Wistrel Meets MA!
Wow oh wow! Its been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time since I posted here!!! Soooo long... Its a shame cause game wise not only have I been "relatively" active but also theres been sooo much I've wanted to comment on and talk about but life over this last year has been nuts. I guess one can only do so many hobbies and when one takes over, others (like doing this diary) have to fall by the way side. I've got tons of pics and stuff I wanted to post. Who knows if I'll ever catch up. Heck I never even got round to documenting my time on
CND! (Bizaarely I am missing that place recently....).
Anyhow, just a small thing to kick off with and apologies this is a bit "me me me" and not very interesting... sometimes you just need to rabbit before you can start. The other day I went to PA and in a moment of randomness decided to head over to the arrivals area to see if I could help out any new people. Who should I find standing there? None other than an
MA Official Assistant!!!
I couldn't believe it cause I've never seen one before* but there she was, bold as brass hanging around and asking for the new people to come and talk to her. Well I WAS impressed!!! This was bold new move on
MA's behalf and possibly perhapse a direct result of the new, long sought after, window mode. I'm guessing, now
MA employees can run
PE in a window they can afford to spend some time hanging around and work on a 2nd monitor or something? Whatever the reason though its a pretty good sign that
MA are trying to do something about that large drop out rate I heard quoted some time back cause not only was she handing out advice but also pistols and ammo! Thats right, as Az put it,
"MY GOD!!! MA freebies??? Whatever next!" I didn't check, but I suspect it was same as the recent ukash promotion (TT pistol and 10ped ammo) which was equivalent to something like 20% back (don't quote me cause I really can't remember) of the £5 deposit required for it. However just handing them out for free! Thats actually a really really nice move as it promotes good feeling in new colonists upon arrival, far better than just "starting the game with x y and z in your inventory" cause it feels like someone has actually welcomed you to the game and, no doubt, given you a starter for ten to play with as regards information and wise use of the equipment.
My best MA impression! (note the free ammo and guns bottom right)
So yeh, top marks to
MA and I hope to see more of them hanging around PA in the future cause, as I hope they are discovering, people REALLY don't bite as hard as they have seemed to think they would in the past and it only takes a nice gesture before people will meet you half way, stop complaining and start being usefull
Wistrel
* no one has but I'm guessing its a white and blue person
