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News Archives / Re: A couple of notes
« on: September 28, 2018, 04:56:46 pm »
I know I said I was leaving and all, but it just felt wrong to let my last post be so negative and bitter. That, and the fact that I still care about this community quite a bit led me to believe that maybe I should see this through.

Look, I want to apologize for how I worded my posts in the Moderator Free October thread, as well as my leaving post. The venom was uncalled for, and you didn’t deserve that. I’m sure you have your reasons for the decisions you took, and I may have jumped the gun in writing what I did simply because I disagreed with your choice of doing things; I loosened the reins on my temper and I clearly shouldn’t have done that.

However, I feel that some of the community’s fears were also justified, given how little was explained in regards to this system. Both sides have made mistakes, whether it be assumptions, or a lack of details. This community is a brilliant one in many respects, and I feel bad for tucking my tail in between my legs and leaving instead of staying to help in the aftermath.



Obviously what I've said so far hasn't been exactly relevant to the OP, so hopefully these next few lines will be.

I know that everyone's on edge lately, but I would encourage you not to lose reason (like I did) in face of this whole situation. Obviously we don't have the whole picture, which is why it can be hard to see any positives to this, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're nonexistent.

Some of you might agree with Raz's decision, and others will disagree, but fighting about it is the worst thing that you can do right now. The month of October will be crucial for a lot of people, and clearly the trial's not going to be dropped, so we might as well make it go as smoothly as possible. The last thing we need is for the system to get skewed just because some people were feeling resentful.



Raz, I urge you to please be more transparent in the future. You've said it's not your strong suit, and that's understandable, but this community really deserves to be informed about what is happening / will happen to the game that they so clearly cherish. It's not exactly fair to let them make assumptions and then say that they're oversimplifying things.

To everyone else; some of fighting I've witnessed in light of recent events is what made me realize I was overreacting. A few of you seem to feel like you're fighting for the right 'side' of things. I'd like you to consider the following: there are no sides.

There's no "pro-this" or "anti-that" teams. There's only one big community with the desire to see their game be the best it can be, and you shouldn't be splitting yourselves up into opposing teams and fighting over things that don't really matter in the long run.

If you don't want this game to die, then don't lose perspective of what's important to you. All of this fighting isn't really what people like about FeralHeart, is it?

I agree that the staff made the community interesting with events, parties, and contests. For the time being, maybe it's up to us regular members to take up that mantle. Find what you like about FH and do your best to propagate that.



I think I've said all that I wanted to say. I'll be staying on the forums and seeing if the future holds something for me here.

I'll agree completely here and same stands for me.

You know what? I'm literally sick and tired of all of you being children about this. Yes, the news from Raz was shocking. Yes, everything that has happened has literally thrown us all for a loop. But can we all freaking grow the heck up? Please? This is getting stupid now. The worst of this has blown over, people are starting to calm down, yet here you guys are still jabbing at each other. How about this....we just sit and wait and see what this does? Hmm? Whether we like it or not, Raz is still the server master. We may not agree with what he's done, but what choice do we have? The best we can do is move on and see what is in store next. Who freaking knows, this may all work out! And then we'll all feel like fools!

So I suggest all of you calm down and think things out. Be mature about this. Cause I'm tired of seeing all of us doing this to each other. We're in this together, no matter what.

There is a justified side on the outrage and that's because of all the used people and all these secrets in the background. Some people take it personal and  start getting offensive indirectly. Words can hurt alot if you use them correctly. Yes we're mad, yes we're angry, yes we need more clarification and it's really disappointing all of this effort members and staff has put to create something beautiful to restore all the cheerfulness and eagerness to play the game but I will agree on one thing and that's to handle things more maturely. I personally didn't and I'm not quite proud of it but I'm aware why plenty of others react this way.

Let's all agree we should get the award of saltiest community of the year?

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News Archives / Re: A couple of notes
« on: September 26, 2018, 07:11:30 pm »
Thank you for the update, Raz. I agree with you that everyone over-reacted and oversimplified, myself included. I let myself get swept up in the riot-inciting that others were engaging in, which I regret. Not having staff yesterday honestly made FH feel the chillest and most relaxed it's been in a really long time.

