Wipe #2 - The Problems and Solutions

Problem: Nevets & his goons (Saten is cool)

Solution: Replacement

Fin.

 
Good question my friend. It just seems to me that the owner (Jaja) is having complete faith in Nevets and agrees with any bullshit he does such as stripping people he can't stand oocly (I.e. PotentBeing / Fett) When I messaged him about how he shouldn't act like he's the fucking God of this realm and that he just makes himself look like a second EXGenesis he refused to acknowledge any flaw on his end and accused me of 'backstabbing' him when I shared this very opinion on OOC. He overreacts affects the owner negativly and only seeks to glorify himself. He even said I would literally ask to get banned simply for and I quote 'taking shots at him on OOC' Animeiscool did the same thing and he would still be banned had the people not stood up for him. 

When we got Anime unbanned by Nevets he even was like 'This is no accomplishment we were far more lenient this wipe.. Etc..' And then he tried to strip a nigga for grabbing an afk person without moving them a tile, then rapidly changed his mind in quick succession. Some samples of the case at hand, he kept on grabbing at the air to make more shit up:

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Afterwards he came with his most conveniant excuse, 'We had you on our radar for a while now, you were meant to be stripped.' Yada-yada.. The question is, is that who you want as a HA? A guy that only takes his way or sends people off to cross a highway. Do you want another Lewis (EXGen), LukeHellsingValentine - when he clearly had proven in the past that he isn't cut out for any of this? This'll set an example, for this post in itself will get him triggered beyond believe and me on his radar. Watch him go through my logs to see who I Oocly grabbed without RP just to get me out of the way. Or maybe he won't look for any excuses this time around.

Let's just wait and see.

Edit, Nero's input on this: Nevets drinks warm pepsi bro ignore his existence. - Nero 2016

Edit 2: Nevets_DBM muted SaiyanHalfie for 300 seconds for the following reason: "Clearly just baiting and trolling, trying to rile people up.". Nevets clearly giving in to his personal hatred.

Nevets has many a time now tried hunting down people who don't agree with his position as Head Admin. This includes going along with accusations without fair investigation. (IE.AnimeIsCool) He went as far as to say that he was zanzoing across walls when that wasn't the case, banned him for bug abuse, and after massive OOC complaints he folded under the pressure of the players. Marking PotentBeing as an enemy as well so he decided to 'reach' as Holocaust said for reasons to strip him. One main thing he said was that he metagamed to kill someone with OOC yet that person was the cause of his death. It just goes to show how weak-minded and salt ridden he is to target specific players that don't want him as Head Admin. That is why he does his utmost to punish them as players. It isn't helping the game at all. And when someone does mention the fact about all this he says, "Well go have fun with whatever other game you play." Please, this guy is waste of the position. Move him out and make WBDM Head Admin. At least he listens to what the players say when corruption is brought up aside from the rest.

Alright I'll start from the top and that people have said a lot, and apologies for the wall of text: Nevets is feeling like a somewhat insecure admin that is managing things as a tyrant that swears they know best, more than 'Ok your point is noted' to figure out more solutions. Yes, I will give him that OOC feels hilariously biased and one-sided and mobs like all hell and back, and you folks on OOC are basically mobbing over the smallest things sometimes, but there are cases of rather blatant stretching for things, from the complaints towards the Majin he tried stripping of character, which later was stripped anyway due to a 'rare chance bugged' which I honestly have to question WHY they had to be deleted if there were only one or two Majin's to begin with, why they can't be edited back to being no longer bugged for use if it's only one or two, but whatever it was only 2 people getting screwed out of characters, which isn't the best of mindsets now that I think about it. The fact that one of his big points I've seen him argue back was not towards why this idea was good, but instead "I have run servers I know what I am doing." towards more issues than he actually explained his reasoning, makes me worry more than the fact that I feel his reasoning for what he has explained feels backwards.

