Now let me tell you what it is like to be an admin. Once you make admin you might as well forget leveling. You constantly get #tells from people asking you to do quest or people getting pissed cause you won't do quest. When you finally do get the server in order. What is the use. You work hard on a quest and think maybe someone will enjoy it, but instead, what do you get? I will tell you what you get """WAA WAA WAA""" and why is that. Cause someone is not getting his or her way,or they didn't get enough experience or someone else is getting more.
I was interested in Hubba's description of what it's like to be an admin... Some admins tell me they never get emails, they never get msn's , they never get anything from the players...
let me tell you about my experience and why i still love the job...
When i log on the server... or give a WAXXUP from being afk... some of the time i get no response. sometimes a few friends will say hello and we chat about many different things... it is nice...
but most times i just sit and listen to the conversation in global while i watch the different asshats run about creating havoc while my screen is full of #tells, #zones, #groups, or #party and sometimes the combination of all of them.... usually so many of them i cant follow the conversations...
PLUS
i am trying to read the emails, look at screen shots, read thru the almost endless posts, research individuals on the doghouse or thru my personal notes to work out punishments or warnings, resolving the too numerous disputes that makes everybody crazy, scripting, questing, troubleshooting a n00bs character or scripts, answer the msn's and the yahoo messenger, eat, take a shower, get the kids ready for bed, talk to the wife, feed the dog, answer the phone, catch up on paperwork for work....
doesn't leave much time for anything... especially leveling cause even tho I am sitting at the keyboard, working my arse off to make things better for the many ingrates that inhabit the server... someone mugs me or even kills me and i didn't even notice cause i am so overwhelmingly busy....
and then there is the parade of sycophants that make the job entertaining... from career criminals begging to be let out of jail cause they didn't deserve to be incarcerated... to the n00bs who want the next spell for their character or those who don't know how to use Tokath to find the next zone to level in... to those who cant get along and constantly argue in global spamming up everybody's screen... making the noobs crazy... making me crazy...
and then the questors... never enough exp, someone else got more, crying over the fact that they were afk and missed half of it... or somebody is mugging them , somebody is targeting them, somebody is stopping them from getting a fair share...
oh... not to forget the other staff members telling me that i am the root of the problems, i am the cause of the unhappiness, or that i dont understand the dynamics of the server, or i dont have an understanding of the balance, or i don't know what it was like before the previous clears, or i dont know the characters or their historys and personalities well enough blah blah blah...
why do i still do it? why do i still love it? am i crazy? maybe so...
but i will tell you that out off the massive amounts of problems that i encounter everyday, the difficulties and the turmoil... there is only one thing that makes it all worth the effort...
one simple word... speaks volumes... lifts the spirits, causes the heart to soar high above the normal day's troubles... sometimes brings a tear to the eye... just one word will do all that and more...
Thanks...
pretty silly huh?