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Lugnut's Hosting
I was one of the people that complained about Kniaz's server speed but Lugnut hosting, while kind and initially practical, was cancer to the thing. The guy got way too involved and as far as I care he contributed largely to derailing its purpose and loving it over. Kniaz seemed to get less and less control and in the end people started to think Lugnut was the creator.
The moment Lugnut came into the picture, I recall he began messing around with the evented admin controls. He strikes me as someone who would readily interfere in the server for better or for worse.
He was now dictating server hosting times. Kniaz had no choice but to let him have the final say on aspects of server management as well, I recall Kniaz saying "well thats up to Lugnut really" which put a middle man into the operations. I feel decisions were later compromised because of Lugnut's involvement and Bluzone stopped being as good as it could be. It was an extra person to consult at the end of the day. It slowed things down and I've always seen Lugnut as someone who was more interested in taking over than helping out.
The server was held together by Kniaz. The moment he wasn't there, the standards would slip, and I've never felt Lugnut quite appreciated how Bluzone was meant to be. He never kept the standard up when Kniaz was absent.
Also I also noticed the RP quality drop around the time he came in. This may have been a coincidence-- Lugnut hosting and Kniaz going public all mashed into one and I can't give accurate dates.
what the forget man you are not blaming this on me!
Besides my probably poor rp (only lasted maybe 2 months TOPS) and my rare (sometimes accidental) loving up of something important, which turned into jokes gone sour quickly, I never did the stuff you're accusing me of.
Evented admin controls? I don't think I ever went in the admin control room at all...
Dictating server times? Like loving hell. Admins hosted when they could. There /was/ no set server uptimes.
Decisions that were left totally up to me included the stuff I made, like bluzone.no-ip.org and my heavy modifications to the rpchat and other mods.
I can't deny the server slipping because kniaz wasn't there, and that was indirectly my fault: if I hadn't offered alternative hosting where any SA could host, kniaz would've been the only hoster, keeping quality up. I did always get a different feeling when he was in the server.
When it came to unbanning users, that was only ever done by kniaz. Major server decisions? Kniaz. Major events (therape incident)? Straight to kniaz with every relevant log, info, and post I could find.
Changes to rpchat or other mods? Lugnut. Why? That's my territory. I'm the coder. I make stuff.
You may have seen me refer to myself as god of the server. This was because I, as a coder, can control every aspect of the virtual world in which your blockheads walk with scripts... not because I was god of the bluzone.
I was actually intending to resolve the "everyone thinking lugnut owns the bluzone" thing by changing my ingame name. I hardly play ingame anymore, and won't until I get a better computer or some major update happens.
The worst part is, the first thing I was gonna do with my new computer (after getting everything installed) was host a session of the bluzone.
I never got to really see gammaton :(
@kqgqn, a spinoff would be worse than the bluzone. Only kniaz had the good feel of a good roleplay. His admins could moderate, but only he could rp.
It's funny, we have a ban list that's...
items long.
I asked myself who was on there... it's the idiots who can't follow the rules.
Aside from a few others, who isn't on there? The idiots who CAN follow the rules.
Still idiots.
This sucks.
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