However, those kids don't have a choice about staying or leaving, they have to stay.

Players here are here for fun, and can vote with their feet and wallets. It will be gutting to a lot of people to loose that many items / exp. They will walk. Punishing everyone here will be detrimental to the whole.

With all the experience a Psychology degree brings, I promise you that you are making a mistake by doing this to the players.

Please rethink your actions before it is too late - and let the "balance" see to itself.

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No customers = no money = no jobs

But while this seems logical to everyone in the game, the Mir staff have proven on many occasions now that they really have no idea what they are doing.

What I don't understand is that what toobad and benin did was 100x more invasive as far as unbalancing the game - yet there was no roll backs done then. So why now?

I say delete the offending players accounts (which they have done in both cases) and life goes on.

MIR get your shi& together.

Anyways I don't really care anymore, just when I thought I'd seen everything in a game that could be skanky, this happnes, this game is plagued by corruption.

And instead of doing what they know should be done, improving the community between players and gms, they screw the players again. Because believe it or not - there are good people in this game playing it.

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As usual Kristel a well thought out post.

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Thank you!

I just logged on to see how many people were online and it was <600. However, to my dismay, I logged on next to a ZumaT. Thankfully, at level 26, my Tao is able to hold her own. However, it did make me think that there is no chance of a reprive in the rollback now. It's certain to happen, and I have to say that it is a shame.

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- When you see the light at the end of the tunnel, always make sure it isn't the headlight of an oncoming train!

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Oh and hi Kristel and Jup :)

Sorry came back to see if it had got any better ... guess not :(

Scytale, ex-Tao
Find me at http://www.darkageofcamelot.com

Good to see you around Missed you both!

Do send me an email from time to time - I love to hear from you!
K xx

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If these people live in the UK there are definately ways to get it done, regardless of who was hacked.

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I logged on next to a ZumaT. Thankfully, at level 26, my Tao is able to hold her own.

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SIG CORRUPT: Just like it's owner.

With the masive lag that was brought to us whiel the happenings were goin on i died droppin my serp and pretty much anything usfull. i had no cash as i had just been scammed, in fact i had given mir up!

I had, had enough no serp no cash nothing, then i get a mail from my mate saying about the rewind, how bloody happy could i be, i get my serp restored my cash, and a new name for KOS who had no longer scammed me.

It may be bad for those that killed ZT and got killer items, but still a rewind is perfect, for those that had lag death and they were in their 100ds.

So i am happy, and let it be if people walk they walk, everyone will walk sumtime. even you Kristel

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As i am a fan of yours Kristel i dissagree with this post.

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I used to play text based muds back at Uni, and found that a very enjoyable experience, so after catching LOM show on game-network one too many times I thought 'why not?'.

I started playing LOM about two weeks ago. I went p2p after two days of playing because
- The game seemed fun.
- There were some friendly players (but also a lot of a-holes)
- I figure if I was paying, then I could expect some level of 'proffesionalism' in the way the game was run. i.e. Fairness and Responsiveness.
- I was getting tired of Unreal Tournament.

I havent really played LOM enough to cast judgement on wether its worth playing, but my opinion after about 25 hours play ( to level 13 Tao ) is that the game is unbalanced, bland, and irritating. I would say all these would be excusable if
- We knew they might be improved.
- There was a good social aspect - I know there is a good one among earlier LOM players, and within guilds.. but as a newbie logging in for the first time 1000+ players makes you feel pretty lonely in a big crowd.

Unfortunately I dont get a lot of time to play LOM - so this weekend when I spent 10+ hours - monotonously hacking away at the same 5 or 6 low level mobs, in the same old scenery, using the one spell available to me at level 10-13. I got extremely irritated and boring . In fact I was kinda wondering why someone wasnt paying me to stare at the screen clicking my mouse button and pressing F1. Not fun at all. But I figured, there must be better spells, more interesting mobs, different scenery, better items just round the corner.

Anyway, today I logged in after long day at work - thinking okay lets relax and enjoy a bit of online rpg.. hmm... WTF. No way am I going to spend my afternoon as one of a 1000+ players trying to regain some xp points and 3 levels just because someone who has my money decides my fun (and the enjoyment of 1000s) is not as important as 'restoring the balance'. Isnt the 'balance' there to make it enjoyable and challenging for the players? or is it just wall for GMs to hide behind.

