I'll be deleting this thread tomorrow morning, because it obviously has become more about Dizzy's problems with me and others than about actually helping the community. In the meantime, I would like to say a few things.
First, Dizzy, nobody usurped Rook's Tavern from you. A number of people, mainly RMs, were told by Rook that he would be stepping away from hosting. Before he made that decision, some people were approached about helping him to design the next RT. Some of these people ended up on the RT3 team, others came into the team other ways. Specifically, Castrin had been hosting a server, and showed not only an interest in continuing the RT tradition, but a willingness to use his own equipment and resources to do so. Max Torps was also considering picking up the RT name. How Castrin inherited it I don't know -- I always thought Max preferred at the time to stick with his own plans, but you'd have to ask Max about that.
Regardless, Castrin ended up with Rook's OK to use the RT name, and some of us joined the team because we wanted RT3 to live up to Rook's reputation for groundbreaking campaigns. We very seriously considered inviting you, Dizzy, to join us. We discussed it looking very frankly at what good you could bring to the team vs. the flame wars that usually got attached to your name, whether you started them or not. In short, you were potentially more trouble than we thought you were worth to the team. Were we wrong? Maybe, but here we see that even after all this time, you hold unfounded grudges, tear into people with no concern for THEIR feelings, and generally attract a negative air to anything associated with you.
I'm sorry if our decision not to include you hurt you that much. I certainly didn't think you were so mortally wounded by it. In fact, I thought when you went on to do Slave Girls that your ideas were great strides forward in campaign design. I didn't agree with all of them, but you were among those admins who were trying new things to make the game better. We all learned from each others' experiments, or at least I hope we did.
I'll say again, and it's true, that I have not paid one bit of attention to the plans for the latest SG server. I had no knowledge of the schedule that people have been talking about. I simply wanted to get feedback from the players on what they might like to see from SFCX on OP, and suddenly the thread degenerated into fits and accusations.
I'll also say again that I would welcome a move to OP for SG. It's where SG started, and I think it should continue there.
For me, I'm only still here to try to make the OP D2 playable, fun, and deep. I think we are approaching the day when that will be true. The rest of the SFCX team shares that goal, that dream. Most, even all, of us would have given up on SFC at one point or another if it had not been for the rest of the group pushing us to keep going, to keep trying to find ways to earn the game the respect it can live up to given a chance.
Dizzy, you are a lightning rod, and that won't ever change. You DO leave a bad taste in some people's mouths, because they can't stomach your style and persona. You invoke bile, and sometimes it's pretty foul. You aren't the first person on these boards to cultivate a reputation for being harsh and even heartless toward others, only to then play the victim when you feel the least bit slighted. I'm sorry if our "snub" hurt you, and still does, but I can't do anything more to make things right with you. Someday you will have to forgive us for it, or you won't. It's your choice. If you want to move forward in goodwill, we will be there with you, despite our differences, for the good of the players and the game. If you prefer to turn your back on us and blame us for an old wound forever, then we can only go our separate ways and pay you no heed. We can't continue to be adversaries, because we just don't hate you that much. So, either we become allies, or we become indifferent towards you. Either way, we will continue to work on campaigns for the players.
Respectfully,
Douglas McKinney
PS to the SFCXers: I'm sorry if I spoke for you out of turn. Feel free to correct me if my reading of the group's feelings on this are wrong. Either way, I speak for myself, and I stand by my words and actions.
Topic: SFCX OP Campaign: Your Thoughts? (Polls) (Read 12159 times)