Now, with that out of the way, Year Speed. 2 years a day is, well, a design choice. But when I hear 20 years is a person's peak, and some may die quick as in 30-50 years, unless your new generation kid grows in power so obscenely fast that they can equate your old character's power in about the span of 8 years, I do question if this is a good design choice on a mechanics level, but even then, this feels rather poor of a method if people feel it is too fast. On an objective level, I do feel that it is only very slightly too fast, but that's only because of what I also hear towards decline starting at 30 or 40 for some people, maximum age spans of 70. Nevets' reasoning towards this, was because a slow speed will make RP stagnant, and kids not made to keep the RP going. I argue otherwise, as the slow speed originally made even the supposedly dead/boring Vegeta have quite a bit of interaction, as people grew and changed, tensions shifted towards or for something, the moment year speed kicked into hyperdrive, none of this continued, everyone was too worried about aging out, many left the planet possibly to mate possibly because "Hey we can!" but it all fell through so quickly, leaving only mostly the bonds they've formed before this time. And, on a simple mindset note, if people feel it is too fast, they will feel that because their character is going to go away too fast. Which robs attachment to the character. Which robs any desire or 'proper' RP buildup in favor for "OK DO THIS GET CLOSE MAKE KID" kind of mindsets. I've seen some folks just flat out bail from their previous character mindsets to go off, and it is probably pushed on by this, meaning the only ones who aren't pressured, are the ones that this year speed benefits, won't matter, or they have enough time that this rate is now the same as slow speed was for other races.

Next, are a fair handful of choices, and these aren't exactly exclusive to admins or anything, it falls heavily on player base mindset too. As it stands, as a player, from what I saw from local OOC's, and from what I can tell from my hilariously limited case of playing dragon ball games, summing up to about three months total 'days I played' over the span of about 2 years, this game is leaning heavily towards a more PVP balancing format than a RP narrative format. As it stands, there was/is basically nobody who can or would contest things like a 2 million BP android, or someone of your same race who just had 3x your power level almost arbitrarily. The main means of getting this power, was not training or RP development, but instead, you either went a certain race or rank(Android, Demon, Changeling, etc) or you sided with a faction for power (Kweh's cult as prime example). This resulted in you either having inate ability/build to get an obscenely high power level, mechanics to support it, or simply getting granted a buff for this power. One, that unless it was a 5v1, and even then it likely would fall through, would win out against any normal person you'd encounter. This in turn has lead to a scene I saw where the only real threat Changeling Lord considered on a combat level was the other Evil group. Which means Evil vs Evil was the only valid way to fight. (Unless it's Namekians from what I heard, not saw, but they both tend to stay to their planet as well as be defensive instead of attack so unless they want to suddenly play the heroes, questionable.)

This has then lead to a rather odd issue. The only case I can, at least as a newbie hearing OOC chat/Local OOC chat, has resulted in a very, very narrow list of what can fix it. Either A: A rare appears and can stand against everything. (relies on RNG, and that they don't just add another 'Evil' side.) B: A Kaio, rank, or some admin or otherwise ends up elevating someone into some power to contest things, which while it may make sense narrative-wise, with how the playerbase is, I only feel this will incite QUITE a bit of backlash towards whoever does this, resulting in most likely character/rank/admin being stripped, and possibly retcons. Or C: Transformations happen and can re-tilt the balance of things. However, because of the sides and powers currently present, it's more probable that the reigning forces will actually get a transformation first, which would mean C occuring just 'evens' the playing field just a bit. In short, the most likely 'fix' to this situation as it is, will be an early wipe, as it is, things are unlikely to kick off, because people either are hilariously outclassed, because whoever helps will get beat down and their help removed, or will have to have LUCK play into actually fixing things, instead of anything else.

