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Meryl SinGarda
Belligerent Underpayed Tactical Team
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Posted - 2011.09.15 19:58:00 -
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Zagam wrote:Tear Anasarsy wrote:Meryl SinGarda wrote:I wouldn't want to be a GM.
Who here played Anarchy Online and took part in the ARK at some point in time? (volunteer GMs)
I did. It was cool, until you began to see all the stupid things players did and the infractions they get against themselves. Couldn't believe a lot of it.
Here you have a guy that exploited a few times, griefed even more times (which was against AOs rules) and had a tendency to verbally harass people. You get a petition from him and you have to pretend you don't know any of these things and act as if you really care about his issue.
Oh how I miss AO, wish they would finish the new engine already! AO is still alive? How? And aren't they F2P now?
They are F2P, but only for Notum Wars. You can upgrade to Shadowlands for 5 bucks a month or go all out and pay 15 bucks a month for the entire game.
They've added a whole slew of expansions, addons, an MT store, a few new systems and areas, but, as was mentioned, they're still working on the new engine and apparently have a very small team working on it. Doesn't help that the population is much tinier than it used to be.
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Nyio
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.15 20:06:00 -
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Meryl SinGarda wrote:Zagam wrote:Tear Anasarsy wrote:Meryl SinGarda wrote:I wouldn't want to be a GM.
Who here played Anarchy Online and took part in the ARK at some point in time? (volunteer GMs)
I did. It was cool, until you began to see all the stupid things players did and the infractions they get against themselves. Couldn't believe a lot of it.
Here you have a guy that exploited a few times, griefed even more times (which was against AOs rules) and had a tendency to verbally harass people. You get a petition from him and you have to pretend you don't know any of these things and act as if you really care about his issue.
Oh how I miss AO, wish they would finish the new engine already! AO is still alive? How? And aren't they F2P now? They are F2P, but only for Notum Wars. You can upgrade to Shadowlands for 5 bucks a month or go all out and pay 15 bucks a month for the entire game. They've added a whole slew of expansions, addons, an MT store, a few new systems and areas, but, as was mentioned, they're still working on the new engine and apparently have a very small team working on it. Doesn't help that the population is much tinier than it used to be.
This is a bit offtopic for this thread but meh..
AO was/is a pretty cool game and it was sad to see the game decline.
I left once it was clear they had almost no devs still working on it, in favor of AOC.
One thing AO had that was very cool was the ability to set up those corp chatbots.
At one point I was all caught up in that and forgot to play, I had a few of the corp bots and were working on finishing a helpbot.
Fun times.  (Never made it past level 90 ish on any char.)
Features & Ideas Discussion: Agent Finder, Black Holes
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Sofia Bellard
Pator Tech School
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.09.16 00:08:00 -
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Please stay on topic.
Poor sad little pirates, -áwhy you so mad? |
Triggadex
Black Dawn Merchant Industries
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Posted - 2011.09.16 00:12:00 -
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GM Homonoia wrote:Sofia Bellard wrote:I was wondering what kind of knowledge does it take to become a Game Master for this game  Here are the musts: - Fluency in English - Ability to relocate to Reykjavik, Atlanta, or Shanghai - Must fit in with the culture at CCP and the customer support department - Must be able to work days, evenings, nights and weekends - Must be able to work methodically and with attention to detail Highly desirable (and we really do not hire people that do not have at least some of these qualities): - Previous customer support experience - Very experienced player within EVE Online (for game related support) - Experience in dealing with confidential and private information (especially for billing/account support) - Experience in technical support and a deep knowledge of hardware/software (for technical support) - Fluency in either German, Russian or Japanese - Experience working in the games industry, especially for other MMOs Our open positions can be found here: http://www.ccpgames.com/en/jobs?At the moment we have no open positions for game masters, but we do tend to hire new game masters regularly.
Funny, i have all but one.
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The Apostle
The Black Priests
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Posted - 2011.09.16 00:25:00 -
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Quote:At the moment we have no open positions for game masters, but we do tend to hire new game masters regularly.
Hmmm. Is it because of this type of crap you guys have to deal with?
Quote:Incompetence
Inability to read
Inability to responde in a decent time frame or with anything other than copy and paste
Quote:so does this include saying "our logs show nothing" and glossing over petitions that then end up having to be escalated at customer's request to a senior gm in order to get the petition actually read correctly?
Just shutup already.
Take an aspirin. If pain persists consult your local priest. |
nahtoh
Brotherhood of The Saltire
EVE Animal Control
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Posted - 2011.09.16 00:31:00 -
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grazer gin wrote:Incompetence
Inability to read
Inability to responde in a decent time frame or with anything other than copy and paste
Well thts the players end sorted but what about the GMs?
And you missed the total and utter inablity to understand you fecked something up all by yourself...
Yeah I work in tech support... |
Mr M
Agony Unleashed
Agony Empire
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Posted - 2011.09.16 00:44:00 -
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Tear Anasarsy wrote:Just a shame the GF wont move :(
Have you seen the Icelandic chicks? Just saying.
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Jenshae Chiroptera
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Posted - 2011.09.16 01:19:00 -
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Meryl SinGarda wrote:Nyio wrote:Meryl SinGarda wrote:I wouldn't want to be a GM.
Who here played Anarchy Online and took part in the ARK at some point in time? (volunteer GMs)
I did. It was cool, until you began to see all the stupid things players did and the infractions they get against themselves. Couldn't believe a lot of it.
Here you have a guy that exploited a few times, griefed even more times (which was against AOs rules) and had a tendency to verbally harass people. You get a petition from him and you have to pretend you don't know any of these things and act as if you really care about his issue.
I bet it was you that got me killed once on noob island, when you suddenly appeared infront of me with a "Greetings!".  lol! The greetings were the fun part. Most of the time, people were just happy to have someone to talk to that knew what they were doing.
I was quickly ostracised.
Chaotic Neutral does not work well in Lawful "Good" environment.
I have helped far more people as a president of an org that I would ever have done as an ARK.
First off, I can tell them specific things about how to play better, not just general guide lines.
I can link people to various third party sites.
I can give them items and credits to get along their way.
I can be a friend and a contact.
I can let them join a group want to support them further (one of our main goals)
So forth and so on. ARK was pretty hollow with a lot of rules and a lot of brown nosing. Half the people there were there for the wrong reasons. The only time that they are needed is for technical issues. Even things like harassment and other social issues can usually be dealt with by the players if they really wanted to do that.
As a programmer, I probably would have dealt with those technical issues a whole lot better than constantly escalating them to the overworked staff.
CSM - Do you think?
You see if they ruin high sec and WHs, you are ripping the newbie uterus out of EVE and feeding it to the big alliances. When it is gone, they will starve and die. |
Carcosa Hali
True Slave Foundations
Shaktipat Revelators
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Posted - 2011.09.16 02:22:00 -
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Clearly, you need iron skin... and an ability to forgive dumbasses for their histrionics...
I had neither the last time I decided to GM.. ended up getting run out of a fairly nice game by a player who targeted me specifically... Just learn to roll with it. =)
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