Originally posted by Foresteer
I drew all that from an ACTUAL event(s) in game(s) i have played.. so forgive me (seriosly) for being a little cynical of admins and gm\'s holding all the power all the time

(not that the original admins or gms are that way.. but eventualy the people need a say in how things work too... In Real Life consumers of products have the BBB to say when buisness are being unfair.. When Admins are unfair we get a quarter.. to call somebody who cares XD )

This is why when a game gets sufficiently big it needs a good system of making complaints. It tends not to be a problem in smaller games, because the admins are often the people who built the game from the ground up, and so they have a good idea of what the game should look like. But when the game gets big enough that the admins have to start picking GMs from within the player base problems start cropping up. Obviously the admins are only going to pick GMs that they trust, but nobody\'s perfect, and so occasionally there\'s going to be a rogue GM who tries abuse their power. If there is a strong and well advertised method by which players can make complaints (against other players of against GMs) then, combined with keeping logs, this can reduce problems. Of course in games where the GMs are going to just back each other up, and ignore the problem, as in the example you provided, then the game isn\'t worth playing.


As to the problem of spawn camping to get good items, one thing that I thought might at least alleviate the problem is this. Rather than making it so that items only spawn once every so often, why not limit the total number of them available. That way the items won\'t drop at all, until an already existing one gets destroyed, or lost, or something. And since players won\'t know when the limit has been reached, or when an item has become available it isn\'t worth their while to always spawn camp. Combine this with making item drops not always from the same mobs/in the same place, and it might work. Of course this raises the problem of people maybe hoarding items, so maybe it\'s not so great after all. I dunno.