As for solutions? I've got very few on this wipe. The main reason isn't even Nevets, or the case of Jaja/anyone supporting nevets or bias towards/against admins, it's mostly on playerbase. The 'fix' cases are mostly on either mechanics, which as Nevets has stated, this IS somewhat a test wipe, as they have removed/tweaked/etc some rules, such as apperantly there used to be a rule against expand/focus stacking as a vague mechanics example, that this wipe is partially ment to test, so, things devolving into a mess might even be what is intended sadly enough. On the other hand, the few cases that might fix it and re-balance the scales, are hilariously heavy handed and will require people to not bitch about admins doing things, such as buffing likely heroes or forces, or possibly manually activating rares on people, so as things so much as say, rebellion or resistance groups or ideals can be sparked. This also falls on players to even ask for this, as admins have on many occasions, stated how players may ask for events, and there has also been a striking lack of such events happening ever since many ranks quit.

This also brings to a case based on the next set of ranks for next wipe, and while I heard the ranks were more admin biased this one, that is alright, as they biased to them because they felt they would do well. It is however, likely the case that this mindset towards who gets a rank may have to be altered and changed, favoring both a case of having ideas on what to do, in both situations to cause things, as well as when things have hit status quo, I.E. Changeling lord had to flat out talk to people about "OK what should I genocide?" just to get any actual CL stuff remotely touched on. While they were an effective changeling lord in causing influence and suppression, and setting up things, there was little to do on the 'ok once I am here now what' level. On the other hand, King of Vegeta, who had quite a bit of plans on what to do before space travel was a thing and all, had quit over the player base and because someone pushed his question of "Why am I still here" a bit too hard. I've been hearing ranks are being stripped, quitting, and everything more than "Rank person has done something to properly instigate events or RP". Biggest suggestion towards ranks will be to both get someone who will stay... but also perhaps plan, possibly even collaboratively, on events to happen, on plot hooks that can pop up, possibly so much as even just some event'er just going around throwing story hooks for some intergalactic threat that will make people travel to other planets/to even a deserted planet to fight some threat, if everything has hit a snag on status quo being too heavily a thing.

Lastly, the management and mindset is going to have to shift, for everyone. Both because it's not seeming to work, and both because everything is shifting towards what the one in charge wants, or towards getting some hilariously broken power fast. I'm hearing stuff about "Powergame this" or "Mate to make this" and stuff as some people's ooc mindset, goals, or otherwise, and the current hyper-acceleration for years is not something people are liking, or is positively influencing RP, but it's instead making people disinterested and is actually more seeming to be in favor of "Get things to power sooner", this also was a heavy blow to techies, because while they get years faster for tech, people have instead been saying that tech needs to be scaled differently, and the increase in power has done nothing but to skew the balance towards screwing techies over FASTER than they would be able to stay relevant, not to even mention the case of drill/pylons if they are effected by this year speed increase or not. Even if, theoretically, techies would get the same resources, the same int gain, and otherwise, at the same proportional speed (I.E, same int/resources for 1 year worth of meditating/mining/etc, be that year taking 10 minutes, 10 hours, or 1 day), this means even one lag/disconnect/etc will infact nerf the techie harder than a slower speed, so that also makes no sense. Basically the point of "This helps techies!" is completely backwards and should be rethought, both towards this system of balancing techies, as well as the general drifting/shift towards a more PvP based game than RP. People joining a side for power, going to planets to mate with specific people, or otherwise are all being pushed more to that, than to let RP happen to take them there proper, because they now have less time, and the focus on power gaining is that much heavier/accelerated by time shoving you to maturity before you can really get a feel for how your character will really be.

If this wipe is MENT to test everything like this, to be some 'test' for people, to be some test for rules, then the points brought up are pretty irrelevant, and I can only hope the data you're getting helps. But the zero approval rating is really a dead sign that something is going wrong, that you don't even need to spend a few hours wracking your brain on "OK why do I not like this" to spew out mountains of paragraphs on this, and just going "I have run servers I know what I am doing" really doesn't look like you know ANYTHING on what you are doing, if there is little to nobody saying they like it.