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Originally Posted by nilbog
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Let me preface this by saying the underlying tone of favoritism for any guild is being conjured or misinterpreted. A lot of the decisions I make without even knowing the in-game guilds. Let me assure you, GM involvement or decision making that is my own has nothing to do with your guilds.. I don't even get a chance to play a character, much less learn all your abbreviations.
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Ok Nil, here's the real issue: You guys put a ton of work into this, year+ in the the making. It's provided record player base turn out, and rocketed from EMU obscurity through Preferred server status directly into Legend. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out you've got something huge on your hands.
We <3 this place as much as you do, and judging from our relentless pages of drivel, probably even more. There are a few things that historically have lent themselves to the destruction of every hot new EMU server:
1. Corrupt GMs
2. Absent GMs
3. GM led raiding guilds
4. Lack of follow through on enforcing policy
5. Deviation from the server M.O.
Pretty much every rant I've ever made in these forums/ooc has been fueled by
1. GMs playing enabler over "den mother" and being involved in suspicious activities they should have nixed in the first place themselves.
2. Anything that is off base from a "Classic Legit Progressive" everquest experience.
3, Slow reaction to exploits/bugs/ZEMs/etc.
4. Boats.
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1. I don't know how you fix this, or if it even needs to be fixed. If you want this server run with a fluffy hammer instead of an iron thumb, that's your decision. If you need some volunteers to give up their characters and actually dedicate themselves to clearing the petition queues and doing the menial tasks instead of witnessing raids and/or playing their own characters instead, let me be the first. Anyone who knows me knows I've spent roughly 98.6% of my time logged in either helping people, ressing, smithing at cost, or doing something I'd rather not be doing. It would not be a stretch for me. I'm sure there are others who'd volunteer likewise that are both fair, firm, and have a generosity of spirit.
It's quite obvious that your underlings have far more desire to play the game instead of be the bad guy / helper bee. It's probably time you let them. No one had a hand in creating this server with the vision "I hope I get to log in every day and spend all my time GMing!" No, we all love and wanted to play the game. That's perfectly natural.
2. It's nigh impossible to use the wayback/allas to recreate everything 100% classic, we just ask that the obvious things get fixed/blocked quickly. Lord knows verant had no qualms shutting down Fearplane with a raiding group of 25 in the zone if Verant thought one of the scareling sound files was slightly off when getting hit by a blunt weapon. Somewhere between that and not reacting for a month while getting screamed at form all directions about SolA.. is the happy medium.. Example: If Mayong is going to stay in game and Drop that silly rogue poker, he also needs some AWESOME loots that drop 90% of the time instead just like any other raid mob, like Warhammers of Divine Grace and Bard-Only 2hand slashers and broken quest items. And I know for a fact you can't argue with that based on the spirit of true classic lol.
3. You might need more ppl dedicated to manning the lifeguard tower and with less *personal* incentive to turn blind eyes, report things slowly, et al. As far as customer service goes, you'll probably just need more people entirely. One thing this server could really use is a GM in place from, say 8pm PST to 8am PST to handle the offpeak issues. Even if he is an insomniac, Rogean could probably use a little help during that time slot. Which is actually a cool thing, because all that really means is this server has performed and grown above and beyond even the highest expectations, and you're undermanned because of it.
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4. Yeah, no one truly cares about boats. And if they do, they are srsly wasting their energy and letting a great server pass them by.