Unholy Nation =)

NeoJenova · #1 03-22-2005, 08:44 AM

Recent events with UN have been rather suprising.

1.) I am removed after 5 years with UN and 4 years as staff.
2.) I am unaware of the reason why I was removed.
3.) Malinko is placed in charge of UN, why? because he was able to find the npc being abused by the hackers.

Now, I will not complain if the reason for my removal is just, I will gladly step down. I can't think of a reason for my removal at the moment so if anyone is able to inform me I would be very greatful.

I have put in a lot of time and devotion into UN, after recieving it in JOINT managment which in my opinion was a horrible idea I tried my very hardest since I was Admin to keep it secure.

I created a rights list in writing for all of my Staff to know who had what rights, never gave untrusted staff anything that could damage the server and I was the one around on every single attack on UN and the one to stop EACH and EVERY attack by corrupt staff members.

I guess my point is I have been there in the good times and the bad times and I have always picked up the pieces, I was even finishing the new overworld for UN with the help of a few friends and my staff. You can see a picture on the link below.
http://neojenova.vip.graal.net/

All I can say is I tried my VERY best to manage the server to the best of my ability and was removed for unknown reasons. I apologize if I was an unfit manager I honestly did try.

If I am not reinstated can I atleast complete UNs new overworld?

Spark910 · #2 03-22-2005, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by NeoJenova

never gave untrusted staff anything that could damage the server

Problem was, to my knowledge, that the high staff overlooked what they were uploading to allow the attack to go into place.

Eitherway, the PWA had nothing to do with this and I was unaware until waking up today that this manager had been switched.

zell12 · #3 03-22-2005, 01:51 PM

I think this was a poor decision on Stefans behalf. I think a few of the staff got together behind your back, and complained to Stefan and he only listened to all these complaints and acted.

Shouldn't the PWA be more informed of such things before things like this happen; after all, that is the job of the PWA.

Andy0687 · #4 03-22-2005, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by zell12

I think this was a poor decision on Stefans behalf. I think a few of the staff got together behind your back, and complained to Stefan and he only listened to all these complaints and acted.

I agree with you on this.

I believe decisions are based purely on Favortism, regardless of how long anyone has been there, or how good of a job they do. Its all Politics.

Edit:

And NeoJenova, as long as I have known you, you have always been great at what you do, sad to see something like this happen to another deserving person.

Malinko · #5 03-22-2005, 03:22 PM

If you don't know the reasons, then why don't you clearly ask someone? You have not been removed from your job. There is reasoning behind this matter, so log on Unholy Nation RC and we'll talk about what's going on.

protagonist · #6 03-22-2005, 03:43 PM

I really disagree with how this went down. It should have been brought up to us so that we could have handled it.

I'm not saying anything about the actual choice of who was put as manager, but the bottom line is, it was a bad move. It was far more dramatic than necessary. We've had far worse than this situation without removing the managers, etc.

Malinko · #7 03-22-2005, 03:54 PM

Not to defend myself.

Though, do you know the actual reason of why all of them were removed?

protagonist · #8 03-22-2005, 03:59 PM

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Though, do you know the actual reason of why all of them were removed?

It sounds like one person did something that nobody could do anything about unless they were on at the time to stop. Then, all four high staff members were removed because of this.

Malinko · #9 03-22-2005, 04:09 PM

Hm, you are partially correct.

This is not completely a situation about how someone could not be on to solve a problem.

