Happy Easter
 

Usually the door's open a few days earlier, or at least the eggs are out for a whole week, so we had a flight of activity the holiday week of people scrambling around for eggs.

There were 17+ people on last night. Not because there was an event being hosted; there wasn't. And not just to be near my devilishly attractive pixels. They were expecting something for Easter. Do we get that something?

NICE ZSOH

Way to fail again Bjorn. Only person I herd anything from about an easter event was Stephen, though even at that time he alone was working on something and had already said Bjorn's lazy @*& once again let everyone down and failed to do his job.

Smooth one, Bjorn. x.x

So I'm guessing there isn't anything for Easter? It'd be nice to get it before my subscription runs out.

Don't blame bjorn. He's too busy IRL to know if anything was going to happen. Stefan was apparently supposed to do something but Bjorn knows nothing. We can host normal events all day but thats about all.

Get someone to set serverr.iseaster

If he's the admin, he doesn't get the option of saying "I'm busy". It's his job to at least show up on Gk and say "We're working on something" to keep us enticed. If he can't even do that, we need someone else, someone willing to not just show up, but show up actively and give the appearance of enjoying what they're doing.

As for Stefan, it's quite clear he doesn't care about Gk. Kingdoms isn't making them money.

Spoiler: It's not making money because he's not making content.

Happy Easter! (:

That's not it actually.
Maroku and I quickly made some stuff that there is at least something. I had some free time between my book analysys meetings.


kia345, of course I get to say that and my graduation is actually more important compared to anything else. so I actually do not care about what you said about not having an option to say that, because I do. I was on no vacation or anything during the last years that would have interrupted something I do and now I'm taking this freetime it alltogether. if this is a problem for you so be it.

It's a problem with me because I expect someone to do their job. If they can't handle it because of studies, good for them, but they still have a job to do. If you can find time for Kingdoms, if you can't make the time, it's time to step down.

I agree, you really can't say that you don't have time. If you don't have time to do your job, leave and get someone else to do it.

this is a problem for everyone, and its your job, if you cant be on graal to do things for easter, then quit your job.

We don't care about your personal life.

We don't care about your personal life.

That's why we don't care about your personal life.

There's no excuse for no work being done. This is a business. We pay to play. From what I understand, you serve as a volunteer for this business, so it is your responsibility to make things happen. If you're to be gone, maybe someone else should have your responsibilities.

This is a problem for everyone.


(WHY THE HELL DO WE HAVE TO REPEAT OURSELVES SO OFTEN?! DO YOU LACK THE INTELLECTUAL CAPABILITIES TO UNDERSTAND THAT GK IS DYING, AND IT'S YOUR JOB TO FIX IT?!)

Ok Ziro, you are being really rude!
I work in several projects, and most people actually understand that my graduation comes first! Why the hell do you assume that Graal could be more important then Real Life? I understand Björn in this case, but I still dont understand the complete lack of updates on GKs side.

And flaming someone will not help at all, Ziro, try to cool it on the offending

exactly. gk is dying and you dont care

Arbitrarily adding content probably isn't going to help attract new players, and adding content for old players definitely isn't going to help attract new players.

Needs more advertisement, needs more things to do...Basically a little bit of everything. ;)

Look how often Zone updates. Look at the content. Stefan cares about Zone, it gets updates and has been made with the player's enjoyment in mind. Whereas Gk doesn't have any of that flair that would attract people. There's nothing to amount to because we've seen all Gk has to offer after about a month. If they brought in new stuff, anything, at least a decent monthly update, worked on quests, worked on a way to change the game, there would be a reason for someone to log on and say "Hey, here's something new and exciting" rather than "Hey an npc has been re-released after 4 months, let's use it and then get bored".

Do you really think players are exhausting all of GK's content? Do you have any idea how tiny the percentage is of players who actually ever become strong enough to do a brutal or immense map is?

Actually, it would be like "Hey, here's something new and exciting, let's do it for a day and then get bored".

"Ocool, randomly generated maps that have monsters that are, surprise surprise, the same as the ones in every other map like this! Let's kill them and level up, which will in no way change the game play!"

