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Quite simply, Rastus got pissed off with people pickpocketing simply because they could, and doing it /continually/, so he coded it to send a random fuckyou message every second for god knows how many lines, simple.

I'm sorry you got spammed for doing such.  Yes pickpocketing has been abused. nOObs log on, create a character, pickpocket and kill every sleeper they find and then pickpocket and attack every NPC they come up to.  This past week its been quite rediculous dealing with it.  YES we get frustrated, we are human too and we can only take so much at times.  I'm assuming that the little spam gag was targeted towards that person and whoever put it on forgot to take it off.  Don't get so bent out of shape.

Secondly, yes to an extent admin are not bound by the same rules of play as PCs or Admin Alts are.  I don't think it's right to be spamming people, but we're staff here. We get to go to the 'employee only lounge' and steal goodies from the consession stands, etc.

As for not having the time to help you there are times when admin are Idle. We do have lives too. We cannot always be here to field every question immediately. If you xhelp and there's no response it's because no one is there to watch their screens.

Hope your day goes better

Like he said, whoever did probably just forgot to take it off. Relax, man. Give the admin a break. They do this on their own free will, in their own free time. They spend hours out of their day making the game fun for us. I can't blame them for getting pissed off when people come in and try to wreck it.. And you have to know that wasn't a personal attack on you. It was on whoever abused the command last. The command exists for those of us who play the game and play it right. I'm sure you don't want them to take it out, do you? Just cause some newbies came along and screwed around? Personally, I'd rather get "fuck off" filling my screen than start losing commands completely.

Carrie/Des

Yes, I remember when the follow command was broken. I think the message was:"It doesn't work, I broke it. Boo hoo. Get over it." Or something like that. From dear ol Rastus.

Everytime a nOOb that is just here to be a jack kills a sleeper SOMEONE is paying for their actions, everytime they attack you just to see the combat system, it is affecting you. And because of what they did, the Pickpocket command was removed. So it affects you.

You're totally right in being a bit miffed, but it's not directed at you. So please feel better and move on within' the game.

Danke

I'm not pissed that this happened.  The part that pissed me off was that it happened and I couldn't figure out why.  I know the problems that you are having with the newbs.  Yeah  they are causing a disturbance, but if they are such a problem than why don't you just newt em or something.  I don't know. Oh well guess I'll just have to deal with it.

My apologies, Molochai. I did spend some time thinking about ways of making sure the spam only effected those I was targetting, but decided to go for a quick and dirty patch rather than wasting any more time dealing with the influx of dickheads we've been dealing with for the last week.

From what I've been able to gather, some loser logged on to Sindome, probably expecting a MUD or something. We had to reprimand him a couple of times but it quickly became apparent he was going to have more fun fucking with us than he ever intended to have playing them game. Shortly after that another one arrived, and another, and another… We know they're all friends, they've admitted to that. Most of them have never played a M* before (or so they say). Apparently they all hang out on the same IRC channel somewhere and have decided their entertainment for this week/month/year is going to be fucking up the game I spend most of my life working on.

Last count there was perhaps 7 or 8 of them. Between them they've had something like 40 characters in the past 4 days. Most of them have dynamic IP addresses. The only way to prevent them playing would be to blanket blacklist every connection from their ISP, meaning we'd end up blacklisting 4 or 5 whole ISP's. Alternatively we could lock the MOO so you can't register for a character from freemail email addresses or ISPs that offer multiple email addresses to their customers, thus restricting all people to one registration and allowing us to @toad the offenders without them being able to reregister in minutes. Both would potentially prevent thousands of people from playing Sindome...

But I digress...

The patch to pickpocket was my final message to the group of players that have driven me away from the game I love. I'm tired of dealing with them, I won't further damage the game to prevent their actions, I won't waste my time searching for and locking down every single little abuse opening because a group of players refuse to listen to admin and deliberately set out to disrupt and defile the game. I'm done.

I shall return. That much is fairly likely. Could be next week, could be next month, could be next year. I don't know, whenever I feel the urge to be creative again. Whenever it becomes fun again and whenever the player base once more is made up of a majority of people who are out to have fun and constructively RP.

For the last week, under the constant abuse bombardment, every urge I have had has been potentially bad for the game. On more than one occasion I've been -very- close to simply shutting down the game altogether. I've pondered and half formulated far worse 'patches' than the one I applied to pickpocket...  Any or all of these -could- have lost me my admin status altogether. As it stands I've no doubt Johnny has some things to say to me about the pickpocket patch...

They win.

Anyone wants me, email [email protected], ICQ me at 5541347 or AIM RastusSD.

Danke.