07-11-2022, 01:56 AM
Sorry for the late reply I just got back from work. Some of the stuff said is fair and I admit to it but I would like to reply to everything and defend myself on a few things that may have been misunderstood.
Large prop heavy builds: So I loved building and I struggle to finish some things as I find there is always something for me to add or change, yes my CY build was too prop heavy and this was because I was unaware of the limitations of the server. I kept spawning in my CY build regardless of this because I was deleting props from the build to resolve this issue, by the time my trial was over I had 17 back up dupes of my CY and the 17th had half the prop count of my 10th.
I play on laptop and did not find the build laggy but others did, I was not intentionally making people lagg and I thought I was fixing the problem.
I was told to stop spawning in more than one dupe at once, I was under the impression that If I had dupes far away from each other they would not lagg the server. I stopped doing that after I was told to stop.
Disrupting classrooms: This was unintentional and happened during a passive RP event that I hosted which involved vehicles. After this happened I made a rule for all of my future vehicle based events that players were not to enter the school at all. Players entered the school anyway and were taken back outside and told their vehicles will be taken off them if they went back in.
Forum announced event: So I wasn't actually aware that I was required to do a forum announced event until the very end of my trial and by then I didn't have much time to organise it properly because I was back at work and working long hours. I also found that doing large events was a lot more difficult and stressful than I had anticipated and chose to avoid them as I thought the smaller but more frequent events that I was hosting were fine.
Lack of cooperation/communication: For the first week or two of trial I was missing some @ chat messages and this was unintentional. But towards the end of my trial I was not missing anything and I would often scroll up and check to make sure of this. I didn't argue it at the time but when I was told I continued to ignore @ chat I thought that was very unfair as sometimes I would announce I was going AFK to then come back to messages in the chat asking me to do something.
Changing others builds without permission: I was very surprised and honestly a bit hurt to hear at the end of week feedback that I was getting in trouble for doing this. When joining I was excited to work with other GMs and stuff but found that I was always doing things by myself, when I saw two staff members working on the same build I recommended 3 textures and pinged some surfaces with them. I wanted to help out some more with the build but got the social queues that they wanted to work on it together so I left. I didn't mean to get in their way or annoy them I just wanted to build with other people, yes I should have asked but I didn't think to at the time and I'm sorry for that.
How many events did I do: I did a small scale event almost every second day and if I wasn't building then I would often even do more than one event a day. I found that while I was organising and preparing for a large scale event, ideas and opportunities would come to mind to use what I had already created for a small scale event to entertain the players who are currently online. I was also given feedback that I spent too much time building so I tried to use the time that I did spend building doing passive RP or small scale events at the same time. This was difficult and caused the issue Erin mentioned.
Yes I did build boats that could fly, originally it was to test out how thrusters worked and to upgrade my boat that I built on Hogsmeade. When I wasn't doing anything I would sometimes spawn one in and people would hop on and socialise on it, I did not consider doing this an event but players kept getting disappointed when I stopped driving it so I kept going, people enjoyed it so I kept bringing the boat back.
I did about 5 large scale events which is within the requirement, I did many more medium scale events and a few small and passive RP events. I don't remember all of them or how many exactly I did, when I say 'medium event' I am talking about an event with a beginning middle and end with a goal for the players to achieve. I much preferred doing these events as there was much less pressure for if something went wrong. I also had no issues with people using their own RP selves as characters and doing their own thing to achieve the goal of the event, I was not entirely fond of forcing players into other jobs for an event when they were more happy just being themselves and if it made no real difference to the event.
The 2 hour RDM event was about 20 minutes long and it was intentionally targeted at higher level and more experienced players. The event was supposed to be difficult and a bit chaotic. I think the event gameplay-wise was fine, I know people were getting one shotted and that there were bottlenecks. There was a lot that went wrong for that event, it took me a long time to organise it but I still missed crucial things that were needed to make it good.
I learned a lot from that event and I know how to improve and what to do for any future similar events. It was my last event and my worst event which was really disappointing because I was looking forward to hosting it.
I did many events that were similar and played out fine but those events were more open and were catered to lower level players.
If I get accepted I would organise more large scale events and Forum announce some of them. Unfortunately I have always been a bit of a slow learner and I struggle to adjust to new things, being a GM was very difficult for me but I loved every moment of it. I would not waste a second chance and I think I will be much better now with all of the skills that I have learned during and after my trial.