I'd definitely appreciate a little more explanation as to how the block/ban process will work, but I trust it won't be super easy to manipulate, which is what I know myself and many others are probably fearing. I appreciate you giving us even this much, because I didn't expect it.

Before anyone decides to disagree with me about "over-reacting," please remember that over the course of 24 hours, people decided to incite riots in the names of staff members who weren't even entirely innocent in this entire ordeal. They threw a fit, and like a blind mob, you (and I, to some extent) followed. You guys made a Discord server that has essentially become a rant and rave server where you guys THINK you're going to somehow create your own game over the course of 72 hours. Go ahead and make a new game, then, if you want to defend a lame duck staff team's honor. I'm not saying that this entire situation is perfect, and I don't necessarily agree with the moves Raz has taken. But that sure as heck doesn't mean that the staff does not have their own faults, either. (Not all of the staff has been bad, though, I'll be clear. Several of them are reasonable human beings.) Either stay and test this out, or don't. It's that simple.


I will have to agree and disagree with you on a few things.
First of all, yes, I am one of the people who did call Raz names on my current post here; I don't agree with my behaviour but it was out of rage regardless yes it is not justified. What is justified however, is the outrage of every member that has been lied to, tricked, used and/or manipulated for this game cause of Raz's poor skills of leadership. Do you know how many people volunteered to help with the patch maps and then get denied the last minute because of Raz's irresponsibility? The whole 'looking for map and mesh makers' recruitment was up for a long while and I'm sure the mods can't take actions on this without Raz's approval. Every patch, update, addon by mods etc. must be reported to the game master first before taking action. And now he's trying to blame everything on the mods 'not every link given is Feral-Heart related' as if he wanted to say Nynx gave us something bad. Also no staff wanted to leave and obviously, Staff October was his own idea and he announced it without informing his team, hence why the staff left. This is why we're mad and it's justified.

Don't get me wrong, the discord was made for every feral-heart members to express discomfort and find out what has happened. There is no rant just spectating things of what happened, why it happened and how it happened. We're uncertain of what the ban system means because everyone has a different prespective on it and Raz's lack of careness to explain himself is making the situation even more complex. He was never there to get close to the community no matter what he was always 'busy' with God knows why. Yes he has a life, yes he has his own problems, I agree with you but he has a game to take care of and if he couldn't handle it he should've given it to someone who could manage it.

 I don't disagree most of us take it to the limits but the rage to the purpose can be justified. So many were hurt, yes it's still immature to do and wrong but it's justified. Look how many people, most of the minors, are sad, hurt and angry one of their beloved childhood games is going to die possibly. The discord was not made to spread hate or call names but find a solution and work together as a community. Don't missjudge.

And since you co-operated to the riot you can't bash at people with the trap card 'make your own game then' game making is not an easy task for sure but to keep it alive you need teamwork. You need to be dedicated to the game because you will have a host server, yoou will be in charge of coding, approve or disapprove ideas, listen to every idea and every member, listen to complains, requests, reports, hire a team to help with unique models, animations, ideas, maps, mods etc. and yes it's not easy. But Raz doesn't seem to keep up with any of the requirments a game master has; he has to be everywhere including the game while he has his own life, he has to work on the game. He is only active on site and leaves one or two posts every now and then. A game master must be close to the community of their game to know what the base of people need to keep the game alive. It's not easy but even minors can understand that what Raz is doing right now is wrong and bashing at them with this is really wrong. And it comes from me, a really immature person.


Not all of the fun was mature, and yes, people were cursing. As I also mentioned in a later post, I do think that if that conduct is going to be free and rampant, the game should come with a warning then for minors or people who are easily offended.


Raz is not perfect either. I personally don't think he's stable, and I feel like his behavior over this is deplorable. Hopefully you can read and see that I don't condone his actions. I'm just not going to call him a "bitch ass" or tell him to go kill himself, because that's not acceptable behavior either. You can rage all you want and continue to call me "cute" for speaking my mind. I just think cussing and further agitating the situation when it's been barely 48 hours isn't going to accomplish much.

