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First of all, what you Airamis are too dim-witted to understand
More insulting and attacking comments? Clearly you are trying hard to further my belief that bad attitudes prevail at 'end-game'.
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Airamis, I don't know why you hate the end-game LSes as much as you apparently do but it's pretty pathetic. Like it or not, there has to be some set of rules for how we act regarding Dynamis, just like there has to be for any other end-game activity
I do not 'hate' end game LS at all. I find some to be entirely too full of themselves and too ready to beat down anyone who tries to better themselves instead of helping. I reject that mentality. As it has been my primary experience thus far of other Dynamis LS giving orders, and placing demands on other LS who may or may not have known about a tacit agreement to discuss runs, has been wholly negative. Why would I wish to associate with primarily negative persons? Or those who rather than informing, attack? Just look at the live journal entry in the OP. Is that a service to anyone? Is that in any way shape or form a positive impression? I don't think any person with self-respect can say yes. It's offensive and I would never allow myself or my LS to be associated with such persons.
I agree something needs doing, but the distrubing manner in which so many have attacked LS who were uninformed suggests it has been handled poorly or at best, not fully thought out. Again, just referring to the live journal posted should be enough to cause anyone to question the true motives here.
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you can either adapt to the "rules" or disregard them but by doing so alienating yourself from the rest of the end-game community. This is not something strange, this is not something elitistic, rules/guidelines/whatever are there as an attempt at keeping end-game activities as pleasant as possible for everyone involved. Whithout them, the server would be an even bigger cesspool than it already is.
Agreed. But constantly attacking new LS, or 'newer' LS, degrading them, acting abusively towards them will also alienate you. Eventually those LS will get sick of it and act directly counter to the stated goal. If you look carefully, this is already starting to happen because of how things are being portrayed and how a LS not aware of this 'resource' is generally treated. Resentment breeds and grows quickly. it's already started quite obviously.
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When when you're a "newer" LS, it's up to you to find out about these things. General rules on how an LS "should" behave basically boils down to common sense and respect.
The first run in I had with this problem was during a run in Sandy. At the time, TWO LS used the Tshot Calendar and I was told it was LAW to follow, ORDERED to drop my hourglass, and upon completetion of the run, and asking around, NO ONE had ever heard of it. Solstice learned of the calendar for example THROUGH ME and a post on MY LS. Stellar even registered and posted into the thread. So, the claim of "established rules" is patently false in that sense.
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When we did not get a response we just decided to not push it and go and do another area instead.
Decided not to push it? What was there to push? Someone had entered Dynamis and that is that. What would you have 'pushed'? Threats? orders? Unsupportable demands?
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We decided on Beaucedine, that Zen also had planned to switch to after their Bastok-run got blocked by some other people.
Blocked? You mean there was an situation where someone got there first. Blocking implies some sort of deliberate improper actions. If this is true I can honestly say that our Jeuno run this past saturday was 'blocked' it had been planned, based on the tshot calendar, for a time and place which was NOT OCCUPIED nearly 3 weeks in advance. Someone got there first. We did bastok. So I suppose I have some great right to be indignant and vulgar now for that? Hardly.
The attitudes shown in these responses are my entire issue. Who apointed you spokes person and divine rules. I feel bad honestly for Bedrock. He tried, with what I am convinced was nothing but good intent, to make something positive and it was usurped by those who would use it to be abusive and spiteful to others. Listing a run on a LS forum does not give any one 'rights' to anything. Any more than my posting a run, even a full month is advance, does not give us 'rights' to it. But as so many LS have asked, and been given the URL to our calendar, one would think they would check it. You know, out of courtesy and respect.
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10 minutes of research will lead you in the right direction.
Actually after my first run in I spent over 2 hours searching the net for any links or info to such a resource. No luck. I did find it very entertaining that everytime I searched for "Dynamis Linkshell" at Google, the highest ranked Ragnarok NA LS was... mine. And when searching for Dynamis Calendar, the highest ranked related result was a dead page I had made on the subject at a now expired URL. Obviously I mention this to point out the fact that this "well known" calendar was in fact a total mystery to all but a tiny few, was not even significant enough to register in Google.
I think those that have older LS (funny, most are 'reformed' from something else and thus not really as old as they like to think), should start thinking of the rest of the server more if they really want to be helpful and would do a far better job at simple PR. Instead, most seem intent and abusing and punishing those with smaller or newer LS or those with no idea things were supposed to be handled a certain way.
I'd argue that many of the 'smaller' LS who have been attacked to date are likely to be highly resentful. People might want to start thinking in terms of "neutral territory". Unless, certain 'large' LS exist in too much fear of being pushed aside by other, 'smaller', more tolerant LSes.