Admin Feedback Thread (Archived)

[Mímir]

You are quite far off the mark, Riess: I never used setmsg, I always typed out the full "2 mil or dai", tyvm. Also, I think I know you as little as you know me, in the grand scheme of things we're all nobodies. Personally I don't have a problem with admins, I don't really know who runs the show these days. I also have 0% warning, so I guess they don't have a problem with me either. I liked Garrett even though he was advocating for nuking the Pirate ID - things like 'nuances' and 'balanced views' do exist, try not to assume too much about mine or anyone else's agenda. Chances are that you are wrong.

My fixation on PVP is due to the fact that there were problems already when I stopped playing. For instance the common misconception that liking PVP = shameless bluehunting - I was trying to solely collect tagged or known baddies, although it didn't always work out for me as I was never even at the top-tier of PVP'ers. Though I realized long ago that no matter what you do that somehow includes guns within the game, people are going to label you as "omg evil bluehunter/no-rp pierat" and disregard everything you have to say, even when it's said with good intent, so I don't bother sugarcoating my posts. To some narrow-minded people, I know that everything I type, I type because I want an easy blue, even when I am not playing the game of course. I'm not going to lose any sleep over that, we live in a world where half the population suffers from below average intelligence afterall. The other half of us have to deal with that on a daily basis, we get used to it. There was (is?) a lot of negative behavior towards PVP (evident in your post, even) and it showed in-game with people syswalling or using admin commands to suicide on their RP-characters and so on and so forth, and all people did at the time was cry about some guy in a gunboat logging to pew every day, keeping lots of people entertained until he was banned and the ID nuked...

There was a strong desire to streamline everything, including PVP, and to me that can only be seen as a result of ignorance rather than malice. In times before, it was different. That mindset, the one of streamlining and controlling players (I heard rumors that now it is even put down in text specifically what a pirate can and cannot demand), has spilled over into the mess you are seeing now. The event shut-down was a misguided attempt at safeguarding a text-chat RP-environment, done haphazardly but with good intentions because it was treated from a very one-sided narrow perspective - something that I'd wager wouldn't have happened if there'd been more balance surrounding the decision-making.

That's why I am suggesting bringing balance to the team by recruiting someone different than dedicated text-chat carebear types. It should be fairly obvious, but I guess I really have to point out that I am not promoting a total anarchy PVP-server, all I am suggesting is a bit more balance by including 1 Admin with a different set of views and varied experience to complement the rest of the team. Ideally the admin team should mirror the different attitudes and approaches to the game, and PVP has been a central aspect of the game and mod since inception.

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