Posted by Striken

I don't see why ban records should mean someone doesn't get the position.

It has less to do with having a ban record and more to do with having an extensive ban record and what lies within said ban record. What do you think happens if you hire someone with a long ban record for cussing at people and scamming people or even something worse like sexual misconduct? They just turn a new leaf and change their ways? Maybe, but not hardly.  

Posted by Coco

It has less to do with having a ban record and more to do with having an extensive ban record and what lies within said ban record. What do you think happens if you hire someone with a long ban record for cussing at people and scamming people or even something worse like sexual misconduct? They just turn a new leaf and change their ways? Maybe, but not hardly.

Well if the person reformed without getting banned for quite some time wouldn't that provide proof that they've changed?  

Posted by Striken

Well if the person reformed without getting banned for quite some time wouldn't that provide proof that they've changed?

Maybe. But that's not usually the case.  

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I swear this whole comments of complaints and whine makes me feel so cringy and pissed, that I feel sorry for dusty, coco and the rest of staffs that has to hold their tolerance of you people.  

Posted by Coco

It has less to do with having a ban record and more to do with having an extensive ban record and what lies within said ban record. What do you think happens if you hire someone with a long ban record for cussing at people and scamming people or even something worse like sexual misconduct? They just turn a new leaf and change their ways? Maybe, but not hardly.

Going way off on a tangent here, but that's untrue in my experiences. I can recall being banned a single time and then immediately unbanned (because it was completely random). I recently applied for GP and I was told that I can't be hired due to my "massive history." A GP showed me this history (which is probably illegal). It was composed 90% of boost alerts, scam alerts, and game disruptions.

I then came to find that I am triggering "boost alert" when sparring the same player over and over to preserve my streak in the main spar room when everyone runs away... I'm triggering "scam alert" by linking bit.ly URLs in my status and in PMs to people for them to view details of details for my tower hat submissions... and I'm triggering "game disruption" by standing in doorways at towers and being warped away by staff who don't know what they're doing.

So, I'll never be eligible because I'm a good sparrer and I use a URL shortener and Soren was a corrupt douche who would warp people away from his friend's towers. I know that's a really fringe case, but it's still stupid and it feels good to vent about it. XOXO, thanks for listening.  

Ibe also had a ban that was complete random, and it was removed immediately.

Posted by Coco

It has less to do with having a ban record and more to do with having an extensive ban record and what lies within said ban record. What do you think happens if you hire someone with a long ban record for cussing at people and scamming people or even something worse like sexual misconduct? They just turn a new leaf and change their ways? Maybe, but not hardly.

Most of my bans are from ages ago, and I've gotton warns got no reason at all at times.
I haven't scammed anyone lmao
Also, I don't really curse at people unless provoked.

If someone was staff it would be common sense not to be rude/swear at players. but if you aren't, there's no responsibility to have to hold your temper at irritating people. This is unfair to people who actually want to contribute to the game (where the furniture fans at? )  

Half the time when people are banned its for bull **** that they didnt even do cause new gp doesn't look for proof / both sides of story  

Posted by Coco

Maybe. But that's not usually the case.

Was the case for me and you gave me a fun time in the graphics team even though I didn't end up staying.
But yeah you're right usually it's not the case xD  

Posted by TomatoPanda

Half the time when people are banned its for bull **** that they didnt even do cause new gp doesn't look for proof / both sides of story

This is completely true  

Posted by Dusty

Well Rufus said early on the prize pool just can't be that big. There's also an issue that people want new stuff every year to keep things "interesting" as an incentive and that's just not possible. Not only is it it a lot of work(right before Christmas) but there's only so many halloween-themed things you can do. How many different witch hats can you make for example?

The good thing about the prize pool is that unlike the event it can be changed. Things can be added. But we still run into the same problem.

My suggestion is to just keep adding onto the pool every year, rather than making a new one. But there are always problems with that. Players wanting last years stuff to be "exclusive" and players wanting new stuff rather than old stuff. But it's the only way to keep the prize pool larger rather than smaller.


There's always going to be a learning curve when releasing new content. You just can't know how the players will actually "play" the event until it's released, and then adjust accordingly. You won't know if the average player will be have 5 pieces of candy or 200. So how do you balance the trick or treat rates without that knowledge? You make the best estimate you can and adjust accordingly. Even the best estimates rarely come close to representing what actually happens though. There are things I can see being fixed next year, but it's too late to fix them now.

Don't get me wrong you guys do good job at keeping items and hats interesting but I think it can be better. When i started playing graal onnet was updated almost every week with cool and zany themes, heck they went even so far as to make a goat theme! I know your busy but I'm just curious as to how the admins back in 2010-11 got these themes and hats spitting out like crazy (tbh i I liked the hats back then more but thats probably cuz nostalgia and the colors were more vibrant but thats not the point because if more hats were made more likely id find one id like) but why is it that they were able to do onnet almost every week, revolution, nexus more frequently and more hats for the holidays? Is it more admins? Better admins? IDK but i do know Coco was admin near that time so I guess I wanna know "behind the scenes"  

Thoughts on the halloween bow?  

Posted by Dusty

I'm not taking it a hard way, but you're being insulting. We know very well about the lag and there's nothing we can do about it. Stop acting as though we're idiots and don't know the server has lag issues.

If ghosts were the ONLY thing you could get candy from you'd have a point, but it's not. It's one of three ways, and we intended to have more(including the candy bowls). We can't magically have NPCs not lag and everything on the server is an npc. Everything goes through the server before it gets to you, and the server is laggy. Therefor everything is laggy. We can't just not use the server because all it does is introduce loopholes for memory hackers.

Again, feel free to post your amazing, well-thought out ideas and fixes to all these problems you know the answers to.

PS. There was a lot of demand for ghosts to be brought back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I feel like you are having a hard time due to having to do gfx, script, whatever else you do, and that's why I said to not take it in a bad way. (You are stressed out, and are posting in an unnecessary sarcastic manner)

Anyways, just an example of how the event prizes could have been handled. Again, not everyone will agree on what I, you, or anyone besides themselves like. I just don't see why you can't inform the players on what they could win, instead of it being a mystery surprise, since no one except you knows the % of chance to obtain an item, nor do they know which npcs give them.



I forgot to add the glorious jellybeans, and glow-sticks in the image. They should be part of that pool.
1 candy = 10% chance to obtain any of those items or be tricked.
2 = 15%
3 = 20%
4, 25
5, 30

When you put in 6 candies, the chance drops back to 10%, but you now have the new items added into the pool picture, such as hats, furniture, mounts.

6 candies = 10% chance to obtain skull furniture, hats, jellybeans, glow-sticks.
7 = 15%
etc
etc
etc

11 = 10% chance to obtain skull furniture, hats, jellybeans, glow-sticks, mount.
12 = 15%
etc
etc
etc

Each npc would have their own prize pool.  

Reading this, just goes to show how ungrateful people are.They don't get paid for this-they don't even have to put any effort into it at all.But they do,It doesn't matter how much hard work and time they put into this for us-all they get is negativity...There will be a time where they will give up then what?We all complain that everything is going downhill...what a shame.  

Posted by Zara

they don't even have to put any effort into it

... yes they do  

Posted by Zara

Reading this, just goes to show how ungrateful people are.They don't get paid for this-they don't even have to put any effort into it at all.But they do,It doesn't matter how much hard work and time they put into this for us-all they get is negativity...There will be a time where they will give up then what?We all complain that everything is going downhill...what a shame.

There's a big difference between complaining and giving feedback, and that's what I see most of the people on the last few pages doing. I don't know what you're reading. The complaining is happening in the game.