Chapter 1

So what was the cause of these Lithuanian players to mess up the awesome and enormous community we had? Most of the server administrators on other servers blame the players too quickly, causing the players to feel discriminated and blame the staff of the server to be corrupt. That process is as old as the world itself, so my professional view on this case doesn’t allow me to draw such drastic conclusions. I have taken every aspect and behavior pattern into consideration, only to come to an even more offensive, or rather degrading, conclusion that would certainly get me on the bottom of the list in the player’s top 100 of favorite server administrators. I have established a conversation in the most neutral and passive way I could with a handful of these Lithuanian players. (I must not forget to mention the help I have gotten from certain Lithuanian players that translated for me whenever necessary, seriously, thank you guys) After communicating with these players, I immediately noticed the things that made us different from them, causing annoyance to occur and dirty rivalry to grow. The behavior pattern of these players were very primitive, as if they were somewhere around the age of 13, while physically having ages ranging from 16 to 30. “Why would 30 year old people act like that?” you would ask. Unfortunately, I am unable to answer this question yet.

What I can tell you, however, the effects of this primitive animal-like behavior. Because the combination of stupidity in an animal-like community and more intelligent players that want to play this game have shown destructive side effects on the player base. The regular players aren’t only annoyed by the idiotic behavior of these people, they also feel like they don’t belong there because of the overwhelming numbers these Lithuanian players came with. The primitive behavior that we currently see with monkeys seemed to have taken over the digital world they played in. I assume that you, dear reader, would like a closer look into the behavior of the Lithuanians in their digital life.

That’s exactly what I intend to process now in this paragraph. The Lithuanians behave, like I said before, very primitively. The best way to explain this in a bright way is to compare them with their mirror image: Monkeys. These players seem to have the urge to prove themselves in front of the rest of their group, just like the alpha male does with monkeys. These impressions are received with great enthusiasm by the group, and the alpha male of the group is once again victorious for the day. The victims of these acts react different to the situation, depending on the type of player. Where the regular player is annoyed and quits the server, the Lithuanian players (or those with comparable intellect) call their own alpha male and rivalry has begun. If the victim itself however, is an alpha male himself, a short but repetitive process starts. It first starts off with a continuous stream of insults directed at each other, it does not take long before this process spreads out on the forums. After this has occurred, both parties seem to be incapable of identifying their own lack of maturity and both moral and reason are thrown overboard. The only thing that can put a halt to this is when both parties are removed from the server, however, this is only a local solution since both parties will duke it out for many months to come on any other server they find. There is another aspect of their appearance that indicates their low level of intellect though.

The quality of the input they offer to the defeat of their rival is this low, that it nearly seems unreal how childish Lithuanian players really are. The only thing they seem capable of is destroying other players exclusively when they have a great advantage over their opponent. If the situation does not meet this requirement, the player(s) in question  will either run away while throwing around insults, or simply log off followed by an intense forum session where the entire world apparently has to know how much their rival sucks.

The current Lineage 2 player base knows more nationalities however, and these will be explained further. The Lithuanians are probably the most simple ones. Other nationalities have progressed more, yet, still fail to get their hands on some maturity. The advancements they made have negative influence in both short and long periods of time, and also have their effects on other people both directly and indirectly related to them (which is a big disappointment to administrators and game masters of course).

 

~ End of Chapter 1

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