May 22, 2014 - 3:50am — Strobe
jumping on the bandwagon. large rant below. ye be warned.
Yes, I am posting this on a different account other than my main. I am only doing it to prevent any accusations. Also, please don't use specific names.
Okay, with that out of the way, I loved this place when I first joined. Happy, carefree, clean and organized. Everything flowed smoothly, and there were only a few bickerings here and there but that was about silly stuff. You could approach anybody and they would be the kindest, sweetest person ever.
I miss those days.
Now, the community is just riddled with filth. Why do you people fight over such stupid things? Just because character A has a similar color scheme as character B does not mean that the owner of character A is copying B's owner, and stealing their 'artwork'. This also doesn't count for color schemes. It goes for everything, every single detail about them and if just one detail of A is similar/ matches B everyone explodes into accusations and fighting. Not bickering, down-to-dirt fighting.
Not to mention that there are reoccurring characters centered upon the act of violence, sex, drugs / ect. Don't you people understand that kids play this game and will go looking through things even if they are told not to in a disclaimer? They don't listen and will be exposed to it. Sad thing is that most kids don't mind it anyway. Also TEF is a place to get away, not bring more poison in. It is supposed to be an area of peace, stillness, serenity. Now you just approach someone and they will explode and attack your character relentlessly.
Honestly I think some of you people have lost your morals. Where did it all go? Mature themes are not particularly suited to TEF and are looked down upon in the real world with a good reason. Does character A mate with B for the kick of it? I hope not. Why do you people even want that? Because it looks cool? It's not.
I know Im not the only one who shares my opinion.
Yes, my opinion. in no way, shape or form am i trying to be the 'police' or a 'moderator. I'm simply expressing my views upon the community.
I am way too tired to be posting this and I'll finish this later.
Sadly agreeing with this.
Not to mention the fact that some days I feel like I need to check who's online so I know what characters I need to avoid
I have been seeing a few of
The players here are still very sweet, helpful and as creative as ever. It seems to me that those who make these posts have either been personally attacked or are seeing an epidemic that really isn't there at all. I am sorry if you have ever had an unpleasant experience with a player or character, but that does not reflect upon the community as a whole. There are very wonderful people here, and I am sorry that you can't seem to see that. This community and game, if anything, encourages goodness.
Of course, that is your opinion and I respect it. But in my own opinion, I see no wrong in this community. At least, not to the extent that others are concerned about.
Strobe, if I leave my e-mail
I too have been here for
~ C.S. Lewis
Yo, just saying if you're
If you know who's doing what and have concrete proof of misbehavior and you're gonna bother to hide identity, you're already hiding. So if you have screenshots of people being obviously bad or evidence of who is behind attacks, you might as well share it so that other people can see where toxicity is and avoid it.
I am frustrated, at this point, seeing bad stuff happen and not knowing who to blame. Someone started it somewhere along the line, and I don't want to associate with people who are going to be cruel to kids on a site about deer with people faces. And I'm guessing that there are a lot of people like me who are in the dark here, who just want to have friendly deer fun in the friendly forest and draw some pictures.
I have literally no idea what's wrong, shit just blows up every once in a while presumably because people fight over skype but no one keeps that stuff private, apparently, and they bring it to the site. So seriously, if you are going to be anon (and obviously you are because you are close to the situation and or know something about it) please spill the beans here.
^ this. I'll be honest, I
I'll be honest, I don't think I've been attacked personally, not unless I deserved it, but seeing... Quite a lot of it over the years is enough to make me edgy and wary of going near others.
And I do stand by saying this place has changed, the number one thing is that there's more people, and although more people isn't exactly bad; with a large group of people, there will always be conflict, I don't think it'll ever go away.
I don't know, I think you worded it a lot better than I could.
I agree with 99% of this.
The only part that i'm on the line about is the characters revolving around mature things. This site was not made just kids, it was made for everyone and has no moderators making it one of the only places you can join a mature character into a world like this one. People can and will bring them in, and if they're played well they can be fantastic! Walter is an example, he's the first' bad guy' ever dropped into TEF and I adore his character and love how his player handled him. Mature characters can only be played by mature people, I say this because when I see little kids trying to play them or trolls, they just attack people and bother that crap out of everyone, and that is not ok. I understand that their have been trolls and packs of demons running around but don't let those turn into your view of mature themed characters they're just trolls, and people who don't understand how to handle characters.
You also have to realize characters don't represent their players. I have a character who is extremely sexual but I am no where close to anything like him.
Also, we are playing animals, and in the animal world breeding is not a relationship, but a way to procreate and expand their species/blood lines and some characters act like that, Or they can be more human, and have deep loving relations or just go around breeding for the fun of it. Not everyone has the same morals, or culture. Personally I wouldn't do it in actual life but if my character is in to it, that's whats gonna happen. Its not meant to insult or offend anyone and I haven't seen a roleplay or scene that can be offensive to anyone about breeding/mating. I mean look at the rut, it's breeding season!
anyway, yes agreeing with most of it, ye. i wouldn't name call, people have ways of finding out who you are pretty quickly, you know man.
I had a longer comment with
I find focusing on spending less time on TEFc and spending more time playing the actual game has been very rewarding for me when I was feeling disillusioned with characters on TEFc. Maybe it could help you as well. There hasn't been a single time playing this game where I have not found at least one group of deer willing to play with mine. Of course sometimes I come across a group sitting who do not respond to my greeting, or deer who are obviously IC and responding to me negatively/teritorially/what have you. That's easy I just leave and wander towards someone else. There aren't any drugs, sexy, or violence* in the game so if those things are bothering you on TEFc try playing the game.
* I know the rearing and the 'angry' emote are used that way but lets be honest the deer can walk right through one another. There is no violence mechanic in the game.