I don't have any idea what is going on. Someone's been having a merry Christmas they probably won't remember...
But really now, people spend hours and hours working to become a powerful mage, a great warrior, an esteemed craftsman. People spend day in and day out working toward a guild house. Other people log into planeshift for the first time ever, and find a mad goddess maxing their stats and giving them unimaginable fortunes in the form of valuable government owned real estate? Wonderful.
you want to see better and more gm events apply to the gm team stop making threads like this telling them you dont liike what they are doing till you have walked a month in their shoes. Threads like this will not help you get anything changed unless you help the team.
I'd love to help the team, sign me up... oh wait... i'm old enough to vote, get married, play with firework, fight and die in a war (if i so choose).... but as for being a GM for planeshift, still to young. Would love to help, just can't.
Does it really matter, though? Everything is going to be wiped eventually, regardless of how much time you did or didn't put into your game/character. Less QQ, more test.
Obviously it does matter, or people wouldn't be reading this.
Everyone's definition of 'fair' and what is a 'disgrace' is very much different. I don't think that is is 'fair' that I would have had to spend my few hours of play time a week grinding steady for about five years doing something I hate just to get the character I want to play the role of. I find this thread complaining that some people 'got ahead' of others to be the disgrace in that people will whine and complain whenever they think someone else is getting more than them.
I, for one, never feel bad when someone is given something more. That gives them more time to do more worthwhile things. Honestly, if I spent a year leveling up and three weeks grinding to get a guildhouse, then one was just given away the next day, I would not bitch and complain about it. I would slap the lucky guy on the back and say "Thank GOD you did not have to go through the same crap I did."
Some people want to take the elevator. Others are proud to say they took the stairs. Some even get dropped off by helicopter. But in the end, when all things come together, the view from the top is still the same.
You have my total respect, Utm, however I have to disagree. It seems to me that you don't think it matters if the event was fair or not, but come on, this is a game! Don't you have enough unfairness in real life? For many people the competitive nature of gaming is very enjoyable (yes i realize roleplaying doesn't require being competitive), and in order for competition to be fun it has to be fair. Telling a guild that raised 6 million trias for an auction they aren't allowed to bid, and then a few days later giving away the unsold house for free to another guild isn't fair. I can get over that however, if there was something they did to earn/win/deserve the house besides being in the right place at the right time. I don't know all of the guilds that got houses, or all of the people that had stats raised, but I know one of the free houses (no less the exact house the guild with 6 mill wanted to buy) was given to a guild that I HAVE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF IN 10 MONTHS OF PLANESHIFT before last week.
I love the elevator and stairs analogy, but with all due respect, I'll be taking the emergency exit.
Unfortunately (and fortunately) I like a lot of the people I've met in planeshift, so i'll still be around to chat. As for leveling... or playing the game... i guess it doesn't matter, I'll just make sure to spend next Christmas with harnquist instead of my family.
[edit]: After talking to someone in game, i'm informed that the guild recieving a free house is, in fact, a brand new guild.
