About that review we received on RMS forums o.o

[demishock]

While there are certainly insights to be gained from it, I find it off-putting that they rag on certain features that they didn't bother to ask anyone in-game about, especially since they laud our community so highly. I think it paints a dreary picture for newcomers - I feel like most people who are serious about sticking around would ask people questions.

I was going to use the V4P/seasonal "one time only" stuff as an example, but I see MrCharc's in the thread sticking up for us on this and several other points! \o/ Suffice it to say I can't think of very many items that were only available once and never again. :/ Maybe some fairy auction stuff, which is kind of heRO's "donation rewards." The fact that forking over money DOESN'T give people a huge advantage is one of the things I really like about this server. Zeny's fair game. IRL finances... much harder to come by. XD

Another example: saying that @showexp can't be turned off on relogs. Wha...? A quick query on main would've let them know that you can turn it off with the GM Assistant NPC.

Anyway, they seemed to contradict themselves by complaining about the expense of the warp NPCs followed immediately by complaining about how lucrative Poring Smash is. (The economy IS broken, though; I don't think anyone will deny that.) And as far as things like putting the Moscovia quest in goes: true, those of us who were here pre-quest lucked out... on characters we had pre-quest. Post-quest chars, not so much. That's the fair side of having to unlock the warps on every character rather than once per account.

tl;dr: I'm all for constructive criticism, but I feel like they should've asked more questions rather than making negative assumptions about so many things! (And it sucks they came in the middle of the Control Panel errors and fishing being removed. @__@)

My main takeaway is that it seems I (and whoever else feels like it) need to update the wiki to be more explicit about certain things for new players. Speaking of the wiki, the "How to Help" page could definitely use an update, but I can't do that one; it appears to be admin-only. There are dead links on there ("projects page"? "heRO wiki Policies"?) and all it says for signing up is to create an account, which can't be done without contacting... someone. (I think it's Rahice now?) I feel like the procedure for getting editing privileges ought to be on there somewhere, basically.