--as an aside, I wrote this thread last Sunday--
As with all public releases of a playerworld, certain things happen among the people who worked and the people who benefitted to incite some kind of trouble or argument in the community, and unfortunately this time is no different.
Because a significant portion of the users here are ignorant or otherwise apathetic to the words and situations of others when they are in the form of a large post, I strongly encourage responses only from the people who have taken the time to hear me out. This is not a work in progress, nor is this a rant. If anything, this is personal.
There comes a time when a man must discard his gloves and arrest himself of his own semantics for the sake of action. Recently my hard drive has become infected with a rather nasty virus and I have been forced to revert to an earlier one (the one that I have now). This hard drive, to my surprise, has contained the majority of the work that I had done while I worked as a NAT for Delteria Dev ("temporary NAT" was my official title, however after the first month of work I was noted to be "a temporary NAT who does more work than our real ones" by the server manager and the word "temporary" was subsequently disregarded). In the course of working day and night for a grand total of 3/4 of a year on the delteria dev server to help get everything released sooner than the projected release date by Delterians in general which is jokingly referred to as "next spring", meaning "never", I developed a large number of things. I took it upon myself to create all of the things that would be fun in the server, or at least display the motivation. I created a new arcade game, which was aptly titled "biph ball" by our resident idler, a mining system that contained player levels, 13 kinds of minerals, different color corresponding rocks, different levels of pickaxes, as well as many other smaller things. I will not elaborate more on the things that I have done, because some of my earlier things have been screenshotted in the thread I made here in these forums in order to promote Delteria's new OW in an attempt to help garner more support and help with the server.
The three quarters of the year that I have spent constantly working for and promoting the new world that Delteria has released has been nullified by a long-standing, socially manipulative person who has made it his personal goal for as long as he is in power to destroy everything that I have done and render moot all of my work and motivations. For the past four years, it has been the goal of this person to do anything in his power and social influence to do everything he can to prevent me from my goals. His methods range from personal attacks, to driving my coworkers against me, to jailing, banning, and disconnecting me at any opportunity for any possible technicality. As I type this, I sit in a Delterian jail cell for the irrefutable crime of spamming — I was conversing about the server on mass messages. Unfortunately, this is a common example. He has gone to every possible extent to ruin my reputation and credibility among the people, and has personally seen to it that my work on the server should be in vain. However, I will not make a list of further offenses for you to recite. My purpose in all of this is to incite disdain for the person that has been oppressing me for the past four years. Regardless of the fact that while I had some form of power for myself, I was able to restrain my urges to abuse my power and never, not once, did I. My track record as an FAQ and FAQ Chief in the past can speak for itself on the issue of whether or not I am a corruptible staff member.
I have never been known to be a man to incite violence or pick a fight, nor have I ever been known to abuse my power for the sake of appeasing a personal vendetta. I am not a hacker, nor am I equipped in any way to retaliate against this person's baseless vendetta against me. I have taken more blame than credit and at the encouragement of a good friend of mine, I write this as a form of passive retaliation. I can only hope that some hacker out there can find empathy in me and take action against this person. As for an explanation of his actions, when he explains his actions to the community of Delteria, he echoes the age-old cry of the oppressor when he states that "it is for the good of the whole", in this case: the server community, and that I am a parasite who only serves to demean and undermine the efforts of everyone else. The crime I have committed is existence in his eyes, and it is his duty to see that I am abused and mistreated in any possible way at any opportunity given to him in an effort to cleanse his community of me. ((At the time that I am now posting this, I am not banned from the Delterian forums anymore nor am I idling in a jail cell, but I am "gagged". Any post I make requires his approval, because he has been made a forum moderator to go with his development administrator position in the server and has the charismatic authority to do whatever he pleases without questioning from both the people above him as well as the people around him.))
As I have already stated, I am not capable of taking action against this man because he has socially manipulated his way to the top and oppresses me at every opportunity. What I am able to do, however, since Delteria will not use any of my work, is share it with the Graal community.
I intend to make a number of scripting threads in the near future with what portion of my work I am able to recover from this older hard drive for public use for the global community. I will also try to explain them to others who would want to be learning GS2 as I have done with other scripts in the past on various forums. On the off-chance that those in Delteria care about it and say that I am not allowed to do this because of the sole fact that since I made it on the server it belongs to them (I never signed any of my scripts), when I look at the past confrontation between Warcaptain and Delteria's staff over MateusCerastes' (as we knew him) work on the trees and bush tiles, I find that I am fully entitled to dictate what happens to the fruit of my labor.
I wanted to state this for the record. Thank you for your time. |