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The Official 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Fact FileHardback
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- Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
- Format: Hardback | 64 pages
- Dimensions: 216mm x 284mm x 12mm | 480g
- Publication date: 4 October 2014
- Publication City/Country: London
- Illustrations note: 100 colour photographs & illustrations
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Nothing beats the sporting spectacle of the FIFA World Cup and this official guide, aimed at younger readers, contains everything they need to become true 2014 FIFA World Cup experts. There are easy-to-follow World Cup team analyses and star player profiles, complemented by outstanding big match photographs in what is the only official FIFA-endorsed 2014 World Cup companion for children. The official 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil Fact File is written in an informative yet accessible style to appeal to young football fans. Illustrated with 100 amazing images and appealing to all ages, all 32 finalists are featured together wiht profiles of star players including Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta, Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. There is the chance to meet Fuleco, the Brazilian three-banded armadillo, the official FIFA World Cup 2014 mascot, read special features on the stadium, complete the fill-in progress chart and solve the many fun puzzles, quizzes games, all based around the World Cup. In fact there is everything young fans need to know about football's top tournament and keep them entertained throughout the entire World Cup.
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Keir Radnedge has been covering football for more than 40 years. He has written countless books on the subject, from tournament guides to comprehensive encyclopedias, aimed at all ages. His journalism career included the Daily Mail for 20 years, as well as The Guardian and other national newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad. He is a former editor of World Soccer, generally recognized as the premier English-language magazine on global football. In addition to his writing, Keir has been a regular analyst for BBC radio and television, Sky Sports and the American cable television news channel CNN. He also edited a tournament newspaper at the FIFA World Cup tournaments of 1982, 1986 and 1990, as well as at Euro 96, and has scripted video reviews of numerous football tournaments. He lives in North London.
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Introduction; Meet Fuleco; Tour the Stadiums and Cities; World Cup Records; The Teams; Photo Fun Star; Player Profiles; World Cup in Numbers; Fill-in Progress Chart.


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William Whitaker (pioneer)
William Henry Whitaker (1821 - 1888) was an American Seminole War veteran and pioneer who, under the provisions of the Armed Occupation Act, established the first permanent settlement in what is now Sarasota, Florida.[1][2] There he traded mullet with Cubans to bring the first groves of economically important oranges to the state.[3][4] He later married Mary Jane Wyatt and with her raised Nancy Whitaker, the first child recorded in the new county of Sarasota. His father-in-law, William Wyatt, was a constitutional delegate who helped to originate, and signed, Florida's first constitution. At the end of the Civil War he helped Judah P. Benjamin escape to London.[2]
Whitaker was an eighth-generation descendant of Jabez Whitaker, brother of Alexander Whitaker, the Jamestown colonist and theologian who baptized and performed the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe.
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He was born in 1821 in Savannah, Georgia to Richard Whitaker and his second wife, Frances Snell. At the age of twelve, he left home with ten dollars and a gold watch to St. Marks, Florida, then the primary seaport of Florida's west coast. He worked there in the fishing trade and in time crossed paths with his half-brother Hamlin Valentine Snell, who later became President of the Florida Senate, Speaker of the House and later, Tampa's 8th mayor.[5] Living in Tallahassee, Snell committed William to a formal education, arranging lodging and board. It was in Tallahassee that he met his would-be wife Mary Jane Wyatt. In 1840, at age nineteen, Whitaker enlisted in Florida's Mounted Militia for three months to fight in the Second Seminole War, for which he was compensated $70. The occupation entry on his enlistment papers read "school boy".[2] Whitaker served with his Regiment at Fort Macomb and other wartime camps where illness plagued him. As the war was concluding, Whitaker traveled Florida's Gulf Coast and to Havana, Cuba, working in the fishing trade.
