Valentino MC: Mau5noize

aww you miss me already tell? lol all i get is a 3.5. breh, have you seen my muscles. i think you mean 10/10 no, you can ask the staff about how i was to them. I was always unbiased. i kicked some GMs off that i had known outside of LOTC. I will always speak out against unnecessary attacks on either players or staff, there is a right way and a wrong way; this is just the wrong way. And don't worry, your smiling face made me smile back. :) Im Always abouts. I log in and run around the map from time to time. For some reason I'm stuck in a godmode status. I can't hurt anyone, no one can hurt me; it kind of sucks but i enjoy not having to look for food every time i log in and just spend time observing the player base. Same goes for the forums, i see and read everything. I had my run, i served my time, i just felt others could do it better or at least put more time in. Being an Admin, or even a GM; is very taxing. It's like writing a book, you know the ending so you aren't even excited about the story, You don't get to experience the adventure like everyone else; your only enjoyment comes from seeing others enjoy your hard work and sacrifice. And when people tell you your book sucked, and aren't constructive at all with their criticism, it makes you not want to try. You can tell someone "hey you suck" or you can say "Hey i like the effort, but what if you tried this." Im not saying we should beat around the bush, I'm saying, be respectful and considerate or just leave the server and go elsewhere.

Ill be blunt. this is probably one of the most pointless and inconsiderate topics to date. Not the worst, but it's up there. How about a poll about players who whine and complain, or players who kiss ass in hopes of getting promotions, or better yet; players that point out problems and never solutions. Or EVEN BETTER, a poll on players that are just complete ass holes. Lets rate players based on their RP level. Brown for shitty, red for amazing, blue for power gamers, orange for bad spellers. The above was sarcasm, using colors to rate people on good or bad, is…stupid. Just because you call it constructive criticism doesn't make it ok. Telling someone who's overweight they are fat isn't ok. A Gm who is struggling to do a good job, shouldn't be dragged publicly through the server and ganged up to be humiliated. So, here is some constructive criticism, pull your head out your ass, act like a mature individual, and take any concerns you have with a staff member to the Admin in charge. If you feel like you need numbers to better get your point across, make a document with some fellow concerned players and send that to an admin. They do listen, but posts like this; will cause them not to take you seriously. Especially if you find this as ok.

LOL why write this? If you plan to keep them to yourself then why tell everyone your keeping them to yourself? It is the same as those people who say "oooh i have a secret but i can't tell you" or the people who sigh really really really loud and make sad faces, but say they don't want to talk about it, yet they will say something along the lines of "but its really messed up what has happened, but I'm not going to talk about it: *double sigh. i guess I'm being an ass, back to my mouse hole. just thought i'd point out the only thing that stood out to me out of this entire post. The rest is the same "lets all be friends", **** i remember the bad ol days, when it was drama, flame, drama, rage on a daily basis; at each other, at staff, at oneself. I have to say from a glance at the past and now, the server is definitely moving in the right directions. People will always bicker and on a gaming server where a large majority of the players are "kids" or "teenagers", i'd imagine they will act like kids and teenagers. And there isn't anything wrong with that, just as long as you accept what you dish out being directed back at you, and you try to be as respectful as possible, you should all be fine. We are humans, we get angry, we lash out, no one is perfect. Nor will the community ever be, it can only be perfectly imperfect and on a progressive path, where tomorrow is better than today, which is better than yesterday.

Lul you guys have gone soft. Pull the tail out from betwinst thou legs.

I always find posts like this humorous. Mainly because of the way they are written; as if the staff owes you their time. They don't owe you Sh**. They give up their free time to do something they love to do; help others by maintaining/managing a quality environment for RP. GOD FORBID they take a week or two, or a month off to handle more important priorities in their real life. Sorry your life isn't as bustling at the moment and you feel neglected that on your free time, while you play, someone else isn't sacrificing all of theirs to hold your hand and walk you through your RP/MC problems. Now this is assuming that some of the staff are inactive and not doing anything LOTC relate. But remember, just because you don't hear from a staff member, doesn't mean they aren't doing something for this server. For instance, and this is relevant as the timing and status of the server is the same, when we transitioned to Anthos; there was a period of time where half the staff was thought to be inactive, including myself. Well in fact, we were putting in 6-12 hours a day Voxeling our little fingers away and planting trees throughout the map. That beautiful landscape that oren was built on, you think that was MC generated? No some amazing staff member put hours into its perfection, *cough *cough "me" *cough *cough. So for all you know, they could be putting in hours to writing transition lore, fine tuning/testing plugins, going over the landscape of 4.0, and planning new events for the new map. Not everything is done to your face/computer screen. Now i am completely unbias. I had no problem removing GMs who i considered "friends" that i found as lazy or not putting in some effort. But there is a difference between getting over comfortable in a position/Being lazy and having other priorities arise that take precedent. For the later, it isn't fair to remove someone who has other responsibilities and request some time off. In the real world it doesn't happen that way in a paid job atmosphere, so what makes you think its ok for it to happen in your fantasy volunteer world? For those saying "remove the staff now before 4.0" "nows the time". Yeah lets do that, lets remove experienced staff members who know how to handle map transitions; including bug reviews, region reviews, region issues, exploits, log block checks, land claims, and the vast majority of questions that will flood through Modreq and forum posts. Lets let someone who knows nothing about this, who would still be considered in training, work out the kinks. NO. That is ridiculous, staff shouldn't be replaced, staff should be added. Yes fill in time zones, yes add more staff members to certain jobs, and yes warn/remove those who have vanished without a heads up. But a purge? Get off your high horse. I can promise you this; and i would know as i served for 20 months on this staff, from GM to Admin, that once you get that nice title; you will be super GM for about a week or 2, then you find your maintenance zone and put it on cruise control. I've only seen a couple staff members actually keep it at 100% 80% of the time, the rest usually run around 60% for 99% and put in 100 when pressed for discipline. It is a curse; it happens to GMs to Admins, you burn out. And yes, they should take the responsibility to step down as I did, but a purge is overboard. Warning first, explanations, reasons; if a staff member is just being lazy or uninterested then yes give them the boot. But if they need a break for a couple weeks or a month to rejuvenate the moderating juices or handle some IRL duties then let them, cause i guarantee, unless you have no life whatsoever outside this server, that there will come a time when you will need some time off and a little break to maintain your sanity.

DUN DUN DUN… Plot Twist Level: M. Night Shyamalan