Something Good to Say

[-Zulz-]

The reaction was swift and brutal: insults, hate mail, kos's with no warning or reason, forum flames, in game flames, harrasment and threats--a couple of times even by an admin (who is long since gone). This was all within my first two weeks here and was done by the many factions leaders and long-established players. I was told, "You will ruin Junkers", "People like you are ruining the server", "We're going to make sure you don't last", "You'll never be part of the community"...ad naseum...you get the idea.

Basically, it was offensive that someone would come in with their own role play direction rather than follow someone else's that had already been established. In essence, "Your characters must be like ours--not different." I had no intention of breaking rules or the role play of others I simply wanted to play my own idea of a particular type of Junker and not someone else's. I had always been a Junker on any server I played and it just never struck me to play anything else.

"We're going to make sure you don't last", "You'll never be part of the community"

I got exactly the same sentenses from people on my first 2 weeks on the server. They liked to portrait themselves as 'mature members of discovery', but were behaving like they were at their height of puberty. Frankly, I think those who treat new people with arrogance are the people that are making others not even try to 'fit in', 'obey', and generally give respect to this community in the first place.

The result is the increasingly hostile tone within discovery... you reep what you sow.