ReputationFollow

Yes, yes, and yes.

I would much rather have an average player with a good attitude than a hot-shot as*hat.

As far as these boards go, I appreciate someone having an opinion and being willing to speak their mind. By the same token, posting on the boards can expose a person as an immmature/ignorant player who the average "just looking to have fun playing a game" player might want to avoid.

Having a good attitude will make up for any lack of playing skills, as a player with a good attitude will be one who listens, watches, and learns quickly. It is an added plus that it is such a player that others want to party with.

I understand the both of you. Through my eyes I've seen players say some unprovoked rude things to other players. Sometimes I'd sit there and ask myself "why do people do this online?". Putting my foot in mouth I'm still haunted by that one time I went up the deep end with someone in this game.

There were players though who'd apologize for any inconveniance they'd cause. There are even those who are willing to make amends after being heated rivals for so long.

Bad play style should reflect attitude.

Exactly! That is how a good reputation comes to be. Not from always being generous or accommodating, but respecting the person behind the pixels. There is always a certain amount of compromise when dealing with a world full of people, but someone who makes room for differences is the one whos world gets bigger. In game and in RL.

I will disagree somewhat with Nebz on the point of the boards. I think someone who is consistently immature or disrespectful on the boards is most likely the same in other outlets, including in-game. I will concede the boards can skew the view of a person in one respect; a bad or angry day is preserved forever. Thank goodness we have the ability to edit ;)

yes reputation is important, but people base reputation or anything.


Exemple, yes sumtime i act like an *** on the board (alla or KI), but people that really know me in the game knows im a kind an attention person, of course i still have my hate of HNMLS and account buyer (a.k.a littleyuuki (its not the real anymore)).

But i take care of my friends and my ls like if it were my familly.

But sadly people dont trust for that they only trust what they see on the FFXI board.

so reputation is important but sadly interperated wrong.

I'm sure there alot of people who got judge badly without even needed it and people has good reputation when they need a bad one.



Edited, Mon Mar 13 13:30:05 2006 by finalff

In short, I believe that play style and attitude are some what unrelated. Sure, if there's a person that's consistently a prick to everyone, it's a fairly safe bet that they engage in such activities as botting and MPKing others. However, there are instances where you have really, really good players and they know it - and it's gone to their head. So, it can really go either way on that point.

However, reputation follows you through the game. Act like a prick to everyone, and your invites will start dropping off. More than once have I been looking for people to fill a spot in a party, saw a name of someone that acts like a complete idiot or is out-of-line rude to people, and passed them up, sometimes to the end of disbanding the party.

On a more personal level, I'm sure many of you know when I began posting on these boards. Of course, I gained a great deal of my notoriety in the Cetranne series of threads. But even to this day, I get people sending me tells: "zomg u wer teh guy who posted all that stuffs on th cetrane thread lolololol!!1!1!" and the likes. Is the (for lack of a better word at the moment) fame nice? Sure. I don't know anyone who doesn't like a little bit of popularity. But it's in the past, and honestly, it's a part of my posting life that I'm not particularly proud of. She's gone (hopefully), the threads have long since dropped off of the front page of the Cerberus server forum, and yet, I still have to deal with it. But I've earned it through my actions and through all the things I said. That is my reputation coming back at me.

I know this is kind of an abrupt ending, but I had a nice ending that flowed with the rest of it, and then my brain went BZZT! *smoke* and I ran out of things to say. So... yeah. Wish me luck on 73 tonight, eh?

Sometimes I do wish people to ask more questions and willing to take quite direct criticisms. Some people that has dealt with me when I am bad mood... knows what I will say when I see something I do not like in the game when I am bad mood >< I can get really blunt and direct.

I admit I have shown egos in the game sometimes. Sometimes a lot of players (more senior ones) just do not want to deal with new players. They think it is "wasting their time" for stress and less fun. I try hard not to do that, but sometimes I do have given in to that.

I think it is best for new players not only willing to ask questions, but also willing to find the answers themselves. Sometimes you really wish people will be able to just come to Alla to look up some really basic information about quests and items.

In the end, I think both new and senior players should step back a little bit. Do not expect to be helped while trying to help yourself is the best way to approach a problem. When FFXI came out, all the new JP or NA levels 1 have absoltuely no clue what to do. They figured it out -- and possibly with the hardest way. I want people to think about that when asking people for help. And also I want senior players to remember days that they got helped through things.

If you keep remembering the days you got helped, and the days people were trying to first kill Shadow Lord or Genkai I... your game will be much better.

Edited, Wed Mar 15 09:35:15 2006 by scchan

But a bad attitude will turn people away from you regardless of skill.

Oh an Cal your bad(mild) attitude is not constant.

Edited, Wed Mar 15 11:45:16 2006 by Zaleshea

o_o?

YOU DON'T LIKE MISTER CHANS' PANCAKE MIX?????!!!!

And yes I love pancake play. I will run it all into the ground til I get tired of it. Not when you will get tired of it because you like and eat pancakes!

Edited, Fri Mar 17 12:36:23 2006 by Zaleshea