-I've got no problem with the admins. It's really their house and their rules. And don't start about Igiss owning the place.
-mjolnir and doom had it right. The complete Admin notice thing has gotten out of hand and messy. But I blame the community for it since the admins have actually listened to our whining. Get hold of Igiss and TELL HIM to re-write the rules pronto.
-I like the recent transparency thing the admins have sometimes showed. Like the Xoria's post, the posts about admin voting on certain issues (like the indie flame a while back).
-If you feel that some admin is out of bounds take it to PMs. All you'll ever achieve "exposing" the corrupt admin is enforcing the us-vs-them mentality. If a sanction seems hard, so what? Different judges different verdicts. But I'd like to see newbies given some slack, but on the other hand I'd like them to crack down real hard on the old hands here who get caught breaking the rules.
-Maybe the admin term could 6 months? General vote to extend/terminate his rights? It would make admins think on re-election and possible give a good escape back to normal player.
Feedback on Disco and on me as a player in general.
I know from a personal experience that after 6 month or so you start to feel like you know the place and how it operates. You have made friends and start to have a slight swollen feeling in your head, like your opinion matters really. Especially if you are in a powerful faction. And slowly but surely you start to think that you and your faction are really something special and above the law a bit and the power starts to corrupt you a bit. You start using the forums, the in-game actions and mechanics how the game works to teach the new guys a lesson. Be that RP, equipment, sanction, advice or whatever. You claim you RP but really all you do is not to cut slack to the indie new guy. Your stance hardens on issues. Be that a forum flame and how you treat people. And by now you know who you gonna call, right? If you have played your cards right you have friends all over the place. Put a word around in Skype. Screw the RP. You only cut slack to your opposing faction and known friends. It's the newbies that need to put to place, right?
I see these ideas taking hold in me. Lack of empathy and time towards the new guys. Who needs empathy when you got friends who are willing to back you up? Things "suddenly" like, say 3xGB rape that happens to ME, don't get just a shrug of my shoulders, but I decide to do something about. I go to forums/skype and insinuate, imply, you know, work the ground a bit sow some seeds. Brand them. Instead I should have PMed the guys in GOOD spirit that maybe it was not as much fun as you thought it to be AND just shrugged and moved on. This has happened to me to some extent, so nobody needs to get angry and retort. Take this as a rhetorical question.
So this in mind I think we NEED the new players to bring the softness, leniency and empathy of heart to Disco.
