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Kiki has a better memory than me when it comes to events that happened years ago. When I told her the stuff Miracles was saying this is what she came up with why she thinks Miracles believes I was ever in his LS.



I don't remember this, maybe I was there. I quit FFXI while I was in Snakes at one point, so its possible that these 2 runs happened when I wasn't playing FFXI, I don't know for sure. Either way - your linkshell teaming up and MPK'ing another startup linkshell is not a "linkshell merger" you ****.

Aside from this instance occurring in 2007, DS had -- as of a few months later in 2008 -- a 'lot if you can wear it, one relic per run' rule.

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Dynas did not perform well in Dynamis. Three months of bad work and an entitlement attitude did not inspire confidence in me, as a sackholder and shell co-leader. I'd ask current company to respect that assessment and be politely skeptical about both Dynas and myself. It is only my word against his, etc.

Dynas was clearly inaccurate about his assessment of his own attendance. He was a member of the shell for three months, not two (although he was effectively present for only two/three months as far as runs went) ... and his attendance was by no means exemplary.

He did not attend every run for which he had access, nor did he ask me to ask another shell to take him through cities to get Northlands access in a more timely manner -- schedules permitting.

I can only do what other people ask me to do, and because Dynas had never talked to me previously about his concerns, I can only say that they have appeared 'after the fact,' so to speak. It's a generally poor and unjust argument against DS all the way around -- especially when I was one of four/five sackholders that would have been happy to listen to grievances BEFORE the run and not after an item had dropped.

I always stress that I can't do anything about problems that aren't brought to my attention. And worse -- keeping concerns to oneself does no one any good. People aren't happy when they feel slighted, and leaders aren't happy when people don't follow instructions. Good sackholders work to manage these problems.

If anything, Dynas was a victim of his own silence -- not a hypothetical conspiracy designed to keep him from obtaining relic.

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To clarify: 'Three runs and you can lot' does not mean that you are indefinitely guaranteed that right to lot (particularly if you've missed a lot of runs, etc.). Miracles provided the capital for the Dynamis runs. DS was run and continues to be run by Mir + a group of sackholders (myself included).

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Keep in mind that all of this occurred before SS's/DS's general points, attendance, and policy overhaul. Miracles was not the sole leader of DS dynamis at that time, and certainly not the only enforcer of policy. The shell of 2007 and the shell of 2009 are radically different places. I'm proud of the policy changes since then, and I'm pleased overall with the shell's current direction.

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I'd like to hear about any recent complaints. I was part of the group that overhauled SS's previously abused point system into a bid system. We keep separate points for separate events, and favor those who do the camping/legwork of camping HNMs as the recipients of the resulting drops (i.e. want Ace's? camp KV).

There are always -- and will always -- be disagreements. But I like to think we have about average, and perhaps even fewer than average as compared to similar linkshells.

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As many people have pointed out previously in this thread, they like to play with their friends to enjoy the game. SS was my social shell before it was my endgame shell. In my honest opinion, I can do no better than to enjoy XI with some of my oldest in-game friends.

I've known Miracles and Mesiah for most of my XI career. SS continues to be my social/endgame shell of both choice and habit. To be brutally honest, I've been an SS sackholder so long that I can't even imagine being 'new kid on the block' in another linkshell ... nor do I imagine I'd enjoy playing if I had to constantly explain my erratic RL schedule. ._.;

I'm playing with friends who know me, after all.

Edit: Spelling.

Edited, Sep 5th 2009 7:13pm by Ezzelin

wat

Huh? So is this a clever advertising ploy to get people to join up, so you can, for lack of a better term, use them to get you "favorites" their gear? Sounds awful shady to me.

Right, but apparently his lack of city flags was counted against him, which is silly in my opinion.




Edited, Sep 5th 2009 11:46pm by Tritant

While politely stated, I cannot honor your request. In my old Dynamis shell I ran dozens of runs with Dynas, and not once did I ever see sub-par performance from him. In fact, he was highly praised by the members.


According to your post containing the schedule, Dynas only missed a single run in 3 months to zones he had access to, and was either absent or late for one more. That's above-average Dynamis attendance in my experience.



I've been in 4 Dynamis shells in my FFXI career, my latest being a well established and respected shell. Not a single one of my Dynamis shells participated in any sort of practice to get flags from other shells. Why would a new member, obviously new to Dynamis by his lack of flags, ask for such assistance if they have no idea of the practice?

One would think that said rare assistance would have been offered to him, since it was obviously such a tremendous concern to the sackholders and used against him.

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Edited, Sep 5th 2009 11:55pm by chewzer

Wow. Beware FFXI player: Don't join Miracles' shell unless you can kiss his *** enough so he'll grant you gear that should go to other members. Because otherwise, not only the gear you earned go to one of his buddies, but his cronies will start trashing your reputation for being upset.

Edited, Sep 6th 2009 8:37am by VawnLakshmi

Aw, you know you don't hate me that much.

I think everyone here is in agreement that Valdan should have never been allowed in that shell in the first place. But since he was, he should follow the same lotting rules as anyone else. Again, the problem was not that a SH should have asked Valdan to pass since the rules said he could. The problem is linkshells shouldn't let players like Valdan and Galan into their linkshells in the first place.

So Miracles runs a linkshell with Galan in it and still tries to defend it? That's all I would need to hear to know to stay away from that linkshell.

"I told you so" what exactly? That Valdan was an item thief? He didn't steal the RDM hat.

"I told you so" Valdan is a jackass for lotting RDM hat and then never showing up for another run? Yeah, let's put player warnings every time somebody quits an event after they get the item they want.

No the prevailing "I told you so" attitude was because Valdan was a jackass for lotting an item when there were more deserving people in the shell:




But when Ezzelin asks somebody in our shell to pass an item to somebody more deserving, suddenly we're the devilspawn.

Wow Julan do you even know whats going on here?

No one is saying Valdan shouldn't have lotted that RDM hat. He had the rights. But he has been an admitted thief long before he joined that Dynamis shell. There is no arguing that Valdan is a theif, he brags about it openly. Just because he didn't steal the RDM hat, it still makes me sick that he got it because some Dynamis sackholders decided they care about having an extra member regardless of how many people he has screwed over in the past. The problem wasn't him lotting, it was him being accepted to the linkshell in the first place. I wouldn't touch a shell with Valdan in it any faster than I would one with Galan in it.

Julan, your posts honestly confuse me. Are you stating you don't think Valdan is a theif because he didn't technically steal the relic hat? If so, you might want to read the first few pages of this thread and the actual screenshots showing him doing just that. Or you could just ask him yourself. He brags about it thinking he out smarted those he scammed.

Edited, Sep 6th 2009 3:55pm by VawnLakshmi