Also I think you are kind of wrong here. At this rate we can assume people who 'bash' at Raz on that discord joke too, there were plenty of memes created thanks to these unfortunate events and I'm sure nobody acctually wants to see Raz dead or vent on him or hate him. Yes we're mad but we're joking too. But you said not every humor has to be mature and people cuss but to joke. Then it's safe to say cussing at Raz and calling him a bitch ass or telling him to go kys is just a joke made from these old memes on facebook and it's just a mature/dark way of joking. You can't really bash at them since you said people can cuss and people have have an immature/mature way of fun, which is usually dark humor. There is no different in cussing, cussing is still cussing where's the fun in it?

Don't get me wrong but I find it kind of odd to say people that cuss are having an immature way of having fun but when they joke with cusses against Raz (like plenty of people called him a 'bitch boy' for fun) is wrong because he may did something wrong but we're the good people who must forgive and forget. If a certain way of cussing is a joke, it's a joke. If not then it was never a joke so you kind of confused me, sorry if I got it wrong.

Also, while I do agree plenty of staff were not doing the job they should, the current staff tried their best and got treated unfairly. This Mod october thing was decided by Raz behind their backs and their whole effort by merging their creativity and skills with the members went in vain because the maps were cancelled on the latest patch. Nobody is perfect. We know. But there's a fine line on making a mistake and  doing this on purpose and Raz is doing the latter.

You know, I feel people are slowly starting to kiss up to Raz so they can get that modding good good.

What are you smoking exactly? Because I never knew having an objective opinion instead of an one-sided, close-minded one was kissing up to Raz.

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Game Help / Re: Character Absence
« on: September 26, 2018, 01:09:17 pm »
Hey fluff, if you had a character in the patch maps, your character would of been deleted because of that. A lot of things have been going on within the community, and unfortunately the characters+patch was one of them.

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I wont restore your characters quite yet as it seems people are still loosing theirs. I'm not about to start some daily restore of lost characters. There are other more pressing matters to attend.

This was said by Raz in his recent post. I'll give you the link in-case you want to give the post a read https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=64648.0
Unfortunately, Raz probably will never add these characters back so it's so sad.

funny thing on this thread though, maps added in Feral-Heart must be exported through feral-heart. That meant the maps were made inside Fh and if they are absent it means someone has deleted them. Also you can't restore character or data or even get them deleted and the add-on maps without a source code and no I don't believe staff were going to give us something that can damage our gameplay. Suga had said on "we love you" thread made by mods, he didn't mention this update to his staff team or to all of them atleast so he planned on getting rid of them sooner or later, or this is what he wants to appeal, atleast (because he said "Moderator October was preparation for staffs departure").

Ayee, well that's sad as I lost one of my favourite characters ;-;. But yeah, I don't believe the staff would of given us something that would damage either.

I feel you ;-; I am sorry, I know thinking of a unique OC is time consuming and hard to get a design you will find satisfying for the time being so it sucks to lose these characters, I'm sorry for that ;w; Yeah especially when they exposed so many things just for us, they do care.

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News Archives / Re: A couple of notes
« on: September 26, 2018, 12:49:45 pm »
Doesn't excuse how you treated Nynx, how you've treated each and every staff in the past that disagreed and vocally expressed said disagreement with you no matter how smidgen it was in the past.

I've always known you were a bad egg. It's why I've always cold-shouldered you when I, myself, was once a staffer long ago. Now, here you are, desperately saving face as if everything can be smoothed over so easily. As if we're dumb and ephereal.

Not working, pal. Fact is, it's got to be your way or the high way. No one here has a voice. Whether we like it or not, Moderator Free October is going to happen. The staff we're familiar with are never coming back, and while I of all people are definitely not on good terms with them, doesn't give me the right to laugh when something they hold dear is being taken from them like a bully taking their lunch money out back in the courtyard. Pathetic.

You've never cared for this community, Raz. Just admit it. You're a tired man and I feel no sympathy.
Let loose the dogs of war.

You call it over-exaggeration. However, Razmirz, you have simply justified our reasons for "overreacting" so simply. Blocking members = a ban? Although a considerate move to cover up for the loss of Staff members, it is simply going to become an abused system.

