TMC Player Reviews: The Gathering...

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

As a very constant player on The Gathering since I created there (
You first created at Mon Nov 17 11:55:38 2008 Which was 4 months,2
weeks, 1 day, 10:34:20 ago. You have played approximately 1371.82
hours. Which is 42.203% of the time since you created. ) I must
respectfully disagree with each of Mr. Jayson's above points.

* While it is true that SRP is allowed in the gathering (the tag in
the MUD description 'Generally Adult-Oriented' is there for a
reason) Mr. Sen'don has either forgotten when rules were in place or
is simply believing what he wants to believe. On Feb. 26th of 2009,
the restrictions outlined by Jayson above were put into effect. Since
then, all explicit descriptions or references to sex have been removed
from all but private areas of the mud and the city and island
dedicated for such activities. And since those rules have gone into
effect I have seen -no- instances of this rule being broken. Not one.
And I generally see a lot of things. Sure, there are some suggestive
things scattered who and there but there is nothing explicit that I
have found -- and I also do explore a lot as I love seeing the many,
many areas our wonderful Build team put out there for us.

* To refute the 'Very few ever log onto this mud too Roleplay
anything other than sex and sex based conversation' point I will
simply outline what all my character has done in those 4 months plus
that I have been playing (although my character has been a bit
fortunate in having some roleplay fall into my lap): - Joined the
religion of the Goddess of Virtue and Magic because she wanted to help
the realm and had an honest desire to become more virtuous. She quit,
though, to help track down the murderer (or suspected murderer) of one
of her friends. - Went on a quest to help calm primordial spirits of
nature, a quest that Jayson was involved in, but failed because he
wanted to play on a different alt of his when the Quest was going on.
Because of this storyline my char joined the clan known as 'nature's
warriors' which she is still in. - Is a main cog in an important
storyline where a group of demons are trying to escape their ancient
home of one of the four moons of the realm for .. some .. reason. (I
don't know why yet!!) - Was part of a storyline where one of our imms
came up with a very, very clever history of the game of chess. Players
were pitted against other players an imm-run NPCs and the end result
was a race change to a very unique and inventive race. - Has a major
involvement in the politics of one of the main cities of the realm,
where she befriended the two leaders and was offered a position as a
mage within the government. - She is going on what is called a
'Spirit Quest' done by the Goddess of Nature where she will
(hopefully) be given some direction and answers for some very
important internal issues. Oh, and if she fails this quest, she dies.

That is only a summary of the storylines my character has been
involved in, and in absolutely none of the was anybody sexual in any
way (other than a -bit- of friendly flirting.) so I really just wonder
what Jayson was looking at in the one or two hours he was online each
day.

* Also, to say out Staff is anything but excellent is childish. The
'roleplay intense enough to challenge a religion.' he talks about
was his main character trying to gather a following to create a
completely new order in the realm. During this RP he did not talk to
the RPC about his plans or what he was doing to make certain that it
fit into the theme of the mud. And he wasn't broken down OOCly, the
reason this thing of his was stopped was that he involved a daughter
of the Goddess of Creation, who did not like the social order messing
with her daughter.

As a contrast, I am actually running my own storyline (with the
imm's approval) where a cult of vampires has taken an extreme
disliking to Nature and is trying in various ways to see those that
currently defend Nature destroyed. This cult is actively trying to
eliminate not just one but two religions and the imms have been
nothing but helpful in allowing me to run this storyline.

* And, as a final note to those reading this review, Jayson was
banned 2 days before writing it because he wrote a note where he said
he quit and attacked the imm staff in very unfair and untrue ways. The
one imm he actually said was good was the one who made the decision to
ban him -- though he had quit (again) so I don't understand why he is
so bitter. The reasons he gave for quitting, by the way, had nothing
to do with what SRP does go on in the gathering.

* All in all, my time here so far has been wonderful. When I created
I knew zero people on the mud, I found it via this website. Now I'm
engrossed in a creative and wonderful fantasy world where my character
can effect history. And, to clear any confusion up, I've never played
a mud with a better imm staff. These guys flat out work their tails
off for the mud and it really shows. But don't take my word for it.
Try us out yourself and see. Hope to see you there. :)

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

A MUD with sex in mind? I don't get that, plenty of people I know
that don't bother with sex on the MUD.

Yes, sure, there are stuff like that on the MUD, a lot of it has been
removed for particular purposes. Honestly I think the main reason you
would actually write a review with misinformed information, well, you
know the reason. A waste of time, if anything, Jayson.

Not newbie friendly? In every MUD there is the occasional jerk, we
help newbies, not everyone, but most of us do.

'Very few ever log onto this mud to Role play anything other than
sex and sex based conversation.' Very few? Every one is free to do
what they want, but there are more than 'Very few.' There's plenty
of perverts out there.

But you who has left the MUD several times just because of tiny
problems 'I quit', then come back... Guess you couldn't stay away
from it, odd how you so dislike it though, why did you bother? That's
all I have to say.

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

It has come to my attention that I have placed false statement of the
mud on the review board. That all issues pertaining to those I listed
above have been taken care of. The Sexual Content has been strictly
looked at and enforced to be placed in designated, 'private' area
with the security of a locked door to allow no in appropriate issues
from arising. My apologize to any who may of had a bit of trouble
concerning my review of The Gathering and consider this a final and
retracting statement as to my posts above.

(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).

First off lets point out he has been playing there for two years. So
either he was a moron and enjoyed suffering for two years or he
enjoyed the mud. With that out of the way lets address the rest of his
review:

-(To his 1st paragraph)- We have quiet a few staff members that never
do anything remortly sexual. Only a small part of the playerbase does
fall into that grouping. It happens on any mud that allows sexual
roleplay. Most of the mud however enjoys non-sexual hard-hitting fast
pace roleplay.

-(To his 2nd paragraph)- Not newbie friendly? I'm always told we
have the best newbie school that they've ever seen. I fired one of my
most active immortals before for being rude to the players. We don't
take such things on my mud. This player has been banned not once, not
twice but three times. So yes, by the third time we may have been rude
to him. We're humans, the nicer you are the nicer we'll be, if
you're being a jerk well guess how you'll be treated. Like a jerk.

-(To his 3rd paragraph)- In a effort to cut back on the sexual acts
on the mud, and to keep those that only login for srp, we created this
island to keep them away from the main stream players. That rule is
not overlooked, but is heavy enforced.

-(To his 4th paragraph)- I'll once more point out, he spent two
years on this mud, was banned more than once and came back. He is mad
because he requested roleplay items that are far from the mud time
zone. He wanted bombs and machine-gun like items on a Medieval fantasy
based mud. Rather than telling him no flat out, the roleplay staff
was working hard to find a middle ground on it, to meet him half
way... he just wasn't willing to wait.