One group should be given special consideration because they work their butts off to help new players and promote the shard. That is why they are bigger. It isn't divine intervention. It is desire and effort.Do not get mad at Kelmo, do not get mad at Goron or rockytriton or EM Quantum. It most likely was myself that brought the issue up, but if there was no truth behind the issue it would have been forgotten. Nobody was complaining before the books were placed, remember they had only been placed a month.
I am not against NEW, I point new players towards it when I have the chance. However I do believe the previous EM was a bit too close to the situation. If the previous EM had refused the request to place them, would people be so loudly proclaiming the death of Siege because of it? A person saying they will not help out the shard anymore because preferential treatment was rescinded does not make sense. That person should work just as hard as they did in the first place.
As has been previously pointed out, there is more than one group of people that would like to help new players adjust to the shard. Why should one be given a special advertisement, because they are bigger?
Make me the scapegoat, kill me if you can. Just think about what a potential player will think when they read all of these "**** the new EM", "the shard is dead now" posts. And so soon after we all proclaimed how nice Siege was on UHall. I doubt it was the books that made you all so proud of this shard.
If one group deserves consideration, it is up to us to do it. Not EA.One group should be given special consideration because they work their butts off to help new players and promote the shard. That is why they are bigger. It isn't divine intervention. It is desire and effort.
You thought the last EM was too close to the situation and complained? In other words, you bit off your nose to spite your face. Thanks for that. You just screwed everyone trying hard to make Siege a better place.
Siege is nothing without players. While I welcome all efforts to help make that happen, a three person guild named STAR doesn't merit much reward in my book. Nor does any other guild that I know of.
I know NEW. I know their events. I know their leaders. I know their past. That is why they got the lockdowns, just like the Orcs had the tree. But hey, that was favoritism too according to your logic. I suppose you believe we are better off without them?
Unfortunately, you may soon get direct proof about the worth of NEW.
And what else have you done recently? Do you limit yourself to the once a week or once a month shard event?
Those are good things to do. No doubt. Some of us play a bit more than that though. Again, not a judgement, just offering some perspective.
I'll take that as "You are right. I don't play much. This issue has little meaning to me because the truth is the Siege I loved is long gone and I spend my days thinking about what was."Other than ranting and venting, what have you done? How many players have you brought to the shard?
If all this emotion gets you to work harder to make Siege better I'm all for it. Books didn't make it better, the people did.One group should be given special consideration because they work their butts off to help new players and promote the shard. That is why they are bigger. It isn't divine intervention. It is desire and effort.
You thought the last EM was too close to the situation and complained? In other words, you bit off your nose to spite your face. Thanks for that. You just screwed everyone trying hard to make Siege a better place.
Siege is nothing without players. While I welcome all efforts to help make that happen, a three person guild named STAR doesn't merit much reward in my book. Nor does any other guild that I know of.
I know NEW. I know their events. I know their leaders. I know their past. That is why they got the lockdowns, just like the Orcs had the tree. But hey, that was favoritism too according to your logic. I suppose you believe we are better off without them?
Unfortunately, you may soon get direct proof about the worth of NEW.
Yes, and the people who made it better just got pooed on. Thanks for that.If all this emotion gets you to work harder to make Siege better I'm all for it. Books didn't make it better, the people did.
Once group having a perk is the same as all groups but one being denied. I'll let everyone fume for a while.
*smiles* Take your passion to the game. Do events. Do a tour. Do any thing... This is for all of you. I promote Siege in my way... What is your way?
Who said that Kelmo? Maybe when you are finished evading questions and offering superfluous advice you can consider the reasons no one is going to take it.Well, you can forget me for one doing anything more to help out with bringing people to Siege. What's the point in us doing these events when the one thing that is doing more than we ever can is nerfed for no reason?
You should have taken your own advice a long time ago.Maybe now that you've made a complete idiot out of yourself, you should just shut up for the night and try to recoup some of those lost brain cells. Please think before posting from now on.
agreed 100%You should have taken your own advice a long time ago.
I can't believe someone would be so petty as to have books about NEW removed. NEW has had more of a beneficial impact on Siege Perilous than any other guild or single person in this thread. More than TnT, more than KSS, more than VMP/KoS/I^A/blah blah blah.
It IS (or was?) THE most important group of individuals and represented the single largest investment of time and resources from hugely disparate groups on the entire shard, ever.
And someone gets their panties in a bind over a locked-down book?
Kat, Goron, Sweeney, Idiot Miner, shouldn't you be over on U.Hall working yourself into a rabid froth over something important, like the cost of item insurance or something? You people are the reason why Siege sucks.
