The staff is very engaged with their player base, they listen and act swiftly if you have any problems or concerns. There are no corrupt GMs banning people off anger or tantrums. There is a no cheating policy that is strictly enforced. If you try to macro or bot, eventually you will be caught.
This was certainly not the case a couple of years ago, but my guess is that they're active now due to desperation/panic. Looking at numbers, their game is slowly dying. Trust me, they didn't do shit when Legacy peaked at 1500 players. I don't know what drove Iryont to finally delete zaxx, friiko, hermionka, the list goes on, for cheating. But to me they seemed untouchable and protected by Iryont for the longest period.
Even though nobody had any logic behind calling Damodreds for "DamodRATS", they were so right, at least when it comes to me. I snitched on everyone who cheated in a way that didn't have to do with runemaking, because MC'ing is mandatory for a 7.4 to work, cavebotting is not. Look where you at now, runes in shop xD Okay, so I've thrown that out there, I did everything in my power to keep the server legitimate and have it grow.
However, my eager to keep the server legitimate eventually almost came with the cost of me getting deleted. One of the guys from guild Independents told me (in trust) about how they abused "Harenam", one of the plaguebringer of abukir bosses, reaching up to "3kk exp/h". Didn't surprise me something was wrong cuz they had gained an insane amount of levels in a very short time. Snitched on him of course (sorry, not sorry) by immidietly sending an email to Iryont, but I didn't get a reply. Reported it to Madragor ingame, he'd speak with Iryont, but nothing happened. Had tutor Tjockas reach out to Iryont on skype, but nothing happened.
For 2 weeks I saw these fuckers, excuse my language, abuse the hell out of that spawn and all my attempts to have it fixed was ignored.
So I thought... you know what? Let's just start up the stream and go there ourselves, show the world how broken it really is. Twitchchat was fuming, we (Me, Dezastrous, Malunoo, Mus, Xirvisa) had a blast shittalking Independents and honestly the staff aswell for allowing them to exp like this for weeks. 3kk exp/h was a big lie. Had Xirvisa outside our shared party and he had 7kk/h sding and bursting the boss. Exped for 7 hours, looted I think 7 (?) shields. Shields that Independens sold for some insane amount of cash to people, claiming they were close to one of a kind. Guess who turns up in my twitchchat during our hunt? Madragor. He immidietly lowers the experience granted by all PoA bosses by like 95% as a "quick fix". Shortly after, the server "crashes" and rolls back to server save. We lost everything, but our goal was obviously to end the abuse and it was fulfilled.
Shortly after this, Iryont replies to my email.
Note: I sent the report 28 oct 2017, his reply came 9 nov 2017, the day after we streamed the event.
Source: Email history and date of attached picture.
He was telling me that he "doesn't know what to do with us". Because according to him, we broke the following rules:
- Spreading false information or starting propaganda about the server which may cause a reduction of the server's population or harm the server's reputation.
- Punishment: Banishment or deletion depending on the severity of the violation.
and
- Exploiting obvious errors of the game or any other part of our services.
- Punishment: Deletion of the account.
So basically he was deciding between deleting all of us (Me, Dezastrous, Malunoo, Mus, Xirvisa), including the people from Independents who had been abusing it for weeks, OR just let us all go without punishment. This pretty much killed my entire motivation to play medivia but it also made me seek justice for the bug abusing that went unpunished. During this period I was feeling so much hate towards Iryont but also towards Independents. To me It really felt like Iryont was taking Independents side, having their back, supporting their abuse, and this was also the reason why the war begun, justice. Damodreds & El Rampage vs Independents.
We told them that after we crush them they'll have no option but to leave the server. There was no payment, they'd be hunted forever for what they had done, all the unfair levels they had taken. We agreed that their only option after the war would be to suicide their characters to a certain level that we thought seemed reasonable after their bug abuse. But no, of course we lost
. They had a much bigger desire to play the server in the end.
Events and exp/h numbers described above are still very much in my memory, but they're also in my email history with Iryont.
Just sharing this as a big thank you to Iryont for everything he did for me during the years I supported this game.
Storytime's over //Maas DamodRAT