***Before you read this please note that I am not returning to these forums and I am here ONLY to addrress an ongoing issue in graal and to remind everyone that there are rules in this world and they must be followed. If there was another place to do this that I could think of I would not be here. Also I DO NOT wish to "ruin" or in way harm anyone with this(But unfotunately posting this will cause me to be hated by certain ppl sorry.)**


Last night I was online to check in with my squad and Tashkin had broadcasted a message saying "We need more players at bomb spar!" (this was not an event and it was out of no where I know this because i was on for a good half hour before the message and when I got to bomb spar there were only 8 players). So I wondered why would tashkin want more players at bomb spar? Then when i went into the bomb spar room I seen purplemoon and I knew tashkin broadcasted the message so that purplemoon could get some actiong going. Which is not a bad thing or any kind of abuse of powers but a generous thing to do for a friend. A few spars go by and purplemoon being the great bomb sparrer she is... two players decide to team up on a common enemy. (Names of the players will be left out by request) These two players somewhat succeed in teaming up but not really lol ....but it doesnt matter, there are NO rules in bomb sparring, sparring, or showdown. or any PvP activites other than dont abuse glitches/bugs. So the two players who are teamed up, myself, and purplemoon are the 4 players left in the spar. Tashkin sees that his friend is being teamed up on and decides to Stick both players and warn thems by threating to ban them both with a message saying "Keep teaming and i will just ban you both from spars" (I will say that teaming is unfair but its part of the game and everyone knows that. And if you dont like it? leave. Because once again... there are no rules. Note:im not in favor of teaming at all) Not only does purplemoon get the two players to un-team with the help of her manager friend... But she decides to tell one of them "Keep crying" and other rude remarks like that. Yes, they two players were upset and making comments too but nothing like harrassment or abuse and of course like any other graalian they have a reason to be upset after being sticked from a spar match and threatened by a staff member. You may be saying right now "how is this abuse and how does this invlove you?" First of all this does not only involve me and the players that were there but ALL players. Because it is not fair for the friends of staff to get special treatment/advantages. and It is abuse because tashkin could have simply asked the two players to stop teaming because it is not fair to others. Even though it is not against the rules and they didnt have to stop teaming , a kind please might have done the job. Instead of just sticking them and threating to ban them from sparring. (offtopic-ish lol I enjoy challenges and idk about you guys but anytime people team on me i feel honored in a way because Im reminded that im a good player)

Remember that I dont hate any staff members but I hate staff abuse. Being a ex-era player ive seen a lot of it and I want zone to be better than that. If you remember my status before i took a break from zone "When the sky is falling...run". I say this because we'll end up in era when our skyworld falls down to the floor. :p

Another issue that I do Not have much evidence for is staff following players without stealth on. Please if youre on patrol or watching a certain player just do it in stealth... like cmon its not hard. You dont have to creep ppl out and stalk/harrass them like some kind of celebrity stalker.  

Is this a joke? If teaming up in a spar is something they don't want you to do then something should be scripted to prevent it.  

Are you serious? Zone is this the **** you guys have come to? Power abusing assholes? You guys are no better than era

The least you can do is apologise for threatining to ban for teaming and admit it was unlawful and stupid.

Albus that is a terrible idea. If something was scripted to prevent it then cahos would fall as scripts + graal = no good.  

Posted by Ghettoicedtea

Albus that is a terrible idea. If something was scripted to prevent it then cahos would fall as scripts + graal = no good.

I agree. I was just saying that if teaming up isn't something you're supposed to be able to do then they should do something to prevent it, not threaten people via PM.  

This is absurd. I really think it's dumb for an event like this to occur. First, he pulled that rule out of his ***. Never have I once seen an official rule book that states "you are not allowed to team up in bomb spar". I'm sure if it wasn't Tashkin's butt-buddy that was being teamed up on they wouldn't have even cared.  

Wow...kind of bull****. As you mentioned, teaming is unfair to some, but there are no rules against it.  

Teaming should be illegal in all spars and there should be a rule against it. While Tashkin probably shouldn't have done what he did, he wants to send a message that it's not tolerated. If you want to have team then set up team spars. Because lets say 2 players gang up on a player who is new, it is almost like bullying and will discourage them from playing. There may be "no rules" but if this continues I bet there will be. So basically 3 people were teaming against one good player, that's unacceptable, even if she could beat all 3 of you. I have seen players kicked on other servers for teaming even when it wasn't listed against the rules, it's just a sad thing to do.  

PurpleMoon is homelesswitch, tashkin's 36 year old graal girlfriend. Yeah, that's really bad.

1). HomelessWitch should be fired for being a horrible LAT admin, who multi-servers and rarely gets any works done, and didn't earn her spot whatsoever.

2). Players whine all the time about teaming, nothing is ever done.

3). C'mon tash, really?  

I understand the frustration coming from you guys but please do remember that this is not meant to do any harm to anyone. Also remember that Tashkin is a good manager and has done quite a bit for zone. I'd also like to add that if The manager of zone uses his powers this way whats stopping all the other staff below him from abusing their powers as well? Zone Supervision please.

Posted by Unknown

Teaming should be illegal in all spars and there should be a rule against it. While Tashkin probably shouldn't have done what he did, he wants to send a message that it's not tolerated. If you want to have team then set up team spars. Because lets say 2 players gang up on a player who is new, it is almost like bullying and will discourage them from playing. There may be "no rules" but if this continues I bet there will be. So basically 3 people were teaming against one good player, that's unacceptable, even if she could beat all 3 of you. I have seen players kicked on other servers for teaming even when it wasn't listed against the rules, it's just a sad thing to do.

No 2 players were teaming and they didnt exactly succeedd at it xd no offense to the teamers. I never team unless its on my friend to piss him off lol or im tryna get showdown and need some help dealing with teamers.  

I like Zone and Tashkin but I wonder how he is goin explain this.......  

Favoritism is frowned upon in the Graal Communtiy. Especially if you are the manager.  

bad move zone, bad move...  

Inb4 thread is deleted with the reason being "if you want to discuss staff abuse, email [email protected]"  

Does it count if the staff abuser was the manager his self!!!  

If teaming is against the rules why was there no script in place? There wasn't anything saying teaming up wasn't allowed. The players in question aren't at fault.