Pwa...

[konidias]

I'm bringing this up again because I was reading the other topic that was closed, and I wanted to comment this myself. Though I really don't see why the other topic had to be closed. Don't be mad at me for remaking a closed thread, when the other one was closed because of two people arguing. (you could have just removed their posts you know)

Anyway, back to the topic....

I've never understood the need for PWA. They really are not needed. What do they do? Get in the way of development? That is correct. They remind me of hall monitors, who really have no purpose except to harass people for stupid reasons whenever they get bored.

You're just getting in the way. Period. You provide little to no assistance for playerworlds... PWA is like a position that was made up just to look like some vital important team. What do you take care of? Getting playerworld names changed? That could simply be automated. Handling playerworld disputes? If you really have no power to do anything about the situation at the time it is happening, then what good are you? Please don't say "well if we had more power..." You don't need more power. PWA should be removed.

It should go back to just being a playerworld review team. To inspect playerworlds that wish to be made public. That's all. As far as I know, you do a terrible job at monitoring the private playerworlds, and while they aren't directly accessible from the public server list, anyone can still view them if there is nothing locking the person out.

So many private playerworlds have stolen scripts, graphics, totally ripped ideas, etc. But where are the PWA? Oh yes, that's right, they are busy harassing the few public playerworld owners Graal has left. Nitpicking about IP ranges not being set. Nitpicking about every little player complaint they recieve. STOP NITPICKING.

It seems like all you want to do is run around and enforce your made-up laws and flash your badge everywhere. When have you done something that really benefited all of the playerworlds? I've never heard of anything good being done by PWA. Spark, I don't even want to begin to think about how much time you've wasted calculating the playerworlds who didn't have IP ranges set. Is that all you do? Why don't you just change your staff title to "IP Range Checker"?

Let them be insecure for crying out loud. It's their choice to make. I don't see any sort of contract when you rent a playerworld that says: "You must allow the PWA to govern everything you do. You have no real freedom for your server, and if the PWA demand that you do something, you must do it, or lose your server." I'm sorry, but I don't think people pay all that money to rent a server, just to get bossed around by some kid that doesn't pay anything or even really benefit Graal. At least the server money is benefitting Graal. Why is it that PWA have the final word on everything?

If a playerworld manager disagrees with one of the PWA's silly rules, there is nothing that can be done. They have to bow down and obey the PWA without any arguement.

I know I haven't posted here in a long time, and Oasis is pretty much standing still right now... but I can tell you right now that I'm not very motivated to finish my playerworld... putting in hundreds of hours into something. My heart, my soul, my time, my effort.... Just to have some kid remove one of my staff members because their ip range is *.*.*.*

It's complete and total BS. Something needs to be done. The overall playercount on Graal has dropped. Look at the server list... it's pathetic now. UN dominates everything else. How is that fair? Shouldn't PWA look into why UN has so many players? Possibly assist the other playerworlds with low playercounts?

Finally... playerworld managers should have direct contact to Stefan. Not have to go through lazy PWA that don't ever actually report to Stefan, or rephrase what the playerworld managers have said, or add on their own comments to something a playerworld manager has said. There is a need for playerworld managers to be able to talk directly with Stefan. Stefan is the coder for Graal. Playerworld managers are going to have a lot of suggestions and questions regarding the game itself, and what can be improved, or what needs to be improved, or whatever.

Graal needs to be more playerworld manager friendly. Especially now that playerworld managers have to PAY to work on something that will make Graal money. That's just my two cents.

This isn't an anti-graal rant by the way. I still think Graal is great, it's the PWA I can't stand. By the way, mods... if this thread gets out of control, could you just delete the bad posts instead of closing an interesting debate?