Our main concern is the fact that you've now left the game in the open with self-moderation. You are abandoning the rules that were set from the very start of FeralHeart, and allowing people to swear and harass eachother without any consequences to be faced. For 31 days?! This is wrong and gives you no moral highground in your intention. There is a young generation amongst this community who do not need to be taught the cursed words and learn that they are allowed to insult vulnerable people in-game with no consequences to be faced. You WILL be held responsible should behaviour change amongst children, and for the worst, especially if they take said behaviour outside of the game and start giving people in real life a hard time too.
When you receive complaints from parents of these children, you cannot claim you won't be held responsible when you are the one who has announced that the playerbase is self-moderated.

You need to find new Staff, and fast.
Or better yet, fix your situation with the Staff that have left and bring back what made FeralHeart a wonderful game in the first place.

Dismount your pedestal and listen to the voices pleading for what is obviously the better for this game. The whole idea of games like this is to bring what the people want to the table. You have done nothing but turn a blind eye to what the people want and that is what is going to give you a great lack of support in the long run.

If October was preparation for the staff's departure, you should have done the best and most appropriate thing and immediately started a search for new Staff members to take their place. Replacement isn't always a bad thing so long as it is done to ensure the continuation and safety of members of a community.



Please, do the right thing and reconsider some of your decisions.


Both of these two lovely posts I'll agree.

Point is, maps added in Feral-Heart must be exported through feral-heart and in order to work they must be created through Feral-heart. That meant the maps were made inside Fh and if they are absent it means someone has deleted them from their computer and there will be their character, not deleted unless the owner of the account deleted them, found in an empty black void. You don't even know your own game dude? Why are you even the owner?

 Besides, you can't restore character or data or even get them deleted and the add-on maps without a source code and no I don't believe staff were going to give us something that could damage our gameplay because they always cared for the community unlike you and you are trying so hard to point fingers at them by trying to blame them. Let alone you're mistreating them just like any amateur so-called leader. Plenty of amazing mods had quit and you never seemed to care or put a stop to it as if you only wanted this game for yourself.

Plenty of mods showed discomfort and went against this idea, heck some expressed how they weren't even aware of it and you say "October Moderator was preparation for staffs departure" so you wanted to get to this point  where your whole team leaves you so you can have full control of Feral-Heart without giving any more explanation? Think we're buying whatever you're selling?

You're trying to blame the previous mods for your own mistakes and not explaining yourself proves how tasteless and careless you are towards the community and your helpers. Also thank you for proving how much at fault you are for causing this uproar and our own concerns towards our childhood game's future are completely justified.

Have you ever heard of what a 'team' is? Apparently not because you're probably that obnoxious to never care of anyone's opinion. "There's a lot to do" there's always a lot to do yet you do absolutely nothing but stay behind the scenes without getting close to us unless there's a bug, this is the only time you decide to show up and that's always with a delay. Let's see what you can do alone, manage the members, the bugs, the bored community seeking for the daily events, new ideas, go on. Probably gonna rely on 'Moderator October' and after chaos spreads you're going to blame on the members for being immature and abusing their powers. Well, maybe they learnt how to do this from you.

I dunno what the previous Owner found in you and trusted you with the game, honestly. Just sad to see my childhood game dying thanks to a liar.

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Game Help / Re: Character Absence
« on: September 26, 2018, 12:29:23 pm »
Hey fluff, if you had a character in the patch maps, your character would of been deleted because of that. A lot of things have been going on within the community, and unfortunately the characters+patch was one of them.

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I wont restore your characters quite yet as it seems people are still loosing theirs. I'm not about to start some daily restore of lost characters. There are other more pressing matters to attend.

This was said by Raz in his recent post. I'll give you the link in-case you want to give the post a read https://feral-heart.com/smf/index.php?topic=64648.0
Unfortunately, Raz probably will never add these characters back so it's so sad.

funny thing on this thread though, maps added in Feral-Heart must be exported through feral-heart. That meant the maps were made inside Fh and if they are absent it means someone has deleted them. Also you can't restore character or data or even get them deleted and the add-on maps without a source code and no I don't believe staff were going to give us something that can damage our gameplay. Suga had said on "we love you" thread made by mods, he didn't mention this update to his staff team or to all of them atleast so he planned on getting rid of them sooner or later, or this is what he wants to appeal, atleast (because he said "Moderator October was preparation for staffs departure").

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Praise / Re: Thank you FH staff
« on: September 25, 2018, 09:10:10 pm »
You guys were really nice and friendly, hardowkring and made this game last as much as it did. Nobody supports Raz's actions right now, they're beyond selfish.

