Galen, if you're interested in making personal attacks, how about we discuss why someone who roleplays a rares dealer always tries to justify this whole situation with EMs as being good for the game? Does it perhaps suit your purposes just fine that things are structured so that a small minority of players consistently have access to rares and make a profit from them? Perhaps you are one of the EMs who designs these events and you feel like your monthly paycheck from UO is being put in jeopardy every time this discussion comes up?
Tell me, please, in your heart do you really think this situation is FAIR and JUST to players around the world who contribute towards keeping UO running? Or do you just sit back and laugh at people like me who rail about this situation, because you know it's never gonna change? Too many people are personally making a profit from it and EA simply doesn't give a damn.
I have fairly and accurately represented the nature of your arguments, Tina. It is not my fault if you do not like what's in the mirror, and it is not my fault that you resort to personal attacks to respond. You oft-use that technique against me, whether it's in ICQ or Stratics.
Or do you
really think that this issue is somehow about fairness and justice on one side and evil folks like me who laugh at good and kind folks like you? What was your exact quote?
Or do you just sit back and laugh at people like me who rail about this situation, because you know it's never gonna change?
Since you appear in other circumstances to be smarter than that, I can reasonably come to but one conclusion and that is you're doing about the same thing that you did when you made up a quote from me about calling smaller shards "backwaters."
(And since when is one person's being unable to attend an event a "situation." Plenty of other things to do in this game.)
Now, again, Tina, this has made you a popular girl, well-liked and too-often believed. But it can't make you credible in any kind of empirical or verifiable sense.
Galen was an antiques dealer long before EM events. Once upon a time it was power scrolls, vanquishing weapons, and the like; then it was Doom Artifacts; then it was Treasures of Tokuno.
Your argumentative strategy is to drag in so much that sooner or later your opponents simply lack time and space to respond appropriately, hence you usually appear to get the last, if not the most correct, word in every argument. I guess that'll work on me in this thread sooner or later. Who knows, maybe it already has.
-Galen's player