Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:02 pm
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
Before I even get started, I want to say this. If your going to respond be thoughtful, level headed and post something useful. Just going “I agree” isn’t what I want here. Give your actual opinion and don’t quote someone elses. We don’t need straight up flame here, we don’t need snide comments. You take that somewhere else. This would be nice to be intelligent. Now to the real meat.
The last 24 hours have been crazy. We see things that are happening that could be heralded as the coming of the apocalypse or as something that needed to happen. Whatever you views on this point, if you have any, the fact remains that we are still, as I would call it, family. Family that might hate each other at times, but still family. Why?
This game has been around for a long time now. Some of us are newer and missed out on the awesomeness of the start like myself, others have been here from day 1. Regardless, everyone still has the same right to gameplay, and no one can take that away.
Now a lot of the people in this community I respect or love are at odds with each other. You have people that have gained respect suddenly stepping up to speak out, and others that are withdrawing from here, and others that are signing what can only be called their deaths. Now there must be a reason shouldn’t there be?
I don’t confess to know everything. I won’t ask for their opinions and I won’t get into what could be called the main argument today. But there are things that I must say to the community as a whole, and this is to everyone, from Pook, Thal and the @Alleg on down to the most brand new player of the day.
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This community is now divided. There are two camps now as I see it. The problem is that neither side can truly exist without the other, regardless of what both sides think. There is no way we can get by without administration, and there is no way we can get by without players. We, as a whole, need to come to a compromise that will benefit both sides, and the community as a whole. The question right now is who will be willing to compromise in order to let this live?
Before we even get to compromising, we need to set a few other things straight. We must all get on the same level as far as what is allowed right now. In the past month or so, there has been a completely different face on enforcement as far as I can see, and regardless of if it’s better or not, everyone needs to know the ground rules. I see this as a partial failing of both the @Alleg group as well as the players. Both share equal blame in this, and we will not point fingers anymore. So on this count here is what has to happen in my view.
Now –
1) Allow forgiveness on all counts regarding this. The only way we can start putting things back together is if we have everyone here.
2) The powers must use the appropriate amount of force when dealing with the people here. This is in regards to both forums and games.
3) Players must reign in their tempers and aggression for awhile, so we can figure out what we shall do. This means stop stirring the pot, and I mean everyone. Take your problems through channels.
4) In general, everyone needs to take a breather and rember while we are competitive, these people in game are still your brothers, treat them as such.
We need to compromise between our two camps if we want to be here in another year. It’s inevitable that there will be problems. There always are, but we need to get together now and huddle up if we want to continue to play. Everyone loves/hates this game but keeps coming back. Well if we don’t come together and compromise over this issue, and forgive, we’ll all won’t be coming back.
That is the now. We need a future. I am of the opinion that we have sat complacent for too long, and a move was needed. However, the move came not from the normal shakers around here, the ones who cause problems, but this time from the ones who normally fix things. I do not believe that the course of action take was the correct one.
At this moment, a main body of the Allegiance family is unmoving and stagnant. The Senate is all but effectively dead, and was for a time a major governing body. It was the place for the gameplay changes, for the long bans etc. Now it is nothing. I believe it should be brought back into use of a large scale, be given more power so as to do it’s job better and become the main enforcement body, in conjunction with the @Alleg staff. Among other things, the Senate needs to be retooled slightly to better acomadate this idea, and if enough interest is shown here I will post both my ideas on the forum here, as well as petiton the senate, Thal and Pook to revise the Senate’s charter.
I would also like to take this opportunity to call for all squads to re-elect new senators who are not active on both forum and game, and who you do not feel represent your squad in it’s majority. The senate has stagnated not only due to the senators themselves, but the squads and players not actively becoming involved with the administration of their own game.
There is a lot I wish to say, and not all of it fits together in this one piece. Follow ups will be made, providing I am not forum banned or muted for exspressing my opinions. I take this last moment here to beg for one thing.
Understanding.
I beg that everyone here can understand where everyone is coming from, where their protests and defence of the recent events stem from. Whether it is people like Grey Vulpine who speak up in protest, or Mpane who speak in defense, or even Night who lights himself on fire to make a statement here, I hope that everyone will put aside their own shortsightedness in the hopes that they can understand where people have come from. Simply assuming that one person is wrong because they have been before, or one person is a fool because they haven’t been here that long is no way to live. Open your mind, and open your heart to what may happen, both the good and the bad.
Thank you for reading, and may we all hopefully be here in another year.
