Answers (Frankie and Mods may want to take a look)

Katzyn - Sanctuary

Lenore - Harshlands wrote: »

Yes, of course. However, if bumping is not a grounds for bans, temporary or not, it would not have been listed. From it being included in list of reasons for a person's suspension, we would assume it's a bannable offense...

Well, think about it. Airyll "bump'd" a LOT. And bumping topics for the pure sake of bumping IS against the rules, and always has been. So yeah, if she'd bumped only once or twice, I could definitely side with you, and say that it shouldn't be included in as one reason for her ban. But since she did it quite often, I don't see why there's a problem with including it as one (of many) reasons.

Lenore - Harshlands

Katzyn - Sanctuary wrote: »

Well, think about it. Airyll "bump'd" a LOT. And bumping topics for the pure sake of bumping IS against the rules, and always has been. So yeah, if she'd bumped only once or twice, I could definitely side with you, and say that it shouldn't be included in as one reason for her ban. But since she did it quite often, I don't see why there's a problem with including it as one (of many) reasons.

I'll take your word for it; I'm not exactly sure how often or even what she bumped. I only brought this up because of the discussion of whether or not bumping is bannable.

Grippieluver - Lost City

Lenore - Harshlands wrote: »

I'll take your word for it; I'm not exactly sure how often or even what she bumped. I only brought this up because of the discussion of whether or not bumping is bannable.

And that's going to be the end of the conversation.. thanks ladies/guys (:

ImReallyWhyt - Heavens Tear

A forum has bid x amount of coins against frankie.

Ms_HopToIt - Sanctuary

I only have one thing on my mind atm...

Grippy, this is a very well thought out thread you have put out here. Im suprised you took the time to do this in the chaos. Obviously, things have calmed down, but there are still questions and answers to come. Thank you for this organized thread, I know it's helped alot of concerned players, and it's probably helped frankie in a sense.

Rawrgh - Raging Tide

Asked by MANray_:Q:Can we get a timeframe on how much more we'll have to wait for a solution to the nerfed DQ drops?

A: The full initiative/idea is being submitted this week. If it is accepted, the web team will start working on it, and we'd hopefully see it in action within a couple months. I'll let you know if the idea gets rejected, however.

Oh boy, more naruto videos?

kantorek

Asked by Slivaf: Kantorek's comment towards the player base in the "Official TW Rules" thread.

Quote:
Originally Posted by kantorek
Update
For further clarification, we are by no means discouraging factions from participating in TW. The fact of the matter is, there will be factions that try to cheat the system. Honestly, most of the players who are being so nit picky about the rules, are the ones who intend to abuse them. If you think your faction has a legitimate chance to win the TW, then by all means go for it.

Did, he really meant to come across so negatively, or was that him just thinking out loud? I realize that you frankieraye, may not be able to answer this, but maybe you can ask him for us?

A: I guess I'll take this one. I feel that this was taken a bit out of proportion. This was not an attack on players asking for clarification on the rules. This was an attack on anyone or any faction that had the intention on getting the specifics of "how many members does a faction need" or "what is the average level of a faction" to use as their defense when their faction or faction leader gets banned for fake bids. (You know who you are).

For example, it's a lot like if there was a company picnic in the park, but you were told specifically that there is to be no alcohol on the premises. If I went up to the organizer of the event and asked "What exactly are boundaries of the picnic premise? Is being across the street considered being on the park premises?" What do you think I would be trying to get away with?

For this reason, we are unable to give these specifics and exactly why we look at TW bans and complaints on a case by case basis. There is no way we can set down a specific set of rules regarding this part of the TW bidding process.

I apologize to everyone if you felt that this was a direct attack on all players in general. But it simply was not meant to be that way. Hopefully this clears everything up.

MANray_ - Sanctuary

I have to give you the credit for answering a tricky question. Thanks again Kanto.

Slivaf - Dreamweaver

Kantorek wrote: »

A: I guess I'll take this one. I feel that this was taken a bit out of proportion. This was not an attack on players asking for clarification on the rules. This was an attack on anyone or any faction that had the intention on getting the specifics of "how many members does a faction need" or "what is the average level of a faction" to use as their defense when their faction or faction leader gets banned for fake bids. (You know who you are).

For example, it's a lot like if there was a company picnic in the park, but you were told specifically that there is to be no alcohol on the premises. If I went up to the organizer of the event and asked "What exactly are boundaries of the picnic premise? Is being across the street considered being on the park premises?" What do you think I would be trying to get away with?

For this reason, we are unable to give these specifics and exactly why we look at TW bans and complaints on a case by case basis. There is no way we can set down a specific set of rules regarding this part of the TW bidding process.

I apologize to everyone if you felt that this was a direct attack on all players in general. But it simply was not meant to be that way. Hopefully this clears everything up.

