I think a line finally needs to be drawn in relation to administrators participating in "player" aspects of the game. I understand that admins are players too, but in a game like Graal (where, to my knowledge, you aren't materially rewarded for volunteering to be an admin) it's way too easy to take advantage of the position.

I think this is most prevalent within tower guilds. If you tower at all, you have probably heard of ridiculous drama involving admins and their guilds. I've been towering for less than a week and can already see the problem.

I feel like a decision needs to be made and administrators should be held to some sort of requirement to not interfere in parts of the game that they have a conflict of interest in. It seems really unfair and just shady to me that certain guilds have immediate, unquestioned access to the powers of administrators. It hardly sits well with anyone in the community and it's obviously going to contribute to bias.

TL;DR: Something needs to be done to ensure that administrators have a harder time favoring certain players and giving them "express access" to their powers and attention, and the most obvious way to do that is by not allowing administrators to participate in active and competitive tower guilds (where this appears to happen the most).  

So basically cut off the staff from participating in the main aspect of the game? No.  

Posted by Infernus Lapse

So basically cut off the staff from participating in the main aspect of the game? No.

You're not understanding. The first course of action should have been to strictly warn staff to not abuse their powers and show strong favoritism and bias towards guilds that they participate in. If that was ever done, then apparently it hasn't worked.

Since it hasn't worked, yes. This is what I am proposing. What would you otherwise suggest?  

Posted by Thallen

You're not understanding. The first course of action should have been to strictly warn staff to not abuse their powers and show strong favoritism and bias towards guilds that they participate in. If that was ever done, then apparently it hasn't worked.

Since it hasn't worked, yes. This is what I am proposing. What would you otherwise suggest?

I'd suggest that you look to another server, all they hire is immature, unqualified children half the time who dont even know manners and respect. Stefan wont change that, since its been part of his way of making money.  

Sorry, I just feel like proposing a sensible solution to a glaring issue is a little more productive than "give up," so yeah.  

Me ( who is trying to become admin and turned in application ) find this true showing favoritism to some when ur an admin is like the presidents best friend gets the royal treatment which obviously not fair I get what your saying  

People don't make iServers to let people have fun. They make them because they have a lot of potential for making money. Which is why there's been so many hat updates. They aren't going to care about this problem unless there are like 100 complaints about it.  

True  

Posted by bdog15

Me ( who is trying to become admin and turned in application ) find this true showing favoritism to some when ur an admin is like the presidents best friend gets the royal treatment which obviously not fair I get what your saying

Favoritism happens everywhere. Whether it's because of power, loyalty or money.  

Allowing immature and irresponsible administrators, who seem to do nothing more than tower, consistently ban players outside of their guild doesn't strike me as profitable. Something's gotta be done one way or another, I've heard of it happening too often and I've already experienced it in my brief time outside of the spars.  

Yes that's true I find this honestly unfair  

It's not as if every admin does it. Rufus has handled US for a while and I've never, ever heard of him do anything close to this. He actually witnessed me get warped out of the arena due to a glitch in one GST (when I was sparring for US) and didn't want to bother mentioning it or interfering simply because it'd look like something like favoritism or bias. There are obviously others who I wouldn't suspect of this.

There are just some guilds who make it a point to recruit admins and it seems like it's for this reason, and for the sake of Graal and towering being competitive and enjoyable at all, it should stop. Envy and Aster can't be allowed to continue to throw their admin weight around for Vintage, and that's just an example. There are more.  

Indeed my friend indeed

If I do become admin like I plan to do imma gonna be the best  

TL;DR Adiams get no freinds  

Staff aren't allowed to use their powers in forts. Nor are they allowed to have a "presence" there by standing on the wall or whatever or showing off around others. If so, then they probably shouldn't of been hired in the first place. Non-staff accounts are fair game, however. I mean aside from being a staff, they are players, you know? That would suck if you started working here then Xor one day tells you you aren't allowed to guild spar or tower because they're worried that you may influence others in wanting to join. Which is like saying if you work for Classic you aren't allowed to have fun.

I'm not saying you're wrong about there being some staff who abuse their powers. Thing is, they were never really allowed to. And if they were they probably would've been fired already.