Before I even get started, I want to say this. If your going to respond be thoughtful, level headed and post something useful. Just going “I agree” isn’t what I want here. Give your actual opinion and don’t quote someone elses. We don’t need straight up flame here, we don’t need snide comments. You take that somewhere else. This would be nice to be intelligent. Now to the real meat.
The last 24 hours have been crazy. We see things that are happening that could be heralded as the coming of the apocalypse or as something that needed to happen. Whatever you views on this point, if you have any, the fact remains that we are still, as I would call it, family. Family that might hate each other at times, but still family. Why?
This game has been around for a long time now. Some of us are newer and missed out on the awesomeness of the start like myself, others have been here from day 1. Regardless, everyone still has the same right to gameplay, and no one can take that away.
Now a lot of the people in this community I respect or love are at odds with each other. You have people that have gained respect suddenly stepping up to speak out, and others that are withdrawing from here, and others that are signing what can only be called their deaths. Now there must be a reason shouldn’t there be?
I don’t confess to know everything. I won’t ask for their opinions and I won’t get into what could be called the main argument today. But there are things that I must say to the community as a whole, and this is to everyone, from Pook, Thal and the @Alleg on down to the most brand new player of the day.
*
This community is now divided. There are two camps now as I see it. The problem is that neither side can truly exist without the other, regardless of what both sides think. There is no way we can get by without administration, and there is no way we can get by without players. We, as a whole, need to come to a compromise that will benefit both sides, and the community as a whole. The question right now is who will be willing to compromise in order to let this live?
Before we even get to compromising, we need to set a few other things straight. We must all get on the same level as far as what is allowed right now. In the past month or so, there has been a completely different face on enforcement as far as I can see, and regardless of if it’s better or not, everyone needs to know the ground rules. I see this as a partial failing of both the @Alleg group as well as the players. Both share equal blame in this, and we will not point fingers anymore. So on this count here is what has to happen in my view.
Now –
1) Allow forgiveness on all counts regarding this. The only way we can start putting things back together is if we have everyone here.
2) The powers must use the appropriate amount of force when dealing with the people here. This is in regards to both forums and games.
3) Players must reign in their tempers and aggression for awhile, so we can figure out what we shall do. This means stop stirring the pot, and I mean everyone. Take your problems through channels.
4) In general, everyone needs to take a breather and rember while we are competitive, these people in game are still your brothers, treat them as such.
We need to compromise between our two camps if we want to be here in another year. It’s inevitable that there will be problems. There always are, but we need to get together now and huddle up if we want to continue to play. Everyone loves/hates this game but keeps coming back. Well if we don’t come together and compromise over this issue, and forgive, we’ll all won’t be coming back.
That is the now. We need a future. I am of the opinion that we have sat complacent for too long, and a move was needed. However, the move came not from the normal shakers around here, the ones who cause problems, but this time from the ones who normally fix things. I do not believe that the course of action take was the correct one.
At this moment, a main body of the Allegiance family is unmoving and stagnant. The Senate is all but effectively dead, and was for a time a major governing body. It was the place for the gameplay changes, for the long bans etc. Now it is nothing. I believe it should be brought back into use of a large scale, be given more power so as to do it’s job better and become the main enforcement body, in conjunction with the @Alleg staff. Among other things, the Senate needs to be retooled slightly to better acomadate this idea, and if enough interest is shown here I will post both my ideas on the forum here, as well as petiton the senate, Thal and Pook to revise the Senate’s charter.
I would also like to take this opportunity to call for all squads to re-elect new senators who are not active on both forum and game, and who you do not feel represent your squad in it’s majority. The senate has stagnated not only due to the senators themselves, but the squads and players not actively becoming involved with the administration of their own game.
There is a lot I wish to say, and not all of it fits together in this one piece. Follow ups will be made, providing I am not forum banned or muted for exspressing my opinions. I take this last moment here to beg for one thing.
Understanding.
I beg that everyone here can understand where everyone is coming from, where their protests and defence of the recent events stem from. Whether it is people like Grey Vulpine who speak up in protest, or Mpane who speak in defense, or even Night who lights himself on fire to make a statement here, I hope that everyone will put aside their own shortsightedness in the hopes that they can understand where people have come from. Simply assuming that one person is wrong because they have been before, or one person is a fool because they haven’t been here that long is no way to live. Open your mind, and open your heart to what may happen, both the good and the bad.
Thank you for reading, and may we all hopefully be here in another year.