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Onderwerp: To all Moderators

I have been reading all the posts on the resetting of 2 players, I have not been able to read some because they were shut down, but I believe I have a clear understanding of the issue, not what was done to create a claim of cheating but the treament to those 2 players by the moderators.

I like many have asked questions and have not received an answer, I like many believe the reset was wrong and far too harsh, I like many consider stable and speed 2 completely different games.

The issue of what was done to the 2 players has been a very long and drawn out problem, very little was known by all but as the questions and chat continued information was discovered, information that changed the whole outlook on the Moderators decision to the point where the Moderators have to answer some very serious questions.

I know that there are several Moderators that did not know or believe the reset was the correct decison {behind closed doors}, I also understand that their are several who had no idea why Stable was reset {behind closed doors}, but I was amazed to read what one of the players wrote about the moderators knowledge.



{whamra1987 wrote "regarding conan.... are you even a speed player? you yourself said you're a stable player"}

Whamra1987 has admitted something, the 2 bloody games are seperate!!!!!!!



Wolfieke posted this chat with Whamra1987
  {"Ok you got me.I understand the resets are final, but I still don't understand why stable was reset when two mods said on global this is not done and 3 mods and Thijs did not know about the reset on stable (and that's the ones I asked, don't know about the rest)"

My question is this, if some Moderators did not know or agree with the reset on stable why was it reset, surely someone has to take responsibility for the resetting without informing the other moderators. The person or persons responsible failed to communicate with their fellow moderators and made a decision that is opposed by players and moderators, so why is it continueing, the majority say it is wrong, a couple of moderators took it upon themselves to implement a very unpopular reset, so why has the decision to reinstate the players not occurred.

This now leads to a very serious matter, based on what is now public knowledge that some moderators were kept in the dark on the resetting of players in stable as well as speed, then the serious question is what else has been withheld from them about the information on the allegations of cheating.

If they did not know about the stable reset then surely it is not unrealistic to accept that they did not know all the information on the cheating allegations and if this the case then it is deplorable that this has been allowed to continue.

How can players be reset without all moderators agreeing to it, someone has made that decision illegally, without proper consultation. Who is running this, is there a hiden agenda, by what has happened in all the forums on this problem it has caused discredit to the game, if the moderators do not know who is doing what then the game is in trouble.

To stop all this mess so no more posts are done, so no more censorship is imposed on forum topics, do the right action and reset the players on stable, then open the case against the 2 players and get all the information to all moderators, consult properly with the players in question and make a decision, please do not tell me the decision has been made, i know that all players know that but we also know that all information was not given to all moderators which makes that decison invalid. So do it and be transparent, let the players in this game be informed, get feed back on ways to improve the game and let the game get back to a higher standard than what has happened because of the decisions made.

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TL:DR Can you sum it up a little?

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conan schreef:

My question is this, if some Moderators did not know or agree with the reset on stable why was it reset, surely someone has to take responsibility for the resetting without informing the other moderators. The person or persons responsible failed to communicate with their fellow moderators and made a decision that is opposed by players and moderators, so why is it continueing, the majority say it is wrong, a couple of moderators took it upon themselves to implement a very unpopular reset, so why has the decision to reinstate the players not occurred.

i would like to ask if doompope knows of all of hellikin's resets. or vice versa, if hellikin knows of all doompope's resets. or even better, if Daedeloth knows of all resets performed.
the simple answer, is NO.
guess what? we have times when more than 20~30 players are reset everyday for cheating. moderators *DO NOT* discuss every reset being performed.
there has been so far only *FIVE* resets with discussions between moderators, in all dolumar history. namely, veronica on stable, dmais on stable, wolfie on speed, veronica on speed. that's it.
we do not discuss every reset eing performed, or else the multi list would have been 3 page long still.
we have a hierarchal system to solve this. we have hunters and administrators. the hunters find the cheaters, and ask for reset, the admin reviews, and either approves ro rejects.
wolfie on stable was queued for reset by Ishtar, i reviewed and approved.
why? wolfie had a multi, Cinderella. she claims she told Daedeloth about and all, we got no wind of this. the account has been running for quite a while. what wolfie said might be true, but she never reported the account for a moderator or administrator. she reported it to a developer who failed to answer, and who doesn't even perform moderating work because he's too busy developing. did she go on and report it to a moderator? no. i open the multi list, and there it is, wolfie and cinderella, opened on same computer, in same period of time. i review cinderella's email, and wow, that's wolfie's email even. no one ever told me about her situation. it was a crystal clear case of multying, i see the very same scenario a dozen times per day, the reset got approved by me.