Wow, kantorek, you just blew me away with your response, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

I realize that giving a public apology like this, may not be your first choice in dealing with something like this; however, I do thank you for taking the time to apologize, and at the very least explaining what you meant. Not to mention how it might start to sway people's opinion about you, when you make a public apology like this one, it is nice when everyone can see it, instead of just one person via a pm.

Thanks again for the apology, I am sorry we all took it as if you were attacking everyone asking for a clarification, but erm yea it was a bad choice of words when you updated it, but as I have stated before, and as frankie stated you all are just humans. Humans make mistakes all too often, and it can be easy to let one go unseen for a while. So again thanks for trying to set the record straight.

ZAPATON - Sanctuary

frankieraye wrote: »

And I realize y'all need more communication from me. Hopefully we can take this recent forum explosion and use it as a fresh start for how things are done around here.

Kantorek wrote: »

I apologize to everyone if you felt that this was a direct attack on all players in general. But it simply was not meant to be that way. Hopefully this clears everything up.

I believe those 2 posts were the right thing to do. Now the next step is to keep up the communication. That way the playerbase won't feel ignored, and flames will, hopefully, happen far less often. Thank you b:thanks

Katzyn - Sanctuary

Thank you, Kanto, for clearing it all up.

Siege - Dreamweaver

Thank you Frankie and Kanto for your responses, very much appreciate them. That is all I wanted and I'm pretty sure many others. b:thanks

Dorset - Heavens Tear

awsome as always grippie

Bearleeable - Lost City

Why is pwi so lax about security? Specifically the displaying of your LOGIN names instead of character names in the core connect.
As core connect is right now the linking is disastrous and extremely hacker friendly. I'm not comfortable @ all with having mine nor my familys login names being displayed revealing 50% of what a hacker needs to know to break-in and **** an account.

I've given a ticket about it that was merely blown off

Kupuntu - Sanctuary

Bearleeable - Lost City wrote: »

Why is pwi so lax about security? Specifically the displaying of your LOGIN names instead of character names in the core connect.
As core connect is right now the linking is disastrous and extremely hacker friendly. I'm not comfortable @ all with having mine nor my familys login names being displayed revealing 50% of what a hacker needs to know to break-in and **** an account.

I've given a ticket about it that was merely blown off

If you click my profile, you will see a name 'kuppo' there. It's not my login name.

Katzyn - Sanctuary

Kupuntu - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you click my profile, you will see a name 'kuppo' there. It's not my login name.

^

katzyn is not my login name, either.

frankieraye

Bearleeable - Lost City wrote: »

Why is pwi so lax about security? Specifically the displaying of your LOGIN names instead of character names in the core connect.
As core connect is right now the linking is disastrous and extremely hacker friendly. I'm not comfortable @ all with having mine nor my familys login names being displayed revealing 50% of what a hacker needs to know to break-in and **** an account.

I've given a ticket about it that was merely blown off

When you register, you are asked to input an account name and a nickname. The account name is what you use to log in to the game and site, and the nickname is what is shown on your CORE profile.

KuiXing - Harshlands

Okay i have another question: Why does Shelly keep claiming we are whinning and being so offensive to us?

Ya'll need to stop whining

-removed-

This is another example of this.

chaoticshelly

KuiXing - Harshlands wrote: »

Okay i have another question: Why does Shelly keep claiming we are whinning and being so offensive to us?



This is another example of this.

Oh, I haven't posted that. I simply removed a pornographic image from that post. Sorry about the confusion.

b:thanks

Katzyn - Sanctuary

KuiXing - Harshlands wrote: »

Okay i have another question: Why does Shelly keep claiming we are whinning and being so offensive to us?



This is another example of this.

Rofl, what? There was something that needed to be removed there, so she removed it. The "stop whining" was already there, rofl.

Dashiko - Sanctuary

Bleep Bloop

Desdi - Sanctuary

I've missed a couple of pages but good job so far!
Communication is always the best way to solve things...

Grippieluver - Lost City

Thanks Dors

Thank you Kanto, for clearing things up, I'll be quoting your answer.

Sorry I wasn't on to update yesterday, y'all... Jasper woke up late, and I had a later shift than usual on my night job... my apologies b:thanks

Tikitavi - Sanctuary

I've lurked on these forums off and on since I went out of my way to get myself permanetly banned from them and I have just this to say, and I hope all of you will take the time to consider it reasonably....

If Frankie and the new mods take this recent explosion of outrage and use it to make the forums a more reasonable place to be by doing what should have been done a long long time ago (and that is paying attention to the forums, and the players posting here's concerns and not minimizing them or disregarding them as they were so won't to do before), then the PWI forums have a chance to become what they were before and what they should be now, and that is a source of information and assistance to new players or even older players, that are seeking help or answers to their questions.

