Perhaps there is no problem, perhaps your all over analizing it. Perhaps this is one big witch hunt that everyones been sucked into without realising, ringlead by some people with a personal vendetta for him for a undisclosed reason.
After all none of you know exactly whats in the planet partner agreement, nor know what theyve done, for all we know, ND and others like him simpilly have no access to their loot.
None of this is doing any good for eu, its just ripping the community apart, and deterring new players.
I think this forum is partly to blame for letting all these copy cat threads continue for so long, i mean how many months has it been now, and your all still regurgitating the same converstation over and over.
Surely theres a point whare everything that needs to be said has been said whare things need to move on.
Your never going to have all the facts, so none of you can really build up a propper oppinion of it. Maybe your right, maybe your wrong, but continuing like this will just do harm to entropia as a whole.
Or perhaps im just a rambling idiot who has no idea what hes talking about.
First, I can't even believe that you think there (perhaps) is no problem ... that's a head shaker.
Historically, anyone becoming an employee of MA, and now a planet developer, has had to retire their regular EU avatar and take on an official one. Many have done it already, and it's the protocol that has been followed for years. You have been around long enough to know this. Whether they play secret avatars or not isn't the issue, because MA, nor anyone involved with Calypso development created a big stir about playing their regular avatars, or blatantly and openly violated the PP agreement.
I don't want to hear that we haven't seen the PP agreement (yet again), and I feel that some of you are really using that as a technical defense and completely ignoring the fact that ND himself made it clear in his thread at the RT forum that it came to his attention that he and his staff are not allowed to play their regular EU avatars. I don't get why people continue to dismiss that like it's nothing, or that it has no value ... it doesn't make sense to me.
After ND became a PP, he deliberately ignored the agreement, and I say deliberately, because he's been in this universe long enough (from the beginning) to know how things operate from a developer perspective, and every excuse in the book can be used, but many in this community just aren't buying that ND was clueless. ND became a PP and right out the gate he paid no mind to what has been accepted as general business protocol, and has gotten away with it for a long time, which absolutely gives this community a valid reason to raise questions. What we
don't know is why MA has allowed it to go on for so long.
The issue of him being a developer and playing his regular avatar came up last year, and there were threads about it at this forum then, but ... just like always, I'm sure it was hoped that the community would just quiet down and the problem would go away. I guess for the most part it sort of did, until December 2010 when Next Island went live with the ND island. Once again, a developer was involved with personal, revenue-generating real estate that immediately caught the community's attention. There has now been plenty of activity on ND's part to add fuel to the fire, and I don't need to rehash it again, it's all been said, but ...
Despite it all being said ... the reason the community keeps revisiting it is because there seems to be a series of activities that keeps ND in the spotlight, and for the most part, he's the catalyst that keeps the tongues wagging. You can use any technical play on anything you want to justify the "over analyzing" of the community as you call it, but the noise won't stop, and rightfully so.
Also, it's not just a few people who are addressing this situation either based on many threads that have popped up at this forum. I've been targeted in the past as a result of my opinions, but they are a result of reviewing documentation, personal observation, evidence and facts ... some of which I have presented myself, and ... contrary to what you or anyone else think, I do
not have a vendetta against Neverdie, not even close (which was also mentioned in the past).
My concern is for this community (as it is for many) and that it gets treated fairly. It wouldn't matter if it was ND or someone else, the bottom line is still the same, it just so happens that it's ND and his actions that have put him in the spotlight, not something someone arbitrarily did one day just for the hell of it.
We all know it started when he created himself a large parcel of land now known as CND-2 on Next Island where he also charges taxes. As a developer of the planet, he had inside information, and this is where the whole issue of conflict of interest started a second time around, and why the community became so vocal about it.
Now that ND is no longer the developer of Next Island, and
Harold Sipe is in place to produce/manage and get involved with the development of the planet according to David Post, I have no issue with ND having his parcel of land. You can learn more about Harold
here (link originally posted by SoftHart at the NI forum). Softy also posted the latest comment from David Post from his FB account at the EP forum as follows:
Originally Posted by
Softhart 
David's Post on FB:
David Post At this moment I want to say less not more. There is still a relationship but we are now running our development ourselves. When I can say more I will. NDS has its Neverdie Island on Next Island. We have had plans to do certain things and now we are doing them.
This community is intelligent enough to assess situations like this, and it's really an insult to tell them that perhaps there isn't a problem when in fact it's very clear that there really is.
only for them to fall even faster when an official statement is made.
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