The 5-day free thing, nice gesture, but amounts to nothing. I pay because I want to enjoy my time in LOM - its not about number of days, its about the time I spent advancing a character in the hope that it would be more fun (the unbalanced part) later on.

If it had been a system crash, then fine, I can let that one slide, but what gets me is why the actions of less than a handful means that thousands of paying customers are 'punished'. Frankly I do not want to play a game where the Rules are decided in such a way. I mean WTF?? How did they come to that conclusion as the best way to resolve this problem?? It begs the question : do they even want to pretend that they are considering the customers LOM experience? ; or to they just think we are all gullible geeks who will keep throwing our money at them regardless because they are providing such a unique and good service.

The other thing that really irks me is why have they just simply disabled these crackers (not hackers - there is a big difference) accounts. My real-life (tm) job involves a lot of system and network security. If any commercial system I maintain was cracked, and any non-public information was stolen (passwords which allow access services which are paid for are property with monetory value) and we had solid evidence leading to some one (and IP). We would not simple just ask their ISP to shut the offenders accounts down, we would probably ask the police to request that the offenders be identified so that we could at least send them a huge compensation claim (to be persued in court if necessary) for the damage caused.

I generally avoid these forums because they seems to be full of whiners and unfortunately they seem a lot more vocal (and prolific) than the interesting posts. But reading through a few of the threads make me regret buying into LOM. To be fair to LOM, it seems some of the staff here are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They cant win because they arent in control. It doubt they are just sitting back and not trying to get updates and improve things. But as a paying customer - thats really shouldn't be my problem.

I really wish I had found LOM a lot earlier - because you high levellers geniunely seem to be having fun (if not in game, then in your role in the game). But I fear right now the number and type of players (more your mass market - than you die hard rpg fan) has changed LOM for the worse. LOM needs to change a hell of a lot before I would consider playing it again.

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Geezz what a long moan.. if your still reading then wow!! you fool :)

As the name suggests this is my first and last post and probably my last time in LOM.. I'll probably check in from time to time to see how things develop.

Good luck with your decisions on wether to stay or walk, and if you stay - the have fun in LOM - its the people that make it work cos the system sure is ****ed.

This rewind has effected all the mir players, and in numerous different ways. Some, like yourself, have had their situations improved, some of just lost time lvling (spells or char), and others have lost rare items or a lot of money. But all in all i'd wadger that the resonding effect through out mir is a negative one.

I don't mean to single you out because i have heard many ppl say it's a good thing because now they get their ....(insert item here) back. But it seems to me like a very selfish point of view. If i had lost an item, i won't lie to you i'd be very happy that the rewind happend ,but, there's no way i'd say it was a good thing. So many ppl were hurt by this ridiculus act,and many will leave bcuz of it. Especially the higher lvl ppl that have been bored to death for the past few months.

The mir comunity has been begging for the staff to do sumthing for us, and instead of helping us they grabbed us by our collective nutts and squeezed.

Firstandlastpost, maybe I can help you get some exp back. With you being new to this maybe it would help if I took you on a hunt to show you the ropes as it were? Taos can be quite powerful, but it takes us a while to get there! send me an email.

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The way i see it if i hadnt have been sick and been at work I would have only spent 3-5 hours lvling instead of the 30 i lost. So what is the point in having sick leave from work if its screwed off u. By the time i go back to work I may have got to the point in the game where i was at before, so i havent wasted 3 days I've wasted 6 days and only been credited 5 days - so somewhere there i have lost 1 day from my paid account.

Another point here is what about the ppl on Phoenix, why wasnt they rewound the same amount, they are just as innocent as I am but they are still getting 5 free days. So not only isnt there as many mobs on Dragon, we get punished as well, something here is wrong bigtime.

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they spawned many mobs, killed them and picked up the drops. from Hober on the FAQ page

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I don't see what all the hoo haa is about. The only people affected were those that found something good, this was offset by those that lost something good.

All the others that bought and sold things can buy them again or sell them again, there's no real need to make this the end of the world!

I can remember once playing UO they warped back 9 days because of a bug that allowed people to duplicate things.

In the end, the good of the game is more important than the good of any individual. Acts that unbalance the game are a big threat. I would suggest the only reason they didn't do it with the Benin, Malerin, Toobad incident was because it had been going on for a while and they would have had to warp some 2 weeks!

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