Thank you for trying, despite everything happened. We love you, thank you for giving us a great time while playing.

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Leaving / Re: We love you!
« on: September 25, 2018, 07:58:04 pm »
It's so sad to have come to this. But I will agree with LordSuragaha to  this.

My first account was created in July 07, 2011 and still play. I was 13 then and now I'm like 20+ and the game was so fun and I had made so many friends. I must admit I am pretty disappointed in your lack of effort, Raz. You used to be that one staff I thought "Hey this guy is working on the game despite not having  the source code!" and a staff team caring for ther game and being close to the community without gaining too much, if anything? This sounded really cool.

But then I grew, I got smarter and I learnt stuff. You kept stuff hidden from your team and community, thinking our trust was for granted. You've hurt, damaged and pretty much destroyed the game as we all knew. You always made limitations and limitations in a false sensimentality to appeal caring but now it has come to this. You don't respond to anyone, you don't give answers and you always do something to be away from the community.

The admins and previous owner might've left the game but they had something you didn't; the love and attention of the members. You had never once given an effort to come close to us -- not even a bit -- and always blamed everything on not having the source code. It was always someone else's fault.

I have nothing against you as a person but if I can be honest, I really think you're hypocritical. You've added so many things into the game, preset sync, new default maps, you were able to delete private/downloaded maps and the characters from the clients, you had once back in 2014 added a small list of each map and how many characters were there as well as the limit of these characters. If you didn't have the source code, how did you do that? Not having the source code means you're not authorized as a game owner, am I wrong? Why don't you respond to us?

I may sound harsh, I'm sorry but so many people were looking up to you to keep our childhood game alive and you've disappointed all of us, but since we're here you don't really care, do you? So many people had dedicated time and effort to help you make this game perfect, both admins and members/volunteers alike, even if these so-called fanmade updates(since you've claimed you could never make a solid one because of the lack information on the source code) to help you create maps, mods, items and what did they gain in the end? Nothing but name calling and insults and they didn't deserve this.

You had a wonderful staff team that was always close to the community and desperately tried to make this game fun to play, enjoyable and also give us an actual purpose to come on and play. They were hard-working, helpful, they took care of the DA page and managed everything, heck Nyx-Warriorstrike was always helping me direct my posts and you've forgotten they have a life of their own. Even if they did get bashed at for doing a 'poor job' they still did what they knew because they loved it.

And you killed it.

To the staff: WE LOVE YOU ALL! You're amazing and helped this game to exist so far. Thank you for your dedication, effort and time put in this. Really, we appreciate it even if we don't show it.
I am sorry Raz, but with you as an Admin I wouldn't like to keep playing the game. I don't know you as a person personally and since you've proved to be ignorant you'll probably won't care to read this but you're not fit to own this game. Unfortunately it is how it is.

It's sad this game has come to this now. I've met so many wonderful people through this game and I don't regret a slightly bit that I've been here. I'm just sad it has to be this way now.

add me on Discord anytime too! Tyrannical#7808

 

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Community Activities Hub / Preset collab for all to join!
« on: August 21, 2018, 03:18:57 pm »
Greetings! I'm Skat/Dorky!
And this is an idea I had to bring the community a little closer - A preset collab 4 all(non-preset makers free to join too - yes we can acctually do it)



So my community group, CCG(Cuddlings Cuddle Gang) decided to do a mini event that invites everyone in, preset-maker or not as long as you have a discord so we can communicate! You can join our discord temporarily as a guest(I will add you the role but you need to specify you're there for the collab) and once the event is done you can leave the discord server if you like, no hard feelings if you're not interested!


Here we've decided to host this little thing as members of the community for everyone to communicate with the rest of the FHians to make friends and have fun!

You gotta have discord to join! Once you've joined please PM/Note me your discord name so I can give you the guest tag to participate the event~ This is needed so we can communicate with eachother better and have a nice talk in the meantime

You can leave the discord after the event is done, don't worry about it!

