I honestly wasn't planning to respond to this thread, but I suppose I will.
Your whole rant seems extremely immature to me and quite uncalled for. There's very few aspects in it that hold any truth, but I'll go ahead and comment on each paragraph in turn.
"Recently, Dentin has been either doing really good drugs, or he's been hit on the head rather hard. I don't hate Dentin as much as to wish the latter on him - I sincerely hope it's the former. His most recent hobby has become goading veterans that actually voice their opinions into becoming vocal so Dentin can 'have a reason' to remove "them" - (a person more intelligent, more alpha, more charismatic) from the game. In this case, Dentin's M.O. was to wait for clan Shadow Alliance (which has been by far the most dominant clan the past few years) members to log off or go idle before having his clanwar.
Unfortunately for Dentin, I logged in just seconds before the arena started, and Bser became unidle right after I logged in. Needless to say, a repeat
of what happened yesterday (2 newbie clans winning trophies, and not a single SA member able to take part) did not occur, and Shadow Alliance was able to quite easily post the most kills. I of course called out Dentin for cheating - his response was not to deny the cheating (I mean really, how can he?), but rather punish all of SA by withholding the trophy the clan put teamwork into to win.
Clearly, this type of behavior is not acceptable, and no one short of a whimpering beta would stand for this. Since I am not a whimpering beta, I responded in the appropriate manner, telling Dentin exactly what his shortcomings are. Dentin did not care for this and removed Boa from the game.. "
"Raising" your opinions to the point that you're being abusive and disrupting the game as a whole is a different matter. When it came to Shadow Alliance in the PK Arena, I severely doubt it had anything to do with Shadow Alliance until you starting calling Dentin out and being quite abusive - if you would've kept your mouth shut, Shadow Alliance would've likely received their trophy.
I also don't think the timing had anything to do with rather there were many Shadow Alliance members on at the time. Someone mentioned clan wars, and he started it rather spur of the moment. If you hadn't noticed, the clan wars have been held at roughly the same time the past few days.
In the end though, it's Dentins game. If he didn't want Shadow Alliance to get their trophy due to one member being a total idget, that's his choice.
Dentin is a cheat, a thief, and also probably has a very small penis. I cannot confirm the last claim 100%, but let's be realistic here. He stole my areas, my equipment - but he didn't steal my honor or my pride. I may continue mudding somewhere. I certainly will NOT miss the treatment that Dentin puts toward players that Dentin cannot order around like a drill sergeant. When Dentin continually has an issue with a player (no matter who it may be - Heart, Jason from time to time, Tyrant, Vivi, Me) you must ask yourself. Is it more likely all those players are the problem, or maybe the problem lies with Dentin? He seems to need drama, much like Samon does, need an antagonist, and when the antagonist begins to sway the opinions of the player base with truths - Dentin swiftly removes that player and picks a new "Target".
Dentin isn't a cheat or a thief. Every action taken to discipline players is closely evaluated before anything is done at all, in your case it was an accumulation of misbehavior you've done over the past years and this finally threw the fish out of the water. He gives players chance after chance after chance to change their ways, and banishing them from the game permanently is only a last resort that is very rarely used.
If you actually try to talk to Dentin calmly and logically, he's actually quite flexible and forthcoming and will listen to whatever you have to say. He might not agree with what you have to say, he might not even respond right away, but he'll listen. That's more than most muds can say about their creator.
Dentin has issues with players that continually disrupt the game. I'm not going to post everything that you've done in the past that is technically against the "rules" but let's just say that you have a history.
As for your weightlesses, the way I see it, a donation to the mud is a donation with an added perk. I know it's a bad comparison, but if you went to a church for years and gave them an offering every week, a few years later you couldn't march up to the church treasurers office and ask for your money back.
PS - Dentin, I really hope you unhook my areas. I really do not wish for you to keep possession of that intellectual property.
Swamp Dwarves and The Beanstalk are your areas. Since Morpheus worked on the other areas at least in some aspect (I know it's more than, "some aspect", I'm just being technical), it's a collaborative effort for those areas and they belong to you both.
I don't how intellectual copyright laws would hold for a privately owned mud, so I'm not certain what's going to happen to them, that's entirely up to Dentin.
I'm not going to hold a grudge against you either, I don't hate you - just the actions you decided to take and your attitude at times. I believe the main reason that you were removed from the game derived from your anger management/control issues. You get furious at every little thing that isn't exactly the way you want it, and are extremely verbal about it. I truly hope you get help with those, they can't be beneficial if they are as serious in real life as they are in the game.
I guess I'll end with this.. I'd type more if I didn't have a throbbing headache:
Alter Aeon is a privately owned game owned by Dentin. We are players of said game, we don't have a 'right' to play it.
It's a privilege that can be taken away at any time, however it's great that we have an implementor that only takes action for serious infractions and very, very, very rarely bans anyone from the game permanently as there's only been a few of those incidents in the 15 year history of the mud.
I, same as Morpheus wish you luck in life away from Alter Aeon.
Best wishes,
Gandor
P.S.: As to us being the "unfortunate few" that stay on Alter Aeon, I don't see how that's the case if we enjoy the game.