Although the area had long been explored by the Spanish, few permanent settlements were established south of Gainesville. Taking advantage of the Armed Occupation Act, Whitaker was given six months of provisions and the right to 160 acres (0.65 km2), provided he built a home there and defended it for five years. In December 1842, he and his half-brother sailed to what is now Yellow Bluffs overlooking Sarasota Bay; the high ground, the freshwater springs, and evidence of burial mounds proved the land would be ideal for a home. There he built a simple log cabin and began fishing and farming. For a penny per fish, he traded with traveling Cubans, saving enough money to travel to Dade City to purchase cattle. It was from the same Cuban traders that he secured oranges and guavas, planting the first commercial citrus groves in the state. Florida now provides 75% of the country's oranges. William experimented with grafting oranges, dubbing his the "Whitaker Sweet".[2]
He was active in civic duty in this period, serving as the Clerk of Elections for the 5th Precinct of then Hillsborough County where all of six voters were registered; he was later elected Sheriff. He purchased his cattle in 1847, two years after Florida achieved statehood, Whitaker taking "47" as his brand to mark the date of his venture. He weathered the '46 hurricane and the Great Gale of 1848 in his cedar log house, calling the latter "the granddaddy of all hurricanes." The hurricane ripped a path through Pine Island creating a new pass, lazily named by Whitaker "New Pass", a name it still retains. In 1851 he married sweetheart Mary Jane Wyatt, who moved to the cabin to begin a frontier family. Their marriage and child were the first of each recorded in Sarasota's county record. In that same year, with land warrant number 56934, he purchased 144.80 acres (0.5860 km2) from the state, buying at the same time an additional 48.63 acres (196,800 m2) for $1.25 each. In modern-day Sarasota this land stretches from Indian Beach Drive to Tenth Street, what Whitaker called Azarti Acres. The path he struck from Yellow Bluffs northward would become part of Tamiami Trail.
Seminole Indians[edit]
The Whitakers were sympathetic to the local Indians and escaped slaves, in one case ferrying the fabled Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs across the river to their home where they brought him back to health from malaria.[2] When Whitaker's wife asked the chief if he would kill her in times of aggression, Bowlegs assured her that if he did, he would do so quickly. That fragile relationship soured in early 1856 when Bowlegs became angered at the destruction of his gardens by United States troops. Soon after, the Indians attacked Braden Castle, and hostilities increased. Whitaker, securing his family at the fort in Manatee County, headed seventy miles to Peace Creek, the closest military detachment to convey the news of the attack. Not long after, the Whitaker home was burned to the ground with a friend inside, and many more homes followed. The Billy Bowlegs War lasted until 1858.
Civil War[edit]
After rebuilding, the Whitakers were largely uninvolved with the raging American Civil War, despite Florida being the third state to secede from the Union. The Union push to destroy Confederate blockades succeeded in restricting goods to the frontier settlers, and union excursions inland from the Gulf of Mexico became more frequent. The blockade forced Whitaker to take the difficult three to four-week journey to Gainesville to buy grain for community use. Whitaker was one of three locals who had gristmills hidden deep in the woods. These became important to the community after Union troops destroyed the steam-operated one.[2]
As the war was nearing an end, Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State to the Confederacy, was being pursued through the Southern states. Making his way to Florida's west coast, John Lesley of Tampa escorted him by boat to the Sarasota area. Whitaker, neighbor Captain John Tresca, and Benjamin made plans for securing a boat to be used in the secretary's escape. Though most boats had been destroyed or confiscated during the war, after two weeks a yawl was secured and stocked. Benjamin pushed off from Whitaker Bayou,[2] making it to Bimini, safe from Union reach, and later to Nassau. From there he made it to London where he went on to serve in the Queen's Counsel.
Later life[edit]
William Whitaker restricted himself to the homestead in his later years. His wife had borne eleven children, nine of whom survived. After a long life on the frontier he died in 1888 at age 67 from injuries related to a fall from his horse. Mary Jane died in 1909. He and many of his descendants rest in the Whitaker Cemetery on 12th Street adjacent to Pioneer Park. The cemetery, surrounded by an Italian Renaissance balustrade, was given a marker (above), dedicated by the Daughters of the American Revolution, honoring the family's local history.
Nearly all of Whitaker's estate has been replaced by offices, homes and condominiums along the Sarasota coast. The inlet running through his family's homestead is still named Whitaker Bayou, and Whitaker Gateway Park exists in their honor.