We have information about to participate the event in the #mini-events channel on our discord and further info on how to join as a non-preset maker!



discord.gg/BJFkZs8


‡ Don't be rude! Respect everyone! Please understand that not everyone can be quick or an extreme preset maker in a periodic time especially if they just started to explore codings etc. Be nice

‡ Be patient! If you ended up finishing your part in the collab you're considered free from it and you can join another request!But please, don't pressure you collab-partner if they haven't finished yet! Remember they have a limited period of time to create the preset!

‡Don't request something you don't own! While this would be fun, we don't allow google pics, drawn characters(unless you own them and you must provide proof you created them) or let the other guy roam around on a preset/character you want to have but had no creativity to create. Only existant characters of you allowed!

‡ If you are to create a preset, don't use the default markings on your creation! This rule might sound dumb, I know, but it has a reason. Since non-preset makers would need to create a default character(it's optional for them to add details so it will later on be turned to a preset by me) it will be unfair and unbalanced also it will be considered as a piece you didn't make as you don't own the markings while others worked hard to create their pieces.


‡ Any kind of texture allowed! You can do any kind of texture you want! It doesn't have to be default don't claim it.

‡ The countdown about this event is one week! Yes, you will have to finish the preset within a week! While I understand you're busy, but we don't want this event to drain too much so people will be motivated to join other events around and it will be a mess since more and more people will want to join and it will never end. If your collab partner ends up delaying more than a week please contact me Immediately!!!

‡ You can do up to 3 different collabs max! This rule simply exist to relieve stress. I will try my best to join every single collab request came on my way but I might not make it because I have to manage a lot of things at once and people have lives. But we will let you decide which collab you want to do!

‡ Have fun!




Our purpose is to make the community friendlier towards eachother and make new friends while playing the game. It's more fun to be surrounded by friends than playing the game alone!

Thank you for reading~

Hope to see you there, Stay cuddly :D see ya!


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Out of curiosity, (this one's to everyone-- poll time, maybe? c:), if the registration were to be brought back permanently, what would be your personal opinion on the possible outcome resulting in the game being taken down for periods of time? Would it matter to you how frequently or how long these stretches of time occurred? Would it be worth it if a registration were more accessible? Would the best outcome (tons of people fill up the game and populate the maps) be worth the risk over the worst outcome (the game is taken down for a long amount of time, possibly preventing new accounts to be made)?

Ah I will clarify some things here, whilst I agree with Lucius but I want to add some things from my point of view, if I may.

A short Disclaimer, I'd like to apologize in regard of my typos and spelling errors: Enlgish is not my main language and sometimes I don't realize I make the mistakes until I re-view the comment for a few times. Also this is not an attack, just my personal opinion to the matter. Please don't take it to heart or see it as an offensive threat as I am trying to find a logical explanation that can be seen as legit, thank you.

I understand that Ferah-Heart is an old game and the source code being unexistant is making things difficult for all of you yet so far it doesn't seem to be a huge impact on the game's flow since there are so many changes that have been made without it, you're already making so much progress, however the game will obviously crash eventually but every game faces that sooner or later and as long as the lack of having access to source code is on the table it makes the FH more vulnerable.

But in the old times the whole 'crashing' thing happened when the game was first attacked by bugs(assuiming they weren't noticed or weren't fixed in time to prevent more and more to pile up) in 2012, most of them were kept under control eventually, the second huge server crash was literally when the hackers begun hacking accounts, causing another solution (/login page) to be born and the third crashing that had appeared into the game(the most frequent one) was when bugs violated the code, overloading the game, forcing the server to shut down, thankfully Raz fixed the issue but if, according to what you say, the bugs sum up with anything new added to the game, these things are to be seen -- it can happen to any game especially the ones with an older coding system like FH's.

But I don't really think the member limit would be a cause of crashing otherwise when everyone is chilling into The Grounds, the game could just crash since 90% of the game's community settles there as it's the only solution when it comes to roleplay seeking. Yet most of groups move into a private map so there's nothing really to over-load the maps anymore so it can hardly even overload.

