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Originally Posted by Pimmeh
QFT!
Really....why is UN still living?
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Because they have a knowledgeable, active, experienced management that communicates with players and gives them what they want?
Seriously, why would you rip on a server so clearly successful? They catered to the disgruntled Bravo Online/G3k audience when those servers went down, expanded to an RP audience, and added more from there. You can point, laugh, and go OLOLDOLDOL UN HAS TILE ERORS N THEIR ALL NUBS HAHA SUX 4 U but in reality it is you who is the newbie because you fail to realize why UN experiences the fundamental success that it does.
Managing a server is easy as hell. Here is how it goes:
*Players want something.
*Give it to them.
Even a "complex" server like Zodiac can be managed easily so long as you carefully gloss over the principles within
Tenarius's Mudwimping Guide and understand them.
Things that keep all of these servers under hosted are stupid things that don't make a difference at all beyond the first impression. Elite custom tilesets? Minute tile errors? Meticulously crafted GUIs? Economies? Items? Classes? These things are LIABILITIES and NOT ASSETS because once you craft them, you must perpetually debug them and balance them. How long, then, before someone quits and a new manager with different plans and a different vision, screws with the old creation and modifies it to his vision? I'll tell you: strain happens. Players cry out for balance and the managers can't define it anymore and then yes, people bail. That's how it works, because you broke rule number two (Give it to them). Often, we don't even get that far and people break rule number one (Give them what they want).
Unholy Nation is a GREAT server and possibly an IMMORTAL server because it is rigidly defined, narrow in scope, and caters to an impossibly large (200+) base of players. These are players who have learned staff positions are given to those who do work, the managers are your friend, and that good things come to those who wait. They are well-mannered and, while the median IQ is probably low, they are smart enough to realize they've latched on to an administration that can and will take care of them. This is why I find your post so woefully ironic: if this happened on UN, UN would weather the storm and survive. Management changes don't even phase UN; I rarely hear about them because you can't dent the server. Either Zodiac will fall or Zodiac wont, but my point remains because we've got doomsayers. Faith in the administration is dropping like a rock. Should a new server come along and do what Zodiac does but better, the server's going down. With Unholy Nation this isn't the case; the management wont let itself be outdone.