I see...
asking for a forum account to be deleted isn't enough here. Seems some unknown forum rules even doesn't allow people to
ask for deletion of their account. The only real way to get it deleted is posting something speaking against the all-mighty, red named admins of the forum...No problem, let me try this too. Should have expected this knowing that it took more than half a year and a lot of asking all the time from my side to only get my GM rights removed...but sure, that's nothing important at all. No problem that I could login as GM even after leaving the team and buy as many holy helmets in NPCroom1 as I wanted...and of course also no problem that I was able (if I really had wanted to) to read the posts in the GM board the whole time. I bet nobody had minded if I read what GMs talk in a thread called "Talking with Lhaa and Aiwendil" or something similar. That's how PS works....the only thing that is really fast in PS is the bashing down of people who dare to not glorify the game all the time.
But let me try to stay a bit on topic...okay, I know, trying is already meant to fail as for the original topic of the thread there is not much else left to say than "Good work Utm." So I am a bit sorry about leaving the topic of your stories Utm and reply to some others here.
People who didn't sign the ABC license by purpose to damage the game are just showing their true nature. Also by posting the above you broke the NDA. Both the NDA and copyright assignment have been explained to you in the on boarding meetings and you explicitly accepted that when entering jayose and nexus. People like you are the reason we need a closed license for content.
People who use all means to silence others and then justify their actions because it is for a greater good also do a very good job in showing their true nature. But leaving that aside...I hope you only speak of the developer's part of Jayose...nobody asked me to sign or discussed a NDA with me when I got my GM account in the library. The only reason why I never made some logs of chats with gm team members public is because they asked me not to...and I have to say it was hard at times to not post logs of GMs on their opinions about favoritism when being told off in public by them denying that there is any favoritism at all.
I think the next recruit to the team should probably be a professional public relations person. The problem here is that the perception of the situation is all that counts to the community-at-large. Talad, you need to stop posting on here, tLGT, and MMORPG. Except for announcements. No matter who is wrong or right here, there is a proper way to deal with these sorts of situations and the various postings from you are not the way. I'm sorry to butt in, but it needed to be said.
I must agree there...I always thought Xillix was bad in public relations...but Talad is a plain disaster. But the tLGT posts were funny to read...shows that posting without reading what others said before is not really a very bright idea.
A professional public relation person will probably just delete all inappropriate posts and post standard answers. Also a standard company will just not expose at all the devs to any resource like irc channels, forums or other public media, so that people just have no hooks to start trolling and debates on. That is also probably the best way. I still find nice to speak with players, and give my point of view, but I understand that's sometimes not proper.
The exposure feeds the trolls, that's sure. I'm not sure there is a real solution to this problem.
Nobody asked for a professional public relation person...just for a person that is actually able to talk with people without having all the hatred shining though all the posts. And for someone who reads what others says before replying. With Xillix gone it seems there aren't many PS staff members left at all who read these forums for example...but I know, it's only the players talking here and what they say isn't important anyway.
To be brutally honest I think UtM should try running his own development project. His own level of arrogance will quickly bring the project down. Not once in a conversation that I have witnessed has he ever admitted he is wrong, and he usually resorts to calling his opponent 'noob' or other insults just because their opinion differs to his.
You speak of arrogance and still support the PS team? Sorry, it's far beyond me how anyone can call others arrogant after seeing the arrogance of the PS team for some time.
Notice how XilliX, someone who was also fired from the PlaneShift devteam, has not come on here and publicised his work and made a big show and cry. I haven't even seen a word by him against Talad here. Bitching about someone all over the other person's community board is just unprofessional and goes to show why I donate art to the people I donate to.
But you have seen a post of Utm ranting with Talad here every months? You know how Xillix will act when she is out of the team for as long as Utm? I also don't get what you mean with "person's community board". You want to tell me Talad is part of the community? When did that happen? For the PS staff to become part of this community they actually had to leave their hidden fortress and talk to the players...and also take the complains of the community serious and not just say "All the rest is just trolling and ranting". But of course my respects for your willingness to still donate anything to PS after seeing the game for some time.
And thanks for the links Lhaa...they were a funny read. The Xillix-Talad talk is well known and no reason to comment it here again (or maybe it is...I didn't often say anything positive about Xillix...was always too busy arguing with him
But in those logs Xillix for sure isn't the one whose bad side is shown there). But I like the one asking for 3d modellers:
As of March 2007, the game main server, laanx.fragnetics.com, has some 358,400 registered user accounts and 100,000+ characters. The game forums have approximately 23,570 registered accounts.
Let's take some more recent numbers: 482846 accounts on skylab on the 8th of may.
The first tech demo of PS was released on the 5th of february in 2002.
That makes up to today 3014 days of being able to play PS.
Taken the account numbers we have an average of 160 accounts registered on each day!
Hard to say what exactly the current average player number in game is...but should more then 20 and less than 80 I think. So no matter how you look at it, most of those accounts can't even have tried the game for a day. It gets even worse if you keep in mind that there are players playing much longer than a day. All that theses numbers says for me is that PS manages to attract people to try the game out but doesn't manage to keep any of those players in game. Most flee after a few minutes again. And yes, I am aware that a lot of those accounts are just mule accounts...but seriously, even if you have 4 accounts for mules you only have to play about 72 hours with your main char to have more time online than the average PS account.
So, I hope this was enough now to get my account deleted...but if not I am sure I can come up with more. And when you are at it...don't forget my Tinvel account. At least this one time it might be easier for all to just delete it and not have me to come up with another nice post for that account also. And last but not least a big thanks to Utm again for posting those histories here.