Alright, who is going to think to go into the Wedding Office to look up guild information. This is idiotic.As an alternative, I suggest that those interested, post on the Message Board I placed in the wedding office next door to the Counselors Guild Hall, specifically for this purpose. Yes Siege has no New Haven, but every Non-Asian based shard has EM's and an office there, I doubt it will be all that hard for people to find.
Posted by EM Quantum
http://www.emquantum.com/EventForums/index.php?board=2.0
Dunno if this is posted somewhere else or not.
And since I had trouble with this on the Sonoma Forums. No, I'm not an EM, I'm just in contact with them. *points to title above Avatar*
AgreedYou should have taken your own advice a long time ago.
I can't believe someone would be so petty as to have books about NEW removed. NEW has had more of a beneficial impact on Siege Perilous than any other guild or single person in this thread. More than TnT, more than KSS, more than VMP/KoS/I^A/blah blah blah.
It IS (or was?) THE most important group of individuals and represented the single largest investment of time and resources from hugely disparate groups on the entire shard, ever.
And someone gets their panties in a bind over a locked-down book?
Kat, Goron, Sweeney, Idiot Miner, shouldn't you be over on U.Hall working yourself into a rabid froth over something important, like the cost of item insurance or something? You people are the reason why Siege sucks.
Well the books were located at all the banks, and while there generally is a NEW co-leader hanging around Luna, there just aren't enough of them on 24/7 to have coverage. The books were an easy way to provide that.this might be a simple and stupid question but why not have a NEW member or two just waiting where the books used to be ?
There is one?...laAlright, who is going to think to go into the Wedding Office to look up guild information. This is idiotic.
Who did that?It rings especially hollow when a member of the same guild rants and raves all night about the evils of NEW.
Yep, it was apparently just put in next door to the Counselors' Guild Hall in West Brit. It looks like a shack, and there is a bulletin board inside where you can register your wedding. On the adjacent wall is a bulletin board that says to put your guild contact information.There is one?...la
Maybe there is an Elvis NPC how hangs out and will marry players?...laWhat is the Wedding office? Where the little bed wetter babies go to cry about the New books being locked down?
LOL...the more things change, the more they stay the same around here i guess.
...You should have taken your own advice a long time ago.
I can't believe someone would be so petty as to have books about NEW removed. NEW has had more of a beneficial impact on Siege Perilous than any other guild or single person in this thread. More than TnT, more than KSS, more than VMP/KoS/I^A/blah blah blah.
It IS (or was?) THE most important group of individuals and represented the single largest investment of time and resources from hugely disparate groups on the entire shard, ever.
And someone gets their panties in a bind over a locked-down book?
Kat, Goron, Sweeney, Idiot Miner, shouldn't you be over on U.Hall working yourself into a rabid froth over something important, like the cost of item insurance or something? You people are the reason why Siege sucks.
this is my favorite part of your post... You say I should go to Uhall to whine and pancake and rant... lol... I didn't start this thread, I didn't start any of these 'NEW book" threads... thats all from your side of the fence buddy. So take your own adive- shouldn't YOU be at Uhall whining about how UO doesn't give NEW unfair treatment some more?Kat, Goron, Sweeney, Idiot Miner, shouldn't you be over on U.Hall working yourself into a rabid froth over something important, like the cost of item insurance or something? You people are the reason why Siege sucks.
My point is that many of you people are:
A) whining about something simple.
B) being *******s to the EM.
C) being closed minded about the reasoning the books were decided to be removed (it really is good reasoning when you think about it- but before you try, first take your head out of your ass)
D) Making false accusations towards people about the incident (I didn't remove the books, I didn't ask the books to be removed, I didn't even know they existed, I couldn't actually care less if the books were locked down or not- despite what many of you try to claim- I just understand the reasoning for their unlocking [see point C])[/QUOTE
Perhaps it would be better if you just sent a pm to the "*******'s" who offended you rather than making a general blanket statement.
Now if you excuse me i'll stick my head back in my ass so that I really don't have to think about good reasoning
oh, I didn't realize that EA shut NEW down. I must have missed that. I thought the issue was that books were no longer locked down. [/sarcasm]Kids, Stick a fork in it. UO is done.
What a sad state to have something as useful as NEW be deemed "favortism". NEW favors Siege and Siege favors NEW. These types of rulings by EMs, DEVs, etc etc are what is bringing UO not to the cliff, but being pushed over the cliff.
There is but a simple quote that fully visualizes the player base of UO at this time....
The beatings will contiue until the moral improves!!
Go ahead EA, make us want to leave UO. Seems they have found something they are good at after all!