This matter extends far beyond that. Over the recent days, many staff of Unholy Nation have been complaining that no work can be done without the lack of rights. Yes, rights may be a greed right to have, but in some cases, there has to be at least a very active member with rights that can take care of an issue at any time. I do not mean to say one person, though when you have two Administrators and two Managers, you'd think that any issue could be solved easy and quick with the combined efforts. During all the resetting of players and abusive rights of a certain staff member, no one could solve this issue. Many of the staff members sat on RemoteControl, watching the issue get worse and worse. None of the Managers were online to solve the issue until later on (which is was too late) and the Administrators didn't seem to give rights to anyone to solve the problems. The whole issue is that, some do believe that Unholy Nation does not have good staff organization. Yes, many have heard about a new overworld being released, but not all staff are working on it, so why even have it? You have one Manager working on it with little help. I do not think some staff members enjoy not being part of it when they do with to work on Unholy Nation. So yes, the whole issue may be a small right issue, but it's stating the fact that there are no active high staff members to take the role of an Admin or Manager to perform the duties they need to do. If you have a whole entire playerworld, players and staff, saying, "HELL YES! THEY ARE GONE!" when the Administration and Management is removed, you know something is not right. It may be an opinion of my own, though, you are working so the players and staff have something to enjoy. You do want them on your side, don't you? That's what running a playerworld is all about. So everything runs smoothly so that everyone can enjoy. Over the recent days, I don't think everyone was enjoying being reset over a hundred times and no one could do anything but to watch it. So that is the issue.

Darlene159 · #10 03-22-2005, 04:11 PM

Wow.....just...wow
Never saw this coming x.x

protagonist · #11 03-22-2005, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Malinko

Hm, you are partially correct.

This is not completely a situation about how someone could not be on to solve a problem.

This matter extends far beyond that. Over the recent days, many staff of Unholy Nation have been complaining that no work can be done without the lack of rights. Yes, rights may be a greed right to have, but in some cases, there has to be at least a very active member with rights that can take care of an issue at any time. I do not mean to say one person, though when you have two Administrators and two Managers, you'd think that any issue could be solved easy and quick with the combined efforts. During all the resetting of players and abusive rights of a certain staff member, no one could solve this issue. Many of the staff members sat on RemoteControl, watching the issue get worse and worse. None of the Managers were online to solve the issue until later on (which is was too late) and the Administrators didn't seem to give rights to anyone to solve the problems. The whole issue is that, some do believe that Unholy Nation does not have good staff organization. Yes, many have heard about a new overworld being released, but not all staff are working on it, so why even have it? You have one Manager working on it with little help. I do not think some staff members enjoy not being part of it when they do with to work on Unholy Nation. So yes, the whole issue may be a small right issue, but it's stating the fact that there are no active high staff members to take the role of an Admin or Manager to perform the duties they need to do. If you have a whole entire playerworld, players and staff, saying, "HELL YES! THEY ARE GONE!" when the Administration and Management is removed, you know something is not right. It may be an opinion of my own, though, you are working so the players and staff have something to enjoy. You do want them on your side, don't you? That's what running a playerworld is all about. So everything runs smoothly so that everyone can enjoy. Over the recent days, I don't think everyone was enjoying being reset over a hundred times and no one could do anything but to watch it. So that is the issue.

What time, exactly, did this incident occur?

Darlene159 · #12 03-22-2005, 04:28 PM

Bleh, what we Managers have is a lose, lose situation.
If you give more rights to staff, you have a higher risk of corruption (but more people can help with what needs to be done), and if you dont, there is less chance of corruption (but less people can help with what needs to be done). It is really hard to make those decisions
Fact is, you can never completely trust anyone, and sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and take a chance to better the PW. This fact has been a hard pill for me to swallow, but I was getting used to it. Now, I am edgy again about giving people rights, for fear of something happening, and Stefan removing us from our positions.

maximus_asinus · #13 03-22-2005, 04:30 PM

Hell, give rights to everyone. They think they deserve it.

Malinko · #14 03-22-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by protagonist

What time, exactly, did this incident occur?

Eh, I give or take around the last 24 hours. The first 12 hours of the last 24 hours. If that makes sense. O_o.

There is still more to this situation, but I don't want to get into the personal opinions of some global staff. So best if you forum PM me or see me on RC for that.

p2p_Sir_Link · #15 03-22-2005, 04:40 PM

Why SHOULDN'T a LAT have NPC-Control, Change Rights, Change Server ops, Ban Players, and edit staff rights? It makes no since to me. Why don't regular players have level 3 RC, and staff level 4?