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Originally posted by Warcaptain
now that i read it all im gonna post.....
for starters i wanna say.
konidias you are a spoiled hypocrital stuck up a$$
you posted about my review that worlds shouldnt be required to have new graphics and new systems, yet you say thats the best thing about your world, and its WHY you should not have 4 week. but you dont want that to be required
if we dont require it this problem will keep occouring
your pw isnt "THE BEST" sure lots of people work on it, sure its got good ideas, but you are ASSUMING that its the best (there goes that word again) best to keep your mouth shut unless you know, unless you like the taste of your foot.
you were put up by stefan, congrats. but that doesnt give you bragging rights. i hate people like that. im NOT saying I like era
but they scripted all their stuff offline, why cant you!?
and you know what, if you have such superior staff, it SHOULDNT take so long for it to get completed. you say era is nice, well it didnt take half the time you did.
in regards to those top 7 worlds
take a look at a pattern.....
UN - Has desgusting things in it, hoe*s slu*ts, and the management doesnt enforce the rules, you know why? because players like doing whatever they want
Era - guns? gangs? mafia? swords? people are already shooting up schools, im not saying everyone who plays era is gonna get in trouble, but i was shutdown once for having the world "SL*UT" in a sign. you know why? because i was told "some young people play the game, and we dont wnt to influence them badly" how well are players being influenced with guns, gangs, violence like this? or having ho*es like that, or signs taht say 'YO SLU'T' is that good?
Valkorlia - doesnt have ANY rules, but will eat your head off if you dont have an 'rp name'
Delteria- dude i went on there and hacked in front of the former police chief, he did nothing. but i said he was an irresponsible chief and he jailed me... hmm fun!
Babylon - uhm... i was banned there once because some player that doesnt like me said i did something i didnt... wee a playerworld where you can ban people you dont like! FUN!!
this is all a biast situation
and if GO administration doesnt take care of this, and stop thining bout their pocketbook, they will be in BIG trouble
as the game grows, more people notice it, and if a rating board gets ahold of it, im sure itll get a Mature rating (which is possible for online games) and will require parental concent for anyone under 16 to play. graal DOESNT want that because 75% of their player income comes from little kids and their allowance.
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Well, I think you are being a hypocrite. You're not living up to the standards
you posted. Now please return to the festering hole from whence you came. Oh! And have a nice day
There's just as much potential to be creative and original using the default tileset, you're just not looking hard enough. Those that use different graphics perhaps want thier world to have a different feel and appearance aside from going outside the norm. Did you ever consider that? As for an ESRB rating. Graal itself is capable of anything but would most likely wind up with either E or T (probably T more than anything). What should be done is to directly give ESRB ratings to each individual PW. Just because people can spew out vulgarities and such does not automattically equal and M from ESRB. Heck, look at TheSimsOnline or Phantasy Star Online. Both are rated T, but anyone can go on and swear up and down. Its up to the administration to enforce a rule concerning swearing or not. The game is rated based upon the contents of the game such as violence or themes.
Besides, its not like kids don't play games like Halo, GTA, or Mortal Kombat. Those games have blood, gore, swearing, etc. Graal is about violence anyway. Every server that has swords falls in the catagory. ONO! Classic has people running around hitting each other with swords, lets put a stop to this violence so we don't influence the children 
As for having good staff, things will still take long. Its possible to go through many different builds of a script or different level designs and styles before one is found appropriate and efficient and so forth. This is why commercial games can take upto 4+ years to complete. Mostly because the final product
is the final product when concerning console games. Even though you can make fixes and such for PC games, its best to do what you can do right before releasing it publicly. Its probably a very painful task to make patches for software sometimes and sometimes its just simple updates and improvements that didn't quite make it to the deadline or that are being saved for other purposes.
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Playerworlds are about being creative. When you put on restrictions that are likened to a vice, you're just restricting that creativity. This is not to say that I approve of playerworlds that have nudity or assorted obscenities. That's just being disgusting, not creative. If someone can make a playerworld that although its small yet is fun, exciting, new, and unique, why penalize them? You're wanthing playerworlds to be more diverse, correct? Well then a server like this fits the bill granted that it may not have achieved a certain standard. I think Era has a rather small overworld, but it got up. Despite what players do on it, I still think its original, fun, unique, and new. Again, you're focusing on quantity and not quality. This isn't a contest to see who can make the biggest overworld or who has the most new stuff. Although having more new than not is a plus, it shouldn't be a total detriment to the playerworld so long as the quality of it meets a certain level. When you focus on quantity rather than quality, you'll get more crap than not.
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