Order of The Dragon

[Hypernoma]

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Dear, dear, dear... Amazing that you are so bothered by this. Lets go through this then, shall we?

Firstly, I do not hate OTD. I do not hate any house, nor hate any player. Are there members in OTD that are a pain, of course! Are there members in many houses that are annoying, again, of course. I think you'll find that some players were down playing with me and were on TS with me, and like me, were a little bored of always hiding behind a shieldwall. As to you being kicked from the game, you did not just say "a dev should be more responsible" and that is one of the reasons you were kicked. Another reason I kicked you is because you are one of the most reported players in this game, rubbing players up the wrong way continuously. At my time of writing you have 53 player reports. You are also commonly reported in chat and pm. When you are as abrasive as you are, you will be punished.

Issue number two; your events. See this issue rests on a fatal flaw on your part; an assumption. You requested a time slot and that was greed. Why on earth would you assume that you could start your event early? If we're going down the road of throwing in clips from youtube,  here's my contribution to you.

Time to have a look at the very clearly stated rules for house events

Rules for events

• Understand, that due to the fact that we are trusting server space to your house. The reputation of the host will be harmed if glitching/exploiting occurs during events and that this will have an impact on your ability to ask for servers in the future.
  
• The server is not booked until you receive conformation from an admin with the server password. If you do not receive confirmation for your event please send a message to another of the admins in the above list for your region.
  
• Server space is allocated based on availability.
  
• Remember to check that event server is running latest version of map.
  
• Events are limited to 3 hours. Do not request weekend-long servers. It is not fair to other players or houses that would also like to host events.
  
• Permission can be sought for an extension above the 3 hour limit. This will be judged on a subjective basis. Houses that cannot be trusted will not be allowed extended events.
  
• You can have only two events in a week.
  
• Requests must be submitted at least one day in advance
  
• Don't send requests to Hypernoma. They will not be accepted
  

I have made the relevant part of the rules a little larger here to draw your attention to it. Events are limited to 3 hours. Therefore to labour under an "assumption" that a 12 hour event is acceptable just proves to me that you chose not to read the rules. Almost every other house that has wanted to start an event early manages to come onto IRC and ask, why couldn't this house? As for a request for NA server, that is easily an oversight on Irish's part. Most events are on EU servers as we have dedicated event servers on that box. NA events have always required special permission. Irish was relatively new in the job and it is not there that I find issue with the manner in which OTD conducted themselves. It was on IRC that you managed to earn my previous post on this thread.

Let's continue that IRC log and see what another OTD member has to say
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So here we have another OTD member rationally and politely working out how to set up US events, and then agreeing that certain members of the aussie community are a tad rude. He also wants to make clear that not all the members of OTD are the same. I wonder why?

Now you appear to be labouring under the "misnomer" that my posting here was due to impoliteness in your application request. It does not occur to you that maybe my appetite for dealing with players you come onto IRC and accuse players of "lying" and of negligence, incompetence and ineptitude is somewhat diminished at 1am? It does not occur to you that my posting in this thread was due to that little outburst on IRC; nothing more, nothing less? All I wanted was my feelings about the whole situation reported, recognized and understood.

To explore your rambling explosion further, Irish is not employed by me. No member of the admin team is employed by me and I do not rely on them to make more money than they cost me. What I expect of any admin is for them to do their best in helping out with this mod, giving of their free time when and how they are able. If a mistake is made then we deal with it and move on. If a mistake is made over a normal or hard mode server, no one is going to lose their position. If I decided to get rid of every player after they make one mistake (and I refer back to you being one of the most reported players in NI), then I would have got rid of you long ago, yet here you are.

Here we get to another point where you appear me labouring under an assumption in that I seek to impress you. You honestly think my self-worth hinges on whether or not I impress you? I'm so happy that you have met people in your life that do impress you. I have to. However, I am not setting out to make people comfortable with death and deal with the end of their lives in comfort... I am quite simply running a mod for warband... I do this of my own volition and of my own free time. I do this not seeking praise from the masses, but simply to provide a bit of fun for gamers. Do I view myself as a god? Great joke there. I view myself as a regular human being who devotes much of his free time and money to working on a game that I enjoy, despite often receiving little praise in return. As long as one player says that he or she is having great fun with NI, I'll continue running it. If you actually spent any time on IRC and came to me with a problem you would know that I sit down and do my damndest to help any player that comes to me with a problem. No player is banned without good cause and the evidence conclusive. If a player feels they are been banned for the wrong reason, they have never been estopped from making their case clear.

I will take this opportunity to make clear to all players why I will so often have a short temper when it comes to impoliteness. As I have stated, the dev team give of their own time to work on NI, as the game admins give of their time to help you on the servers. Members of the dev team also bear the brunt of the financial burder of running NI, but we're fine with that because we enjoy what we do. However, as I am sure you are all aware, all players would like to see something new in NI. Therefore we very often receive requests for features, but also often receive demands. We encounter rudeness on servers and we encounter it here in the forum. We give a lot to you and often receive naught but demands in return. If a certain ex-head developer had had his way when he got tired of the crap he encountered from players, NI would not exist any more. I fought to keep NI running and for the most part, have never regretted my decision. If you then log onto IRC at 1am and be impolite, have a bad reputation and have shown little regard for our rules you really should not be surprised by what happens.

It amazes me how often players get this worked up over a game. If I am simply a "tweeker of Taleworld's work" and not worthy of respect, what possessed you to make this rage post? I try not to air players' dirty laundry in public as I do want to try and leave a little of their integrity intact so I suggest that if you want to continue accusing me of being a petulant god, you come speak to me in private. Oh and as to NI going down the gurgler, the community has been growing again so... I guess I'll look forward to having fun with them and not you  ;D

This tirade of yours might bother me if you were actually a player that I respect, but you are not. You have never done anything worthy of any player's respect in this game so I suggest you go back to being the grumpy old man on servers that you have continuously proven yourself to be.

Oh, and LALALALALALA.

Love,

Hypernoma