- ^ Burnett Gene M. (1986) Florida's Past: People and Events that Shaped the State. Pineapple Press Inc., Sarasota, FL
- ^ a b c d e f g McDuffee, Lillie B. (1961)Lures of the Manatee - A True Story of South Florida's Glamourous Past. Foote & Davies Inc., Bradenton, FL
- ^ Fine, Sally. Sarasota Herald Tribune Sunday November 19, 1991
- ^ Whitaker, A.K. One Man's Family 1969. Page 3 Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection hosted by the University of South Florida http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/m1.search. "Some credit Bill with planting the first citrus grove in Florida - others say the first in Manatee - Sarasota area. I feel that some others must have had small plantings for their own use while in the area so it seems more reasonable to me to say that Bill's was probably the first commercial citrus grove for he did sell and ship the fruit later"
- ^ "Hamlin Valentine Snell – 8th Mayor of Tampa". Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-08.


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Why would you get to speak for the customer base when Maelwydd doesn't get to speak for the customer base? Seems a little unfair.
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Davis is right.
So far I see 2 daoc features in this game.
1 crafted gear is good
2 there's some sort of end game 3 sided pvp, although it will be more like gw2 than daoc anyway (e.g. a casual, simplified, kiddie friendly version)
That's it, nothing else in the game reminds me of daoc at all. For example all these things we know of TESO are most definetly NOT daoc.
1 instances of dungeons and world zones
2 phasing
3 megaserver
4 led by the nose questing
5 gw2 combat
6 rift class system
7 no raids
8 no housing
9 no ffa servers
10 no pure pve servers
11 you are the hero story line
12 no server community, piss people off, just jump to another shard
Don't get me wrong.
Gw2 is to daoc as wow is to EQ.
E.g. a kiddie friendly, super casual, simplified and easier version..
Not just WvW compared to frontiers.
Daoc has a shallow gear curve compared to say EQ and wow, gw2 gets rid of it alltogether.
But endgame pve, the difference in the two games "dragon raids" is laughable.
Originally posted by lizardbones
Never once did I say, TES customers want x,y,z.. Would you like to show me where I did?
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Originally posted by immodium
I agree. I get tired of the empty invocation of the silent majority of TES fans to support critical opinions.
This is an MMO and if it's going to be compared to anything for the purpose of predicting how it will play, it needs to be compared to past MMOs and how similar features worked or didn't work there.
Personally I've disliked this "compromise" to visit the other alliance areas in an empty phase. Although they have said that they are developing new story hooks and arcs to make this coherent, I can't imagine how they will explain the sudden dissapearance of the native player population. Unless it's the usual shark-jumping plot device, time travel...2nd only in popularity among hacks to amnesia. I would still rather visit those areas properly with alts and some other level-50 specific areas.
To me this just seems like a very low-effort way to add many hours of PvE level 50 content. They are working on "real" level 50 content with the separate "adventure zones" but those won't be ready at launch...or so they've said. The fact that they are spinning this phased other alliance PvE content as something to please the masses (?) who want to explore it all with a single character is just marketting double-speak for "hey guys! I just thought of a way to give everyone 200 hours of level 50 content without needing to program anything new...just tweak mobs and loots and presto! instant content."
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
I am not speaking for anyone but myself. But if you do not think that these changes are made because enough people, in Zenimax's eyes, are pointing out what they think needs changing (and changes are being made to relect the 'TES fans' desire) then i think you need to ask why.
You can be angry with me all you want, constantly call anyone you disagree with a hater and deny the changes Zenimax themselves are making, but these changes ARE being made because the Beta tests' and perhaps the 'TES fans' (who may or may not be a large subset) are stating their opinions and Zenimax are listenning.
As for your whole "this is how war was fought" statement, the reality is more that war consisted of 1 side attacking the very home of an enemy then retreating with their goods so fighting over some desireous middle ground is inacurate.
I can think of many conflicts that took place in one or other of the combatants homes lands but very few were they fought over land that neither of them possessed. In fact the only conflict I can think of at the moment would be the fight over Jerusalem.
Originally posted by Iselin
But thats always what happens when you dumb down game design to please the masses. You remove replay value and make current content not as rich. Its a common theme with video games.
