Time for a Vacation

[mikewsnc]

I have watched this gaming word grow for years now. Much longer than my forum reg date says. Over these last six or seven months things have started to deteriate greatly.
        GM\'s this part is to those of you in game going around renaming people. I understand renaming someone who was idiotic enough to name themselves sk8er or some dumb things like that but you have to have a line somewhere. I read a post from a guy named Eiffel. Now this seems a perfectly appropriate name. Yes yes I know \"there is an Eiffel tower\". So what, who\'s to say there was no chance in a fantasy world that a parent wouldn\'t name there child Eiffel. Guys your taking the RPG element and turned it into a dictatorship.
       In this next thought I know there is no way I can be alone. Mods, Get over yourselves, PLEASE. Yes you have a job to do, this I understand, but come on is it in your job description to be completely rude to anyone who wasn\'t here since the days of AB. Yes I know the influx of Newbs we have seen since the start of CB has been somewhat overwhelming but this is no reason to be rude. Even to the ignorant.
        Ok enough for now, I will see you guys in 06 and hopefully everyone has realized we live in this game for fun and we don\'t need to be told when we can eat breath talk sleep and for goodness sake what we can name ourselves (within reason of course)

Aranis

www.dark-matter.co.nr

[Phinehas]

*yawn*

Here we go again. Ten-to-one this thread is locked before the night\'s over.

See ya Aranis. Come back soon, and make sure you let Zan or someone from the Ethos know you\'re leaving. Like me. Yeah, I\'ll do...

[mikewsnc]

Im still going to help you guys as far as keeping the site up and also for funding parts of the various festivals we hold so no need to worry about saying goodby.

Aranis

And yeah they will lock this thread but doesnt matter. They know I am write and I feel the four years or so I have been with this game gives me the right to at least speak how I feel.

[Efflixi Aduro]

Don\'t hate me for it but I actually sort of agree with him a bit.  The mods and gms (in general nothing personal) are going into name/post nazi mode and it has to have its limits. I see nothing wrong with the name Eiffel. Personally, I see gms and stuff who have names much worse than Eiffel.
This is getting pretty bad too. As you guys know all of IT quit ps. When I asked seprot about it he reffered to people having too much power.
Syzerian Aralos whom most of you should know also quit ps though he didn\'t announce it. I talk to him in guildwars all the time and when I asked him why he quit he also brought up the subject of to much power.

I think the gms should just chill a bit and let people with names like Eiffel go. And the mods should chill a bit and let people post freely without worries of getting their post deleated.

Oh ya a lot mods/gm are pretty mean when people get into playing planeshift without knowing its a roleplaying game then ban them for nothing. It\'s way too easy to be a gm right now if you ask me.

[Kiern]

Later, dude I don\'t know.  You make valid points.

My point of view is too popular nowadays.  Ah well.

[Valbrandr]

its too bad that you are leaving for a while.  I understand your complaints and everything and why you need a break.  Just come back soon so we can talk mike.

See you soon

[Uyaem]

the guy\'s name was \"Karl Marx\"  
Don\'t know why I mention that though, I just felt the urge to do it.

EDIT: O.o I am pretty sure I pressed the \"send PM\" button, not \"reply\" o.O

[Karyuu]

Originally posted by Kiern
My point of view is too popular nowadays.  Ah well.

Uh-oh, might have to change it, Kiern :rolleyes:

Your views on names don\'t exactly coincide with the rules stickied in the General section of the forums, Efflixi, plain and clear for all to read. As it has been stated, if you disagree with the rules, discuss them with those who created them, not with those who have been assigned with enforcing them. It\'s a fruitless task, otherwise. I think this is an obvious observation.

Really, the amount of naming threads that go up is ridiculous. If it\'s a new player, at least they\'ve the lack of previous experience to excuse them. But for someone who has been with the community for several years not to learn that such threads are useless, is silly.

People leave, and people come. It\'s natural. The tiniest of percentage of those who have been here three or four years ago are still here with us now, and three or four years later many more will be replaced. Every player has had ties and relationships with people here, of course, and because of these they will be missed. But not everyone is expected to stay, and I think that\'s alright.

