If this thread had been made a year ago, I would have full agreed with a lot of the things being said. I wasn't around enough, and I wasn't trying hard enough to get Classic out of the situation it was in. Recently however, I've had much more time to do things. I'm logging on for an hour or two most days, and that's slowly increasing. I try to average
at least 14 hours a week (2 hours a day), double what the old staff rules expected. I'm also always contactable by forum PM if you do not catch me on player.
Logging on alone isn't enough though; it's pretty pointless logging on if I'm just sat there being idle. Firstly I've been making steps towards soring certain staff teams out, and have already seen an improvement here. Things are still far from perfect, but we're getting there. I also have a number of ideas for the server in the pipeline, some of which I've briefly run past people and others which are pretty new and still need a bit of thrashing out. There's a lot of things I dislike about Classic at the moment, and I'm trying to put together plans that will steer us back in the right direction.
Some of you have questioned what I actually spend my time doing whilst logged on to Classic. Firstly, my job is not a development one: that's what Thor and the team are there for, and I'm generally happy with the work they are doing. That said, I do help out both with bug fixing and as an advisory on things where needed. I will always get my hands dirty when there's a critical problem. As my free time has been increasing I've also been doing some new development stuff; one of my current projects is to vastly improve the base events system to bring some fresh team events to Classic. The vast majority of my time is spent resolving player complaints, and collating views and ideas for the server. Recently there have been a number of major complaints, particularly regarding the hit detection, and trying to address everyone's issues can take a lot of time. It's very easy to listen to a single player, determine their problem and fix it; taking all the problems from every player and trying to match these against each other and work out exactly what will be the best solution for the player base as a whole is a lot more tricky.
Some of you have also questioned why I have not been replying to the threads here on the Classic forums. I actually read the threads several times a day, and not responding has been intentional. The way the threads currently are has allowed a lot of discussion into the problems we have at Classic, and this has given me a lot of information on how we should move forwards. I'm pretty sure that if I'd started replying in the threads I would have quickly just become the target of conversation, and this would have derailed the thread from being useful.
I want, just as much as the rest of you, to get Classic back where it belongs. There's a pretty big mountain to climb before we can reach that point, but I'm confident that we can achieve it. I expect most people to read this post and simply think 'meh', and that's wholly understandable. I don't expect to change your opinions using words, I expect to climb a mountain with my actions.
03-04-2009, 01:48 PM
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