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Originally posted by JasonJ
So you would suggest 4 factions? Lol, that's more flawed than what you see as limited daoc model. Daoc model did work very well fyi, dunno why you refer to that as a failure. Many games took quite a few elements from it without implementing then in a 100% successful way though. Teso might be one of them.
4 factions especially the last one controlled by NPCS haha. Obviously you're just looking forward to a new TES with online options. This isn't the one is it?
Originally posted by Maelwydd
Then I would stop using terms like "The real TES fans want" or "This is what the customers want" As for the changes to the game, they kept the core design intact. So Im 100% fine with the changes.
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This is a really stupid design decision by the devs. Old information indeed? I just found out about it now, this furthers my worry that this game is going to be made with money and not gamers in mind.
Originally posted by Wakygreek
How is giving PvPers a play space that focuses all PvP on one map to give PvPers larger scale battles and leaves a space for PvEers to play without being ganked not with gamers in mind?
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well, TESO is slowly becoming lame as fuck....phased areas, I mean that's the crappiest thing ever invented and it was introduced in MMOs due to technical restrictions, not out of design choice (well, except for WoW quest-related phasing).
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
They are taking away a part of the world by making players invisible to eachother. While I don't like playing WOW and getting ganked by a higher level player I do appreciate the reality of how the world works. There is no consequence in this world by enemy players even though your in their territory ... that just doesn't make sense. There are better ways to split up the population that has worked in the past and keeps the immersion. You could make everything a safe zone and require /flag pvp, or create contested zones where you are flagged automatically. You can even do an instance system where you go to a battleground. Those work for the most part and is largely accepted by the majority, this system is the wrong approach and will alienate players that would like to be fully immersed and could cause other issues.
Originally posted by Wakygreek
Most PURE PvEers dont like the flag system. Its a old broken system that is to easy to mess with and force people to PvP when they dont want to. Thats why players like that often pick a MMO that is 100% pure PvE because the flag system never really works. The model ESO is using lets PvE players and PvP player live in the same game and never step on anyone toes. As a PvEer that brings in players that would not play in a MMO that has PvP and for PvP players it keeps them honest and only fighting players who want that type of game. I have yet to play a game that has PvP and PvE servers with a flag systemer ever pull it off right.
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Originally posted by Nanfoodle
Quote me and I will appologise.
At worst I might generalise rather then provide specific quantifiable numbers to each forum and the level of complaints but that is just for ease of conversation. If anyone does use the term then I am pretty confident it is used as a basis for their argument formed from their personal opinion. To read anything more from such a statement ignores the fact that people usually do it to give weight to their statement rather then any actual belief that their proposition actuall is a reflection of "Everyone".
The point I made or at least was trying to make was that, changes are being made for a reason. And it is a fair assumption that the reason is the results from Beta testing, their market research into what 'TES fans' want or more likely a combination of both these and their own internal testing.
I would argue though that the reason they are having to make changes is due to the very fact that they have kept the core design in tact. The reason for each of these changes, workarounds, compromises etc...is simply because, this far into development that are unable to change the core design even if they wanted to (I actually think the core design could be changed but that is just opinion).
When you look at the game from a design point of view it is easy to follow the path back the the root issue. And that root issue is simply that they took a game that is designed around freedoms and openess and built the game around a system they is reliant upon locked and enclosed systems.
I personally think it is a no brainer why there seems to be a backlash that Zenimax are trying to address.
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Originally posted by Wakygreek
You do understand that TESO is not, has never been, and will never be a open world PVP game right? If that's what your looking for you might as well just move on because it's not in the cards. Once you get over that simple fact of life it's not hard to understand the reasoning for this move.
They are doing this so they can reuse the other factions art assets as high level content not for open world PVP. Think of it as different PVE zones if it makes you feel better as that's really what it is. A clone of a lower level zone with higher level content in it.
And I would bet good money that within 2 years at most that you will be able to group up between factions for end game content. That will only last as long as the populations are high. Once they drop off it will be one of the first restrictions to go as it's a easy way to triple the pool of players you can group with.
