Review Submitted By: Starfox
Author Status: Player
Started on Legends of the Jedi: Around 1999 - 2000
Submission Date: Apr 16, 2008
TMC Listing: Legends of the Jedi
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Starfox]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
This mud is very well coded and thought out, with strict RP/PK Policy
as well. It also takes a long time to develop your character. About
6 months later, and I still had yet to max all my sciences. New
features have been added over time, a gathering system invented
and makedroid feature adds a nice touch, and gameplay can be hours of
fun if you find the right people to roleplay with.
However, from a player standpoint I have yet to say that LOTJ has
matured into the utopia of star wars muds that it could be.
There is still corruption among immortal staff, some of whom tend to
have vendettas (I've been the target of several).
A personal account should explain it best. Here is my experience:
I returned from a break of about two months and created a jawa just
for fun. I'd been playing for about three hours, joking around like I
usually do, with the people who AREN'T busy botting. When I noticed
one of the 'friendly' imm staff had decided to set my jawa as a human
for 'poor' roleplay. Mind you it had been awhile and I may have said
a few nonsense things on IC channels, but nothing drastically over
the boundaries of that race's RP. Now, their rules state that you'll
be given a warning and a week to adhere to the roleplay rules if
your're inconsistent with the RP for that race until that type of
measure would be taken. For me it was different. I inquired about
why I had been immediately stripped and was met with a rather rude
response and even called an 'idiot'.
This is the type of treatment you can expect from the staff if they
don't like you. There is no diplomacy, nor is there negotiation. If
you are vilified, then it will be clear they do not want you there
and any good characters you roll, you can be sure to lose it somehow
until you get the message that you are clearly not welcome there.
Other than that, if you haven't made any enemies with the staff
and get along fine with everyone, you have nothing to worry about.
There is however, an occasional spammer here and there who sends
rather obscene messages to the mud and causes it to crash totally
at random. This could possibly be another disgruntled mudder who has
taken matters into their own hands in an non-constructive way.
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Comment Submitted By: StarWarzer
Author Status: Player
Started on Legends of the Jedi: 10 months ago
Submission Date: Apr 25, 2008
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[StarWarzer] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
I agree with some of the things said in this review - there is
corruption. However, in my experience I have not seen a MUD without
corruption, and the corruption in this MUD is minimal, from what I can
tell. There is some bias, but cases such as this are rare from what I
have seen. The /occasional/ spammer is even rarer, although the MUD
does crash every so often due to bugs, as no MUD is perfect of course.
Although most of the time the bugs are fairly fixed.
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Comment Submitted By: Compel
Author Status: Staff member
Started on Legends of the Jedi: 2004
Submission Date: May 10, 2008
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Compel] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
It should be pointed out that this original reviewer is in fact
someone who is very close friends with the aforementioned 'spammers'.
The goal of the spammer was an attempt to 'blackmail' the staff
into undoing the punishment that the original poster has mentioned.
This spammer has since moved on to attempting to advertise another
mud on our games channels, one that the original poster owns.
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Comment Submitted By: Starfox
Author Status: Player
Started on Legends of the Jedi: 1999 - 2000
Submission Date: Jun 7, 2008
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[Starfox] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
The above comment is yet another good example of LOTJ staff vendettas.
This mud used to be ranked #23 on TMC, why it is they've resorted
to this and are so desperate for a scapegoat is evidence enough
that they've fallen by the wayside.
Do not blame 'blackmail' for your failures. This could really be a
great place to play if there wasn't so much drama and corruption.
A desperate attempt at best to bring ratings back up if you ask me
and also a rather sorry attempt to save face.
As for knowing the spammer, I knew them at one point in early 2003.
I have also tried my best to deter and discourage them from spamming
LOTJ and even my own MUD. That would explain the rarity of their
visits as of late. That person and I rarely speak, if at all and
that you would even think to bring that ancient assumption up only
extends my point further about the drama and vendettas.
Now, you can sit and debate all day and nitpick and this and that
and make excuses for why your MUD is doing so poorly. You can blame
George Bush and the economy, maybe it's the economy. Perhaps the
Planetary alignment is off, that could be it. You can even
target me if you like, despite constant efforts to help remedy the
situation with the spammer, sure, I'll be your reason for why you're
not doing well, we can do that. Heck, you can even blame it on my MUD
if you like, why, maybe because I just started a MUD it's shifting
the laws of the universe and it's causing your MUD to fail.
...But I think you owe it to your players to do something about the
evident abuse of power. Maybe just maybe, that'll work and put you
back where you were, where you belong. At the top.
I'll be back in a year or so to see if anything's changed, much like
I have been doing for a long time now, in hopes that this great
codebase can be perfected.
Yours Truly,
Fox
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Comment Submitted By: KRESKZZORLULZ
Author Status: Player
Started on Legends of the Jedi: Long time ago
Submission Date: Aug 14, 2008
(The following review comment is the opinion of the comment's author
[KRESKZZORLULZ] and in no way represents the opinions of this website
or its staff).
Vendettas? People who try to hold the mud hostage with pages of spam
and arse-hattery can't have vendettas held against them, they get their
just rewards. Don't make an *long unnecessary expletive removed* out of
yourself to try and 'get back' at someone you don't like.
It's not fair to all the other players.
That being said;
DO A BARREL ROLL
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