Just an example
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:07 am
Thought I would share just an example of what we GM's have to go through on a daily basis.
I logged in at spawn today and was immediately harassed and spam traded and green chatted by players asking for items and gold and warned them to stop and that I could not give them items or gold repeatedly to no avail. This did not happen last night when I logged in but today they were out in full force.
On top of that there was a player that was spam creating alts to taunt the GM team which all of those accounts had to be jailed which takes time.
I also jailed the players that would not stop harassing me and every time I closed the trade window, they kept opening up the trade window on purpose like 20 times so they got to go sit in jail.
I had to file many reports because of this which also takes A LOT of time. All this and I had players with legitimate questions and issues that I tried to help by telling them to PM me on the forums but couldn't help them all because of a few bad apples. Well actually a bunch of bad apples.
My time was completely wasted by bad players. Instead of helping players that needed it, I had to spend my time jailing bad players.
On top of that, when I logged on to forums I had bogus reports and requests and accusations with no timestamp or screenshot or any proof that any players were doing anything wrong. I get these types of reports all the time asking for free skins and free pets and players accusing other players of foul play with no type of actual report that has the FT time, date, screenshot, players name or any information that I could actually use. These are the types of players that don't want to put any work or time into submitting an actual report and then cry that GM's are lazy and no good when they don't get what they want. And those players demand that we help them immediately or they get very rude and demanding and impatient.
I'm not complaining because I enjoy being a GM but I thought I'd shed some light on things that absolutely waste GM time every day
Another typical day in the life of a GM.
Perhaps players can read this and understand why it takes so long to get to all the players reports in a timely manner.
I logged in at spawn today and was immediately harassed and spam traded and green chatted by players asking for items and gold and warned them to stop and that I could not give them items or gold repeatedly to no avail. This did not happen last night when I logged in but today they were out in full force.
On top of that there was a player that was spam creating alts to taunt the GM team which all of those accounts had to be jailed which takes time.
I also jailed the players that would not stop harassing me and every time I closed the trade window, they kept opening up the trade window on purpose like 20 times so they got to go sit in jail.
I had to file many reports because of this which also takes A LOT of time. All this and I had players with legitimate questions and issues that I tried to help by telling them to PM me on the forums but couldn't help them all because of a few bad apples. Well actually a bunch of bad apples.
My time was completely wasted by bad players. Instead of helping players that needed it, I had to spend my time jailing bad players.
On top of that, when I logged on to forums I had bogus reports and requests and accusations with no timestamp or screenshot or any proof that any players were doing anything wrong. I get these types of reports all the time asking for free skins and free pets and players accusing other players of foul play with no type of actual report that has the FT time, date, screenshot, players name or any information that I could actually use. These are the types of players that don't want to put any work or time into submitting an actual report and then cry that GM's are lazy and no good when they don't get what they want. And those players demand that we help them immediately or they get very rude and demanding and impatient.
I'm not complaining because I enjoy being a GM but I thought I'd shed some light on things that absolutely waste GM time every day
Another typical day in the life of a GM.
Perhaps players can read this and understand why it takes so long to get to all the players reports in a timely manner.