Hey, I don't mind GM chars but let's clear some things up about this server, the VN people are all working together including the GM.
For some proof then, which will obviously disputed by the VN GM and his guild, meaning this post is essentially pointless as the guy would never admit him being twisted.
What's the situation? Valkyrie, a player on the server had apparently a faulty exaltation that boosted him to exalt 40, "faulty" is probably the GM using some exp boosts to get him to that point but let's ignore that for a minute, he then, yesterday, made a new char for Valkyrie to compensate for this mistake.
Now who are we talking about?, the char Sona, never heard of it?, yeah, that's probably because it was Sphinx before. Never heard of that one either?, well that's not too surprising, it has a Zeal of a whooping 458 . You get one zeal per minute, so Sphinx->Sona ( he changed his name ) wasn't online for even 10 hours yet.
These 2 screenshots show you that a) Sphinx is Sona and that b) Sphinx has 458 Zeal.
Why is that important?, Well, Sona right now has 35k powers and legendary exalt 10 Adornments. Is that strong?, well it's among the top 10 players, so yeah, probably even top 5.
But is that all the proof you got?, after all, the GM said that Sphinx is compensation for Valkyrie.
Okay fine, he's the compensation for Valkyrie, do you know how long Valkyrie has been online before the "faulty" exalt came in to place?, that's right: 2727 minutes, aka around 2 days of game time. Let's compare that to the top players, that play all day long to get to where they are, Pickle or Lamborghini for example, their characters have been online for weeks and they are barely at 35-38k power.
So even if you summed up Valkyrie's and Sphinx's online time, it would amount to 2 and a half days. In 2 and a half days of actual game time this character is now in the top 5 of players even though it hasn't farmed or fought anything for a week since its "faulty" character got put offline.
35k power screenshot btw:
You can't see the power there but the weapon will give you an idea about the rest, 6/8 exalted, probably provided by the "guild", and only full lv 4 gems, but has legendary adornments. It just doesn't add up. If this isn't proof of GM influence then I don't know what is. I'm not even complaining that he does it, just that he hides it and makes it look like it's normal.
The best part is, after I was shouting about it on world chat for a while, the GM char came online for no reason other than to tell me to shut up without proof, his VN buddies must have advised him that someone knows about the shady stuff, or he himself got tired of seeing the truth on his alt, who knows, I don't care about that part too much, just found it funny.
I like the server but if the GM wasn't that VN biased, it could actually become a decent server I'm sure. The lord system is very nice.