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What do you think of Era's current management, updates, staff, etc.

I think that the current Era Staff are working towards a better Era. There has been an increase in updates from when there were very little updates. I think that Chris is doing a phenomenal job managing the development team and having updates and employing staff members that are able to do their job efficiently and of quality. I think Squirt has been a great Player Relations Administrator (from my personal experience) with his understanding of the rules and kindness towards his colleagues as well as players. Deophite has been doing a great job looking over every major project as well as making decisions to better the gameplay of Era.

I think that Era is being pushed towards the right direction.

Personally, I quite like the staff team. Updates are of course a bit slow, but that's to be expected as we're working on two parallel servers (Era and "new" Era). I managed to speak with Elk earlier today, and I acquired some new tiles. I'll have Arch_Angel get started on fixing up some of the uglier tiles (e.g. grass, sand, water, road) as well. Once that's ready, we should be good to go on starting the overworld, and I'll be sure to share my plans for that before we go far into its development.

Era News will probably be the last update/new script for the current Era I make for a while. There'll still be people like Tim to help with levels, Maverick for events, etc.

Sales started working on the new gang system today. I know he spoke with GC a lot, as well as a bunch of other people, including the administration. I'll ask him if he'd be comfortable releasing a basic overview of it. I don't think that'll be a problem.

Relic and Tim/Rachel have been working on a "wood shop", which was originally to be used for this Era, but will probably be moved to the new one. I'm not quite sure what we'll do with the wood cutting system though; the one right now isn't quite up to the standards I expect things to be, so we'll have to find some creative ideas on that.

This is I guess more of an update on what's going on, and not about the topics you specifically mentioned, but I think it's important to know either way.

I think the current staff is doing a good job. Trying to make Era better for everyone.

They are doing a good job.. That's it, We have to wait for the big update tough :P

Tell us what you really think.

I think this management is managing stuff quite well, there are a few updates etc.

BUT I am so god damn sure that the "New Era" will NEVER be released.
Considering the fact that they didn't ask Andy for all the new systems he had scripted already, oh well, who cares?

I have a copy of everything that was done before, but we decided not to use it, and have already rescripted everything that he had (I think we have, at least).

That is what i really think..
*Wrote a whole paragraph here why but deleted*

i've been beginning to like squirt and chris a lot more lately, but i still can't stand deophite. it's not that he's a bad guy or anything, i just think he's useless because he doesn't really put much effort into the server.

corruption seems to still be a problem also. i haven't really complained about it much because myself and everyone else knows that i used to do stupid **** when i was staff also, but it's still unfair to other innocent players. i just find it funny that when deo was first put into management, everyone was parading over the fact that there wouldn't be any more corruption but it seems like nothing has changed at all.

regarding updates, it pretty much speaks for itself. there aren't really that much anymore. the update that chris did a few weeks ago was alright but a lot of what he did was minimal. i'd rather have a big update other than a compilation of smaller updates. there's so much staff on era yet hardly any updates. it's ridiculous.

this thread will wind up being deleted. it seems like they try to censor anything bad about the staff team -.- but hey, if the players don't like what's going on you should listen to them instead of ignoring it. frank probably just wanted to address certain issues in one thread but since you deleted it he's most likely going to run off to the support center which i'm sure is something that nobody would want..

When you mean that there's still corruption do you mean that the current staff, or like in the past with like Mesh?

Also, I don't really mind if players state their mind on certain topics. I don't think I ever closed a thread/deleted a post for someone stating their opinion on certain subjects. The only time I would do it if it's completely unrelated to the topic and has nothing to do with the server itself.

I like squirt now,but I still cant stand Vimes hes abusive and he doesnt care. Sure hes a great scripter and such,but he has to much power and he likes to abuse it.
Keep up the good work squirt ;).

How is he abusive?

still corruption right now.

Keep in mind that we're working for free. We don't get paid, we dont get rewards, hell, we don't even get appreciation for the things we do half of the time. Although I'm sure we all enjoy doing our jobs, that alone is not always enough to keep a staff member interested. So yea, I'm sure there's not a staff member to date who hasn't fooled around with staff tools or staff weapons. Give us a break...let us enjoy ourselves every once and a while.

However, if the "fooling" around interrupts your gameplay (or in some way has a negative affect on your gaming experience) by all means complain away. The administration will take action. But it's usually just someone causing no harm whatsoever for a little bit of a break from work. Think about all the spawning, usding, jailing/banning people for no reason, etc that has happened in the past and tell me we're not angels in comparison.

That issue aside -- my opinion on the current team is waayyyyy more positive than it has been with previous administrations. They're doing a good job in my book.

Chris is the one that closes threads/deletes posts of Wil Soul as example, as soon as he starts owning him

I understand we have an extremely talented staff team but I suppose all the results are on the "new" Era? It would be nice to have popular events (Gang events, events for new weapons, etc.) to give more people the more reason to log on the server. When there's change or new things, the population peaks.

It would be nice to have stuff for era and not a project. Squirt, Tim, Rachel all do a great job from what I've seen (Relic too). Dunno what chris is doing other then giving his brother things since he's only on the main server for that. But I have only seen deophite on era for a few things like events then he's back on UN for a couple weeks, he needs to get more active or we need a more active manager already

Uh, I'm not sure that's entirely fair.

