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[princeinexile]

DO NOT JOIN luceat_eis!

DO NOT JOIN luceat_eis!

DO NOT JOIN luceat_eisThis is the most ridiculous application process I have ever went through. My initial app was thin, -- but twice over I bulked it up at mod's request till it was sitting about 13 pages. I was finally accepted-- after they sat on it for two days and only one mod looked at it

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[lunabo]

I don't see what the problem is with creating a new journal. Yeah, you have to switch between journals. But the idea was that each character would have a unique journal, starting out fresh, connected to this game only. Basically, no past entries or anything. It's not the first rp that I've had to create a journal for.
But you know you really don't need to pay to start a journal, right. Most of us just have the upgraded free journal, and that has 15 icons right there and basic good stuff.
Well, I'm sorry that the journal thing put you off. Good luck with other rps!

[princeinexile]

It's that I've spent money to use this journal; it's got all the icons I use already loaded, it's got a nice shiny layout, it's ... well, it's paid for.

So, why should I make a lesser journal, with less stuff, for a brand new game, when I have a perfectly good journal right here?

Sorry, but that's unacceptable -- especially when no where in the rules stated that I needed to have a journal JUST for this game, etc. It was made up on the spot, and I was not given an out despite that I had already spent a week working on getting approved.

Sorry, but it was an unreasonable request and poor modding. You can have fun with it, but I'm not going to do anything but warn people against the game. The mods are bad. End of story.

[callie_chan]

Actually, the application process used to be a lot more arduous - the current mods have made it a hell of a lot more accessible to everyone. I did seven different write-ups of my Sephiroth application, four of which were total scrap-and-rewrites(although they did warn me that they were going to be particularly strict for such a powerful, prone-to-god-modding character).

Honestly? And this has nothing whatsoever to do with your bashing a game I love, because I don't expect LE to be for everyone - your complaint is ridiculous. You don't need a paid journal to play in LE, or any other LJ game I've ever heard of, and making a new journal is easy; I've done it dozens of times. You could easily have made a free journal for Zuko that would have been more than acceptable to all the mods of the game. And believe me, using the same journal for several different games is confusing enough for everyone else - maybe not confusing for you, but for the people who play with you - that I wouldn't blame any mod for refusing to let you into the game on

[princeinexile]

My problem is this; There was no rule stating it, so why should I be punished for breaking a rule that didn't exist until I requested permission to do it?

There was no rule broken. I merely wouldn't comply with an unreasonable request: I had a fully functional paid LJ with icons and features. They wanted me to use a new livejournal. I didn't want to. They booted me for a rule that hadn't existed until AFTER I joined.

Bad modding, all around.

[callie_chan]

You weren't punished. You were asked to do something for the benefit of the other players and refused. That's not exactly an attitude mods like to see.

Also, one of the reasons it wasn't a rule is because it's never needed to be a rule before. I never realized people actually allowed playing the same journal in different games concurrently; it sounds incredibly inconvenient and confusing.

And you weren't exactly booted just for refusing to comply with something the mods asked of you - you were booted because you got pissy with said mods about being asked to do what really is a very simple thing. They even offered to pay for a new character journal for you, by their own admission. You can't tell me that's the action of an unreasonable person, willing to shell out money for you just to make you more comfortable when a free journal would serve your purposes just as well.

[princeinexile]

I have been asked by someone else to no longer respond to you in specific. :) But I'm just going to freeze these threads because apparently, you're not seeing where I'm coming from at all. I'm sorry you can't, but apparently... eh, you're just not seeing it.

Have a nice day!

[princeinexile]

I did the app, and the process didn't bother me so much as the fact that they were inflexible about a rule that hadn't existed until I apped.

So, it's not the appliaction -- it's the sudden turn aruond of 'you're approved!' and then 'oh wait, you're rejected because you want to use something you've paid for! Well, we say you have to use something else! We're making a rule about it RIGHT NOW.'

...sorry, but it's two-faced. You can love the game. The players seem to be top notch. The mods, on the other hand, are ridiculous.

[zenostortoise]

I'm sure someone explained this to you when you were talking to the mods, though no one did so in this entry, so I just thought I'd clarify in case someone skipped over it

[princeinexile]

If these other games-- and I have several people who follow my character's actions through games they're not even in from games they are in-- can handle saying 'Oh, this has a MILLIWAYS TAG' or 'this has an APHARSITES TAG' I do not see why the players of luceat_eis are special enough to warrent NOT having to do the same.

Ferox Academy had the same idea; Zuko's IC journal was kept here. His entries were clearly flagged. ALL the entries are. But apparently this is good enough for several other games, but not good enough for luceat_eisWhen this was explained to the mods, they said that it wasn't good enough, and that I was out of luck. I call this being inflexible and intractable. Therefore, bad moderation. Bad moderation means I warn people away from the game so they don't get frustrated going through the app process when they encounter moderators who don't know their jobs or how to do things like compromise or work with a player

[slayer_fray]

*snerks*
Ah, I love the smell of wank in the morning.

"IT DOESN'T LOOK PROFESSIONAL!!11!"
Riiight, because, y'know, heavens forbid we get amateur roleplayers around here.

Me, I'm preserving my amateur status so I can roleplay in the Olympics, so I guess I'll have to stick to games in which people are able to read tags and subject lines and are bright enough to realise that the world (and other journals) don't revolve around their one little game.

Also, 13 pages of app? Seriously? I find reading reading the apps we get for apharsites time consuming. I guess this is because role-playing is only a hobby to me, not my profession. *sigh*

And you have no idea how much I get annoyed at having to switch journals from this to grabber_fray all the time. But, this journal wouldn't have worked for pre-canon Mel.

Zuko's journal, which is one of the best RP journals around (seriously, who did your layout? It's gorgeous ;-) ) works perfectly for all the incarnations you play.

Bah to them, I say. You're better off playing with us, anyway.

[princeinexile]

You've killed me with the concept of the roleplay olympics.

I think you take the gold for Mary Sues Becoming Believable Women. I think I take Incestuous Freaky Creeps Gold, though. And maybe emo Princes Silver. (There are so many yaoi RPs with good emo whiny princes, I'm lucky I managed to get silver.)

But yes, I suppose you're right. Better to play where there's friendship, camraderie and no hoop jumping for a chance to play in The Big Leagues... =

[slayer_fray]

Aw, shucks.

I doubt it though, there's a whole bunch of canon Sues out there. I'm tempted to suggest Heater of Alanna-and-Elizabeth fame would be up there. My girls tend towards walking-plot-devices than actual honest-to-god Mary Sues.

You know, except for the snarky thief with a heart of gold and superpowers. She's totally a Mary Sue.