IDEAS FOR RYZOM

I talk about RP for the many reasons stated, none of which you responded to. It's the same circular argument that you are objecting to one side responding to what they consider bad behavior with what you consider bad behavior. AGAIN, my post was not about this specific incident but the mindset which lets 100s of such incidents occur. I selected this thread, merely because it was the one that tipped the scales so to speak and felt that it was time to speak. I have said..... I think 3 times now, that my post is about THIS incident only to the extent that is just one of many symptoms resulting from using RP as an excuse for unpleasant behavior. I am saying that:

1. Walking by a dead character and not assisting because they are of other faction is bad behavior, RP is used as an excuse to make that OK.
2. Dictating who a player can or can not conduct activities with is bad behavior, RP is used as an excuse to make that OK.
3. Repeatedly attacking an OP without coming close to making it interesting is an unpleasant experience for those chained to the KB for 2 hours bored outta their skulls will see this as bad behavior, RP WAS in fact used as an excuse to make that OK.

I'm not saying that their motivations in taking the OP were RP driven. It has been stated here that the reasons for the repeated attacks was RP driven .... an RP excuse for unpleasant behavior. Please understand the distinction .... I am not suggesting RP was the motive for taking the OP, I wasn't at the meeting and didn't "get a memo". I am saying that ya can't excuse bad behavior with an RP excuse when RP provides the only excuse necessary to take an OP.

Did you look at the video I posted ? Now I would have said what the kid who was being harassed should have done is gone to the principal and get the behavior stopped. Now if the kid did that and the behavior continued, his response as shown in the video would have had absolutely nothing to do with what the principal did or did not do; it was because he chose to do what he thought necessary to make the behavior stop. I am certainly not suggesting that the kid's response was appropriate, but it's undeinable that the other kid certainly asked for it.

The defenders requested that the unpleasant behavior be stopped. When it wasn't, either by good manners or action of the GM's, they took what steps they felt necessary to stop it. There's no mystery here. On Ari, message being sent, that OP would be given back in a matter of weeks. But as there's no mechanism to do that under the fundamentalist RP stance that pervades, I don't see that happening.

If anyone wants an example of a fun battle, take the one in Hightowers Farm from a few days back. Attackers got 16 rounds against a dismal defense. Defenders went against all odds and actually managed to regain the OP. Even if they hadn't, I would still call this attack fun.

OP wars are optional. If people want to fight then they shouldn't turn up. Also what makes you think that the people turning up can't win the OP war? There is always a chance and there is always hope. If swarms of Kami turn up then there isn't hope but you never know how many will show until you click.

I don't wave "it hurts the game flag" when it is convenient. I wave it when it matters. I was Kami for long enough, and I was part of many discussions on OP wars. Did we go on a rampage taking OPs we didn't need to "send messages" to the other faction basically saying "stop attacking us or we will punish you"? No we didn't.

Yes I am focusing on an issue here- an issue I decided I wanted to gather peoples opinions on. I am sure there are wider, broader issues that encompass this but some things will never change- punishment declares and the pathetic attempt to ticket people for declaring on an OP might. If you want to talk about wider issues I suggest you make another thread.

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FF you talk a lot here but nothing actually answers the initial problem:

People want to punish others for attempting to take an OP.

Your talk on using RP to hide unpleasant behavior is most relevant. Except you have it the wrong way around. You label TO's attacks as unpleasant behavior on what grounds?? They attack an OP for fun and to try and get some mats.. what is wrong with that?? If you seriously think that is wrong then why you think carrying out an OP attack to try and bully people into stopping declares is right I have absolutely no idea.

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Sorry MJ... "the defenders went against all odds and actually managed to regain the OP"?? What odds did Kami have stacked against them?? Low quality OPs should have high thresholds against them. The Kami had much larger forces. I don't see any mountain they had to climb and I certainly don't see any odds stacked against them.

Yes the OP was fun. Yes it was a Karavan declaring. Please don't ticket them for doing so. Also please don't feel the need to declare on any more OPs to "punish" Elvanae for declaring. Not that you can take any more OPs away from her as her last one was taken to punish her for simply asking why the Kami had attacked TO's OP. Perhaps if you guys are going to be dicks about this sort of thing try not to discuss it within the Kami channel.

Some 16 rounds to overcome? It gets progressively more difficult to survive incoming fire from both guards AND the other faction. Sad to note, but attackers made a mistake by giving up and thinning their own numbers before all rounds were exhausted.

For comparison, kami didn't manage to reclaim a freakin' q50 tekorn OP from RoA. Sure, it had gone to threshold 24 instead of 16, but then again the opponent were level 50 guards instead of 150.
We had to come in, inch by inch, against increasing amount of guards. The battle was undecided for quite a while. Then kara started to quit.
I kept trying to come up with a decent answer to this amount of passive-aggresiveness and massive lack of misinterpretation, but couldn't. Drawing a blank.

