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It ain't a rant wise [filtered], it's reality. I'm simply trying to minimize the damage and expectations. If people expect this to be a fix for everything, in the long run it'll be terrible and cause those people to quit the game. It's best to expect little from this so you don't end up very
It's ironic that you say want to prevent players from leaving the game, but when you shoot down the very thing that EME is attempting you have the same effect. Imagine if you were a new player and you saw this while looking around the forums deciding whether or not you wanted to play. If I was a new player I'd look at your negativity and go "[filtered], better steer clear of this game."
The best thing to do is hope for the best, and be productive in fixing an issue if one does arise. You don't just not do something because you think it might fail. If that was the case most of the greatest achievements the world have ever seen would have never been brought to fruition.
The only thing that can stand against this is clear, unambiguous guidelines about the actions the player council demi-mods are expected to take (so that everyone can see clearly what they're supposed to do), and the fact that ultimately EME staff (like Spacecats) are the only ones who can take the real moderation actions (like warnings/infractions/bans). So basically the player council are more like "Traffic Cops" (Crossing Guards?) than "Judges", and anything minor they do can be appealed up the chain of command. The less authority they have and the more "procedural" their actions, the less subject to accusation they'll be.
personally my choice will be limited to yosha, espeir, zokhanal and counterpoint, i dont trust other members
Personally, I would of thought that the applicants that apply are chosen as "nominees", and then the forum members would then vote on who they would want to see on the council. That way, in my opinion, forum users would be more at ease as to who has the privileges.
Also, I hope that with this, pressing issues will get seen to a lot faster. I guess we will have to see how this plays out.
Good luck to those who apply.
The similar scheme I saw only lasted a couple weeks in the end.
The incoming event is the perfect example of why we need such a system. Double drop and enchanting bonus just 2 weeks into the new patch will effectively shorten the patch's life, and with the current feedstock issue this event would make even more of a mess. If we have a council with access to 1 hidden sub forum, EME can just post a topic "what do we need for the next event ?" or "is this gonna work ?" and we can have players with good understanding of the game to discuss. EME will be the one with the final decision.
There will nolonger be a situation like, Treeshark saw someone posted a wall of text blaming this and that, thus decided he has to do something to make the player feel better and posted something like "ok I'll see what I can do", and every single posts after everyone quote that and force him to do it despite it might screw up the game. A president granting request from a normal citizen sounds fantastic and works great as a promotion, but it won't matter if in the end the country is negatively affected.
Besides, does En Masse really need help figuring out what's wrong? Do they really need help with moderation? They know what's going on. They see it. They know what they have to do; they just have to, y'know, actually do it.
This is just a very clever ruse designed to deflect fault and culpability, just another system of control. Very soon, we'll all be fighting and arguing amongst ourselves about who should and shouldn't be on the council, we'll all be pointing fingers and calling names, we'll all lose what little trust we had in each other, and nothing will ever get done. Just by glancing over the last couple pages of this thread, I can see it's already begun.
That said, I endorse counterpoint for councilor. He posted pictures of the Ninja outfits. He's a hero.
But really they just need some players that they can trust the opinions of. Players that will be fair even if they could manipulate to their own gains. Like if they really need to know how bad the feedstock issue is, instead of listening to the childish forum posts and global ranting they could ask knowledgable and trustworthy representatives. I think this is what we all have in mind but I highly doubt it's what we'll end up with.
Remember when Yosha told eme directly about how bad the titan's ember supply was going to be way before it happened? We need exactly that type of communication but we need eme to listen to it.
Also there's a typo in the original post:
"(We're are looking at ways to distinguish Player Council members with a badge or unique avatar.)"
zokhanal is better than us for tera lore
are you serious for yosha and espeir ?