Help: Why archwizards are assholes
There are 2 types of archwizards on Bat, active and inactive. Active
archs code and idle. Inactive archs idle.
You can rarely get in touch with an inactive arch, so they must be
assholes for ignoring you.
You almost always can get the attention of an active arch. Because
there are so few active archs they are swamped with requests. These
requests are 99% of the time something that is in the help files or
something any player could answer. This makes most archs cranky.
Now, to make bat a little less chaotic, most everything that gets
installed in the game goes through an arch. This insures that at least
one other person has looked at the code and caught any obvious problems.
Now, since there are so few archs this job is time consuming. This
makes most archs very tired.
Bugs most often are also fixed by archs. Bat is huge, and as such any
change usually creates bugs. Archs are usually the ones most
qualified to track down and fix bugs without causing even more problems.
On average however, this takes about 60% of an arch's non-idle connect
time. This annoys most archs.
Then, archwizards read news and find out that many players just want
to make problems, or whine about the game. Most often players are very
rude and have no regard for the time archs (and other wizards) put into
even making this place playable at all. This angers most archs.
Now after all this, there is very little (if any) time for an arch to
code what he/she wants to do. Without such creative outlets the game
becomes pointless. This depresses archs.
So now you see that archs generally get cranky, tired, annoyed, angry
and depressed just about every day. Now, when you ask for something
stupid or inane, be happy the archwizard just doesn't go off the deep
end and rm your character, your dog, your wife, your house etc..
While archwizards might be assholes now, you can see that they could
(and should) be much worse.
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