edit: the fifth is patron on stable

just that guy... remember him? didn't expect you to...

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Once again you claim Cinderella was the reason, when Cinderella was you and Ishtar digging to find a reason to cover up your mistakes.
Why was DrV reset on stable this time, not the one from months ago, and reinstated now.
What are you, multi hunter or admin. You have claimed to be both.
Why did you mislead everyone by talking about moderator*team* and devolopers*team*.
Maybe Doom doesn't know about Helli's reset and visa versa because the make sure they are right, and when they are wrong they admit it and apologize for it.

and not that I realy care, but why is my stable account still not reinstated?

edit: and same time? There where months between it.
Stop lying.

Laatst bewerkt door Wolfieke (2010-04-11 10:54:35)

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Lets try to some this up.

I have made a mistake in the past (multi account). After recieving a pm about that, I reseted the biggest account myself and apologized for it.
I had a friend wanting to play this game too (it is a fun game, people want to play it big_smile), but she had no computer. So I let her use mine and one of my emails since you need to give up an email to play this game.
After a while she stops playing it (not knowing if she will come back or not), I start using her account. A player (again a player not a mod) informs me this is also wrong. I quit and ask Daed to resolve this.
Daed doesn't help. I ask Smaug, he tries to help, fails. Daed doesn't help.
I go on playing and injoining the game. After getting many complaints Daed starts using his lines: I trusthed the mod team, I leave the moderating to the mod team.
Speed IS confusing. Us players post al sort of things on global forum, more confussing, ask alot of thing to mods and Daed, more confussing. I cast tornado's on Hello in vmode, Hello comes online, doesn't say a thing. Two days later, Ishtar freaks out to DrV.
Ishtar tells me nothing. Ishtar has to post this question herself: http://en.forum.dolumar.com/topic/214/tornado/. After I pm Ishtar, she tells me I should know it is a bug and report it?
After hearing half a story (and not knowing what goes on on speed) Vilmore (the so called developersteam agreeing with resets) yells out bugabuse, cheater. DrV and me get reset on speed and stable, no questions or explanation asked.
I think the mod team and the dev team has discussed this properly so I let it be and take my punnishment.
Players start discussing it on global, post and topics get removed, players don't give up, a mistake comes up:

Hellikin mod:
Each server is independent.  Sins committed on one server have nothing to do with the other server.  I'm not aware of ANYONE who has been treated in the way described here.

Wolfie was not reset on stable.
Veronica had been reset on stable for a completely different issue (about a month or two ago).

After discussing this a little more, invisibleman (mod) repeats this. I start asking questions. More mods didn't know about stable getting reset.
I start asking more questions, player post some more on global forum. Posts and topics get removed.
Whamra post: the players involved can contact me.
What's wrong with this?: DrV and I where banned from chat and pm for a year on speed, 15 days on stable and from global forum. Only other way I know in the game is the catlabemail that (if I am correct) goes to Daed.
I start asking more questions to a mod (I trusth and I was still misled to believe there was a moderatingteam). Players post more things on global forum.
After a while I get tired of waiting, give in and send Hello a pm:

From:      Hello
To:     Wolfieke
Re:

    Wolfieke wrote on 04.04.2010 22:46:
    Ok you got me.
    I understand the resets are final, but I still don't understand why stable was reset when two mods said on global this is not done and 3 mods and Thijs did not know about the reset on stable (and that's the ones I asked, don't know about the rest)

ps: counting invisibleman would make 4 mods I know about.