It is not the EM's fault, and perhaps the old EM did not make clear the intentions of the books in the first place.I've noticed the NEW books have caused quite a stir, I'm willing to give an explanation to their disappearance. At one point there was an issue concerning Colored books locked down by EM's. I brought the fact there were several books of this nature to the attention of our boss, to insure the issue had been fixed. As it turns out it was fine for us to lock down books for EM related reasons, it was considered to be in poor tastes to basically stick down a recruitment ad for any guild. While I understand the importance of NEW to Siege Perilous, it is not proper for any of us to do any action(s) that can be condoned as favoritism towards any one group of individuals, on any shard not even on Siege. It was requested that they be removed, and so they have been. I know that there had already been some conflict from members of the Siege community asking "If NEW Can have them why can't we?", it only goes to show that yes it is in fact a show of favoritism and needed corrected.
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Posted by EM Quantum
I heard you had the whole guild banned from UO for duping, and then had the GM (a personal friend of yours) give you all of their housing and even grandfathered them to your single account.It's funny how this thread is like the "telephone" game, the original words get distorted by everyone who passes on bad information.
Good post. Thank you.It is not the EM's fault, and perhaps the old EM did not make clear the intentions of the books in the first place.
Nobody is against NEW, and nobody denies that the books were favoritism. Some people are blowing things way out of proportion and jumping to conclusions.
It's funny how this thread is like the "telephone" game, the original words get distorted by everyone who passes on bad information.
Em Quantum, you really have NO IDEA about Siege, have you? Way to help kill our shard, pal.
...it angers me."If NEW Can have them why can't we?"
I challenge EM Quantum to name one group of true Siege players who asked this. I don't believe it.
!!!Hi, my name is Mr T. I abandoned TnT, and more sadly, UO, because I smell like poo
If slobbering all over means defending someone for 1) Doing as their boss says, 2) Maintaining an impartiality (even if this was not explicitly stated by their boss), then yes I must have been.Jeez, I am so sick of you, Sweeney. You seem to be anti-everything. You do nothing for this community but sew your hatred. You hated Alcor with a vengeance, yet you are slobbering all over the new EM. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that these books are really favouritism? Are you really SO blind? You are the one that stirred all this trouble....
And the email requesting permission for this was PERFECTLY clear.
And that is why these forums are no longer the official UO forums.these forums also directed players to NEW, should we remove all mention of NEW as its favouratism?
you really are an asshat you know that?Jeez, I am so sick of you, Sweeney. You seem to be anti-everything. You do nothing for this community but sow your hatred. You hated Alcor with a vengeance, yet you are slobbering all over the new EM. Do you SERIOUSLY believe that these books are really favouritism? Are you really SO blind? You are the one that stirred all this trouble....
And the email requesting permission for this was PERFECTLY clear.
That quote shows it all. You jump to conclusions and accuse the EM of helping to kill the shard. You never once considered that maybe it was out of the EM's control? did you? Nope... you just lashed out because the action was against your self righteous agenda. Jesus Christ you really do put a bad name out for NEW by associating yourself with it.Em Quantum, you really have NO IDEA about Siege, have you? Way to help kill our shard, pal.
It is favoritism towards a guild. It is irrelevant that the guild is supported and liked by 99.99% of the Siege population. Doesn't matter what the guild's charter is. IT IS A PLAYER GUILD NOT AN EA ENTITY. Period.Although Sweeney has conveniently left the thread, perhaps at mention of his close relationship with the new EM, perhaps someone could actually explain exactly WHO this alleged favouritism is actually favouring?
I would like to thank EM Quantum for the temporary locked down messageI've noticed the NEW books have caused quite a stir, I'm willing to give an explanation to their disappearance. At one point there was an issue concerning Colored books locked down by EM's. I brought the fact there were several books of this nature to the attention of our boss, to insure the issue had been fixed. As it turns out it was fine for us to lock down books for EM related reasons, it was considered to be in poor tastes to basically stick down a recruitment ad for any guild. While I understand the importance of NEW to Siege Perilous, it is not proper for any of us to do any action(s) that can be condoned as favoritism towards any one group of individuals, on any shard not even on Siege. It was requested that they be removed, and so they have been. I know that there had already been some conflict from members of the Siege community asking "If NEW Can have them why can't we?", it only goes to show that yes it is in fact a show of favoritism and needed corrected.
As an alternative, I suggest that those interested, post on the Message Board I placed in the wedding office next door to the Counselors Guild Hall, specifically for this purpose. Yes Siege has no New Haven, but every Non-Asian based shard has EM's and an office there, I doubt it will be all that hard for people to find.
Posted by EM Quantum
http://www.emquantum.com/EventForums/index.php?board=2.0
Dunno if this is posted somewhere else or not.
And since I had trouble with this on the Sonoma Forums. No, I'm not an EM, I'm just in contact with them. *points to title above Avatar*
So lets have EA make NEWs un-attackable! yeah! lets do that!Also no one offers the general protection the new title does.