New Updates/Features..Useless "admins"
 

edit- These are just my own personal views, I'm not trying to convince or persuade anyone to believe the same as I do.

Okay so ever since I started playing Graal in early 2010 there had been constant updates and added features until around the time the railroad was released..the same time Lollipop was fired/quit for an approximate time frame (unrelated to the updates btw)

Some of these are ones I remember the most:
Houses
Guild Sparring
Balamb (Honor Points)
Snowtown- major hype
Revolution
Guild Houses
Body shop (remember when we all used defaults?)
Horses
Deadwood
Railroad parts being sold as a furniture item

After the railroad I am at a loss of words, nothing notable has been released. I had taken a few month-long breaks so I'm sorry if I did miss something.. But when I came back around late August nothing noticeable had changed...

VIP is hardly an update, it contributes nothing at all to the game itself.

RPS is OK, its not an unwelcome update but I can only describe it as a "meh" update.


All of the past updates have been spaced out just enough to barely hold over til the next update or new big thing.

I haven't seen anything new or exciting in a long ass time.
I've lost faith in the hope of seeing anything exciting or refreshing..

just for good measure: REFRESHING

I'll just say it's sad that we need to wait for a holiday to come around to see new stuff in the game...I like the old days where random things would be added, it was a nice little surprise every time.

If this is the extent of the updates we will ever have again Graal has reached its peak, if it hasn't already passed...
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So about the extensive list of admins we now have...

Believe it or not we over 30+ "Graal Police" now who also serve as "Uploaders" ..and that's not including the "graphics" admins and other staff

I remember when I could count all the admins on one hand.

Really, why are GPs still being hired...the Graal population's rate of growth is definitely not in line with the rate at which these new admins are being hired.
Are they being hired because they deserve it? If its all based on good behavior and merit that is complete BS.

Maybe the focus should be shifted over to hiring people who can actually contribute to the game instead of aimlessly warping around graal looking for people to ban.

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PS: I dont hate Graal, I am just disappointed in the lack of progress in the game..

A facebook version and personal uploads are both big updates.

Facebook server just serves as another source of revenue.

Personal uploads is something I did overlook, I dont use it much but I know it's a big part of the game for others so yeah...

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None of us staff get paid. This is all volunteer work. We have lives.

Complain more plz.

Fixed this for you:

If nobody ever complained minorities would have no rights, the US wouldnt even exist if people didn't "complain"
I know this is an extreme analogy but still...your reply doesn't surprise considering your a top admin.

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Why do people always think its Stefan or the admins that usually get paid to do this? The company behind Graal Classic is Eurocenter. I think that already tells enough of who is getting paid

Stefan is the coder while Unixmad is the one collecting all the cash up. Again, stop accusing Stefan or the admins of ever asking for money. Be thankful that they're even wasting their time making updates for you guys

Stefan does get paid. But he made a big step planning to get rid of the observer mode on PC. Now it´s up to unix.

You mean getting paid by MadUnix to code, not getting paid by gralat packs... Rite?

Well since SO many people like to glitch/hack nowadays, the admins have to work on patching things up too. They have to spend time uploading heads, bodies, shields, and swords. They have to ban and jail people constantly, and make new hats. They have to eat and sleep as well. People complain about not enough uploaders, yet most people on graal cant be trusted to be an uploader so that doesn't help. Put it all together and that's alot of time which leaves barely any time for them to work on new updates. And I realize not all admins have to do all of this, but people complain about EVERYTHING admins do anyway.

All I heard form rexx's post was.
Well how about you try sitting around for hours making GANIs and Levels and Graphics.
Believe me, I sat around for days working on that stuff. I don't do that for myself, I don't have to make this stuff.

We need more GPs. And Uploaders. There are 1000 players on average online at the same time and on depending on the time of day only a few of us GPs can be on. At most 7 but usually it's 4 when I sign on. We all have lives and Graal can't be our #1 go-to like it could have been when we got hired. Our most quality staff are either in college or working a full time job (like me). That's life.

Now I sound like a broken record...

The only negative thing i have to say about Graal is that it's filled with whiny kids. Rexx, why do you care how many GPs there are? It doesn't effect you at all minus the fact that they might answer reports faster, which is good. I also think taking time to make a huge list of complaints about a video game is no were near as noble as fighting for human rights.

No matter what, people will always fight about this topic. Wherever there are people with opinions, there's conflicts xD I
think it's best to just end this topic now :P

did you even read my post?
I didn't even say anything about the admins or stefan being money hungry
Good job looking like a major suck up

Huge list?
I only counted two complaints, again did you read my post?

The most quality staff are gone with only a few still around

not yet I want to see what other people think >.<


Nyn and Azrael I understand you and the others have lives but that wasnt stopping you before from releasing updates, what happened?