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I guess it's an issue of personality and competitiveness. Uprising for example had many issues. It had no leadership, wasn't a truly cohesive group, some personality clashes, some people trying to level up while others were burnt out 50's. But there were more than enough players there to create a new guild from Uprising that would compete with nihilum, with both guilds fielding 20-30, and creating a competitive atmosphere. Rather than do that however, everyone just joined nihilum. That to me was a big let down. I get all the of issues with uprising, I do, they were things that frustrated all of us, I just don't see why the only option was join nihilum.

I guess that's my real frustration with this server, every time a guild has been confronted with issues of leadership or something else, rather than the members making their own guild, or taking over the leadership, they seem to all just either quit or join nihilum. There seems to be a huge lack of leaders on this server, a passion to compete and what not. I tried with Starwars Time but the fact is the server pop @ that point was already hovering around ~60 and there was just simply not enough people left at that point to recruit. No one wants to log on and be one of four people online in guild.

Having said all of that, I hope VV emerges as that alternative to Nihilum and provides competition. I've spoken in great depth with Samwise and I think it definitely has that potential. Let's hope though that should there be some issue in the future, rather than everyone in mass joining nihilum again or quitting, that people step up and take charge and lead something of their own.