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It's really sad how people seem to not understand the simple concept of what a dead server is and how it pretty much kills a ton of effort from a lot of people.

Perhaps there's some rumor going around that I don't like being a GC, idk.

But let me set the record straight. I don't hate hosting. I sure as hell don't love it anymore (probably due to classic's decline,) but I still find some fun in it. I sure as hell have enough time when I'm not working 30 hours a week. But let's be honest. Classic is dead for over 20 hours a day on average. And when it isn't dead, we barely get into the high teens even with numerous RCs on. Do we get into the 20s and 30s from time to time? Yes. But do we stay that way for hours on end, enable GCs to host event after event after event? No.

I'd love to host events on classic when I have the chance, but the playercount is simply not good enough to warrant me sitting all day on graal. When I don't work, I'd much rather be doing other things than sitting on graal with a playercount of 6. Maybe you find some satisfaction looking at 3 RCs and 2 random people, idk.

If you want to apply for GC and try to do better, then do so. But I'm sure as hell not going to "step down." I can still host and I'd like to host from time to time, but simply put: classic sucks too much for me to sit around and host when I could be doing other things.

Edit: same applies for other people in other staff positions.

it's not even the GCs that most people would believe are doing nothing you self-centered ****

Read edit.

tbh it really isnt hard to put graal in the background and idle for a bit if things arent going on at that time. unless you're playing a fullscreen game elsewhere

Hard to play/dev for/host on graal when you have friends over and are playing CoD4.
Also hard to play/dev for/host on graal when you and said friends go somewhere.
Also hard to play/dev for/host on graal when you are playing basketball at 10 pm.
Also hard to play/dev for/host on graal when you eventually go to the movies with a chick who needs to find some time off from her busy schedule so you can go to said movies.
Also hard to play/dev for/host on graal when you are playing xbox on the other side of the room.

Obviously other situations might apply for other people.

then obviously if you dont have time for graal, why linger around and be inactive and let your reputation tarnish?

"sup i got exams"

and my rep tarnished, thats the past, oh well.

...lol.

If you took the time to read my post around the middle of the page, it clearly said I had time to host most of the time and that I'd like to, but classic isn't host-able most of the time.

And if CoD4 w/ friends isn't funner than hosting a 3 person event then I don't know what is.

Well before you were trying to speak on behalf of inactive Developers. The GC team is screwed and I can understand why your hosting rate isn't like usual around these times. I was just against your logic, not your activity for the GC team.

To be honest man, I really don't see classic digging itself out of it's current hole. We're in really deep. I'd like to see classic rebound and become a consistent 20-30 player server again (or a lot better, however unlikely,) but the fact is that graal has been going downhill for years and many of the people who have the ability to dev don't have the time nor the want at this point.

It'd be great to say "how about every one logs on and gets to work for a few weeks and we'll see what we can get done" but the odds of such a thing are minimal. At this point, its hard enough for a single person (in many cases) to find motivation to work on classic for hours on end, much less the multitude of people required to make classic good again.

All in all, I've put a lot of time and effort into graal and have gotten quite a bit back; lots of memories and the like. But now, when I put time and effort into graal, I seem to be getting less and less back. It's bad to assume, but I can guesstimate that this is the case for many people. Either way, I'm slowly moving away from graal since classic doesn't seem to be getting better fast enough to warrant as much time as I used to spend on it. Perhaps some of you will do the same. Good luck to those of you who don't, for I wish you will succeed.

What do GCs have to do with this topic?

*sigh*

This isn't about GCs. This is about staff not spending a large amount of time on a seemingly dead server, whether they be GC, FAQ, dev, or w/e.