I think we need to take a few things to consideration, I might miss some due to having all of these in my brain and more ideas come up or forgotten since I don't have them written anywhere.

|> The game used to have 700-800 members daily and due to having large maps in the past it was harder to produce lag in a single area - since the members were scattered around and we rarely had any crashes from bugs as I remember and I've been around ever since 2012.
             || I think it makes alot of sense that the game can crash easier now that the main default map is a medium sized square-ish ball of cereal(not saying it's your fault, you've been pressured more than enough to pop out the update and kudos for acctually making it but it has 0 space for people to roleplay while seeking for a rp in the meantime) and if too many people will gather around it will cause the game to over-load in a single area. But we didn't have problems in the past even after the new maps were in the way, except the times where there were too many people in fluorite and the place was capped and we had to do something about it, but other than that the game was satisfyingly neat to play so why would it be a problem now that we have less maps to be worried of? ||

Since the old maps were deleted and now the new maps have less space, it would also make sense that the game won't crash as much it has less things to load, as long as the members are using the rest of the maps, of course. Measuring the old FH with the updated version 200-300 members daily isn't a tiny bit satisfying especially when 15% of these are usually double-tabbed accounts, either for rectuitment or multi-rping and it is considered a huge loss to the community but according to your statement it's still enough to overload the server and the new update can make it even worse at this rate so is it a dead end and we just discuss over a loaf of bread?
       
                     i) You've seen that, despite with the bugs and the lack of source code, there was always a way to prevent problems, either if it was limiting the over-population, restarting the server but it was always kept under control even when the update of South pole, Atlantis and misc. appeared which could threaten more bugs to spawn to the game but it never happened, instead it expanded the roaming of characters and places like fluorite plains and Bonfire island were less laggy and easier to access.

It's just sad how people don't use the default maps to roleplay anymore as it's not fun and whenever something is about to happen, people immediately judge it and it ends up in a local chat war, they refuse to help new members and are occasionally rude -- always people complaining about how bad the game is but own atleast 5 accounts of their own. And this is why we need new members, to show 0 care of the old community and get some possitivity and new ideas for new roleplays.

With the loss of fluorite and south pole we lost the casual roleplays of Hyenas vs Lions, sabertooth, wyverns and dragons, deer and horse roleplay versus wolves, warrior cats meeting up with random lions and making the game simple and fun and there were plenty of mapless roleplays for people who can't download maps for plenty of reasons so it maintained some balance. Now we lost that since there is a little to no interest on roleplaying in mapless areas and it's not appealing nor has the space to explore and members lack of motivation and it decreases the game's population so it loses more than it gains.

I understand you're tyring your best and nobody blames you on that but I think we need to see that the game is slowly losing its shape and it will eventually be forced to open its registraction back because of so many upcomming games threatening its reputation. We just want to make sure this drastic measure won't happen too late to see the game dying in front of our eyes. Hence why we're here.

We understand why you're denying opening the registraction and why we must retreat to this problem but please hear us out and atleast consider giving this option another chance;

|> At this rate, as lucious calculated, alot of accounts have been set-up whenever the registraction has opened, average-speaking to 200-300 accounts per person, meaning this would be enough to over-load the server's database since the numbers increase drastically. But no problem had occured yet and alot of people had double accounts before the registraction limit, sharing it with new people so there were even more active members when the registraction had closed and the game was still steady.

|> Each time a crashing happened was when a bug appeared. This bug could be anything. From code violation to direct attack and the game's server was being shut down, which was proved to be the case most of the times.

Correct me if I'm wrong but If the game crashed due to overload of members it was probably because there was something bypassing the protection of the server and attacking, abusing a bug or due to time of not fixing one bug or finding a solution to it -- or even knowing of its existence -- to avoid it being manipulated, another glitch appeared then another one after it and it slowly corrupted the server's code and it begun crashing. Assuming you mean more members = bugs will happen more frequently and will pile up until there will be enough work undone to get the server overloaded and unable to work.


    || I don't think 300 members can be the cause of this nor 700, since crashes did happen but rarely enough for everyone to enjoy a good piece of gaming. And yes, this might cause a few bugs to pile up but since private maps are more of use now, it is way harder to face a glitch since it will get harder to load another member in.

              i) It's safe to say that we're far from having the game crashing as it's average member population used to be 700 and anything below it will be difficult to cause crashes.

             ii) The game won't grow overnight so we can allow some space for new members to explore the game and if we don't have new members the updates will pretty much be in vain since the community grew old and not enough will change other than probably finding a new map to recruit these typical 3 roleplays that exist in the game nowdays. No new members = harder to bring motivation and population to new concept as the old community might get bored of the update and leave a few months after the hype is gone.

              |> Opening the registraction in the process of an update will make the game attractive and it will grow a bit. The statistics of the site when showing members is calculating an average number of how many are on.  It doesn't mean they are precisely 200-300 members on, it might be a bit more or a lot less and we prefer to avoid the latter.