Put it in those terms if you want, but there are grinding games out there that pull in huge numbers of players. The point wasn't that maps are "good" content (though I should point out that for the purpose of what we're talking about "good" is defined solely by ability to attract players, not by how "fun" you deem it to be) but merely that the idea that the problem isn't that Graal Kingdoms doesn't have enough content and that players are running out of content to play. If there's a content problem, it's that GK has the wrong content, and adding more of the wrong content isn't going to help. I also wanted to point out to people who think that adding stronger monsters is a solution that stronger monsters is something that wouldn't affect very many players.

By the way, maps were pretty popular for a pretty long time and the first few times I did brutals/immenses, they were quite a challenge.

Are you trying to say that interest in updates only lasting for a few days to a week at most isn't a problem if they happen once a month?

As for quests, traditional quests are a huge waste of development time and largely getting rid of them was one of the best moves GK, Zone, Zodiac, etc. have made. Traditional quests take a huge amount of time to develop and players play them for a few hours at most.

"Changing the game" is something that would actually work, but requires knowing exactly what way of changing it is going to be effective.

Zone is making money because people play it. Its a simple shoot em up game. Very easy to update and make more stuff for. Gk is far harder to get stuff for and they just aren't selling the gelats on it like they are on zone and I doubt they would ever sell gelats like they do on zone.

People play it because it's worth playing.

I'm being completely rational.
Under the circumstances, my attitude should be expected.

That's great. Hope your graduation goes well.

Why the hell do you assume that's my belief?

Isn't Bjorn the one responsible for the lack of updates?
Every looks to him as a sort of server manager... Tell me if I'm missing something.

It could help. Nothing else seems to be working.

I'll try. But I'll likely feel the urge to continue once GK's activity falls again soon.

hhhhhhaaaaapppppyyyyyy eeeeeaaaaasssssstttttttteeeeeeerrrrrrr.
easters over.
+ tig & stephen were the only ones who did anything for it.
bjorn shouldnt be doing his job if hes too busy with life.

Bjorns busy studying for two upcoming exams and graduation Elizabeth...excuse him for wanting to pass his exams.

I didn't like the egg dungeon. It drained my mana just killing one of the smaller egg monsters...although I usually had enough left to kill all the smaller ones.

If his exams are more important this his work for Graal Kingdoms he should step down and let other people handle it.

This is still something Unixmad and Stefan have to decide, not the community.
Björn is not blocking a staff position. IF there is somebody else able doing a good job, Stefan will hire him/her in addition to björn.

Wuss!:D

I got owned by them even when wearing ultimate gear. Thats the way a new dungeon should look since everyone is able to hit level 110 with rubies and wear +12 gear.

I loved it, its not often that a giant painted egg stomps my face into the ground.

This isn't a job that pays. Why should he care if the players like it or not before vacations and stuff?

eeeexactly.

If he doesn't care about the players and cares more for his personal life he should let someone else handle his job.

This is where the blame starts to head toward the higher ups- basically just Stefan.

However, the blame should not be moved up further untill you're sure the person currently being blamed has done everything he/she can do.

Obviously, Bjorn has the ability to say "I'm going to be busy, Stefan, you should have someone temporarily take care of my responsibilities." (which would also serve as a means of "testing" out potential promotions. hey, Tig, how's it going?)

When he gives enough reason to show he's done everything within his power, and there's nothing more he can do, then it's time to go up to Stefan. I doubt that'll ever happen though. We're talking about a guy who claims it's impossible to fix the "bug" of monsters killing idlers in the trade room.

No, this is exactly the kind of thing the community should decide. You can't leave some inadequate (not saying Bjorn is, but yeah) to try and manage the server we call home, the server Stefan and Unixmad don't care about.

Because it's his job. He took it by choice, he chose to make Kingdoms his responsibility.

Granted Bjorn has a responsibility to the server for his job but why aren't you attacking Stefan. As is Stefan is a higher staff member then Bjorn and he's barely around on GK to do anything. He's more into upgrading zone...why? Well because its making money where GK isn't. So I gather that Stefan has lost the reason to really be working on it.

Bjorn has two major exams that he has to study for. he just can't drop it to please a few people who sit idle in trade or don't even play at all. From his point of view this takes a back burner until after graduation. I would think that everyone of you would be like this too if in the same position.

I am not saying he doesn't do stuff for Gk..he just does it when he has a moment.

God forbid he do his voluntary job!

quoted for sarcastic values.


Ok lets put you in bjorn shoes and see if you have time to devote to the server. He still does do stuff just not as much as people would like.