Heh, Chris I just tried calling you to see if you've read this thread or not when I was half way through it.
- Galdor has a tag, otherwise he wouldnt even show up as being in that admin global guild. I didnt opt for granting him a global RC right off because thats simply a bad rule of thumb, Garel didnt get his right off either.
- About the GK comment, when is the last time you saw that? Last I heard, it was either Redwizard or somebody else using the tag for a long time after being told by me that he was no longer to use it, but at the time there was no way to edit members from the global guild (Because the newest website guild system didnt have that functionality at the time, for a long time). Redwizard if that wasnt you then I appologize, it was either you or another kid that I'm getting you confused with.
But eitherway, that shouldnt be happening period on GK within the last year because of Stefan's maxim about the issue sometime back in the Global Link and earlier statements on debug.
- Garel has done most of Zone's gfx, and Galdor has done work on GK and I think helped on G3d? I cant remember if I hired him partly on the basis that he could do 3d work or not. Although I realize they are/was paying some guy at the office to work on G3D.
Garel has never been very public, but every time I've needed him or inquired about his whereabouts on ICQ he has always gotten back to me within a few days. Hes a good worker though and I support whatever his issues are, Zone would almost not even be here without him. I even paid for his VIP subscription the last time his account ran out so I would not lose him.
To Lyndzey + Darlene:
That has not been the case ever since the theme of the website was changed from Classic to Graal Kingdoms. They never re-added that function to the website, despite mine having destinctly remembered being told on a few seperate occasions that the function was being worked on and would be accessable soon -- but I guess they were depending on Ibonic to code that? Thus people have not been able to submit new global heads/shields/swords, and I have not been able to update and maintain the existing files in the website's FTP. I am not happy about the pot leaf and such either, Darlene, but that is why they are still there.
To Spark:
We used to use the tag "Graphics Administration", but too often we got flooded with server specific gfx FAQ questions, or asking us to upload something locally on whatever server we were on. Avoiding getting confused with local staff is the same reason GST has their tag, and well PWA is obvious enough. But all servers [should] have their own GAT and LAT teams, and have the option of calling them whatever they want --
except implying that they have jurisdiction over other servers. I had KA fix it when he was still the Guilds Admin.
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Originally Posted by KawaiiSaRiA
If someone were to somehow fix the team back to the way it was when I was in charge, would you perhaps accept it? think it's a good thing? or still just something pointless not worth worrying about? Would you like to see the team once again active to its full potential?
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There are two very drastic changes to the landscape which happened after your leave -- well, three:
1) It is no longer possible to submit global heads/shields/swords and it is no longer possible to manage the existing ones. Which you said yourself was 80% of your workload at one time. So at least I know you are aware of how time consuming that used to be, lol it sucked.
2) Graal became P2P. and...
3) There are now about 135 servers instead of like 12, with roughly 130 of those ran by players.
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When you started having to pay for subscriptions, legal issues start to arise with gfx. Generally its ok to use copyrighted content for whatever, as long as your not making money off of it. When Graal starts collecting money for subscriptions, they start making money off of the game, because people are paying to play that game. Now we have over 100 servers being generally managed by kids or young adults who can break US copyright laws with a couple clicks of a mouse, and I guess other countries' copyright laws, too.
Era committed Trademark infringement a while back and I had had to really push the issue and produce written evidence just to get them to believe me. They didnt directly copy anything, but that old Core Cola machine's design was infact illegal. Not everybody even realizes when they are doing something wrong, so it would be irresponsible to not have a body dedicated to keeping GraalOnline out of the court room. And thats really what you have to be about nowadays.
Ah but whatever, you guys can continue your discussion. Oh, and --
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I had my leave planned. I handed it down to Zen hoping he would perhaps improve it (at the time he was assistant admin)
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The way I remember all that, was that you were taking a vacation for the summer to the USA, to see Zorro? I sent you emails to keep you posted until you returned, and you responded to them. The fiirst time that I personally heard about your resignation, you posted it. I did think it was strange that you told me you were gonna have Galen or whoever add me as a GFX forum mod if you were gonna be back eventually...but well I guess maybe you did have it arranged, but I remember feeling very overwhelmed when I first found out about it.
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