So good luck to you on this break, Mike, and come back sometime.

[Phinehas]

*sigh*

Whatever happened to the good old days of Cabali flaming? The GM\'s never did anything about that. Now it\'s like, \"Hey you hurt his feelings!\" *lock*

[Karyuu]

GMs? Mods? A tiny bit of difference, Phinehas :>

[mikewsnc]

Originally posted by Karyuu

Originally posted by Kiern
My point of view is too popular nowadays.  Ah well.

Your views on names don\'t exactly coincide with the rules stickied in the General section of the forums, Efflixi, plain and clear for all to read. As it has been stated, if you disagree with the rules, discuss them with those who created them, not with those who have been assigned with enforcing them. It\'s a fruitless task, otherwise. I think this is an obvious observation.

Really, the amount of naming threads that go up is ridiculous. If it\'s a new player, at least they\'ve the lack of previous experience to excuse them. But for someone who has been with the community for several years not to learn that such threads are useless, is silly.

As for the \"stickied in the general section\" Your right. No doubt, its there. That doesn\'t make it right though. And the only person to ever listen to what I had to say in game was TMed and out of game was Acraig. So its not like most of them care much less listen.
And as for the amount of naming threads, well one would figure after so many of them lately someone should have posted a definitive response from the devs or mods.
Somehow I can feel my first deleted post coming quickly today. Either way, Devs please listen to me at least a little. I love this game, Have been a part of it a long time. Please set restrictions or semi-guidelines for the mods and GM\'s. The power they have at this point to disrupt and hinder my RP in Planeshift is unbelievable.

Aranis

[Karyuu]

If you have complaints against GM behavior and have specific logs to back it up, Acraig has stated many times that he is more than willing to take a look. He has provided an email address in previous threads which you can use to submit the logs. No logs? Stick around until you think you have something of value to show. Otherwise, throwing random complaints into the wind is unfortunately no good.

This has been stated before.

[mikewsnc]

Originally posted by Karyuu
If you have complaints against GM behavior and have specific logs to back it up, Acraig has stated many times that he is more than willing to take a look. He has provided an email address in previous threads which you can use to submit the logs. No logs? Stick around until you think you have something of value to show. Otherwise, throwing random complaints into the wind is unfortunately no good.

This has been stated before.

You know what I am sorry to have to go here but this is a public thread. It is an open thread. This is a place to talk about anything as long as you dont outright flame,curse, or just stait up be an ---. So I have the right to voice my opinion here. OPINION that seems to be a common voice among many planeshifters.
If I had 500 people in a building and 150 of them say its way to cold then it may just be an opinion but I should probly look into it.
Point blank if you do not agree with me fine, post your reason. yet you feel compelled to come here and just tell me in more words that my opinion however much valid has no right to be posted here and have no relivance \"throwing random complaints into the wind\".
So either find a side of this issue and post about it or dont post at all if all you are planning to post is about how stupid I was to post this thread.

Thank You,

Aranis

[Karyuu]

Deep breath - you misunderstood.

My last post addressed the issue of improper GM behavior that you said disrupts and hinders your RP in-game. Now, Acraig himself has stated before that if this happens, email him about it. I am reminding you of one of the choices you have - contacting someone higher than a GM to look at a specific issue and hopefully reach a decision faster than posts on the forum can yield. I wasn\'t telling you to shut up or refrain from posting your opinion - which is, indeed, shared by more than just a few people. No need to put on a defensive shield.

[Phinehas]

Originally posted by Karyuu
GMs? Mods? A tiny bit of difference, Phinehas :>

True, but he mentioned GM\'s and posts there somewhere, or someone did. And since I can\'t go in-game, I decided to go with my own beefs against authority.

Karyuu, you don\'t seem to understand, being a goody-two-shoes and supporting the GM\'s side of things is all nice and sweet, but it doesn\'t do anything. Most of the insults, both real and perceived, aren\'t necessarily breakings of the laws, more like being rude because you can. Stuff like that isn\'t the kind of thing you can report to an authority, but that doesn\'t make it any less irritating or frustrating. Remember, just because you can justify an action, doesn\'t make it the best thing to do.