Comments on: Mass Bannings in Sociolotron! Is it political???

By: rad oracle

rad oracle — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 23:58:09 +0000

Yeah, the admins, or GMs are able to cheat, so you have no chance in battle with them. I worked the game for a few years, had a castle, 2 mansions, millions of credits, and I was banned for life for taunting the GMs and exposing their cheats. If you’re a real pussy, you’ll be able to put up with it. Oh well, so much for online theft!

By: Dave Stone

Dave Stone — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:34:12 +0000

I joined during the beta and was there for a good while once it was “live”. Once in a while I get nostalgic for London and then I run across an article like this and remember why I left. I suppose I pissed off the wrong people or maybe it’s just the fact I was trying to play an upstanding citizen. You can’t have it all criminals, guys. If you want to do it right someone has to play the other side. Maybe it was because I sent some of the Marcellis to prison after they murdered a judge, although I wouldn’t have thought it. The Marcellis were always good to me. I always got on well with Dani, who was never anything other than kind to me. Or maybe my ex-wife wanted revenge. Who knows. Some faction decided to run me off. So I moved on to SL and eventually OpenSimulator. But I do miss those nights harvesting mindlessly or walking The Circuit, as I called it, becoming the top NPC killer. Sitting in the plaza, handing out paint buckets to the newbie UPS drivers…

By: Naxus Delos

Naxus Delos — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:12:00 +0000

Certain members of the antagonist baddies seem to have special access to the program. This was brought up to me by a long time player, initials FH. She said, that even thought she had her locator off, these baddies could find her. At first I thought she was being paranoid. a few years later, I noticed that when I was attacked by these baddies, I would get locked into the room and could not leave as more of them would come in to fight against one person: me or whoever. When I knew I was outnumbered, instead of accusing 5 idiots who still couldn’t box me, I would get a message as I was leaving, “dont’ be a coward and stand and fight.” Yet its the cowards who use 4 or 5 people to attack one.

When I have been attacked, my attackers can run at will anywhere and leave. But not so if I am attacked by them. They have a way to lock the arrows, even in the streets. I’ve never experienced this benefit for me. So coming to Sociolotron to try to use your talent to achieve, is mooted by crooked corrupt game players. GM’s can pop up where you are instantly to solve a grievance for you. They know where you are. Yet I was attacked with my locator off a few minutes after my Castle was broken into and I was boxed while sleeping. They were using a guard to got through rooms that where unlocked. They attacked one of their own to get them blinking to do this: exploiting a glitch, a violation. Yet they are not punished nor deterred. They rule the game.

So playing Sociolotron, after becoming aware of this will only attract sub masochist who thrive on this humiliation. Me, not being a sub, have to vacate London, and inform other players whom will waste their time in this rigged MMO really designed for masochist seeking humiliation. That’s what you get. I was warned, and I spend years in this game.

I’m hoping to warn others to stay away!

By: Hey You

Hey You — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:22:51 +0000

This game wasnt that bad… But now, it’s dead, and it could still be saved!

By: Mistress Dar Rules

Mistress Dar Rules — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:56:14 +0000

I loved this game. It was really too bad that certain people made it their business to run players out of the game. I’m a lovely player I brought over a hundred new player to the game only to have AE women run them off. Their goal was to run me out of the game, but they were too weak to run me so they attack my friends, my slaves and my husbands all of which were many. So now they cost PD more money than he knows and I play else where. Too bad cause I really miss London.

By: Bluey

Bluey — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:29 +0000

Flouted, not flaunted.

By: Bluey

Bluey — Tue, 21 May 2013 03:18:23 +0000

I scan the web from time to time to see if there’s any signs of life from Socio. Interesting to find a few recent posts here. I too am curious to know whether Socio (or Socio 2) is still alive.

I was also banned, though more recently than those in the original article. Similar allegations – my word against somebody else’s, and I wasn’t as friendly with PD as was the other person.

The main problem has always been that the developer/GM flaunted his own TOS by becoming personally involved with certain players – he is human, after all. He made friendships, paid players to do work for him, favored certain players when he considered their characters to be “good for the game” etc.

The game was a one-man show and therefore exhibited all the flaws of the man himself. He was doing what he thought was right to help his “baby” grow and succeed, but he had little business acumen and less knowledge of human nature.

Socio was unique. I miss it and especially the players. I’ve never found their like in SL or any other online experience.

By: Patricia York

Patricia York — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:25:08 +0000

I played Socio years ago and quit around 2006 for most of the reasons shown here. Is it still running? It had an absolutely excellent idea for allowing the members to create the rules but what happened was close friends of the game developer got all those who wanted to create an interesting world banned. They blamed “Yahoo Messenger” but in reality the game developer’s friends were not just using Skype and IM but cell phones to coordinate attacks.

The idea wasn’t even supposed to be the graphics but instead the idea that you could create the whole political and economic environment yourself. That died really quick when the game developer worked with his player-character friends to remove any reasonable opposition.

By: Dust

Dust — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:43:38 +0000

Seems the banning after years has finally affected it all, on top of the previous years when the corrupted game masters befriended the whiners. Its really a shame to see that this game has fallen into a pit of hell due to a person that let it become that way because they didnt want to deal with the ones who constantly whined over idiotic jealousy rages. There went the neighborhood so to say. Most moved out or were evicted.

By: Nelson Jenkins

Nelson Jenkins — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:56:02 +0000

@ aaa

I want to chastise you but I don’t want to bump a SEVEN-YEAR-OLD ARTICLE.