Zencro

It's not the actions of a single staff member that I have problems with , it's human nature to favor someone , and since none of the staff are paid and are all in fact normal players they will all make relationships in game , and no matter how hard they try and deny it they will favor their friends rather than random people. So telling Oracle about it will not change anything and I'm sure he has much better things to do. And now to stop derailing this post , yes I do have problems with how the staff handle situations , but that's for another post and another time , this post was about how the mute function is flawed.

I like your comparison ZarmaZarma , I for one love the new theme , it's sort of like comparing Windows XP and windows 2000 , both achieve the same thing , just one is more basic.

The mods? No. The CA's? Of course, they are normal people. They still enforce rules though. They inforce rules , but they don't enforce them equaly... Let me give you an example shall I? these are pulled from actual logs of the game. Now that broke a few rules , since I find someone telling me to my face "shut the hell up already" an insult. What did that person get? Nothing , not even a warning. whereas this... [14:48:32] <Horton> Im about to pray to Who to clense this land of unbelievers : by this he meant mute me , guess we now all know who was the person in the initial post. Now do you understand what I mean by the CA's are bias? PS: if anybody has any doubt ,I can send you my full log. PPS: not trying to bash Horton , out of all the CA's/GM's (that I've met) he was the most rational one.

You would be surprised as to the favoritism that the moderators have in game.

Totally agree , or at least some kind of automated message whenever someone tries to PM you that says you are muted for X minutes and can not talk. But chat in local should not be muted unless specified , because that just ruins it for not only you , but other people you may encounter. Serverwide message in Event saying "X has been muted for 1 hour" You had time to write that before I did , but the server wide would get annoying , only show the message to someone who is trying to PM a muted player.

Not to be rude or anything , but that's just deflecting the issue , and as I've mentioned in the game (and as many people have agreed with me over PM) , the chat rules are far too vague and the GM's/CA's tend to wing it when it comes to interpreting those rules(meaning they don't judge everyone the same way).

Yes , mutes keep people out of kchat , but the issue is that they keep people out of every other chat as well , not only kchat.

Understandable , but it won't provide the wanted effect... now instead of just not speaking a lot in the freedom chat , me (and a few other people that have talked about it) are completely boycotting it , and I'm playing on the chaos server, so if you think about it , already that there's nobody chatting on there, now it will be even more lifeless and boring , never mind the fact that new players will think it's deserted and everyone is just afk.

The question was not whether or not I got muted , but what happened after I did get muted. Do not try and pull a red herring on this topic please, thank you.

I got muted because of freedom chat , and the problem lies in the fact that it's not only freedom chat that has me muted , ALL chat channels have me muted , be it PM or Local , meaning I can't speak at all to anybody for the duration of the mute , which in turn makes the game unplayable , because let's be honnest for a second, if you have the capability of staring at a timer for one hour without doing anything else you are blessed with amazing focus , but for the rest of us it would drive us insane. Also , there is no indication to other players that I was muted... And I was discussing something rather important with someone else when this happened and he had no idea until I told him one hour later. (he kept talking to me for several minutes before he though I logged off)

I've noticed that when you get muted it says this : [14:49:45] You have been muted by *name removed* for 1 hours and cannot shout anymore. Reason: Gonna let you stop yourself before i drag your corspe across the server now , what I would like to emphasise is this part of the mute message... : and cannot shout anymore. Now I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it's intended , but not only can I not shout , but I can not PM nor can I speak in Local. Just making an observation.

If you're still hiring i'd be interested in working for you (i mostly watch tv shows while playing anyways so it wouldn't be much of a sacrifice). I'm currently in chaos , and have been playing about 1 week.

The GM neglected to mention the 24 hour thing.

Now , I was told by a GM that is a game mechanic and works as intended , so I don't know if anything can be done , but in my opinion it is a pretty severe game breaker. Without further wait , on to the story. Let me just state that I am a rather new player (4 day old) and don't know all the mechanics of this game , now what happened is , while digging out the area for my house , a new player came across me , and I offered to help him. Since he wanted to build a house I made a house plan for him and gave him the writ to it , now later that player logged off , and I decided to make a house for myself , but behold my surprise when I couldn't , due to me already having a plan (even though I didn't have the writ anymore). Now I contacted a GM and as I initially said , he told me it was part of the game mechanics and it was all working as it should , and that I just had to wait for it to decay naturally or get the player to give me back the writ. The player wasn't even a day old , and I had no idea that this was going to happen , and it is quite game breaking as I can't make any more house plans , at all...