Hello answers:

Thijs was on vacation during most of the incident.
as for stable, we noticed the cinderella account was active on your IP, and loa and behold, using your email address as well. digging back to see why this account has been allowed for a while, we find a message claiming you are a boy, and cinderella is your girlfiriend's account. but we all know you're not a guy now, and kelly trenson is your name tongue
so a reset was performed. it's not really related to happenings on speed, just happened in same timezone... and ppl like conspiracy theories

I ask the mod (I can trusth)(and the same mod I explained Cinderella too after a PLAYER reminded me that could cause a problem): Did you know the stable reset was about Cinderella?

He answers: That was not why it was originally reset... that's why it was still reset.

=> Hello lied.

Somewhere inbetween I ask Daed questions, he ignores me, after sending him a link off a global forum topic Daed tells me to talk with Vilmore, because he's the one keeping himself busy with the mods.
Funny, on of the mods:
I've never gotten to interact with Vilmore

me:
You're kidding I hope

mod:
But I'm not joking. I've never even spoken to Vilmore.

I do talk to Vilmore, he tells me yes, mistakes have been made, but there's nothing I can do about that (=> so DrV and I get to suffer from your mistakes and we players are going to have this over and over again?)


I sent a pm to all mods and devs I know (some true facebook => the things a player has to do to be able to contact some people)

I get an answer from Isthar, which to me only proves she does uses personal feelings in her decisions.
I get an answer from a mod feeling personaly insulting. Read the pms right, also talking to Whamra (the boy and Cinderella being my girlfriend thing => not in that pm)
I get an answer from an other mod: I am not going to lie for anyone. You were reset on stable for what happened on speed. The debating on if we should re-instate you stopped when Cinderella was found.
(=> Whamra you lied)
This is what a player has to do to get some answers?

Other things: Daed said in Dutch speed chat: players get an email if they get reset (where's mine from speed?)
        Daed said: Right, this doesn't work on netlog (so did you try and does this still not work? or did none get sent for stable?)

Please admit mistakes where made, clear DrV and my name, do something about it so this doesn't happen again, do something about the game so we can all start to have fun again.

Guess who's back big_smile
Some dog in a movie: play?

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when they reset stable ?

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whamra1987 schreef:

wolfie on stable was queued for reset by Ishtar

Not according to Ishtar

7 x 13 = 28

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can you stop complaining about this subject please? i still have contact with DrV sometimes and she doesn't want to play dolumar anymore, even if her account is restored and if she gets apologies... and wolfie is almost back at the same level she was reset at, so it doesn't matter that much anymore.
i don't say it was right what the mods did, in fact i'm against it too, but they aren't going to change their opinion and they are not going to give you more explanations on the forum... they have said many times that you have to pm them if you want to discuss it further, so stop complaining about it on the forum please

Stable didn't last, goodbye Dolumar.
mods can delete this account if they want to, maybe they'll do something usefull for once.

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Fatal_Error_shutdown schreef:

can you stop complaining about this subject please? i still have contact with DrV sometimes and she doesn't want to play dolumar anymore, even if her account is restored and if she gets apologies... and wolfie is almost back at the same level she was reset at, so it doesn't matter that much anymore.
i don't say it was right what the mods did, in fact i'm against it too, but they aren't going to change their opinion and they are not going to give you more explanations on the forum... they have said many times that you have to pm them if you want to discuss it further, so stop complaining about it on the forum please

I have contact with DrV as well, she tells me she wants it back.
I also like to make sure this doesn't happen again

edit: stable would take me months to get back at the same level

Laatst bewerkt door Wolfieke (2010-04-11 18:16:04)

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our chat log:

me: i don't know if you heard it yet, or if you don't want to hear it, but there is a huge discussion on the forum because you and wolfie got kicked
she: and? smile
me: there are a lot of people who think you should get your account restored smile
she:  I agree
         but how I feel anyway is even if they gave back my account? I'm done
         I'm just tired of all the bullshit

...

