Nard for GM

[Piateluca]

He is a very active user, is the most fair player ingame, and always help

[Kage]

Please read this forum's rules.

[Piateluca]

I did, what is wrong?

[Alige]

You need to make a poll.

[Piateluca]

Done, thanks.

[Alige]

Nard speaks english very well.
Nard is fair with everyone, never gets mad.
Nard helps anybody if he can.

Should I continue?

[Dark_Mag]

Voted yes, the reason is... erm... I'm very kind today.

Cheers, dark

[yourmistakes]

Contradiction Sense [Tingling]
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopi ... 98#p110998

[Nard]

I am not sure that this poll appears at the right moment, as I support mrgrey for new GM. but Thanks Tia for your trust.

For players, developers and admins who don't know me:
I am 58, married, 3 children, French, I can speak a little German.
Mechanical engineer, PhD (equivalent), I work as an university teacher in materials sciences.
Researcher in materials science (structure and behaviour modeling and computing). (Worked on IBM MVS, TSO/MVS, Bull Gcos sys 6 & 7, MacOS 3 to 7, symbolic calculus...)
My hobbies are:

• While playing music mostly on wind instruments and double bass, I used to do sound analysis & synthesis, synth programming and sequencing. occasionnaly recording engineer.
• Gaming (rpg, strategy, and flight simulation)
• Cooking

To show the community your attitude towards this whole GM thing I would like to ask those who think that they would make good game masters to answer a few questions. I think that this will help the players to judge you more objectively during the current GM voting.

This is NOT an official request from the GHP. You don't have to fill this out to become a game master. Not posting your answers in this thread will not affect your chance to be chosen by the GHP as a game master.

1. What is the best way to help a new player who just started playing the game in your opinion (when you are not a game master but just a normal player)?
2. When you would have the ability to spawn items using a GM command, who would get what from you?
3. You are a GM, get online and immediately receive reports about these behaviors by different players about different players. Please order them by your priority in dealing with them:
-advertisement for other servers
-botting
-insults
-not speaking english in public
-scamming
-spamming
4. A player disagrees with your decisions and starts to insult you in public. How would you react?

1. There is now a nice tutorial map. The way of helping changes a bit now. I think that the best way to help a player is to play with her/him for a while and see which are her/his needs. Generally, questions turn around client use or what to do. I think that completing quests in the "natural" order is the best way for smooth progression in game knowledge. I generally advise to read carefully what NPC say (I find some dialogs really fun) and to try several times the same NPC. I used to give pants and some other basic items but the new quests changed the needs. (better pants than hats for new players please!). I advised about wiki but try to have players use it only if they are stuck and can't complete a quest with friends, which is much more fun. When helping on more complicated quests I try to explain the underlying logic.
2. I would not use this ability unless express agreement or requirement from the GHP or administrators.
3.

• phishing (unlawful) or exploiting the interface leaks. This kind of scamming destroys the trust players have in this game's players, GMs and development team.

• Well, time to set some rules:
  1. Do not abuse other players (it means insults, swearing etc. directed to a particular person/s)
  2. No bots (and by botting I mean ANY AFK activity in game).
  3. No spamming/flooding (including trade spam).
  4. No begging.
  5. Speak English on public chat.
  6. RFC 1855.

  I do agree with this order.
• advertisement for other servers: is it really against the rules as long as there is no spamming?
• scamming is not against the rules as it can be a kind of role play.

4. A player can disagree with my decisions as long as he or she respects them. I would explain how he/she can complain about them. Insults: first I try to have a quieter dialog. If another GM is present online, I ask her/him to arbitrate; if not, I decide a temporary ban, according to the internal GM rules and after 3 warnings (rule 1).

I must add that neither the fact that I am a CRC leader nor my personal feelings for a particular player/character will influence me when wearing the Cap. If I felt that it could be the case, I would ask for another GM's or admin's advice. I respect role playing, thus no information I could have as a GM will leak out of GM community.

Nard is fair with everyone, never gets mad.

Not always true (sorry again Gumby)

Voted yes, the reason is... erm... I'm very kind today.

Please do not: voting for me as a GM has nothing to do with kindness or friendship for me, but only with this project's and game's interests.The same applies for those who votes no, I wished to like to know why then, (PM, whisper...)

Finally, I didn't make my mind yet, about beeing a GM or not as it is a surprise to me. So feel free
to say what you really think; and anyway your decision will be the good one.

[WildX]

I am not sure that this poll appears at the right moment, as I support mrgrey for new GM.

This.
I'm sorry your poll was wasted like this, I'm not gonna vote at all for now. Maybe in the future you'll have another poll in which I'll vote yes of course.

[mistergrey]

Well, I don't really think supporting me means you shouldn't vote for Nard as well if you're inclined to do so. He's a good player, who's generally kind that I've seen, and who I've never really seen lose his temper. I think that with these polls, we have to judge them all separately, not in relation to each other. If someone we like has a poll, and a player we don't know as well also does, this doesn't mean we should vote yes for our friends and ignore the others. If anything, I discourage people from just voting yes for their friends - if you can't fairly say the player in question has the qualities necessary to be a good GM, there's no reason to vote yes. We just need to take these polls on the basis of "Would this player make a good GM?"

In Nard's case, I've seen only things that make him a good candidate so far, so for now he has my yes vote.

[Piateluca]

I am not sure that this poll appears at the right moment, as I support mrgrey for new GM.

This.
I'm sorry your poll was wasted like this, I'm not gonna vote at all for now. Maybe in the future you'll have another poll in which I'll vote yes of course.

14. A person successfully passing this procedure will be given "Junior GM" rights for a certain period, and then will be granted full GM rights.

[WildX]

I am not sure that this poll appears at the right moment, as I support mrgrey for new GM.

This.
I'm sorry your poll was wasted like this, I'm not gonna vote at all for now. Maybe in the future you'll have another poll in which I'll vote yes of course.

14. A person successfully passing this procedure will be given "Junior GM" rights for a certain period, and then will be granted full GM rights.

So what?

[ChefChelios]

Voted YES
cuz this guy is realy fair and old enough to be a good gm...
Good luck Nard!

[yubabax116]

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