Lol some of you wow generation people with your "wow pvp servers are MORE pvp than daoc core servers" thinking.
It was just a fudge to a 99% pve orientated game, add flip a switch pvp servers so we can put "got pvp" on the back of the game box.
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Originally posted by Nanfoodle
If I'm not mistaken, Wildstar is going to have a flagging system and Carbine are trying to find solutions to the problem you're talking about.
Though I'll admit, even with the problems, I'll take a coherent gameworld over what Zenimax Online is doing here. Though I think it's better than not letting players visit other alliance zones at all, it'll probably damage the feeling of being in this world.
Also, I think these other faction zones are going to be instanced rather than phased.
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
Give me 1 example you would be able to get me to flag if I didn't want to. I will be honest and let you know if it would work. I cannot think of a way and no one has ever made me flag but if you can come up with a way then I will be honest.
Also, how DARE you speak for most PURE PvEers!!!
Originally posted by Nanfoodle
The current systems are not perfect, but making players invisible to eachother is not the answer and hurts the overall ambiance of a game. The devs need to brainstorm a better answer to this problem aside from everyone being a ghost. You guys may like this but its conflicting with what they are trying to do. What's the point of making it an MMO if your planning on hiding the population? It contradicts itself and their reasoning for doing it is not sufficient.


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As the novel begins, the aged Sultan Abdul Hamid II, rightly fearful that his cruel reign has brought retribution close to his door, studies Constantinople through a telescope from his hilltop palace while, within his field of vision and deeply aware of being so, Capt. Robert Markham of the British Military Mission gives a garden party for members of the European community. Farther away rebellion is stirring in Macedonia, led by the Young Turk dissidents in the army, avowedly bent on European-style modernization and liberalization. Ethnic and religious animosities in the diverse populace, relatively quiet since the massacres of Armenians in the 1890's, are on the rise. And the other major powers are maneuvering to block the ominous growth of German influence in the region.
Observing a primary convention of historical fiction, Mr. Unsworth places a minor personal experience at the center of the public drama. In the eyes of his British colleagues Robert Markham is rather a difficult sort. Clever, sensitive, aloof, "erratic," he lives with his wife and 10-year old son, Henry, in a non-European quarter of the capital. He seems puzzlingly "proprietorial" about Turkey, with a most un-British interest in its political and cultural subtleties, and it alerts him to an impending revolutionary change to which his hidebound colleagues are quite oblivious.
The reader learns that Markham has a secret concealed even from his wife. He was in Turkey 12 years earlier, when he was compelled to witness the rape and murder of Miriam, his Armenian financee, during the Armenian massacre of 1896. He saved himself by telling her killers that he was English, asserting a detachment from the horrible event that has haunted him ever since; his return to Turkey seems in some way meant as atonement. As Markham enters the unknown depths of official and underground politics that involve both Turks and Armenians, his son, in a delicate echo of his father's initiation, begins a childish but incipiently sexual relationship with the little Turkish girl next door.
Markham's search for self-respect provides both a gripping story of adventure and intrigue and a deeper portrait of an interesting mind puzzled and thwarted by its own experience. As events compel the Sultan to accept the constraints of constitutional monarchy, Markham's suspicions about Colonel Nesbitt, a senior colleague who seems closer to Turkish Intelligence than he should be, lead him into a secret world of subversion where a faction of Armenian nationalists and Young Turks guardedly conspires against the old regime. At home, needing someone to hear his confession about Miriam, Markham makes a rather predatory conquest of Miss Taverner, his son's young English governess, which Henry (something of a spy himself) witnesses and later deliriously reveals when stricken with typhoid fever.
This domestic disaster—his wife and son and Miss Taverner quickly return to England—brings Markham the physical and moral solitude his quest for personal and political understanding requires. And a pattern begins to emerge from his experience: He seeks in effect to be a man, not merely an Englishman (the identity that protected him from Miriam's fate), not a husband or father or lover or soldier, not subject to terms of existence narrower than those of full humanity. But this desire is enclosed by history, with (as T. S. Eliot wrote) its "many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues." And Markham's search for his own humanity through the physical and moral labyrinth of prewar Constantinople is ironically shadowed by the novel's depiction of the maze of secret corridors and exits the doomed Sultan keeps rebuilding in his palace to foil assassins.
