As I see it Celestia was kind of fast-paced: staged skills, double-charged runes, being able to MC, change gold with click, no trouble sorting runes or items as they are stacked and auto-stack. That was intended (at least by me) and Kungenn gave me total freedom to do as I want, I did that trying to mimic the Celestia version I played, with slightly changes to match my preferences and with some features that were default at TFS 1.x, as I was using that as distro. And I believe being fast-paced is necessary, it’s a oldschool, low pop, custom server, if people don’t get action soon as they start playing they won’t stick, they won’t believe others will stick and you end up fast as hell with an empty server.
Delusions of having a real hardcore game with mechanics of year 2000 are just dreams that will be crushed, there is no players up to that, that would give a chance to a oldschool, low pop, custom server. I believe Kungenn came up with a different concept of server that he want to host, and while trying to transform Celestia into that, shit went wrong. Well, he not only tried to move Celestia to a direction that in my point of view is a fated to fail, but more, he did that in a live version, where the player base he had started playing it because it was what it was, a fast-paced medium rate server.
Here is the my special tip,
@God Mythera, you don’t do what your players want, that is total bullshit. You listen to your players, and that is completely different. Players will have paradoxals options of what direction server should follow, they will want features that alone seems a good idea, but don’t match the big picture. If you try to please everyone you end up with a Frankenstein that won’t stick together and will fall apart. That’s what happened here now, that what happened with Thora. You came up with an idea, think what is needed for it to work, stick with your guts, people that like will play. Try to please everyone, add paradoxals ideas, it fucks up. Polls fuck it up, you split the playerbase, they started to feel entitled to decide server fate.
Kungenn was doing his best, despite handling it with you guys poorly, he put a lot of effort on the changes and was really pleasing part of the playerbase with it, they matched the proposal of making it more like it was in the oldschool era. He also added a lot of content, cave systems, quests, and npcs.
The reset shit though is pretty fucked up, I felt kinda backstabed as you guys, since I was the one giving my word to players and OtLand community that it won’t happen. It was a really poor decision to even open a poll about it, you open the poll you already seal the deal. Another big tip, as an server admin, do not ever even talk about the possibility of a reset, if rumors start to build up, kill them fast! Make it clear that a reset won’t ever happen. People will feel discouraged and server will be empty fast as fuck.
That happened without my acknowledgement, I traveled tuesday. But now I will give my excuses why I won’t be taking it by myself and do a last effort to try to fix the issue. As I feel like I own it to you guys, and I’m failing to not deliver it.
I applied for civil servant 2 years ago, had to describe how the system works here in Brazil as there are a lot of technical terms involved, but they will finally giving me the job mid february and I won’t have time at all, I have to go through a 3 month course, 10 hours/day, 6 days/week, and move far away from my current city. I only discovered it 5 days before Celestia official launch, and it was totally unexpected, it’s a life change opportunity that the server has no comparison to at all. I still have some months to make it the best experience I could and a stable community before I had to step back. I already had put a lot of effort, and build some expectations, so I just give my best while I could. I’m also unemployed and living with my parents and my lil sisters, and they are going through a divorce, so it’s fucked up in my particular life, for that and some other smaller reasons.
I’m saying that because, Kungenn proposed me to setup Celestia back to like 3 days ago as it was, and I’m giving the reason why I won’t do it. I won’t be able to give any time to the server in 2 weeks, I need other person, as even if I wish I couldn’t do it alone, and I also believe it’s gone. Well guys, past this point there is nothing I can do to save it, reputation is tainted. When shitstorm like that hits a server, there isn’t much more to be done. Even if there was, after I’m saying it I’m kind sealing the deal.
Please don’t be too hard on Kungenn too, his community management skills sux, but he also put a lot of effort on making it work. He put money on it while we are making no money at all, and while having some RL issues also. I would like to add that I made no money at all, Kungenn wanted to split it 50/50, but I refused, I did it for the sake of having fun, he didn’t make real money also, as there was costs involved, the playerbase was small and we charged cheap.
That is it guys, sorry for not delivering.
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