Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo
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From my perspective, the majority of the players are great to play with.
I would not recommend the grid to new players.
There is a sex pest problem. It’s severe enough that I worry about who I play with. Although they are not the majority, they are there and it makes life difficult. Select members of staff have been publicly hostile towards players in the past.
Yes. I have been harassed.
Yes. I know other players who have been harassed.
Yes. I have notified staff.
No. I don’t feel like anything was ever done.
Yes. I have stopped making reports because I am worried about retaliation. -
@Pavel said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Narson said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
and everyone is 20 years older
Am not. Do not suggest this.
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@TooManyCharacter said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
I would not recommend the grid to new players.
I dunno if it’s so much the case anymore, but when I tried it out about a year or so ago it also had one of the nastiest and most actively unpleasant attitudes towards actually-new people I think I’d seen in a looooong time. Not only sex pests, but there were a few players who were constantly blatantly rude on the newbie channel any time someone had a question, trying to make them sound stupid for asking. I saw it happen several times while I was there and nobody on staff stopped them in any way I could see, and those same players made the public channel pretty miserable as well.
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@Wizz This also meshes with my own experiences there, up to the present day. Hadrix Kora is a heavy contributor to the uncomfortableness on Pub, as is the general clique he belongs to that basically seems to control the game.
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Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.
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I can only nag the Evennia coders for fancy code so loudly, it doesn’t make them BEND TO MY WILL any faster.
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@Das-Auto He has fired the horse catcher.
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@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.
That said - I did find a gem of a post where multiple people were like - why is this 15 year time jump even happen? What’s the point of this? This is dumb. And people complaining how much the time skip would age their characters on another.
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
I suddenly feel very naive for giving eddie so much time and word space that ended up burying your announcement at the bottom of a huge thread made mostly of vitriol.
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Update.
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.
This is true.
@CuriousGamer said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
@Das-Auto Did this staff leaving just happen? I hopped on in curiosity to look at the bboards and didn’t see anything in the last few days worth.
You didn’t see a bbpost about it because Cujo did not make a post about it. There is no notification to the game overall. Perhaps one will follow.
The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.
It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.
It’s a bad look, for sure.
(edited to fix formatting and phrasing)
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@Das-Auto said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
Cujo has just fired the only staffer on the game that put any effort into combating sexual harassment.
It looks like two other promoted-RPAs have also been canned, reasons unknown.@kopecup said in Star Wars Age of Alliances: Hadrix and Cujo:
The main staff member “Z” who was removed (and who was outspoken about all this behavior being inappropriate) was staff for 5 RL years at least, maybe more.
It is not clear why the other two (people promoted to staff at the same time as Hadrix) were removed, the ‘official’ explanation is probably that they did not contribute enough and the ‘real’ explanation is probably that they are friends with Z.
They can remove as many people as they like, but it isn’t going to change the fact that the players which log in regularly are already aware of the toxic attitude towards the player base. It extends into the public forum frequently and has gotten substantially worse over the past year and a half.
There are sex pests that have been playing there for years. From my perspective, the majority of them have not been removed. Of those that have, it’s difficult to tell if they left on their own volition or were forced out by administrative action. I would like to say that I am surprised it took this long for a post to have this much public scrutiny, but coping with assault is difficult on its own. It’s even harder to put your story into the prying eyes of the peanut gallery.
The removal of Zephyr only continues to add to the mountain of evidence against the game’s leadership. Only one conclusion should be made:
If you play on Age of Alliances, you will not have a voice.
If administrators can be removed, you can be removed. If you are removed, you should expect to be mocked by your abusers on the game’s public channels. There is no justice.
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@TooManyCharacter Do you know who the staffers were that were fired? +staff on the game still shows the same people as a couple days ago; no names seem to be missing.
Unless that’s just one more thing that will be hidden from the playerbase, of course…
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@Warlander Long term admin removed: Zephyr
“Role play admin” that were made staff at the same time as RPA Hadrix, but now removed: Trashcan and Entropy
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Total aside but mad respect for anyone that chooses the nick “Trashcan”.
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@kopecup Many thanks. Can’t remember ever dealing with Zephyr or Trashcan, but the name Entropy sounds familiar. Unsure if that’s a good or a bad thing. I’m sure their absence will be felt among players who aren’t staff alts or staffer’s pets.
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So Cujo fires a bunch of staff for what I assume is pushing him to do something about Hadrix and/or the crime of saying “hey you know those posters have a point”, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the original post was accurate.
This is a great object lesson for those who are always demanding logs/proof. The truth will come out without them.
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When in doubt, double down on shitty behavior because confronting your own problems is far too difficult. Nah, it’s just easier to let the sex pests run amok.
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I hate to say it when I’m not 100% sure but I think it was Zephyr I wound up playing with primarily while I was there and they were awesome, definitely a huge positive force on the game if so. If they are who I am remembering, that is genuinely shameful.