Markham's effort to participate meaningfully in history, to know and assist those who would bring down a brutal regime, causes him to shed his European selfhood even as he physically assumes native identities. He takes refuge with gypsies, dresses as a Turk and finally enters the palace in disguise as the Sultan is at last being deposed, for an oblique but personally decisive encounter with the tyrant who has obsessed his mind for so long. But the ironies of history cunningly persist and triumph. Markham's assertion of his humanity by revealing his moral guilt to others is compromised by his unrecognized need to dominate, even destroy, those to whom he reveals it. His sympathetic approach to the Armenian cause, to the achievement of a national homeland, makes him a useful pawn of extremists in that cause who would provoke new massacres to dramatize their plight. Provoked or unprovoked, massacres did indeed take place in 1915, after the "liberal" new regime replaced the Sultanate.
The Rage of the Vulture is in many ways a curious novel for these days. Eloquently, even poetically, written, it still does not pursue ambitiously "literary" effects, meanings noticeably larger than its material suggests. Though its chief concern is coherent narrative, it isn't really an espionage-intrigue tale or a historical novel in the popular mode. (Devotees of those genres ought nevertheless to enjoy it.) Nor, despite its potential resonance with religious and racial horrors still abroad in the Middle East (and elsewhere), is it a parable about contemporary history. It is a beautifully honest story of how a life is both given point and thwarted by its concern for self-definition through political commitment, and I admire Barry Unsworth very much for having told it so scrupulously and vividly.
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To paraphrase Jasy, who joined here yesterday just for his/her one posting:
The German Ryzom server suffers from the same problems and for the same reasons. A small unprofessional coterie of players effectively tries to take over the server for their own little private dictatorship. Anyone who is not submissive, inert or admiring/supporting the few who are running their little private show - including GMs - is either fooled into futile activism, socially pressured into conformism, threatened or harassed until driven out.
Arrogance, egomania, destructiveness and anti-social behaviour by certain players marketed as constructive and well-meant, but fundamentaly the opposite has heavily damaged a community that once has been unsurpassed.
Interactive roleplaying and traces of a spirit of mutual cooperativeness are suppressed, impaired or perverted. New players – already quite rare among the constant flood of bots and twinks - are mislead and exploited for petty power games.
And there exists nobody higher up in the hierarchy that has the courage to change any of that because of being afraid to be reviled as corrupt, nepotistic, dictatorial and unfair in threads like this ...
P.S.: Hear, hear, Talcott. ^^
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Originally posted by talcott
Well this kinda sucks. After reading the article about it the other day I was about to give Ryzom a go but after reading post like this I think I'll pass. After reading the OPs post and yours I think I'll go with the OP and just stay clear of the game. Sorry, for someone that just made a mmorpg.com account yesterday talcott, you seem like either A) a rabid fanboy whos here only for the purpose of flaming the OP cause he had the backbone to say something you didnt like, or B) One of these fail CSRs the OP and other posters are talking about in which case proves that the OP and others are right about the issues going on and that you really need to get a life if you guys are dropping down to the level of stalking your playerbase online to try to stamp out any comment you dont like.
Either way its sad cause the game really did seem kinda insteresting but I get enough epic fail community/game/playerbase management from Riot/LoL so I dont need anymore at the time being.
I wonder, UrzaElent, if just reading the rants of the OP would have changed the decision you just made? I doubt so. By giving the game no chance, though, you do exactly what was intented by that posting in the first instance. The game played in forums like this is to find a way to make GMs susceptible to blackmail to get things the way you want. Everybody running a business knows things like this galore: The song played is "Give us money/power/our way or we'll use the Internet/the press to kill you off". That's not a nice attitude, nor a productive one, but somehow pretty human. But then, who said humans are nice? Mark Twain said anything about humanity one needs to know in "The Mysterious Stranger". By your decision, and the reason you give, I'm sad to realise that denunciation is still an instrument that works, for people are willing to fall for it. Freedom, free will is just a nice abstract idea, for as long as denunciation and blackmail works, we all are puppets on the strings of those who use this drug, dancing to their tunes and empty each poisoned chalice given to us by them.
