below 20. I just dont tell them who I am on the next char after I got banned because admins have banned people for knowing who I was without telling admins.
I came back silently lots of times. Sometimes I even do my best to ignore the twats. But the thing is, you simply cant play here without the idiots who try to cater to the server l33t mucking up your game, making it impossilbe to just play the game without giving special treatment to the "server l33t".
I'll taking the example of Johanna Hardcastle (order) and Roger Wilco (LN) in april to july 2011. I played nice to the official guys, was polite, was invited to join the official factions, ignored all the sh!t from the same people before.
But at some point, they would always ask me to feed people in my facions to the dogs, because their buddy or random leet person (most commonly RoS, Wilde, Nomads, BHG|Core, Hellfire Legion) felt like killing as many noobs as they could and didnt want any non-noob to interefere with it. When I ignored the officials and helped the dying noobs in my faction anyway (some of which I was helping learn about rules, PvP and RP), I'd got marginalized, theatened, and shot by the official facions.
Then I'd get banned although I broke 0 rules and was hostile to 0 people before they were hostile to me, be cause I was allegedly being "disruptive to server game play", or because I allegedly told someone who I was (which was a lie that someone obviously told to cannon 1 minute after I killed him).
(02-20-2013, 11:20 AM)sindroms Wrote: I mean, everyone else is doing it. I do not see why you should bother changing something that has been going on since the beginning. Because, as you can see, these things just won't be changed by one person.
Not everyone is/was sucking up to the cheater-admins like you are. Most reasonable people just stay out of their face, and some do object to stuff, although they get flak for it by people like you.
Things wont be changed by one person, but they have already changed because many people chose to speak out and not shot up anymore. Rules have changed, phantoms were disolved, the idiotic morph system finally got non human tech, exceptions and privileges were removed, repninjas were introduced, setting up for factions got easier, ships were nerfed, some admins that actually werent in dusty's gang were put in the team, the tech nerf was introduced to prevent abuse by powergamers. And a few months after it was introduced most of the people who absolutely needed the OP tech combinations for RP purposes only and not at all because they gave them an advantage left or were banned because they didnt stop kicking and screaming because their advantage was gone.
Things dont get better thanks to people who just sway with the wind like grass, like you. Just another example of what I mean...
In 2008/2009, you were saying that things like setting up reps should under no circumstance be made easier for noobs, simply because they were allegedly hard for you when you set up (ignoring the fact that you knew all the work arounds already because your admin friends liek del told you about them). Back then getting a freelancer IFF and ID with neutral rep before was damn near impossible. There was no barrier gate, and you had to know the invisible inter-faction rep dependencies and spend hours grinidng to get it. Now, when people finally understood that things are going to go down the toilet if you dont keep a steady stream of happy new people coming in, and when it's been set as a goal by cannon toa mke things moe noob friendly, you start doing all your tutorial vids (which do little to help noobs cause htey dont go on the forums, and just show the LNS which you like to blow up commiting alleged rule violations by coincidence).
It's the similar situation for other things like the nomad recruitement which forced peopel to fly morphs with human gear. When its one way all the suck-ups in high postions and in the leet factions say that its the only way, as soon as the admins change it they say the oposite.