As much as I like the server itself, I feel compelled to publicize as to how corrupt the server turns out to be.
Namely, there was a Sabuk war earlier, where due to the low usercount, were fighting only me for my guild, and AngryPirate along with Crunch who I bested with no doubt. After winning the sabuk war, and meanwhile also getting a rare item drop off AngryPirate, I get called a cheater. I can openly admit that I have tweaked an installation of TinyXP OS and have made modifications to the TCP/IP protocol in order to optimize my speed, which, to my knowledge has not been considered cheating on official Mir not to mention private servers. To go more into depth, then any programmer will know about the speedhack check that is used in the 2.3 TD client which uses GetTickCount to check for inconsistency in timing, meaning that without actually modifying the client you cannot really imrpove your speed much by using "cheats" like speederXP or the like which all use the same method.
After being called a cheat, I also get a nice "threat" that sir AngryPirate has "ways" of getting me "sorted", funny ways he specified. Not five minutes later I realize that I have suddenly been granted 300PK points meaning that I was red and a target for town archers. Luckily, I was in a cave hunting at that point already. After mentioning to AngryPirate, that this "coincidence" is a rather obvious indication of AngryPirate abusing gamemaster powers (even though he is not a gamemaster on that character), I get granted another 500 PK points putting the total to over 700 - meaning, that at this point in time I am still red. Apart from that, I also get recalled to the hometown abruptly while killing a boss. Upon running back to the same boss, I see who? AngryPirate trying to kill the same boss.
The gamemaster character used for this purpose was in fact "HelpingHand". Why I know this? Just before I get the PKPoints and recall to town, the said gamemaster logs on and shouts a snide remark. While this might be considered normal on other servers, anyone playing HiddenMist can confirm that a gamemaster ingame in the past weeks is more rare than any item ingame. I do not know who this gamemaster character is accessed by, but I know that it is not being used for the proper purpose. Further on, I feel that I have to mention the odd fact, that AngryPirate has somehow managed to become very high level and instantly with best kit for his level in a very short period of time, while not actually hunting that much. Now, considering the events occured, it does however make perfect sense.
Lastly, as information to whoever is now managing the server (hopefully not the same, corrupt gamemaster..) AngryPirate was very eager to share the fact that he has Ellmo aka. Lee on Facebook and is his point of contact in regard to me being a "cheater". As well as that, he claimed to have captured our fight in sabuk palace with Fraps. I kindly requested the video so I could post it myself, included in this post, however that request was declined with very odd, vague and senseless reasoning. As an example, "You are really thick. You will get the video only if a gamemaster provides it to you". Explaining the benefit of posting the video here (from his perspective) had no effect.
In conclusion, I am disappointed. I enjoyed the server and would continue doing so, however when there is such an obvious abuse of gamemaster rights, there is no point in continuing to play. The purpose I hope my post to serve, is to have the server owner take a close look to gamemaster activity, since it is being clearly abused. Until that is done, there is no point in continuing to play in my opinion.
