I never posted on Alla before, but someone asked me to share my story (Someone in glls btw, plus i got many wierd tells about it so i might as well answer you all at once) so i will.
My name is lazaras, i was in GLLS, i am no longer in glls and people have asked me why.
No one in glls except for maybe 4 people knew what kluyafosuya was planning to do. The day we all found out, most of us were surprised. We knew at first that Kluya had taken back the noble's tunic from bibrian, so many of us were going "yay." We found out later that he had also taken a SH, SH+1 and royal tunic that did NOT belong to glls. that started a little ls argument about what he did. I was on the side that argued that he should give all that other stuff back to thier rightful owners (even though the owners of the SH and royal cloak were members who had left glls for thecrew) along with a few others. some beleived we should give back the SH+1 only, others beleived that we should welcome him back for getting this stuff back, and what he did with the other stuff was up to him only (mostly the point of the ls leaders).
The argument lasted a while, I made a post about it on the forums, as did amny others, and there was a little tension about it for the rest of the morning.
After a while, i was sent a /tell by the ls leaders saying that they did not "appreciate my causing trouble" and they told me to drop my pearl. The exact words were "advises you to drop your pearl" but i hope we all know what that means. As far as I can tell, the only reason i was kicked was that I had spoken my mind about kluyafosuya and my veiwpoint did not agree with that of the ls leaders. If the real reason was something else, please let me know, I try not to be mean and am usually helpful, so I would like to apologize if i was at fault for another reason.
note - by ls leaders I do not mean all of them. i do not know if all of them knew about what was happening and i frankly doubt they did, because only like 12-15 people were on ls at the time.
So... I did not leave ls to join thecrew, although i may later because i have friends there, or any other HNMls. I was not booted because I was secretly plotting to take away gil/items and join thecrew. And I most assuredly was not booted because they found out I was a gilseller. (i dont even know how THAT one got started) I left because I was told to leave.
I left unwillingly because I had a lot of friends in Glls still. The reason i did not do a ls point - to - gil conversion before I left (some asked me about this) was because I did not know that option was available to me. I figured that was only available to people who were staying in the ls, and I had a hard enough time trying to get gil-from-points to raise goldsmithing when i WAS in the ls, so i figured they probably would not give me the option now that i was in bad favor. If the option was/is available, i would have/will take it, because we all spend a lot of time and gil camping triggers, going to HNM camps, etc. and I wish i could have something, anything, in return. Especially with the price of silent oils on this server >.>
I have heard rumors that others were kicked for similiar reasons, but they are just rumors, so i dont know. I would like to know, because I am curious to see what happened to my friends on glls, and I dont have acess to the glls forums anymore either.
As for the points thing, it's clear that high-end items like Kirin's osode and noble's tunic are worth waay more than the points that get subtracted for them. There just arent enough high end items dropped, or big HNM money drops, or even points to be earned before a new HNMls gets it's first osode or tunic. Possibly not ever. In a sense, they are purchased through a fairly heavy subsidy, because they are given out with the intent that the person who receives the item will stay and help get everyone else that item and other items. So yes, I do understand why Glls and other lses are mad when people leave. A lot of people in glls worked to get the person(s) who left high end items with out said person(s) helping to get more for everyone else. Sure they must have helped some, but they did not help enough to compensate for the alliances of others who helped. Either acknowledge this fact or fix the points system, but I think this problem is inevitable in any system.
Second of all, many people who left left because they were not recieving items/gil and/or felt that the items were being distributed unfairly. To me, that is a valid reason to leave, because many of those who left did so because they recieved nothing. So glls, hate on those who you really mean to, not just everyone who left. not all of them tried to take items, and it is natural to try to get something in return for their last so many months camping Hnm's / triggers/ etc before they leave the ls.
Anywho, thats my story/veiwpoint. Feel free to send me /tell. I dont blist anyone (or at least never have and dont want to) so if i dont respond its because i'm afk (i do that a lot).
Remember all: GLLS is not only Kluyafosuya (if he's back... i dunno cuz i'm not in ls), GLLS is not only the LS leaders, Thecrew is not only the people who left GLLS or any other particular LS. So no one mpk anyone pls. There are a lot of nice people in GLLS who I am friends with and would like to stay friends with, just like i'm sure there are a lot of nice people in thecrew and every other ls, if you dont like any one person that doesnt mean you have to hate on everyone in his/her/it's ls. (Galka are an "it," i'm sorry :p )
Please dont be mean people, be good people, but if you're mean at least direct your meanness to the right target and in the right amount. I felt a lot of what happened was way overboard, plus an innoncent orenshi got an SH+1 taken in the process.
Finally, about that SH +1, it could have been given back instead of dropped... people call each other gilsellers like people used to call each other communists... it doesn't mean it's true. Rumors spread fast too. So it's not cool to drop it just cuz someone called that person a gilseller. NO ONE knows if anyone is a gil seller or buyer until they hear them say it, because many small emnities form in this game and people are quick to call each other gilsellers. This ls drama is proof of the rivalries, and go to lower jeuno from time to time if you wanna see people call each other gilsellers. Besides.... who drops an SH+1????? Under any circumstance??? Esp if it belongs to someone else entirely. >.>
Thats all I have to say I think. Thanks for listening.