Hello friends,
I've been asked to move the discussion here to get answers, I hope this is the correct section, if not I apologize. So, I will just reiterate my points and hope for answers.
I know I had a bit of a rough start in this server with you guys when I first started playing and I'd like to formally and officially apologize that - addressing this specifically to Knux and Dkill - it wasn't right from me to behave in such way towards you guys, it wasn't fair from me and I am deeply sorry. I think since then I've changed my behavior for the better, but I might be wrong, you be the judge of that. Now to the point of discussion
Today I've been kicked from the server for the reason "Helping banned players join server". I do admit I am aware of this player's repeated attempts to connect and play, as I saw members of the TM admin team ban him under various fake nicks a few times with the reason "plain", but I can assure you that I really don't play together with said player on the server (in a sense that I or him would tell each other to connect and play together, hang out on voice or whatever else you think). I know him from the gathers server, just like I know many other players from there who got banned here on TM...and I do respect your decision to ban them, it is after all your server and your choices. As for this specific player, he's an adult person with free will and I cannot influence his actions, if he decides to go around the ban and play anyway I think it's a bit unfair to punish me for it - specifically because I really have no knowledge of that and even if I had, I cannot influence it in any way. I play the game for myself, not for others. I really don't understand where you got the idea that we come here to play together, it's simply false. And I play the game for myself and myself only - I'm willing to take responsibility for my actions, but I really don't understand why I should be punished for something that someone else is doing.
Another point was raised by Knux about me wearing the #FREEPLAIN tag - the first day I put it on I was contacted ingame by TM admin lo$t and we had a discussion about it - from that dicussion I thought that wearing the tag is fine (to quote lo$t as to not mischaracterize what was said - "I did not say it is ok, but I said it is not against the rules, this is a difference"). But now it seems to me that one specific TM member Knux seems to be really focusing on the fact I wear the tag, so I would like to ask for you to settle the debate - is the tag or ok or not? I shall abide by the decision you come to, whatever it may be (in the past I've also stated multiple times, that if any TM member has a problem with me wearing the tag, they can come forward and I have no issue removing it)
Lastly, I've been told by another TM member a following sentence "if you keep trolling or beeing nuisance in any way in forum then you will be muted or kicked". I was really not at all aware of the fact that I was being a nuisance or trolling - except for my first few days on the server, which I once again apologize for. From what I can recollect, I was never really warned/kicked/talked to about my behavior in the server and I thought I was always behaving according to the rules. If this is not the case, I ask anyone of you in TM to please step forward - either here, ingame, or discord DMs, whatever you prefer, and if you feel like I've mistreated you or behaved badly, please tell me so, the last thing I would want to do is to cause anyone harm or make them feel uncomfortable - and also I selfishly, believe it or not, I don't want to be kicked/banned - I just want to be left alone to play the game in peace. My issue with this is also that - how can I know that I'm not behaving in line with the rules or how someone feels like I should behave when I'm being left in the dark - I have no issue changing my behavior if there's something wrong I'm doing, but so far I've never been warned/told anything and therefore I assumed everything is ok. Therefore it comes as a big shocker to me to be presumed to be "trolling and being a nuisance"
I hope we can resolve this issue peacefully, as I really like playing on the server, I've met and really like a lot of you guys and I hope our ET journey together can continue moving forward.
Now directly to Knux - I feel like this is more personal than anything about breaking rules/behaving badly etc. so please, as I already said in server - if there is any issue and you feel like you want to talk it out, my DMs in discord are open mate
If you made it here, thank you for your time and I hope you have a nice evening,
semik