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Unholy Nation, heh.. I agree with the initial point of this thread, but some important issues are missed. I'm a Classic player, but I spent a while on Unholy Nation, and have the occasional spar there when I'm bored and I have noticed there hasn't actually been any updates what so ever and I'd put it down to bad management.
Having an inactive manager plays a large role in why UN isn't evolving the way it should. Spryte seems to let the staff do everything, planning things, making up their own little projects, making the place more fun, which has actually landed us with nothing at all. Spryte was a good GP Chief, because she had really good discipline skills, but her manager skills just aren't there, and it's just like a popularity contest with her. The most I've seen happen from Spryte is a ban of Malinko, which actually had no standing what so ever, just a personal attack basically and if you like him or not, you can't do that.
Since WiKKiD left UN due to personal reasons 8 month ago, there has been zero releases to the public. The every day systems which are used, such as the sparring, were made in WiKKiD's day and are the only things that are entertaining on this server. 8 month ago, there was a new quest being worked on, everyone knew about it, Seaport. I think WiKKiD left a lot of storylines and directions for the mentioned quest, but nothing has come of it other then a few NPC character changes -- they changed the quest characters into people who actually play the server, thus destroying the whole point of trying to integrate a storyline. Everything that was being worked on 8 months ago has been abandoned, yet I believe this is what the staff should have been working on, because it was new and exciting for the players.
The lack of any updates is being blamed on the fact that the GS1 to GS2 conversion (yes, they're still fully scripted in GS1, not even GS2 enabled infact) which is incredibly stupid, they have staff, they have a dev server, yet this is the excuse. I know someone personally who tried to offer their help and support in converting from GS1 to GS2, and he actually enjoyed doing it, but was ignored by all staff "in charge" of that department.
Speaking of staff, their lineup consists of some of the most immature Graalians I have seen, who gain position by sucking up. I know someone who gained a level 4 RC 3 month back, just by asking! There are staff who have never even logged on since they gained their position, I don't believe any of them are actually assigned any work, so basically the whole point of the staff there is to provide people with position over players, rather then to work on making Unholy Nation a better server. UN has gone through some staff changes, infact, a hell of a lot of staff changes, yet haven't actually placed anyone into work and given them phony positions, like Elk, Development? I find it odd that people who have applied for jobs on UN, yet specialize in things, such as Elk and Tom, who are good at graphics, were placed into a Development staff category. Maybe the rights entice these talented (I use this term lightly) staff members, but that's not right.
In my personal opinion and from experience, I think WiKKiD should be managing Unholy Nation. I started playing UN when WiKKiD was manager because it was actually pretty fun. Things such as big player events, like the Halloween event, were very well executed, and it just made the server that bit more fun, yet things like these don't happen anymore. I also know while WiKKiD was manager there was numerous projects going on, the removal of guns and cars to be replaced with things that actually make sense to the theme, new quests, new events and progress and development was going along strong.
I think the management of UN really need to consider what the hell they are doing more seriously and either start fixing the problems, or giving them to someone with better management capabilities, like WiKKiD for instance, in order to give Unholy Nation the development it so clearly needs, rather then this farce we have going on right now. |
03-31-2007, 08:01 AM
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