Two Questions From the Recent Changelog

[Merellis]

GM-Pandora Wrote:I don't feel we need to convince everyone about our decisions, in fact it's nearly impossible and from exprience it usually results in frustration. And since we have limited time it's best to apply it where it counts.

A change was added (elemental bullets) which a lot of players have expressed their excitement about, if you or any oth player have something against that change we are always open to constructive feedback. However, what goes on in gm meeting is not the business of ex-gms, I'm sorry to be blunt but I didn't find a better way to say this.

A minor update was made to the ToH, it was done by someone who doesn't know how to script timers, therefor he left the bigger changes to other more experienced scripters. Of course we want to fix the timer issue, as well as several other things in the ToH to make it better.

Other updates coming first doesn't mean we don't care about specific issues, we might lack the ressource to address it or maybe we differ on its priority, etc. I wish all the projects we've got started could be done tomorrow, but the reality is we have limited time and each GM has their own area of expertise. We've stated this before, but I'll repeat it because it's important: one GM working on something doesn't stop other projects assigned to other GMs from advancing.

I don't think there was any transparency problem. In the past we've released a ton of changes without announcing them beforehand, I don't see why this would be an issue now. Some things we announce and/or ask for feedback and some we don't.

I don't really see where I went wrong in asking about the Elemental Bullets as I was curious to the reasoning behind it, and am still curious to the reasoning as the only answer that's been put on here that has anything to do with that question is that Azote wanted it.

And given that these GM Meetings decide what happens to the server as a whole, I think players should be more than welcome to ask about the decision process behind it. If the best response you have for me is that I shouldn't concern myself with GM business because I'm an Ex-GM, then I have really nothing to say beyond that it's not really a reason.

I've seen how the decisions are made within the meetings, and as a player who has that knowledge I feel I should be able to ask what the position behind an update is. Though I think any player should be able to ask that and get a decent answer. It's not like the GM Team has ever added a feature purely to antagonize other players so the reasonings behind them should be easy to put forth if one asks.

Lets use the Elemental Bullets for example, the easiest answer could have been "Hey we decided that Elemental Bullets would be a huge buff to the Gunslinger Class as it is an extended class that is lagging behind other classes by a good amount"

There, I can live with that. Instead I get the answer of "Azote doesn't think they're OP." And that's not really an answer the GM Team should be giving, especially if the decision stems from one guy deciding he wants them in the server.

And as for bringing up the past, that was in the past. The last few days there have been updates that the players have been questioning and only really having two GM's actually make an effort to answer concerns despite they themselves not really knowing why they were pushed through at the speed of light.

I think the players are getting fed up with things coming through and never really having a good explanation for why, or just continually getting non-answers to most of the concerns that prop up. Just staying silent may have worked before, but that's not cutting it anymore with a population that has been left wanting time and time again.

And for your information, I don't think you have the authority to tell me what I can and can't ask in the Questions and Suggestions area. Unless there's some obscure rule that says "Ex-GM's may never ask about GM matters, ever." If it exists, I haven't found it yet!