User:McArine/DP

Q1. For those who have never had the opportunity to interact with you before can you share a little about yourself, what you enjoy about ATITD as well as how long you have been playing?
A1. I am McArine. I have played since T3, so coming up on ten years. I am a master gem cutter and master glass blower. I participate in regional projects, guild projects and University research. I have tried and understand everything in the game, and I enjoy helping ppl understand the mechanics of things.

Q2. How you like T7 so far, it's better or worst than previous Tales. Which Tale was your favorite?
A2. I have enjoyed all five tales I have been part of. Each for different reasons.

Q3. If the general consensus of the rest of the DPs were that that person should not be banned, but you felt strongly that they should, what would you do?
A3. I would follow the majority vote.

Q4. Many activities in Egypt are PvP oriented/ highly competitive. Recently some issues have been discussed in ET regarding Test of Retired Pirates. Please explain how you approach these sorts of tests and if as a player you use any method to improve your outcome like having alts/mules voting in other rounds to enhance your pass chance. Do you push/campaign your guilds to vote for you and or forming test/rounds alliances or salt rounds with players that have already passed.
A4. I do not use alts/mules to gain an advantage in PvP tests. I do not campaign in my guilds, if others want to promote me, I accept that. I can understand why joining up with your friends is a natural thing to do in the PvP tests, but I will also say that you have to be lucky in many of the tests, to be able to do so, since the groups are formed randomly.

Q5. How are you providing leadership in the game and amongst the player base?

Q6. What specifically have you done to further the growth of the community?

Q7. How do you feel about sometimes heavy use of macros in this game by many players? and If there was a choice would you support complete ban of macros in the Tale?
A7. I would, but it would require some major redesign of some buildings. Mass production buildings would have to be accessible, at relative low cost, to avoid any repetitive actions avoided by using macros. With the way things are today, I think a lot of players would leave, if it was not possible to macro.

Q8. Spouselog allows access to ban powers. Do you know who have access to your spouse account?
A8. I do. None other than her and I, and I trust her to keep it that way.

Q9. Please describe what you consider to be "griefing" in the Tale.
A9. As in any other game it is the act of actively trying to annoy other players. In ATitD it can be things like crowding an area, blowing things up, picking other players papyrus, etc.

Q10. Easy question for start... Ninja or Pirate?
A10. Pirate aarrrrg.

Q11. Who would you vote for if you weren't running this time?
A11. dedenav. ReddRuby is also great, but I know dedenav better than ReddRuby.

Q12. Closing statement.