If you don't see any difference between the sentiment regarding TO and the sentiment regarding Armageddons, I feel sorry.
Yes, Wooky Workshop, declared on because someone in Asylum was butthurt over a Youtube video - if memory serves; no one needs q150 armillo while the faction has q250 and generally owns way more than half the OPs on Atys.

This example aside, Asylum always strived for the image of a powerhouse guild, poaching members from the opposite faction and attacking OPs while karavan was already bleeding (Twintops, unprovoked, for instance).

Please don't insult my memory by claiming your past is of a preacher for balance. If you were, you would have quit Asylum and kami long before you did.

Yes some 16 rounds to overcome. I am fully aware it gets progressively harder and I still stand firm that the Kami had no hill to climb. Sure they struggled a bit at the start before their numbers grew. Please don't feel the need to big up how amazing the Kami fought "against all the odds". We both know that was clearly not the case. Yes I called the battle simply because we weren't going to win. I have been in enough wars to see when that is the case.

MJ. Elvy already put up the screenshot of the Kami saying they were going to "send a message"- that much is clear. As for the declare on Elvy's attack- The Kami channel was pure outrage against Elvy for asking her question, even though they were the ones who made themselves look like fools. There were calls to attack her outpost because of it and hey presto! it was attacked. Yes there are differences but the same ugly malicious intent is behind both.

Oh we took Rift Walker's OP did we? Oh no... wait we didn't. We attacked with a small force and we did it for fun. Right so now you are going to take it into a personal level? Asylum poached members??? Who? We were a large PVP guild and as such drew the attention of many other PVPers. This happens naturally when your guild is a niche guild. Same with Syndicate even though people love to cry "They poached our member!!". I taught someone for 2 hours the basics of PVP. The next day I log in and he had sought out our GL and joined up without me even knowing, all I had said to him was that I was in a PVP guild. Clearly he didn't think much of his current guild to leave that easily. Of course though MJ your guild screamed hate in all channels for the next month. Grow up and get your facts straight.

My past shows restraint. Is it perfect? No of course not. Is yours? Mjollren the mighty megacorp lurker? There are far worse titles that could be used for you. Regardless of the past I am here trying to do my best for the future. I tried everything I could before leaving Kami to address the OP imbalance. I put forward my views and indeed got a lot of stick for it. Once all options were exhausted we left but not before taking a great deal of time over it as it is a rather large decision to make.

If it should get personal, it should get personal with me. Exactly what was the 'sentiment' regarding Armageddons? Can you please explain this becuase I am genuinely very very interested to be clarified on this.

You have every right to look at and judge the situation from your persepctive Mjollren.

I have tried, in many of my posts, to put my personal perspective forward and I belive a lot of other players did this too, some expressing the same things I did. Morale is probably one of the most significant factors at OP battle in determining how many players show up and how many remain for the duration of a battle. I can speak for my own guild members in saying that they are not bots at my command to show up to OP battles at my beck and call and stay there for the full battle. Morale is not something which you can take an OP flower for to boost it in times of need. (if only eh...) So, why do you think we left both FT and FF....

ok i've not said much on this thread, but have been keeping up with it, and since asylum was brough up, as a former member of that guild i want to say something:

when asylum was kami and active, they were a power house, due to numbers, and support from the faction, and their support of other kami was important at OP wars; that being said i know that while a supporter of the kami, they would not have supported the current system of the kami, and while that may not have changed the progress we now have, it would have sent a very clear message of how a major guild in the kami felt about things.

when asylum left kami it hurt them more then it helped because there was no longer that potential influence on the other kami to show restraint. asylum may have been seen as a bully by some, but i saw them differently. i also can say that all of the things now going on may not be going on if that power house (controlling 3 of the 250 ops) still was here, because other kami would have to consider what pissing off that guild could result in as far as getting any of those OP mat's.

there are many stories as to why asylum did what they did, one often told is to balance the game, but i think their actions only served to increase the imbalance we now find our selves in.

you may feel the need to respond to what i have said, and your welcome to, but this is my personal thoughts on the asylum matter related to "punishment" declares. i'd also like to note that asylum {previously known as temporary insanity} was known to take an OP and then return it to the former owner for the FUN of the battle, not the desire to obtain the mats, and i am not aware of any of the recent "punishment declares" being done with intentions of returning the op to the old owner.

these are my personal 2 dappers on the matter, and do not in any way reflect how i feel about my toon, my guild, or my faction.

A very interesting view point talk and one I hadn't considered before. I hadn't thought Asylum leaving could have had a detrimental effect before. Hopefully someone will step up.

As for Asylum going marauder I can tell you 100% it was to balance the game. I am not offering this up as a pure and noble motive as, although yes many of us did it with the game in mind, a PVP guild does have a lot of fun to gain from a potential increase in OP wars. PVP stagnation is the one thing in this game that sees tons of players leave constantly. If PVP was more active and rewarding in this game the playerbase would not be where it is today.

Maybe someday the higher powers that be will realize this.