This is a repost of a post I made on KI, but KI is so slow. My 2nd post is in response to Cloudxz, who is the one I am quoting. The link if you feel the need to authenticate the posts. http://killingifrit.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=166830
The linkshell started as SoraNoHi about 3 years ago. I was there the first day of farming and committed a lot of time to the group. I joined to get N.abjs for my DRK. Instead i was given RNG gear. There was players just joining who were given N.gear, and PLDs who recieved W.legs the week they joined because PLD needed them more than RNG.
I left the game about a year after the shell was created. I needed a break, and was moving 100 miles away. I told the person (partygirl) I left my character to that I would be back in feb. When I went to come back, she was nowhere to be found. I messaged people via QCDN and they didn't know what happened to her, she just vanished. One of my friends gave me his acct because he quit, and I created a character of my own.
In december of 06 she magically appeared again, and I got my acct back, but there was nothing on it. So I rebuilt my character pretty much from scratch. 3 months later she vanished again.
I joined perfection about 3 months ago, the same base of players was there, and it felt good. The main reason I joined was because they were now on a point system. I spent a lot time farming with the shell and on my own time, to where I surpassed players who joined around the same time I did by over 100 points (2 pts = 1 hr).
There was a problem with people leaving because there was no way they could get items that they listed as #2 because they weren't dropping, and new players were joining using that as their #1. So I came up with a rule to allow a player to buy their way into the next position with 100 points, giving them a chance to lot. The final rule included a one month non-bid and no points gained. That put me behind another person on Justice Torque (My #1), but it was a good rule.
Two weeks ago Partygirl shows up after 9 months of being gone with 5 characters, and some king/hnm gear she didn't have before. Apparently her "brother" changed servers and pimped her character out. She lets me control a taru BLM/SMN/ThF.
Flash forward to this sunday. We get a Hope torque, and the SAM who moved up (already got Justice and Love for his SAM) wins the bids. Grats to him. I can move up with 100 points and be first in line for Hope, so I ponder in LS if I should do that. They tell me that will move my #1 to #2 and will later have to pay 100 points to move back up which doesn't seem right, but what can you do.
We then head to Ix'DRG, while I'm changing jobs it pops and we get kill. "thats too bad <Person who also has cape #1>" So I ask why there is no bid. Turns out it's because SMN can use it more than NIN. Well, anyone with a brain would ponder "Then why does a SAM get priority over a RNG + NIN" who was the other person with Hope as #1. Other people with brains would ponder "I thought this was a points based LS, why can't he bid his points?" There was heated conversation, but it didn't go anywhere, so I logged for the night.
The next day I posted on the forums why I was upset. I then logged in to tell the leader, Corvinus, that I was going to bow out of the Nyzul static and XP static we had. He then starts to preach about how he knew I would pull this. I fall for it, and get into the argument. After my first argument, there is silence. Then I get kicked. Then I get banned from the LS forum.
I later /t the actual leader, Cloudxz (he actually runs things) and he said it was temporary. I ask him if they are going to decide whether they are priority or points based, I don't get a respond tell. Hours later, still no tell. I see a taru running by named Haddes, so decide I'm moving to Hades. I stripped the taru BLM of about 3m+, which is nowhere near the 30m I lost, but whatever. To make up the difference I deleted the character and replaced it with the character Pwned.