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Originally Posted by Sepulveda
(Post 1282406)
Personally, I feel bad for the guy. He obviously invested alot of time in his character, and to have it permanently taken away by a newly introduced policy that even the GMs admit has too many gray areas and misunderstanding seems extremely uncool.
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You will learn in time that this is something that is practically given 0 shit about around here by the admins.
Its free, so fuck you.
Uthgaard (an ex-GM) banned my account on blue over some ridiculous trivial shit. A 44 druid that took me 6 months to level. I helped Rogean test out the pvp components that probably eventually became Red99, by playing capture the flag in plane of sky with other players on blue. I helped Rogean test out some chat channels functions. None of this mattered when i mentioned it to uthgaard. He threw away the key and none of my appeals got heard or cared about. He even gave my private appeal thread 5 stars when i started to get steamy a bit that he would so casually, idiotically ban someone like that. My dad was dying of cancer in my home around that time so i got angry easier than i normally would because of all the pressure that responsibility brought on me. I never got a single written answer about that appeal by none of the staff, just uthgaard being cheeky like haha i banned your account and youre angry, by rating my thread 5 stars. I mean i assume its Uthgaard, i cant be sure but its someone that can see private appeal threads.
The reason Uthgaard banned me, in an exchange that lasted about 3 tells, in which i stayed polite and non-insulting, was me telling Uthgaard that cherry picking which players got to keep their rule breaking name gave a corrupt cop flavor to GMing. Bam, banned. Respect my authoritay. Theres an interesting story around why i said that to him but i dont want to drift off too much. To make a short story, GM claims on forums here hes a hard ass on names that break the rules, i find a picture of him on the forums, Coach-football team like around 10 players with names like Astro Physics and link it to him in a forum post like right, lol. He logs in the game, and makes me change my name (Taxi Driver) on the spot.
Even Sirken who is alot better than Uthgaard has his moments. When my nephew broke his arm and my mom came home to me like gogogo were going to the hospital nao i left EQ opened and my bind point was in the water at pots. So when i came back 6 hours later or something my character had deleveled from 2 bubs to 59 to 53 in the drowning death loop. I explained all this to Sirken and asked him if it was possible for him to rez me back to 59. He came to me halfway at 55 and i was like whatever, i was a bit dissapointed but it was my fault so. He then tells me something that is sort of a giveaway that he doesnt play on the box. He told me xp is easy on red compared to blue. Sort of, stop being a baby and get grinding its not so bad. Yeah its so easy that it took me 2 weeks, 8 hours a day of killing that dwarf in butcher that they nerfed because the xp he gave was too good and easy, to get from 54 to 58. I know exactly the time it took cuz i worked 8 hours a day selling comics online for 2 weeks alt tabbing each 6 mins to kill that dwarf.
But again, it was my fault so whatever, just thought comment was interesting because revelatory of how sometimes staff dont comprehend the time investment involved in playing the box. So then i ask Sirken if he could move my characters bind point on top of the firepot because if this ever happened again, i will quit for good which at that time i did not want to do. The ONLY reason i asked Sirken that is because the week before, he (or another GM) rebound someone that got cleverly bound away from the pots by other players. By his own fault, his inattention, a player let himself get bound by other players away from his pot bind by allowing himself to be in a group of strangers and letting one of those players cast that bind spell with a long cast duration and its signature sound. Sirken or some other GM later rebound that Nihilum character back at the firepot. If this would have happened on Rallos, people would have clapped like GG! Omg that was clever, devious trick! Well played! But back here in PnP land, he got bound back at the pots. To me that player just lost badly at a chess game. The honorable response should have been shit, you got me there for real, good job. To me theres as much grief there as someone getting "griefed" 9-1 in a game of NHL Hockey 2004. Its a game, not a fucking second life elf simulator.
Sirken tells me no, he will not rebind me 10 feet further on the pots instead of in the water around the pots where i was currently bound. So when i tell Sirken why is that player getting special treatment, especially when that bind was lost through pvp, through cleverness, was it because he was in Nihilum? There had to be a reason that he could explain to me why that player was getting rebound and not me. Sirken then gave me a thinly veiled threat that i did not want to go down that road. He didnt say that he was gonna ban me, didnt openly threathen me with specifically what he was going to do, but i was let known that consequences were coming if i was gonna continue doing what is to me pointing out the 2 weight 2 measures that was getting applied there. Because in the 2 instances, its a player asking for a bind change, i cant see why it was green light for that Nihilum guy and my request was denied. He forced an end to the discussion with threats of consequences. To be perfectly honest, i was just curious to see what the response would be. If i got a better bind of it, cool but either way my curiosity would get satisfied.
So yeah, 1-800-hows-my-stream-of-consciouness-novel
Gotta say its liberating to give absolutely 0 fucks about my EQ account and laying it out like this, glad i could get this all off my chest brodawgs