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Originally posted by cushing
What I do see is MULTIPLE people posting about the same issues with Ryzom that the OP is having and that all of them are A) been with mmorpg.com for more than ONE day and B) have done thier post in a civil matter for the most part. Thats two things that I cant say about talcott. I'm sorry but when someone pops up out of the blue on this site and the first thing the do is flame and troll someone that really hasnt done anything to recieve that type of response it get my troll sense going off like a fire alarm .
And like I said I'm a LoL player. I've seen first hand just how fail some companies are with how they handle things like their forums and playerbase. If you think the OP was "ranting" then talcott was a raving pyscho. Sounds like LoL fanboy speak right there, if you dont kiss Riots ass 24/7 then you must be a ranting, QQ, noob. No ty, I'll stand by my gut feeling and just avoid anymore gaming drama for the time being.
Well, I never saw the need to post until now (after 5 years just reading these forums for information). I would not have entered if not for the Leanon (German server) input, which just fits in with the irregular, but popping up from time to time intention to turn the screw on the GMs over here. So I don't know about Asispotle; the relatively short time I played there, I did not have any issues, though.
I can understand, to a certain degree, your fear of fanboy trolling (well, I guess we have nothing seen of that until STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC starts). The idea of a working community, though, is that there are rules, and everybody tries to either be part of that community or - if it does not fit - to go somewhere else. If I'm a non-smoker, I don't join a Cigar Club and then complain about smoking in the Club's rooms. If I'm a member of a party, I may option for issues which are contrary to the issues it stands for, but if it just doesn't fit, I normally leave the party and try to find one which covers my issues. If the beer in my favorite Pub is not a flavour I like, I either drink something else or seek out another Pub. But I don't harass the smokers for smoking in their rooms, the party for not doing what I alone want them to do (apart from opposing their general course probably - but then normally not as a party member) and the brewery as well as the landlord for not granting my request - or rather my claim. Am I a fanboy? I'm not a fanatic, for sure. But I see rules when there are any, and I can decide if I follow them or not. I won't bend them or try to bend them for my personal purposes. If I can't live with them, I seek out a place with rules more to my taste. Or I stay and follow the principles of a (here commercial) democratic system where rules and laws are set to the welfare of all players, in a general term, for no-one will get rules just working for himself, interfering and destroying the system, the community, and all principles of democracy. Freedom is a general term. Absolute freedom, in which all rules are just your own or fixed to you personal wants, is indeed dictatorship, with the one on top being free and all others not.
Having said that, in 5 or 6 years I never had issues with the Ryzom GM's - neither the old ones (of whom there is at least still one) nor the recent. I never felt the need of writing a ticket, not even when harrassed or insulted or denunciated by some player troll (and you know as well as I that there's always one) and generally, as a role player, I try to fit in with the scenery, be part of the bigger thing by following the rules of the game, the history of the World it's set in and be a breathing, living believable character of that World. And if other players believe in what I'm doing, in the character I play and the strings he pulls within the rules, I'm happy because I did succeed. And in all these years I never played a game where you have that much freedom, where you meet so much enthusiasm and idealism by players and GMs alike. It's not perfect - "Nobody's perfect", according to Billy Wilder - but it is the one game I can do all these things and am neither exiled to some sort of ghetto or squeezed into the usual pretty boring grinding mould. I'm a fanboy in that sense that I love the game. But what's the reason to play a game you don't like at all?
P.S.: "Multiple" makes three, right? The German one you can't count if on Arispotle or the French server. So: Of those three you might call two sort of substantial in actually pointing out a situation. One of the three obviously is a friend or acquaintance of the player starting the thread. Add one who just thinks that the problem is the players (which includes those three arguing about the GM's) and one who once was at Jolt and obviously left when they left and thinks it's sad if the complaints are true, but has no own view on the recent situation. I know it won't change your gut feeling; but the drama, really, is happening here. ;)
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Tis a shame us ex-Jolt people aren't there anymore, might've been able to have changed this before it became a problem :(
I personally know quite a few of the CSR and its saddening to read this stuff, although a select few I can guarantee wouldn't be involved with anthing like this, and a few that alarm bells go off in my head instantly.