I think a good solution to this is to open the registraction every second/third Satuday for 3-5 hours or for a whole day. Even if it will get a mouthful of members, I don't think the process will increase rapidly and the members will take a long while until it reaches 700 again.

My thought can imagine that if this happen the game will eventually end up with 500 capped members online daily which is a good cap and not as far from the current one yet it's close enough to the previous one. As Lucius, again, stated we could open the registraction on a specific time and once we reach cap we can close it again.

I think this is an average desicion to, atleast, be taken into consideration assuming that it will ease the frustration and will make things more simple and pople won't be so tense to have a 'good looking' character to be accepted in roleplays etc. (which makes no sense to me but somehow this appeals in the community).

I am sorry if something didn't make sense. I haven't gotten sleep and I was quite exhausted while typing this. Feel more than free to heckle me if I said something already answered or out of line and thank you for taking your time reading this, I appreciate it.

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Ah I am sorry about not responding to this sooner. Life is harsh, I will try to respond to as many comments as I can.

If this is true, that Raz is the only one who can open and close the registration, then I can understand if it could be a strain on him. Maybe if they want to do this, Raz could pick out days and times that he could open the registration, granted if he has any free time other than what he does to open the registration. Then it would be easier for everyone to get registered. Again, if I knew more about how the registration works, then I could elaborate more on this subject.

I do have to comment on the over protection. I agree that being over protective is slowly suffocating the game and all it's glory, but I do see why they've come to do that. I think they could pull back a bit with the protecting, just a little bit. I have a feeling that if they keep clamping down on protecting it, then the game will slowly die off.
I won't disagree that having to take care of a game + your life is too hard and it needs monitoring and it can be difficult for Raz and for the admins respecrtively. All of the admins are working hard on it and people fail to realize they've been pushed alot, judged by their skills alot when more than a few people were disappointed, causing alot of admins to leave their possition and having to take care of this game while they have their own families, jobs and houses to take care on it can be tiring.

But it comes to the time where you see that the game is slowly getting decreased and challenged by other games on population, reputation and consept. Alot of people who wanted to join Feral-Heart gave up on it because they couldn't join and chose other options such as IT servers, Cereal Soup and such.

I think they should open the registractions every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This way people can easily have access to the game, get more populated and if they start advertising the updates by giving sneak peeks on youtube and other social media, people will start getting interested and the community will start growing again.

I wasn't around when "The Hack" happened. But almost 3 years have passed since then and I think that the community has had enough time to heal. I know that the staff is doing what they can to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, but I believe that it's time to open the registration

About the hack, if I remember right, they were messing with the game's codes and were making everyone disconnect and they had also hacked some members and admins' accounts and said weird stuff. I remember I was in bonfire when that happened and I briefly remember a guy who had a character of an angry bird talking to me LOL

they had made the feral-heart.com/login page now to prevent this and I think that is good enough. The registraction limit did good to protect the game for a few months - year but now the game is getting cliche.

It's like the IT servers that you just end up chasing around mobs, gaining abilities, all the items and then being nothing left to do, you end up making a new character and restart from bottom. All the Rps are limited to 3. No more fantasy or roleplaying in the public maps, The Grounds is just a square now. The old maps were large enough to have plenty of room for exploring and roleplaying and it's just sad how the game has turned now.

I'd really go for a new beginning to the game and for this to happen we need new people. Otherwise I fear the worst will come for the game. Now the protection became too much and it's leading towards destruction.

I think both members and admins need to have some consideration; Admins to sit and think what the members say (or the logical ones) and members to stop pressuring and pushing the admins to take quick measures and then bashing on them when the outcome is not as expected. The 'bad' current update happened because most of members were pushy and judgemental towards the game. Yes a short update would be nice but not if forced. Most of these members are now gone and probably returned on a sneak account. It's just sad that we must make it crystal clear that we need eachother's support to make the game work.

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