THIS SERVER NEEDS MORE GM'S

[Crazycloud]

Honestly if a GM gets run off server by a few dickwads then they don't deserve to be a red GM.

That's why we need a REAL red gm who can easily handle trolls.

Sirkin and all these other GMs complain about the red community but that's not the real issue. The issue is the FEW idiots who get under these guys small skin. There are a ton more dickheads on blue then red period.

They just want to host weddings all day just admit it guys.

[Kergan]

I thought one time about applying to be a guide.

Then I realized why would I want to do that?

[HippoNipple]

Originally Posted by Sirken [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

why should our volunteer staff have to deal with any shit at all from a bunch of ungrateful nerds?

its the constant false accusations, its the entitlement, its the not giving a fuck about the server, its the lack of appreciation for people like zade and aussie and derubael until its too late.

i mean, there's people on red that truly believe repops are in some way related to red server dramas/politics. do u have any idea how crazy that is? i mean, with respect to r99, that server doesn't even pop into rogeans head for a single second when doing repops. earthquake repops only exist due to the raid policy changes on blue that went into place in early 2014. the fact that they also happen on r99 was something we never even considered when discussing it.

red just has an uncanny ability to shit on the only person fighting for them, until theres no one behind the curtain fighting for them anymore. when instead, they should realize how lucky they are to have a person fighting for them at all, and literally line up outside the p99 office building to offer blowjobs to that person.

i mean, theres over 6000 active accounts on blue, and nearly 600 on red. based on that alone, why on earth would r99 would bite the only staff member on their side boggles my mind.

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Sirks

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You put in years of work to code an emulator that everyone respects and almost makes every other box unplayable because of how far ahead you are. Then you guys hold onto the code and won't share it with other projects while not properly running the server you do have open. It's nuts. It is sad that a player has to choose between a well coded server and GMs that actually care and are present. The PvP community would almost be better off if the server didn't exist. Best case scenario would be let someone interested in PvP run this box instead of having someone neglect it that hates their own server.

I get the whole volunteer and entitled deal but putting in all that work to create a server and then not actively running it just cockblocks the community from having a server developed by someone who cares.

I know you have no control over this and are just trying your best with what you are given but having a server as good as red99 with no GMs is a giant troll.

[Nirgon]

Name and shame who ran off the guides. Ban people. Talk whoever else is higher up on the totem pole if they don't like it, they can GM it.

The glistening prize waiting for you at the end of this indignant protest is that respected people leave and blame you... on boards you cannot moderate. Amelinda deserved that, you don't.

[HippoNipple]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Name and shame who ran off the guides. Ban people. Talk whoever else is higher up on the totem pole if they don't like it, they can GM it.

The glistening prize waiting for you at the end of this indignant protest is that respected people leave and blame you... on boards you cannot moderate. Amelinda deserved that, you don't.

Who is in charge of appointing guides though? There needs to be someone in charge of hiring other GMs/Guides that only works on Red99. I don't think this person exists. We are talking about wanting to hire guides and there is no one in power to hire guides that cares. Right now don't you need 1-2 people that don't care about the server to meet and agree on an applicant for something to happen?

[Kergan]

Not sure why the staff is shocked that people generally act worse to one and other on a server they are allowed to kill each other.

And of course the volume of petitions per capita is going to be double or triple, because there are far more things to petition about.

Also, it should come as no surprise that you have 10% of the active accounts but about 20-25% of the people logged at any given time...PVP servers tend to have more die hards.

I've been very supportive of the staff, but if you're surprised in any way by how people act, the server population, the volume of petitions, etc...I don't know what to say. You should have known this going in.

I can't imagine there is any shortage of people waiting in line to be staff even on R99. I understand you want to be very selective about who is allowed to have any sort of power. But at this point, you either need to make this place SZ rules or get people in here to enforce the rules as they are. Despite being a very bumpy road in the beginning, I think the server has embraced the PNP rules that were put in place. This is a great example of someone in a position of power on the server deciding to invest some time and make the server a better place.

I've been playing on R99 for well over a year now, and in that time I've seen one patch of any significance that contained PVP specific changes. There is a laundry list of minor and major things that need fixing. We have no dedicated dev (again, no shortage of people willing to do this), no dedicated CSRs and as you said, Rogean could give two flying fucks about R99.

Tell me again why I should ever bother logging in again? You can blame the players all you want, and we no doubt need to shoulder a good portion of the blame. But you can't put it all on us. If CSRs are burning out, bring some in and put them on a rotation so they can take a break on blue before their next tour of duty. Maybe get Rogean to give a shit about R99 for a few minutes and dedicate some resources to fixing things and making the server a better experience.

Or fuck it, if no staff wants to deal with us, no developers want to code for us and the person who runs the whole emu doesn't give a crap about the server he built for us then offer R99 to P99 character transfers and burn this fucker to the ground.

[Agatha]

alot of the problem is upper management, unwilling to admit what they have in red is not classic, and will never be classic, so they are unwilling to change the rules.

so what you have is GM's and guides like sirken enforcing a rulebase that actually works throughout the month, and then you have the people that own and run the project showing up every 6 months, getting mad its not being run the way they want it.

Lets be honest here, its not the players that is burning you out, its the high standards you are being held to on an impossibly low standard server.

the bar doesn't need to be lowered, the written rules need to be adjusted to what middle management (sirken/deru/guides) are already practicing.

I think we all know what im talking about here.

edit: just reread what i posted and realized probably noone knows, basically noone wants to GM red, or install guides for red because they would have to follow a certain rule book and enforce those rules, noone wants to do that because in order for red to even work certain rules need to be bent. if you don't know what that means just look within eachothers guilds that you know is wrong and then you will understand what im talking about. I won't mention it openly but the entirety of one guilds whole port/cleric side is all boxed.

And guess what, thats fine, cause kids.. thats the only way its working here right now.

[Kergan]

Honestly I have no idea what you're talking about Agatha.

[Genedin]

What Kergan said. (both posts)

[Agatha]

Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Honestly I have no idea what you're talking about Agatha.

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