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I am a Team member and I don't really know Winters too well but I will say this whether your friends or not there is never an excuse for taking the mickey out of someone for a medical condition. Dyslexia doesn't mean someone is stupid it has nothing to do with that whatsoever. Dyslexia affects some skills and abilities and is not linked to a persons level of intelligence. I just want to ask are the questions proving a real problem for people with dyslexia and if so is there any way we can make improvements to help these players.

You do know Dyslexia (Dyslexia, or developmental reading disorder,is characterized by difficulty with learning to read fluently and with accurate comprehension despite normal or above-average intelligence.) Most people how suffer from it are better at maths then the average person.

The match questions are as simply as they can be, it is single digit sums (5+2 or 4+3 etc) unless you are in a safezone where it is (50+23 etc) (we will prob remove the safezone questions)

I work with people who suffer from Dyslexia daily and they have a great understanding of maths so this is not that problem.

As for the immature, name calling, im smarting then you carp, this needs to stop, its not funny, it makes you look stupid and tbh is a bad reflection on the person doing it.

BH
 
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Oatabix

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TBH anything said in game abuse wise i would take with a pinch of salt, if it effects you to the point of getting angered in real life or properly getting upset, you probably should build a higher resilience to it. Honestly any game you play will have abuse and name calling and stuff. It's not new and it's not going to change.
 

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TBH anything said in game abuse wise i would take with a pinch of salt, if it effects you to the point of getting angered in real life or properly getting upset, you probably should build a higher resilience to it. Honestly any game you play will have abuse and name calling and stuff. It's not new and it's not going to change.

Banter between players is one thing and that is fine but attacking the same player over and over is bullying, its immature and at the age most Mir players are it is a bad reflection on them

Also both parties are at fault here, both are just as bad as each other

BH
 
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Usually I would agree Oatabix I however think it is a bit harder when people are making fun of a condition you cannot help. Also thanks for the info BH I have a limited knowledge of the condition so if it doesnt cause problems with maths then thats ok my advice to Winters if he is struggling with the maths is A) take your time B) most mobile phones have calculators on them. That was not meant to sound like I am having a dig at him just trying to help
 

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Winters if he is struggling with the maths is A) take your time B) most mobile phones have calculators on them. That was not meant to sound like I am having a dig at him just trying to help

That is the thing, he has no problem with it. It is the players that are bullying him that are making all this rubbish up, throw abuse at him for no reason. He also does not help himself by throwing stupid abuse back.
Both parties are at fault here.

The whole thing is sad really, Mir is an old game we all enjoy playing and have in common, you would think that we could all get along and just enjoy it.

BH
 

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Something like a free house and £200 a week? We already cater for retards irl so let's not do it ingame :P

Jokes a side there isn't anything you can do other than give bots free ride for this. So no.
 

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Banter between players is one thing and that is fine but attacking the same player over and over is bullying, its immature and at the age most Mir players are it is a bad reflection on them

Also both parties are at fault here, both are just as bad as each other

BH

I understand where you are coming from, and if constantly harassed in game and it becomes unplayable (for instance followed around and pk'd wherever he goes) this needs to be dealt with...

If this is just abuse, however, via pms or however, then the worst thing to do is retort in anyway, simply ignore it and they will grow bored.

As you say, both parties are at fault, and yes people are older but despite age people still have traits whereby they want to be seen as popular and/or funny and they see the only way of doing that is to rip into others, making them feel superior.

I've seen it countless times whilst out with friends at pubs, a girl comes over, suddenly one of your mates is tearing you a new one because he is seemingly wanting to impress the girl. A weak analogy but an analogy nonetheless.

Dante: in terms of it being different for a condition you can't help. I mean, yeah, sure, he may actually get upset at it, which he is allowed to do but seriously, i'm sure he has people in real life that have spoken to him about the condition and told him of the geniuses who are dyslexic, the stuff you can achieve. Why would he take offence to something he is branded with that puts him in the same boat as Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein or Richard Branson?

I'm sure he doesn't really take offence to the comments made about his supposed intelligence, moreover he probably just gets wound up about the consistency of the abuse and wishes they'd just shut up as it's annoying?
 
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As a quick fix whilst you're contemplating a fix - Could you make the box smaller & move it so that it's not in the middle of the screen and let the player carry on playing (It seems to lag/ stop movement at the moment) then just stick a timer on it, of say 1 minute before it kicks you.
 

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As a quick fix whilst you're contemplating a fix - Could you make the box smaller & move it so that it's not in the middle of the screen and let the player carry on playing (It seems to lag/ stop movement at the moment) then just stick a timer on it, of say 1 minute before it kicks you.

We are looking into making it work like this.

BH
 

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I understand where you are coming from, and if constantly harassed in game and it becomes unplayable (for instance followed around and pk'd wherever he goes) this needs to be dealt with...

If this is just abuse, however, via pms or however, then the worst thing to do is retort in anyway, simply ignore it and they will grow bored.
Or learn to use the enemy list or the reject pms buttons