While Frankie and I have bumped heads hard, I have been the Admin for several large forums and the job is not worth the headaches that come with it. It takes a strong minded person to do it. And I personally respect Frankie for doing it. If any of you think you can do better, I challenge you to run your own Forum with several thousand people posting on it, before you say anything else.

I may not like Frankies style, but I do respect him for doing a thankless job.

That being said.. I would hope the PWI community would look back at the recent events, and work together, mods, cm and players, to turn the community around and start helping one another. You all have a Golden opportunity here to forge a better community out of the ashes of the old. Don't pass up the chance. You might not get another.

With respect to the Community, Frankie and the new and old Mods (even if we did bump heads).

~Saitada

haybails

Tikitavi - Sanctuary wrote: »

I've lurked on these forums off and on since I went out of my way to get myself permanetly banned from them and I have just this to say, and I hope all of you will take the time to consider it reasonably....

If Frankie and the new mods take this recent explosion of outrage and use it to make the forums a more reasonable place to be by doing what should have been done a long long time ago (and that is paying attention to the forums, and the players posting here's concerns and not minimizing them or disregarding them as they were so won't to do before), then the PWI forums have a chance to become what they were before and what they should be now, and that is a source of information and assistance to new players or even older players, that are seeking help or answers to their questions.

While Frankie and I have bumped heads hard, I have been the Admin for several large forums and the job is not worth the headaches that come with it. It takes a strong minded person to do it. And I personally respect Frankie for doing it. If any of you think you can do better, I challenge you to run your own Forum with several thousand people posting on it, before you say anything else.

I may not like Frankies style, but I do respect him for doing a thankless job.

That being said.. I would hope the PWI community would look back at the recent events, and work together, mods, cm and players, to turn the community around and start helping one another. You all have a Golden opportunity here to forge a better community out of the ashes of the old. Don't pass up the chance. You might not get another.

With respect to the Community, Frankie and the new and old Mods (even if we did bump heads).

~Saitada

Good post. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to your words.

Lenore - Harshlands

Tikitavi - Sanctuary wrote: »

I've lurked on these forums off and on since I went out of my way to get myself permanetly banned from them and I have just this to say, and I hope all of you will take the time to consider it reasonably....

If Frankie and the new mods take this recent explosion of outrage and use it to make the forums a more reasonable place to be by doing what should have been done a long long time ago (and that is paying attention to the forums, and the players posting here's concerns and not minimizing them or disregarding them as they were so won't to do before), then the PWI forums have a chance to become what they were before and what they should be now, and that is a source of information and assistance to new players or even older players, that are seeking help or answers to their questions.

While Frankie and I have bumped heads hard, I have been the Admin for several large forums and the job is not worth the headaches that come with it. It takes a strong minded person to do it. And I personally respect Frankie for doing it. If any of you think you can do better, I challenge you to run your own Forum with several thousand people posting on it, before you say anything else.

I may not like Frankies style, but I do respect him for doing a thankless job.

That being said.. I would hope the PWI community would look back at the recent events, and work together, mods, cm and players, to turn the community around and start helping one another. You all have a Golden opportunity here to forge a better community out of the ashes of the old. Don't pass up the chance. You might not get another.

With respect to the Community, Frankie and the new and old Mods (even if we did bump heads).

~Saitada

I've always wondered where you went; I loved reading your posts and the attitude in them. Good to see you're still around.

ligtwarrior

Grippie, thank you for this thread.

KuiXing - Harshlands

Katzyn - Sanctuary wrote: »

Rofl, what? There was something that needed to be removed there, so she removed it. The "stop whining" was already there, rofl.

the stop whining comment was not needed none the less

Aisubeki - Sanctuary

Lenore - Harshlands wrote: »

I've always wondered where you went; I loved reading your posts and the attitude in them. Good to see you're still around.

lol? this is the first time its a post that -doesn't- contain narcissism, and/or an asinine insult in the direction of someone he disagrees with, its rather astonishing. if those are the kinds of posts you enjoy...

Lenore - Harshlands

Aisubeki - Sanctuary wrote: »

lol? this is the first time its a post that -doesn't- contain narcissism, and/or an asinine insult in the direction of someone he disagrees with, its rather astonishing. if those are the kinds of posts you enjoy...

Back in the old days I rather enjoyed the logic in his posts, as well as the wit behind them. Since MY perma-ban got slapped on a year ago though, I haven't checked the forums for like nine or ten months and since my return 2 months-ish ago I have yet to see his posts. If his attitude changed for worse in that time, I neither knew about it nor do I care that much; there are far worse people on the forums who have the same narcissism but without the logic.