CRASH 4 ADMIN 2012

[Crashlander04]

Most of what's being said here has already been discussed among the staff. Players like solitude do bring activity but the solitudes were douchebags who didn't know how to roleplay.

If it has been discussed among the staff, it should be acted on one way or another. The staff (with several exceptions) has an apparent habit as of late to disregard or take no stance/action on any situation they are not directly involved with. Ian's ban appeal, though (apparently) rejected, has still not been responded to with anything more than 'the staff will discuss this and we will get back to you'. If it takes an uprising to act about this sort of thing, or to even address the community about these issues, there is a problem with the current staff.

Solitude did RP, though it was disputed for the pure violence it brought about - in their final days they even posted an ultimatum to the nations they were raiding. This ultimatum was, instead of being responded to seriously, considered by all the offended to be an attempt at trolling while it was an honest attempt at playing the bad guy. Yes, they did troll and act like dicks - which, though comical or immature from one perspective, was still fitting within the ideal of being villains.

They did know how to roleplay, and up until their final days (where they knew they were going to be banned out of public distaste) they did generally try to stay within the rules - they did not grief any property or attack anybody they did not have an RP reason to (no matter how much one can say they did). Their last actions (forum spamming) though immature, was [almost] deserved considering the bias and flaming that they were shown constantly.

By the same logic, they were douchebags as much as anybody else involved in the quarrel *cough cough bowser cough riskae cough smythie cough cough* (sorry bad flu going around) - they were simply the better PvPers.

Yes, I will vouch for them - and yes, I believe they were unjustly banned. If you can /honestly/ say you heard every side of the story and made a fair, reasonable judgement toward them then it wouldn't be my place to argue for them. Though they were my friends, I only argue this because I believe they were treated unfairly due to their history on old maps and the exaggeration of those they 'offended' (which noticeably doesn't happen as much since Promethia became inactive).

/endrant
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