Posted by Rooqweaz on November 3, 2000 at 09:08:07:
the key to many problems with CF is called "TRUTH" Many players leave CF becase the are disgusted with all this lie. Now it reminds a bunch of politics. If you make rites If you made conjurers overpowered when they were implemented IF you throw some imperial for "not defending" There are so many similar examples, it is not necessary Maybe Arcanes, Arolins, Graathes are slightly wild-headed As immortals you put efforts into the game (some more, some less)
It is well known that newbies have wild-open eyes and enjoy the game
but old players still may enjoy the game, they eventually open
new and new sides of the game/interations/whatever.
But the LIE is very harmful and may destroy things and
whole addiction.
New say a truth, never say "I was wrong"
Maye when you play "a god" you feel it is necessary to keep GOD's ego
but it is not very hard to say "I did a mistake here"
People are people, they DO mistakes.
If somebody tell "no I don't" while he does actually
other would not trust him anymore.
Maybe immortals must stay gods in real life, so they will not harm
newbie/child imagination but such behaviour may ruin the game
for mature players.
just say, we make rites for fun
but we choose the leader from other criterias
(good if the chosen would win the rites, if not, well,
so be it, he will be the leader, because we think he should be)
not all players are complete morons, they UNDESTAND
that making the winner of rites a leader is risky.
the rites are good for RP/gameplaying as they are
use them to fill veteran positions/whatever
that is not a great problem if you say, we feel X should be a leader.
just don't lie
just say
"yes, they were, we did not realize it before, we are working to balance them"
"yes, they were, we knew it, we wanted to make them owerpowered,
we are not going to fix it"
just say THE TRUTH.
Don't feed us with blasted Nepenthe's 54 ways to kill conjurers
or with Scarabaeus's "class is under debugging, it is all alright, just has some bugs"
don't lie to him
say him a truth, if you don't want to let it go through cb
transfer him and EXPLAIN him the real reason
something like: "1) you did this 2) you did that 3) you don't gasp
this point of empire 4) whatever else and 5) at least this time
you did not defend so...." let him to FIGURE out what he did wrong
else he would be just frustruated from Agath-bitch who kicks him
out "for nothing".
to bring them all here, you guess you've got the point.
but the most of their dissapointent comes from the LIE.
they catch you lying and point to it,
you turn your face into pumnkin shape and say "we never lie" and call them
morons, paranoics, etc.
OF course, THEY would be just pissed more, as MANY people will INCLUDING you
in a such situation
do not ruin your own building with the lie,
nothing hurts more than the lie.
If you fear to say the truth "because lamers would not understand it"
your player base would filled with them.
Rely on the fact that not all mortals are worse than any of immortal
there a lot of reasons why some people become immortals and other don't
it is not a question of attitude. You don't like when somebody
lies to you, don't lie to other then.