Staff problems

Protagonist · #1 08-10-2012, 11:53 AM

I had not played in a long while. Before Uth left. Good riddance honestly. He had been a jerk* just about on every occasion. Server crash and died from crash, not being near any mobs ... Logged on after submitting the petition my character was rez'ed but standing next to a KoS mob. Got a tell "Uth tells you: gtg?" and before I can respond he had logged. Another petition later he informs me he cannot rez because it was not due to a bug or something.

That was just one incident with a staff member. The other one came when I got stuck on the monk shackle quest. The quest stopped right before the good shackle. After searching a bit on the forums and Allah of when the quest was put into the game I sent a staff member a question about the quest. The response was something like "why would I know". That urked me the most because of who the message was from.

So I stopped playing mostly because of the borked quest. However I would visit the forums from time to time. Whenever an opportunity presented itself I would let my frustrations out about the staff not exactly being polite or even decent....IE someone else would make a post and I would go over the key points of the last 2 paragraphs. No insults were said ... just the overall lack of professionalism was pointed out.

Back 3 months ago. I wanted to come back. Go to log in and my account is now banned. I make a petition asking the reason and no response yet. 3 whole months and not a word of why. Here lately I had been trying anything to get their attention anyway I can. PMs, IRC, anything...even tried AIM. Each time I'm either ignored or given 1 word answers then ignored. So... no idea why I was banned. Probably for insulting staff which I made damn sure I didn't ... at least not blatantly.

Are all experiences with the staff like this? Would have been out 3 months ago but the most the **players are good people and I don't play with staff members so why let one or two people ruin a good thing.

*he isn't staff anymore...insult implied
**players are good people EXCEPT on the forums/irc

Messianic · #2 08-10-2012, 12:00 PM

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I had not played in a long while. Before Uth left. Good riddance honestly. He had been a jerk* just about on every occasion. Server crash and died from crash, not being near any mobs ... Logged on after submitting the petition my character was rez'ed but standing next to a KoS mob. Got a tell "Uth tells you: gtg?" and before I can respond he had logged. Another petition later he informs me he cannot rez because it was not due to a bug or something.

May have been a jerk, but at least he was a jerk to everyone and was a decent enforcer. He kinda melted down later on though.

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The other one came when I got stuck on the monk shackle quest. The quest stopped right before the good shackle. After searching a bit on the forums and Allah of when the quest was put into the game I sent a staff member a question about the quest. The response was something like "why would I know". That urked me the most because of who the message was from.

How did you contact this staff member? I hope you didn't petition or /tell them in game to ask about a quest.

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just the overall lack of professionalism was pointed out.

This isn't their profession.

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Back 3 months ago. I wanted to come back. Go to log in and my account is now banned. I make a petition asking the reason and no response yet.

An in-game petition, or via the petition forums? Have you bumped it at all? Did you use any 3rd party programs at all, even on other servers?

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Are all experiences with the staff like this?

I've never had a bad experience with any staff member, even with Uthgaard. He was abrupt and short when I petitioned about a weird speed exploit I stumbled onto, but that doesn't bug me.

Vermicelli · #3 08-10-2012, 12:32 PM

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May have been a jerk, but at least he was a jerk to everyone and was a decent enforcer. He kinda melted down later on though.

How did you contact this staff member? I hope you didn't petition or /tell them in game to ask about a quest.

This isn't their profession.

An in-game petition, or via the petition forums? Have you bumped it at all? Did you use any 3rd party programs at all, even on other servers?

I've never had a bad experience with any staff member, even with Uthgaard. He was abrupt and short when I petitioned about a weird speed exploit I stumbled onto, but that doesn't bug me.

I just want to add that every time I have seen any staff member, including Uthgaard, being a dick to someone, they were being a double dick to the GM. One time, Uth was putting on a GM event in Timorous Deep to see who could catch the most zone-specific fishing items, and some jackboats kept killing all the fishing vendors Uth spawned so we could equip ourselves. All his response was, was to type in all caps, "STOP KILLING THE VENDORS OR THIS EVENT IS OVER." I would have death touched the harassers, summoned them to the middle of the ocean farthest away from any shore, and /told them "Don't mess with my good times." Bring back Uthgaard and bring back GM events!

lawll · #4 08-10-2012, 12:04 PM

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I had not played in a long while. Before Uth left. Good riddance honestly. He had been a jerk* just about on every occasion. Server crash and died from crash, not being near any mobs ... Logged on after submitting the petition my character was rez'ed but standing next to a KoS mob. Got a tell "Uth tells you: gtg?" and before I can respond he had logged. Another petition later he informs me he cannot rez because it was not due to a bug or something.

That was just one incident with a staff member. The other one came when I got stuck on the monk shackle quest. The quest stopped right before the good shackle. After searching a bit on the forums and Allah of when the quest was put into the game I sent a staff member a question about the quest. The response was something like "why would I know". That urked me the most because of who the message was from.

So I stopped playing mostly because of the borked quest. However I would visit the forums from time to time. Whenever an opportunity presented itself I would let my frustrations out about the staff not exactly being polite or even decent....IE someone else would make a post and I would go over the key points of the last 2 paragraphs. No insults were said ... just the overall lack of professionalism was pointed out.

Back 3 months ago. I wanted to come back. Go to log in and my account is now banned. I make a petition asking the reason and no response yet. 3 whole months and not a word of why. Here lately I had been trying anything to get their attention anyway I can. PMs, IRC, anything...even tried AIM. Each time I'm either ignored or given 1 word answers then ignored. So... no idea why I was banned. Probably for insulting staff which I made damn sure I didn't ... at least not blatantly.

Are all experiences with the staff like this? Would have been out 3 months ago but the most the **players are good people and I don't play with staff members so why let one or two people ruin a good thing.

*he isn't staff anymore...insult implied
**players are good people EXCEPT on the forums/irc

Welcome to the world of private servers. It's like the old saying goes "you get what you pay for" and that is nothing!

Protagonist · #5 08-10-2012, 12:08 PM

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Welcome to the world of private servers. It's like the old saying goes "you get what you pay for" and that is nothing!

Not that it gives me any special treatment but back when I first found the game I donated just about every month I played.

lawll · #6 08-10-2012, 12:10 PM

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Not that it gives me any special treatment but back when I first found the game I donated just about every month I played.

You get no benefits on this server for donating unlike other private servers (not that it's a bad thing).

Protagonist · #7 08-10-2012, 12:12 PM

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You get no benefits on this server for donating unlike other private servers (not that it's a bad thing).

I never asked for any. I was just happy for the nostalgic experience. I know whatcha mean though.

lawll · #8 08-10-2012, 12:17 PM

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I never asked for any. I was just happy for the nostalgic experience. I know whatcha mean though.

You just gotta know what your getting into when you put a lot of time into private servers. It may shutdown without warning or they may crash and not have proper backups in place. Play and have fun but don't get attached because when that glitch happens and you lose all that time you put into the game you won't get so mad about it.

Shannacore · #9 08-10-2012, 12:07 PM

In b4 R&F

SirAlvarex · #10 08-10-2012, 12:12 PM

I actually liked UTH, but I never had to deal with him in a raid setting. I did see what he had to put up with during his GM events, and I could see how the immaturity of people would cause him to lose it. His post-leaving meltdown on the forums tho...those were intense.

I miss the GM events he used to run. Really brought life to the server.

As for being randomly banned when you came back, UTH left during the time when there were a lot of issues with third party programs. So if you left before he did, and you used ShowEQ or something, then that would be why you were banned. Especially if you still have it installed. Logging in with it activated today will get you a perma ban...if they still have the detection software running.