Stable didn't last, goodbye Dolumar.
mods can delete this account if they want to, maybe they'll do something usefull for once.

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Fatal_Error_shutdown schreef:

our chat log:

me: i don't know if you heard it yet, or if you don't want to hear it, but there is a huge discussion on the forum because you and wolfie got kicked
she: and? smile
me: there are a lot of people who think you should get your account restored smile
she:  I agree
         but how I feel anyway is even if they gave back my account? I'm done
         I'm just tired of all the bullshit

...

If you want it out, she told me she wants it back if only to kick Ishtars and Lolly's bum (or try and she didn't say bum)
Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's about doing the wright thing.
And about the level: I was ranked nr 7 on speed and nr 35 on stable, I still have a long way to go.

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it's impossible to restore your ranking, demo has now almost 4x more net worth then DrV when she was reset, so if you compare with the past, compare your net worth and not your position in the rankings

Stable didn't last, goodbye Dolumar.
mods can delete this account if they want to, maybe they'll do something usefull for once.

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Fatal_Error_shutdown schreef:

it's impossible to restore your ranking, demo has now almost 4x more net worth then DrV when she was reset, so if you compare with the past, compare your net worth and not your position in the rankings

Right, I can't check that (also many other things), the accounts have been reset.
I have the right to discus this. I tried pm, didn't work. I still would like some answers.

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well, i can't help you, and neither can other players... the only ones who can are the mods, and apparently they don't want to :s

Stable didn't last, goodbye Dolumar.
mods can delete this account if they want to, maybe they'll do something usefull for once.

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Fatal_Error_shutdown schreef:

well, i can't help you, and neither can other players... the only ones who can are the mods, and apparently they don't want to :s

Helli just did and did you read the news?

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euhm yes i did, but i just got back from vacation and i'm tired so i don't remember things as good as usual tongue

Stable didn't last, goodbye Dolumar.
mods can delete this account if they want to, maybe they'll do something usefull for once.

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If I am not mistaken there is still enough doubt about the cheating issue and the moderators telling the truth  {whamra1987 wrote: wolfie on stable was queued for reset by Ishtar}
Hellikin wrote
Not according to Ishtar

Moderators not united on this issue, claims of players not wanting to be reset and so on and on.
The one most important issue is the players were harshly and incorrectly delt with and both should be offered to be reinstated to the level they were when reset.

This semms to be the only issue on Global forum that has been hotly debated by all with the majority in favour of the players, we see DrV may never play Dolumar again, if that is an indication the moderators should fix the problem then put in place measures that will see this never happen again.

I have read wolfiekes posts and the story told is concise and legitimate, Whamra posts have far too many flaws and is very inconsistant, his story does not add up and so his credibility as a moderator has to be questioned.

Players like Fatal_Error_shutdown seem to want this to go away, but you must realise it cannot as it can and will happen to other players like you me and others, when you have people that lie controling who plays this game.

All the players putting post on here are fighting to make sure this is corrected and is never going to happen to another player. I do not see what the problem is, reinstate the players, put measures in place that will stop this issue happening again and place credible people in charge of this game, no players with hidden agendas, no players that lie, no players that are emotional and cannot make rational decisions based on facts and I mean ALL the facts. How simple is that, do it now and we all can go back and play the game, contribute to improving the game and most of all have fun.

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Hellikin schreef:
whamra1987 schreef:

wolfie on stable was queued for reset by Ishtar

Not according to Ishtar

Whamra can you explain this please.

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{whamra1987 wrote:
        wolfie on stable was queued for reset by Ishta, i reviewed and approved}

{Hellikin wrote:
    Not according to Ishtar}

Whamra approved a reset that did not exist, Ishtar has denied Wolfieke was listed for reset.

