4 years later, but, Pizik said alot instead of a lot.

I miss Pizik v.v

Combining Dannae and Teshy?
Sounds more like a super friend :3

I've known Taz for as long as I've been playing Planeshift. So, a few years.
And I know for a fact he is good at what he does. You should'nt criticize him for that. No offense to any other Gm, but he is the best one on the team. Simply Becuase he knows exactly what he's doing, and he is'nt afraid to take on everything at once.
He is, obviously, a multi-tasker, becuase even though he is being so involved with players, he also gets all his 'work' done. Any bugs/issues, he can get it taken care of right away, faster, than the gm's that 'arent' being involved with players.
The fact that he can do that, shows how much effort he puts into his job.
But here is what I see, with all this, favorism crap. Picking Favorites, that would be having a select few people, that he would be constantly helping, playing with, doing favors, ect. He does not do that..Im positive of this. His interactions with people, are all good or bad timing, anyone can ask for some involvment. Its not picking favorites to live by a first come first serve bases. Yeah, some people may be upset, that they cant get some gm involvment, becuase they decided they wanted to hold some, moderately big RP event, that just happens to be at the same time as another. And think about this, sombody wants an Rp event, such as that wedding, you need a bunch of different roles, for many different parts, with how small the player base is, and how many people insist on crafting weapons/armor or just fighting. Its almost certain, some of these minor roles wont be filled, why would it be bad for a gm to fill them? In Fact, if the player base had more involvment, from 'more' of the GM's a lot more people would be having fun with this game. And if 'all' the GM's decided to contribute to that, there wouldnt be anyone to complain, becuase everyone is getting some involvment at some point or another. Its like a lot of people say, GM's have commands, that players cant use, that make an RP more immersive, thats what this games goal is apperently, immersing the players. There doesnt have to be a reward involved, in fact people should be satisfied, or expect there not to be. The only reason you even need to worry about rewards for unschedualed events, is becuase you give them out during planned ones. Becuase of that, everyone has an idea in their head that GM's giveout goodies, But you cant assume that, becuase people dont need rewards to be happy, if you do, an RP game isnt for you..Its about the story not the reward..
Gm's improve the story.
Addressing, their physical being. The GM 'Sarva' Does not exist in the game, The GM 'Venalan' Does not exist in the game. However if they Change their name to Zyk Yla, or something, [Im bad at names v.v] Than as far as anyone is concerned, 'that' person exists in the game, If a gm takes the time to give it  abackstory, even if they are only going to use the name once, there is no reason they shouldnt be alowed to.

Now think about this. This thread was started, thanking Tazen, for 'helping' the player base, and making the game 'enjoyable'.
How often do you get that on these forums? I've done my share of thanking the Gm team, but thats becuase Im friends with a good few of them. And I support their 'involvment' Becuase it makes people 'LIKE' the game. I also Understand you have rules, But I would suggest you think about changing them, becuase they are making the game bland. The Gm's, are a huge balloon of potential, and these rules, disallowing them to get involved with people, instead of the balloon making the party pretty, it just floated into the sky and got lost..
And mabey popularity isnt a top priority for the ones in charge. But having people to talk to, and having things in the game, that we 'enjoy' Is important, to everyone else.
Grow a heart and realize that..

I'm not sure it will work with next major release. That's it.

Well a new release can go 3 directions.
It can get less laggy, stay the same, or get more laggy.
Its a win-nuetral-lose situation.
best of luck though.

I find it odd that people cant find their way out of the DR in its current state, not to be rude, but you would have to be an idiot not to be able to find your way out, Its a straight shot from beginning to end, the only place you can turn a wrong direction is at the library, and even there, neither direction leads anywhere. The ONLY plausible palce to get lost, is the one spot where you have to drop down to continue, and that isnt hard to see if your brightness is turned up.
Having at least a couple twists and turns, as well as some dead ends would make the DR more Ic for the settings, but the portal idea is by far the best.
And if that did become a problem for new players, make it possible for them to 'find' a map, written perhaps by somody who has spent years attempting to find the exit.

bahahahah thats awsome XD

Looks like those eyes are wearing contacs

I dont Understand how some people can have a hard time updating, I did it manually, no problem.

If something goes wrong and you want to do the update manually, then just open the file /data/servers.xml and replace planeshift.zeroping.it with planeshift.subhosting.net

The error in this, is that it doesnt say IP="planeshift.zeroping.it" It says IP="[some IP address Iforgot]"