Jalpha wrote:It's related to playerbase, but not the starting characters quite so directly. Lets mention how Chief has driven away so many of the more experienced members who once played this game. The members who contributed to the player knowledge base. The people who updated the wiki. The people who posted in the help forums. The people who tried to make the burden of players in their first few weeks a little easier. The fair traders who didn't monopolize..
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First off, I think the Chief can be really funny sometimes. Some of his posts can be really well done and you can see he put a lot of work into them. But he can also go waaay to far on the forum, so much so that he seems clownish and doesn't seem like a leader of where the game is going or a top player with much to say about how the game should be played. If he wants to be a master-mason of the game and one of the voices in Jorb and Loftar's ear then he should act like it. He should help people like some of the other mason's do. He should become one of those experienced players Jalpha was talking about.
Make some Youtube videos about how to play the game or something instead of making YouTube videos about raiding someone or killing noobs. Sabinati updates and maintains the wiki. Kand and MagicMann answer every damn help question they possibly can. I see TechXKnight and Potjeh on the help and advice parts of the forum and answering noob questions on the forum. The Chief doesn't seem to want to help new players learn the game at all yet he thinks that he's earned the same level of respect as the mods and players who are doing that. He needs to help people like they do and change his forum post style if he wants to be treated like the mods or like a mason.
My greatest worry of the game is how much Jorb is listening to him, and spending time with him and talking to him on team speak. Some of the ideas coming from that aren't where this game needs to go. I very nearly rage quit the game when I saw a picture of Jorb raiding with the Chief and killing a character that someone had spent weeks or maybe months building with a character that Jorb had simply dev'd into the game alongside Chief's character that had 800+ stats from legacy hummus. It sickened me that they would kill some 100 stat player like that and I can't believe a dev would do that to his own game. I've heard the argument that the character would have died anyways but Jorb saved Chief from a murder scent and who knows, maybe the guy pops on with a high level fighter with only one Titan there. It was ***** and another part of me just wants to leave Salem behind because of it. It'll be exhibit number one when I do quit and why I won't be promoting this game much anymore on other game sites.
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Anyways, back on topic:
Since last winter I've been hoping that the Chief out-grew his methods. I hoped that instead of forcing people to pay the treaty and kill them and level their bases when they didn't, he'd come up with something more interesting that didn't ruin the population. After the hummus nerf when we we started shedding population like crazy he kept on killing brand new players who didn't stand a chance against him. He killed them for sport, and he killed them for no other reason than he could, like a teen hitting an infant. He drove the people away from Plymouth and now it's dead. He could have promoted the game. He could have live streamed or helped the game grow but he hasn't. He's hurt it. This game had so much play-ability and promise that it makes me sick how our top players help to hurt it.
The Tribe's now 9 month fight with the mods is stupid on both sides. Both sides take it too far and if instead he, PmP, YGM and the Candy Kids had just ignored the mods this forum would have been a lot better. I kind of wonder why they don't act like Darwoth and just have contempt for the mods without arguing with them about every stupid little thing. The mods have been really bad sometimes but they've had an impossible job to do. I have no doubt Jorb will eliminate or lessen Chief's ban partly because of their growing relationship. The mods will be pissed and all this **** will continue forever.
I'm sure the Chief is already planning the one year anniversary party of the fall of GH just to piss off the mods. I'm just sorry that instead of putting all that work into that thread and video he's going to make, he's not going to do a Youtube series on food and gluttony, or a video explaining how to hunt all the animal types. He could probably get a lot more views and actually help a new player instead of what he usually does.
The funniest part of all this is that if he dropped the treaty tomorrow and started to really ranger like the Candy Gang does and protect the server rather than slowly wiping it one character at a time, he'd probably make 10x as much money from all his stalls than he does with the treaty because of the huge growth in population that would happen.
Roninsword just give my worms and stuff to the first day-one player you meet in Roanoke. Better yet give them a metal axe and a slingshot and some advice like I do.
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