Whamra review and approved a reset on wolfieke because Ishtar had listed wolfkieke for a reset??? I smell a rat here, I hope the other moderators are reading all of this, it is getting messy with one of your own, the more this goes on the more we discover about Whamra. Maybe it is time for someone to take charge and get this situation back to normal, reinstate the players and deal with Whamra

Laatst bewerkt door conan (2010-04-13 06:17:56)

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ever considered the fact that 2 mods didn't realize we were discussing stable, and thought this was about speed when they answered?
ironically enough, yes you do, because you used it as your excuse for trashing moderators and their *confusion* as you said.
but here's the thing, to sum it for you.
the resets... are NOT getting reversed. even if we wanted to, it's *impossible* at the current time to restore them back due to technical difficulties resulting from the complicated design and handling of villages by the game.
resets are NOT shared with the rest of the moderators when performed, unless the moderator wanted to, and he is not obliged to at all, because every reset passes to a higher authority who reviews it, the administrator.
that said, the moderators were NOT randomely chosen based on some popularity contest. each and every moderator, was carefully hand-picked by me, Daedeloth and Vilmore. and later on, through moderator suggestions, that still, were reviewed carefully before getting approved. this was not applied to only 3 moderators, namely, morph, gonzalez (both are dutch), smaug (chosen by Daedeloth himself).
The Developers has chosen this team of moderators to be relieved of the daunting moderating task, and have more time for development. they review our work every other day, and comment as necessary. and yes, they ARE watching this thread, the replying is simply *my* job to be done, not theirs, unless they wanted to.
so take it this way, whether you like it or not, this is how the game is run. you have an issue, you complain to a moderator. the issue is with a moderator, complain to the administrator. both are supposed to answer. you have an issue with the administrator, you can file a support ticket to the developers directly. and that's as far as it can goes. if things are not changing, then they wont change. you can choose to continue playing, with the current confitions, or you can go trash the moderator team of another game, understood?

just that guy... remember him? didn't expect you to...

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I'm going to make this sort.

Speed sucks, stable is boring.
Nothing will change.

I quit this game.

Whamra I really hope you one day will understand you are a bad mod.

Bye all, have fun.

Grzt Wolfie.

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oh cool! can i have your runes please? specially those you took away... and weapons too, LOADS of'em would be fabulous!
thanks!!! big_smile:D

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David schreef:

oh cool! can i have your runes please? specially those you took away... and weapons too, LOADS of'em would be fabulous!
thanks!!! big_smile:D

So another wanker makes a stupid comment, what has happened to Wolfieke can happen to you. Is is a very sad day when a great player leaves because of a discredited moderator.
Yes Stable is very boring, so why not work on stable to improve the game, to speed it up. Loosing Wolfieke has made me think what is the use of playing this game, it has lost all of its fun, not enjoyable anymore.
The owners of the game have put an incompetent moderator who lies and misleads people on this game to the point they are driven away, so why are they not doing something to rectify the problem.
The other moderators why haven't you done something, you all read the posts and understand you have a dud, get rid of him, I think Wolfieke and DrV are worth more value to this game than him.
Just bloody do something!

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nag nag nag nag. all what i have seen so far in your posts. nag nag nag.
just play the game pal. big players made it boring, kicked everyone out. they had no one to kick anymore, they start kicking on forum and saying stupid nag nag nag comments. plzzzzzzzz.....
so are you saying that the 2 players wolfieke and drv is what all this game go around? it will crash with out em? big_smile funny game big_smile
so far i like it, played for 2 months, always destroyed, but i like the gameplay and design, kinda unique. interacted with mods only twice, they were nice. i avoid chat a bit though, only when i need help. i think the game needs more features, and more less agressive players.
*throws a magic charm of anti-nag* swooosh

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so we loose another player, Poppy has decided to quit, for bloody the sake of this game you moderators and owners do something, don't think just do, don't wait just do!!!!