TMC Player Reviews: The Gathering...

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Trellan] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

Bad reviews that go unexplained, or at the very least unanswered tend
to show agreement by anyone that reads them, so I thought I would
respond to some of the things said in this review. I'll start with
the last paragraph and work my way up.

We do have rules for our OOC channel, as does any mud, and if you
break those rules on TG, or any other mud, there are always
consequences. We do well with warning people usually several times to
change the subject or take it to another channel or private tells, but
in the end if you fail to listen, then yes, you will be nochanned
and/or jailed, possibly banned if your conversation was directly
disrespectful of staff and you have a history of that. Next, he says
that he worked for the betterment of TG, though I can't for the life
of me name a single thing he did staffwise. He did much more for TG as
a player, but then, since he considers the staff sub-par, I suppose he
was including himself and his wife who was also on our staff. However,
to contradict himself in saying to stay away from the immortals, two
of the six people he named in his list of excellence from the previous
paragraph were immortals, including myself.

Will you be constantly watched during whatever you do with the
commands he listed? Possibly, as much as you are on any other mud.
Moreso if you are in public and known for harrassment of others. I
believe in this aspect of his review Caius is misled in the reality of
things. We have rules for the immortals about when it is or isn't
appropriate to spy on players, as all muds do, but the reason I say he
may be biased is because his wife broke most of these rules and
checked player logs and snooped people quite often without regard for
privacy and he saw her doing so and possibly did so himself, so
assumed all the other immortals did so as well. I keep track
constantly of where everyone is in the mud, possibly obsessively so
and I can say without doubt that I've very rarely if ever seen
immortals sitting in rooms spying on mortals while hidden unless there
were some valid reason for the immortal to watch them.

Next I'll address the accusations of favoritism. Does it happen?
Probably. Does it happen on other muds? Probably. I don't think it's
purposeful though, and I don't think it's out of hand at all.
Perhaps the reason stronger things are granted to certain people is
because the immortals know those people and have gotten to know them
through rp and trust them not to abuse such powers. If they aren't
sure and don't trust you to know whether you'll abuse them or not,
it might be denied. This isn't exactly favoritism, it's limited
knowledge and lack of trust causing some to be turned down while
others are accepted, though the denials usually are more in the form
of asking for more detail, or for stronger negative effects to balance
the good and other slight adjustments.

Now about the utterly unfair and incompetent law staff. I've never
witnessed any of the so called instigating that he says took place,
only one of the people that he listed is still banned, and any banning
at all requires the deliberation of more than just the law council.
Bans occur, but not just willy nilly and not because a person just
isn't liked. Unless there's a valid reason, people aren't booted
just for fun. And for the record, Caius and his wife were in on some
of the votes for the bans he listed, and they voted yes to banning in
at least three of them.

In conclusion, I would like to state that at no time during his play
on TG did Caius ever approach me, to bring up any of these
accusations, nor did he ever attempt to correct them, though since
most of them are based in a skewed and bitter point of view and
aren't really as bad as he saw them I can understand how he might
have felt too overwhelmed to do so, or perhaps he just didn't care
enough.

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Caius] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

After reading Trellan's response and thinking on it, I do owe the
imm staff an apology. The immortals are people and though I've had my
share of disagreements and agreements with them I judged them under my
bias of my wife. My wife a former immortal did indeed abuse the
commands she was given and I hated the fact she was on staff. My
complaint is the way she was removed from staff, after years of
devotion she should have been treated with more professionalism in my
opinion.

Hindsight is just that however and I again appologize for my blunt
nature of disrespecting the staff which does work very hard to do what
is right. Also for the record my wife has never been on staff with its
rival MUDD and I'll make sure she never is on any staff from here on
out.

As far as TG goes I'll say this; once you play TG you're hooked, it's
easy to play and catch on to quickly. It is what you make of it. It's
unfortunate things turned out as they did, which greatly is my fault
for being biased to my wife and her enjoyment. I have had good times
with TG and I know on several occasions while on staff the other
members stood beside me in hard choices. The staff as a whole works
hard and works for the betterment of everyone. Where as I doubt myself
or my wife will ever play another MUDD, I'll recommend TG to anyone
that may still enjoy text games. TG is a wonderful game despite the
growing pains they experience at times.

So I appologize again to the staff and even though I've parted ways
with them I feel they deserve a good review. Give TG a try and make it
into something you enjoy and can continue to enjoy.

Thank you Trellan for your comments.

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Annonymous] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

As a response to the review, I can agree with most of it.

The immortals(Purposely or not) have favoritism. Like it or not, it's 
there. The wizinvis command -is- abused, since Immortals pull 
information out of the air like someone told them.

If you disagree with a 'LAW' immortal, expect a long, drawn out 
argument about nothing resulting in a warning, jail time, or a ban, 
temporary or permanent. The immortals DO, in fact, plot against most 
mortals, making them either quit from frustration or threaten them 
with a ban.

If you ask for help from the Staff(Admins mostly), you most likely 
will be ignored if you havent done them an RP 'favor'. At the risk of 
having this comment removed, I'll spare the details.

Now, onto the good comment. Yes, the long roleplays are great(When 
you don't look at the large amount of SRPing), and last quite a long 
time. I admit, the war RP was detailed, and opened up spaces for 
lower leveled roleplayers, but the fact everyone and their alts could 
be there made it difficult to decide turns.

The darkling storyline was... Confusing to say the least, many 
thinking they were the center of it all, or supposed savior. Of 
course, I had quit from annoyance before it had finished, and didnt 
find out what had happened.

The maps were well made, except a few bland and unoriginal rooms here 
and there. The roleplay starts as oon as you finish your training, 
and hopefully you had read the rules and learned the commands before 
you get lectured by over half the playerbase and/or otell-happy Staff 
members.

But what am I saying, the Immortals are always right, eh?

-Annonymous

(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author [Kedanna] and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff).

Anonymous is always right, I mean they're brave enough to give
their real name and face up for that they said! If you can trust
someone it has to be Anonymous. *lol*

Caius and his wife Cendria are both greatly missed and we wish them
the best in whatever they're doing now.