I don't think I've ever seen Wil Soul "own" anyone on the new staff team, unless by "own" you mean resort to baseless personal attacks because he's got nothing constructive to say.

Wil's post history can be defined by the following pattern:
Post #1: Starts with a few complaints about the current state of the server, then follows with something along the lines of "this would be fixed if staff wasn't useless". We're never enlightened as to why they're "useless", they just apparently are. He gives a few basic solutions as well.

Post #2: Staff has provided some logical counters, and Wil now rebuttals by presenting the exact same fixes as he did in post #1, only this time we've got some insults personally tailored whoever answered him.

Post #3: The meltdown. Wil's argument has lost almost all of its original integrity, partly due to his rather poor original solution ideas but also very much due to the fact that he can't seem to argue his side without insulting. Wil enters into a primal fury, and thus begins the rant. "DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'M WIL SOUL. I'M THE BEST DAMN PKER ON THIS SERVER, WHY DON'T WE LET A SPAR SETTLE THIS USELESS DISCUSSION. MY DEV IDEAS ARE FLAWLESS, JUST LIKE IN MY SPAR AGAINST [X PLAYER (factor?)]. HAVE YOU EVEN LOOKED AT MY STATS? OR MY SWAGGER? YOU'RE ****ED IN THE HEAD."


Bottom line: I'd lock that **** too.

Can you give any specific examples, or can you at least define your idea of corruption? I wouldn't call myself corrupt, but i'm not sure what you other people view as corrupt. I might staffstick people, but I would only do it to people i'm friends with or in a jokingly matter. I wouldn't try to make the server compromised or like abuse my jail/ban powers.

Eh youve jailed me for 2 hours for harassment after I said ***** to someone lol...... But you havent done it since ;) Oh wait you jailed me for 15 minutes for saying I got level 3 speed and the reason was complaints,but I personally asked everyone who was there at the time if I bothered them and they all said no :o.

I don't know what **** or whatever is since it's censored, but I guess if it's censored it must be something bad. Also, I jailed you for you having level 3 speed, I don't get it? I don't remember ever doing that.

I was trying to address the fact that Vimes was using nuclear bombs to kill players around the gmap yesterday, but he kept deleting my thread about it.

Ya...............
I told him if he was testing the item, he should do it in a private level with himself or other people involved with it, and he goes

"It's more fun to test on players ;)"

Cool.

Well, I remember you running around with your friend on (Working) tag when the woodcutting system first came out.

I asked you what exactly you you working on, and you responded with "life. ctrl+w"
And every time someone would kill your friend, you'd rev him.

Just a small instance, not THAT big of a deal, but it's still tampering with game play.

Squirt's been using Deophite's auto strafe system in gang wars for Black Holst.. its been quite a while now, no one has really brought it up yet though..

auto strafe system?

Yes. You target a player, and your character will always be strafed facing towards what you targeted; it's extremely unfair and should NOT be implemented, although Squirt was using it during gang wars.

Edit: Andy scripted it

I like how you're just using me for information and then pretend that you found it all on your own. You asked me a question and I told you. However, I never actually used it within a competition.

You pmed me out of the blue saying "FYI, Andy made it not Deo"

I didn't ask anything lol, I like how you're giving me information to use so you can pretend I asked so you can make others believe that I'm the one pretending.
clap clap clap.

And yeah, you did use it. Sorry buddy, there's no way you didnt use it during those Gang Wars, everyone was like "How the hell is he changing strafe so quickly?"..

In Chris's defense, I'm pretty sure I've nuked about 50 people myself and it was only after seeing me do it that he joined in on the action. It's not an unreleased item though. I was adding the ability to launch it via map, and tweaking some other things at the time. I didn't get any complaints, either. Most people just pmed me with "LOL WTF WAS THAT" or "GIVE ME ONE"

That's really no defense anyway. I'll admit it's very, very fun to kill people across the map, but yeah, I've stopped.

I won't deny blowing people up from miles away with these things, but after talking with a few people, I'll be more careful from now on. I don't think it really angered anyone, besides those who were already looking for reasons to cry out "abuse!!!" at me.

It's amusing how you actually started a thread complaining about professionalism on the F1 news, but it's perfectly fine for you to "nuke" players and kill them for your own amusement.

I have pm history adding even more to that point you made, but if I posted it he would delete the topic.

Ye you mean *****! You also killed me with it when it wasn't released it!
Tough you were testing it, And i loved getting blown up by that bomb rofl

Name is this ****ing topic called: "Kiss ass as much as you can?"

Chris will find a reason to delete this topic anyway, Frankie, believe me.

No Sam it's not :]

I personally like small updates once and a while then a Huge one..
A huge one would be better for era tho.

Because it's against the forum rules. Read them.

Still instead of editing his post, since it's only one post, he deleted the whole topic.

Try to think a little Darlene, wouldn't be bad for you

I dont have to think a little to read the content posted. I understand why. There is only one reason for these types of threads, and the staff dont have time to defend themselves against flames, and dont always have time to pick through a thread that is mostly flames, editing, and deleting posts.

Also, if you read the forum rules, problems with staff on any server, is to be taken care of through the server, through forum PM's, or through the support center.

players don't like you and because of that, they will find any opportunity to get you in trouble. you only have yourself to blame for that though.