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Originally Posted by Slathar
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This person is in TR, btw. The continual denial and attacks on Uthgaard coupled with the cries of innocent are only coming from TR members. Interesting, I wonder if there is a bias.
Also, learn the difference between their and there.
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Then let me fix that. I'm not in TR, never have been, and never will be. I have a lot more friends in TMO than TR, and honestly, don't like most TR members I run across in-game. That being said, the reason for Project 1999's success is the level of professionalism brought to it by Nilbog. He is the one and only difference between P99 and EQClassic, or any of the other failed emulated attempts. The server was a success before Uthgaard, and it's still a success after him. He had a distorted image of his own station.
If you're an adult, you've interacted with people like this. People that are hard-working and well-intentioned, but ultimately undone by their ego and lack of respect. Ego is the important thing here. Uth clearly felt he didn't get enough credit from Nilbog and Rogean. He felt undermined. He felt that minimal contributors like Xzerion were afforded equal status, and that bothered him. So what's the biggest wave Uth could possibly make? How does he assert himself as the third leg of a Nilbog-Rogean tripod? By taking down another Dev who happens to be an officer/leader of the #1 raiding guild on the server. That's the big-dick move. It makes him top dog. But he ran into a couple problems. #1, his evidence was CLEARLY insufficient. He had a developer looking into some basic facts of a yet-to-be released raid zone. Not exactly damning. And he had some info from TR's site that suggested they had created an exact-replica of P99's VP. Except Nilbog has the database secured and KNOWS that not even Xzerion could access that information -- meaning the claim was essentially braggadocio. TR's info was garden variety fact collection. The fact that they nerded-up their own server for practice is embarrassing, but not illegal. Is it possible that Xzerion was abusing his position? Sure. It's been a source of speculation for years. But there still isn't any evidence, and given his level of access, it wouldn't be as easy for him to gain an unfair advantage as most seem to believe.
Uth did a lot of good for this server, but he was all wrong on this. It's reverse scientific method. He made his conclusion, then found facts to fit the narrative. He's made posts in the past asking for Xz to choose between GL and Dev status -- it was clearly something that bothered him. He presented the information in a highly inappropriate manner, was disrespectful to his superiors, and eventually leaked information that harmed the server in order to exact his own punishment on Xzerion, regardless of Nilbog and Rogean's opinions. It was poor form. I hope bridges can eventually be rebuilt, because there's no question Uthgaard was a net-positive for the server. He was all wrong on this, though, and he owes the entire staff -- Xzerion most of all -- a big apology.