Large prop heavy builds: So I loved building and I struggle to finish some things as I find there is always something for me to add or change, yes my CY build was too prop heavy and this was because I was unaware of the limitations of the server. I kept spawning in my CY build regardless of this because I was deleting props from the build to resolve this issue, by the time my trial was over I had 17 back up dupes of my CY and the 17th had half the prop count of my 10th.
I play on laptop and did not find the build laggy but others did, I was not intentionally making people lagg and I thought I was fixing the problem.
I was told to stop spawning in more than one dupe at once, I was under the impression that If I had dupes far away from each other they would not lagg the server. I stopped doing that after I was told to stop.
Disrupting classrooms: This was unintentional and happened during a passive RP event that I hosted which involved vehicles. After this happened I made a rule for all of my future vehicle based events that players were not to enter the school at all. Players entered the school anyway and were taken back outside and told their vehicles will be taken off them if they went back in.
Forum announced event: So I wasn't actually aware that I was required to do a forum announced event until the very end of my trial and by then I didn't have much time to organise it properly because I was back at work and working long hours. I also found that doing large events was a lot more difficult and stressful than I had anticipated and chose to avoid them as I thought the smaller but more frequent events that I was hosting were fine.
Lack of cooperation/communication: For the first week or two of trial I was missing some @ chat messages and this was unintentional. But towards the end of my trial I was not missing anything and I would often scroll up and check to make sure of this. I didn't argue it at the time but when I was told I continued to ignore @ chat I thought that was very unfair as sometimes I would announce I was going AFK to then come back to messages in the chat asking me to do something.
Changing others builds without permission: I was very surprised and honestly a bit hurt to hear at the end of week feedback that I was getting in trouble for doing this. When joining I was excited to work with other GMs and stuff but found that I was always doing things by myself, when I saw two staff members working on the same build I recommended 3 textures and pinged some surfaces with them. I wanted to help out some more with the build but got the social queues that they wanted to work on it together so I left. I didn't mean to get in their way or annoy them I just wanted to build with other people, yes I should have asked but I didn't think to at the time and I'm sorry for that.
How many events did I do: I did a small scale event almost every second day and if I wasn't building then I would often even do more than one event a day. I found that while I was organising and preparing for a large scale event, ideas and opportunities would come to mind to use what I had already created for a small scale event to entertain the players who are currently online. I was also given feedback that I spent too much time building so I tried to use the time that I did spend building doing passive RP or small scale events at the same time. This was difficult and caused the issue Erin mentioned.
Yes I did build boats that could fly, originally it was to test out how thrusters worked and to upgrade my boat that I built on Hogsmeade. When I wasn't doing anything I would sometimes spawn one in and people would hop on and socialise on it, I did not consider doing this an event but players kept getting disappointed when I stopped driving it so I kept going, people enjoyed it so I kept bringing the boat back.
I did about 5 large scale events which is within the requirement, I did many more medium scale events and a few small and passive RP events. I don't remember all of them or how many exactly I did, when I say 'medium event' I am talking about an event with a beginning middle and end with a goal for the players to achieve. I much preferred doing these events as there was much less pressure for if something went wrong. I also had no issues with people using their own RP selves as characters and doing their own thing to achieve the goal of the event, I was not entirely fond of forcing players into other jobs for an event when they were more happy just being themselves and if it made no real difference to the event.
The 2 hour RDM event was about 20 minutes long and it was intentionally targeted at higher level and more experienced players. The event was supposed to be difficult and a bit chaotic. I think the event gameplay-wise was fine, I know people were getting one shotted and that there were bottlenecks. There was a lot that went wrong for that event, it took me a long time to organise it but I still missed crucial things that were needed to make it good.
I learned a lot from that event and I know how to improve and what to do for any future similar events. It was my last event and my worst event which was really disappointing because I was looking forward to hosting it.
I did many events that were similar and played out fine but those events were more open and were catered to lower level players.
If I get accepted I would organise more large scale events and Forum announce some of them. Unfortunately I have always been a bit of a slow learner and I struggle to adjust to new things, being a GM was very difficult for me but I loved every moment of it. I would not waste a second chance and I think I will be much better now with all of the skills that I have learned during and after my trial.
Sign in to vote | -3
