Am I saying anything that is untrue? If so the staff here can prove me wrong any time they want. The support staff here is very useful and IMHO they do a devcent job within their limits. However they simply don't have the ability to put in the changes you are demanding. Nobody in the North American staff does.
Do you seriously think it is that easy? It isn't. The Rohan client rohanclient.exe is sitting right there in front of you along with all its .bin, .gel and .gem files. Go ahead and try removing it. And I dare you to prove me wrong.
Do you think only abusers need to use the recharge vengeance button? What about all the players that need to use that function that you are f**king over with your suggestion? Did you personally ASK all those players if they mind taking away Venge recharge? Hmm? You know what they would tell you? I do.
Exactly what RULES would you want to apply for these "Limits"? Exactly how do you propose they actually do that when they do not have that level of access to their own system? What about the people that do abuse them? I know you think they are assh0les, but thedy have the same rights to play this game the way they want to as you do.
Are you the only one that gets a say in taking away a feature they use because you don't like it? Well they DO like it. It doesn't sound nice, but even complete and utter asshats have the same right to play this game as you do. Sorry if that offends you but all kinds of people make up this world. Not just nice guys. Assholes too with the same right to play this game as you do. You don't like the way these guys treat you? Then feed them the same medicine they are feeding you. After all if they are exploiting MR, you can too, right? Just turn around and venge then endlessly too! Go find their lowbies and make leveling hell for them. Go find their friends and be an ass with them too. Take a nice strong party with you and have some gvg fun with it.
But you say simple... Here is another "simple" idea: Put a change server button in the client that will switch servers without exiting the client. Sounds brain dead simple, right? After it is simpler than adding special case rules into a place where no real rules exist. Problem is that even though it sounds brain-dead simple, it it almost impossible to do without redesigning the entire client.
Do you think inserting new rules into a function that pretty has no rules is so EASY? It is not. Far from it.
I said I create private servers. I didn't say I RUN one. I don't. Nor would I - particularly a one open to the public. I'm not stupid. That doesn't mean I don't know how a rohan server works from the inside out and it doesn't mean I don't do dev work on pservers. I do and freely admit that. In fact my current dev team is about a week away from releasing our latest server version to the public. Here's a snip-shot of our latest svn commit log:
Still leaves me lots of time to be a pain in the ass here.
The staff here have known that about me for a couple years now. If that were a banning offense I would have been gone a really LONG time ago. I don't promote private servers here. I won't advertise them. Nor do I tell people to go an play on them. I do tell folks that if they are fed up with the way this game works there are plenty of alternate gaming environments out there. And yes I will gladly point folks to the great wild internet when they harp endlessly about how they don't like the way this game works.
I don't hold a gun to people's heads to leave and PWI does not hold a gun to anyone's head to stay. So there is some mutual understanding there.