So, I'm sending this to the globals (Spark911 is still in charge of PWs, I assume?) but I'm posting this here so it may be seen more, and possibly catch the attention of people who wont read e-mail.
And yes, I know most of you hate us and our server but right now we all hate it too and everyone else has given up on trying to get things fixed.
Hello. I play on the Valikorlia server. Yes, the boring one where everyone just talks a lot. It wasn’t always this way. We wish it weren’t this way now. But there’s a large obstacle standing in the way. This would be our manager, Clash.
There is a long history behind his management of the server that I don’t feel needs to be discussed, but suffice to say he was put in place because the server, as a whole, felt the then-current manager was doing no work and not helping the server at all. And, years later, here we are in the same situation. Worse, even.
Clash has spent two years managing the server, and in this time has done almost nothing for it. We have had several half-finished systems that were scrapped because he could not decide what he wanted to do. Early in his management he abandoned the server altogether and began to make a stand-alone game that never saw the light of day, but that rendered the actual server he was supposed to be managing barren and lifeless.
I understand that the position of manager is difficult and stressful, but the abandonment of the server and the treatment the players are subjected to is disgraceful. In the last year, the only development the server has had was due to a co-manager who was barely able to access the system’s resources, and he eventually gave up as well, because Clash’s continued insistence on keeping the server without actually doing anything for it prevented him from doing anything that wasn’t largely cosmetic.
The only actual developments have been half-finished, often broken, and not of any substantial use as to even affect gameplay for very long. New levels do not make up for two years of being told our game wasn’t being developed because the manager was doing his own projects.
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We used to have all of that and more. Clash scrapped our entire gameworld and now we have basically none of it. If he were not holding the server without actually developing it, we could have most of the requirements up within a week or two.
As if this weren’t enough, Clash is completely inappropriate and disrespectful. He hires and fires staff at random, banning people that do not agree with him and causing the server never to progress because no one can keep their jobs long enough to make a difference.
Recently, he fired a perfectly good staff member for using the f word in an admin message that was unintentionally sent to the entire playerbase. This was in line with his job, as the Playerworld rules state:
“Staff should never PM or Mass Message offensive material. They should also not have offensive material in their profile.”
Yet twenty minutes ago from writing he was massing that the players of his server are all dipsh*ts and “a bunch of idiots.” Surely this isn’t the kind of person that should be allowed to manage a server. If you want, I can get more logs of Clash swearing at players, threatening to ban them for disliking them, things that ANY ADMIN would get fired for, but Clash gets away with.
Clash (Sun Sep 03 23:30:05 2006):
Mass message:
So ignore RP points, you dip****s.
Clash (Sun Sep 03 23:32:45 2006):
Mass message:
Oh gee. Lets wonder why Clash never comes around.
Could it be possibly because you're a lot of idiots?!
Countless appeals have been made to the global staff, even directly to cyberjours, often by Clash’s own staff members, but no one has done anything. I’m trying again, because I don’t want to see a server I’ve played on for seven years die.
We used to get over 100 players at peak hours. Now, we’re lucky if we break 40. I don’t know why the staff that is managing this game is allowing this person to stay in management. We have plenty of motivated, talented people that aren’t being allowed to do anything because Clash won’t let them. At the same time, we’ve been waiting for years for any sort of change on this server, but we are left without a system, and a small staff that can’t do anything of real worth despite their talent and dedication.
The saddest thing is, we’ve been trying to change things. So many people have tried to get the globals to enact change, but no one is listening. We all have so much love for the server, but our manager has actually professed to caring much more about his Zelda 64 editor than for the server he has in his vice-grip. All we want is our server back. We want to have fun and actually play this game. So, even though I know it probably wont do anything, I’m writing a letter because I can’t sit by and watch this server die a cold, lonely death.
EDIT: Response to Crono:
He was showing me screen shots two years ago. We all want something new, but he wont let us do anything. I don't want old val, I want something new, but Clash isn't letting anyone but himself do work, while we spend two years twiddling our thumbs.
Like I said, Clash wants to make a new game but we want this one, things have been basically the same for way too long and he refuses to do anything with it. We're tired of it.
09-04-2006, 10:27 PM
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