wargrimnir wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 7:51 pm
Spellbound wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:09 pm
I can't help with advice if the ears are closed. Appreciate they run the server for free, miss the game and they can choose how they balance to make it fun for them and their vision. Phoenix DAOC had their vision away from live and it worked out for them with Realm Timers and other rules. Some visions work, some don't and need adjustments when population changes.
The subtle insinuation again that we don't listen to community feedback doesn't come as any surprise. The handful of community members who think they have the answers are always going to antagonize when they don't have control. I suppose I'll keep mentioning it in threads where people try to state otherwise. We use community feedback. We don't participate as much in community discussion because bad actors have a frequent tendency to act badly when they think there's attention being given out. If you're so high on the smell of your own farts to miss the changes happening week to week, there's not going to be much we can do to convince you. Limited staff, limited time, and opening conversations with the community big brains is a waste of both. You guys discuss what you want, and when something comes up that seems do-able, it's usually picked up internally and worked on. That's a far cry from "ears are closed". Your assumption is based on your own fat ego, not reality.
As a GM your response to me isn’t necessary as you mentioned to another you just enforce rules and don’t balance. Your responses are mostly the cause of the drama against staff. As you stated, we can discuss what we want and “we don’t participate as much in community discussions”. However you have plenty of time for nearly most of my posts, which are few. I typically don’t indulge in your responses by replying because you’re just a GM and balance changes don’t go through you, but you are entitled to your opinion. As a GM, representative of the server, every word you say can cause consequences.
I was a GM on Phoenix DAOC and our GM guide, training, staff, conduct, rules, being neutral to realms , staying out of conversations, interaction in game... was top notch. You don’t have to even respond anymore to any posts and let the community talk amongst each other and quietly take it in. Server will actually be healthier with less drama and open opinions.
I do have my own private conversations with those involved in balancing, and asked by them on which way to lean on a certain change. Merely was just replying to Bombling. If you took some offense then sorry.
I know programming and adjustments to balance takes a long time. Most of the DAOC/WAR conversations internally took almost a year for class balancing to happen. I don’t need any further education on GM, programming, balancing, as I’m well aware how thing work and done most of it for over a decade.
I still remember my first post in balancing section and you told me it was a long winded way to say something which gave me over 10 PMs on what you said. So acting like you don’t get involved in conversations is wrong.
I’ll hide my “fat ego” Sir “Lord of Appeals” <3