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Originally posted by Darlene159
He kept PM'ing me saying he was getting warped in and out of the event, HE never left...whatever, I dont mind losing, but I do mind being cheated...and from what I could tell, unstick me doesnt work, so how could anyone warp out?
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I went on RC there to ask what was going on (and to offer my services to assist in fixing the problem, since just the previous night unixmad had specifically asked Jagen, Angel, and I to help if we could), since for a space I was getting warped repeatedly as well...when I mentioned that I was having that trouble, the response from Tyhm was "F_CKING COPE. YOU DON'T BELONG HERE ANYWAY." and then he opened and set my local ban info, followed by disconnecting me. I did not return to RC, but I remained on client to watch the graalympics. I never heard an "Event Started" announcement, and the vast majority of the people were in the lobby as they had not heard such an announcement either. Since Tyhm was taking some time to address these problems that were occuring, that seemed a nice place to be while we waited for him to fix everything (and presumably announce that everything is fixed, and that you can come watch the even that you've been waiting so long to see). So, with no announcement, I would estimate perhaps over half of those who came to watch the event, were not even able to do so.
In short, poor preparation along with a refusal to ask for or accept help is what caused this event to be, in my opinion, an utter failure. To my knowledge, the graalympics (as well as the real Olympics, past and present) are designed to accomplish two things: firstly, to find out who is the best athlete in each category; secondly, to please the crowd. The term "spectator sport" comes to mind.
With regard to the N-Pulse contestant, having been warped around myself without doing anything abnormal (and witnessing several others who experienced the same and hearing of still more), I can only assume that either 20-30+ people are somehow doing something wrong (with the only possible thing that could be done 'wrong' there being walking up and down some stairs, this hardly seems likely), or there was a problem with the scripting. Considering during the short space I was on RC, an NPC repeatedly mentioned creating a warp or something similar in a sendtorc, I can but suppose that this was indeed a scripting problem. Therefore, Tyhm's statement of "He kept warping out. Hell if I know what he was thinking." rather falls apart, as it was not the contestant somehow exerting power that they could not have controlled to warp out. (Oh, and for future reference, if you don't fix that script, Tyhm, I did seem to manage to stop the repeated warping to the same place by countering it with my own warpto - I warped to one of the outside levels on the main map, and then walked into the lobby, that seemed to unset whatever flag was causing the repeated warping).
I still will be glad to assist Tyhm in fixing it, as that pertains to my job as a global scripter, and I do enjoy my job - I just dislike the way that the graalympics been handled so far, and how I've been treated. Granted, I do understand that Tyhm was under a lot of stress from all of these things going wrong, but I do have a problem with a paid level 4 admin not treating players, let alone fellow staff, with a certain degree of respect.
08-04-2003, 10:16 PM
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