Greetings,

To be honest after seeing the first list of candidates I got a bit worried for
the future state of the mud. Thus, I decided to try to prevent the reign of
egomaniacs and place myself as a candidate. I started in '99 after my brother
introduced me to the game. Since then I've been here playing or ranting on
certain channels. So I have a quite good perspective how things work around
here.

If I would have to say the three biggest problems in the game the list would
be as follows:

1) Balance: Probably the hardest one to solve, since new content always
creates increase of stability like in any system. I think the balance problems
already in the game should be high on the priority list because they have a
huge effect on the playability. The council could be the body to supervise the
balance of the game. For example, I could mention the utter domination of
barsoomians as offtanking.

2) Useless annoyances: The game is full of totally useless annoyances that
have no clear reason to exist. Unfortunately, usually the creator finds them
'funny' or 'working as intended' and refuses to do anything to them. I
understand that everything isn't meant to be fluffy and fun but I can't
understand the reason to put something in the game that doesn't bring any
rational content and just causes the players to bleed from the butt. As an
example, the ship trainer recruitment is totally ridiculous. The player may
have to run to certain places for years and still not get anything.

3) Crazy rewards: There's been many great events in the past few years that
are as an event a very good idea but the problem is with the rewards. I guess
almost everyone knows which events I'm talking about. The biggest mistake is
to put some big boss monsters to drop some unique gear because we all know the
result. Tons of whine, player vs player accusations and loot stealing. Greed
is a powerful trait after all. Also the awards shouldn't be overly powerful
compared to the effort they required to make. It really kills your motivation
to play normally if it doesn't reward you enough compared to some once per 6
months event. The solution is quite simple. Do not make the rewards topend
super stuff. The best option would be to make the rewards something that is
not +power but rather an huge +dicksize special. This problem has also a
direct link to my problem number 1.

- Turmio