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Tylantia, from what I read on the Ryzom forums, CSR Lanti from old Jolt days stayed until his death in August 2010 - so it wasn't without Jolt care all the time.
My personal experiences are, of course, from Leanon, where we rather have the problem that we are running out of GMs because of mobbing from a handful of players. We have lost, I think, at least two since last year because of that, and the one still left from the times I joined the game as a player (approximately 5 - 6 years ago) was under heavy attack. What would you have done with that kind of players who doubt everything you do, who doubt every sort of input from the event team, who sabotage every step the player parliaments take? I don't know if you had any kind of similar experience back then, but if you had I would be very interested to learn how you handled this. As far as I'm concerned, I won't apply for CSR or GM even if they would pay me, really. But even as "just" a player, a few times I was close to taking a bow out of the game, although it's the only one in all those years I did enjoy.
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Yeah Lanti and I went back years, very close friend and a shame at his passing away, really was.
I do still hope that it somehow gets to carry on, but this CSR stuff has to change if its to even show a glimmer of hope now.
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Ryzom fascinates, like playing it, some staff people seem ok but seems staff would need more professionalism. Some more player information here.
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Originally posted by Tylantia
Hey Secor!
Wasn't the jolt crew taken over because jolt dropped out?
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The information the reference sounded serious, at least for someone outside and not much involved people, till the paragraph for the char Nitrous and the praise of him. I have witnessed myself how the char Nitrouss has perma stalking peeps ingame with tells and how he has driven people away with his behaviour. It can't be excused with roleplay because it was permanent stalking in private tells 24/7 so to speak even with RL threats.
Knowing this i am not sure about the validity of the other information in this blog entry and i have to question it at least.
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
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Originally posted by DarthRaiden
Well then the same thing can be said for you :
with no facts to validate your information anyone can say even you are
making RL threats and stalking people.
I have spend time with the writer of that blog and i can tell you that she is
spot on what happens in Ryzom and i agree with the way she Depicts CSR's
on the Game and as for Nitrouss i been playing Ryzom for almost 3 years and
i have never get a RL threat or be stalked by him or any player..
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Originally posted by Monje
Read my post again and spend attention to the words "witnessed myself"...
Don't know about the other parts but Nitrouss was a bully.
"There was suppression of speech and all kinds of things between disturbing and fascistic." Raph Koster (parted $OE)
Originally posted by Tylantia
Well, if you allow me to pick this up, one of the main criticisms - at least on Leanon - is not the lack of direction, control, hierarchy or structure, but that fact that it exists and that there's made use of. We had, for example, a player who declared the King of Matia dead and weak (yeah, both), that he would be the saviour and therefore he's King now (and no, there was no irony ot good-natured foolery involved). Now, either you can accept this, or ignore this, or you take some sort of action. The first has to be out of discussion, for it's not founded in any reasonable truth, not even in a make-believe world. The second has the danger that other might take his course, and that would lead to a fission of the game and would make any sort of RP almost impossible. In this special case, I happen to be part of the Council of Nobles, so I won't be able to ignore the player anyway. So for me it had to be third right from the start. The Council decided to invite the anarchist, and the GMs took this as seriously as it should be taken and graced the meeting at the Royal Palace with the presence of Karan Yrkanis. The playeer who called himself King and fooled around on the throne, etc., was half impressed and said "sorry", but a few minutes later was back in old form. So the Council and the King decided to exile him until he has learned his bit. And to support this, the GM's took his Matis fame away. But imagine the row which followed, attacking the GMs; the council players were used to attacks anyway, for there are people who say that either any player is allowed to have such a position or none, and all players should be allowed in every player parliament, no matter what allegiance or nation, and no matter what he/she actually does. That would, of course, make the whole idea of player parliaments absurd. If you ask me, what we did was the most consequent action available, and the most fitting - and it involved direction, control, hierarchy and basic structure both IG as well as far as the GMs were concerned.


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