If Azrael was to leave

[Kergan]

Originally Posted by Not_Kazowi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

True but a single leader and authoritative power is necessary to rally people and provide a sense of direction. If you disperse leadership too much it causes ambiguity.

I did what nizzar does here, on VZTZ. I was emperor and played 10 hours a day or some crazy shit during college. It's the best way to lead but it's just really draining and even more so on this server

I've never played in a guild outside of Nihilum with a single leader. There is too much opportunity for bad things to happen. Look what happened with Niz went on break for example, or other events that have happened since then.

I'd have a group of officers assigned different things to focus on. Guild bank officer, PVP officer, recruitment officer, raid leader officer (probably 2 of those), etc. Guild leader would just be a senior management type position to make sure all the real work is getting done and not have too much responsibility, aside for filling in for those roles when people take breaks/vacations, etc.

I'd also do loot on a flat simple ass DKP system. No raid attendance nonsense factoring in, no class preferences factoring in. Wizard wants to take grey suede boots? Fine, if they have the DKP. Will people get fucked? Sometimes. But if you know exactly why you're getting fucked and it's laid out in black and white it's not that big of a deal. Want to main switch? Go ahead, as long as your new main meets the requirements for full member. We're here to have fun if you like playing your SK more than your cleric who cares. If shit doesn't get done because we don't have enough clerics you suffer as much as anyone else and that stuff has a way of working itself out.

I'd also have a level 60 level requirement for full membership, and resist gear requirements. Possibly requirements for HS/OS/VP keys who knows.

[Sheriff]

Originally Posted by HippoNipple [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Shows why you can't ever make it as an opposition no matter how many times you try. The server has been out for 3 years and you killed a handful of dragons. For some reason your ego is inflated over a video game. Knowing a npc's spawn rate, resists, and pathing doesn't make you elite it makes you helpful to a guild because of your nerd knowledge. There are many people that can fill that spot on this 15 year old game.

What you lack is humility and vision.

Wow

[Not_Kazowi]

VZTZ was a much different server. A lot less hardcore I guess you could say. The pvp was better but I think it was because there was a much less sense of investment, so people weren’t so afraid to die and get YT shamed.

I lead Heresy with about 6 officers and myself. I obviously had the final and most influential say in most guild matters. I tried to run it as a democracy though, what the people wanted kind of thing. The officers all had the ability to lead raids, call raids, handle guild matters but the big decisions ultimately came to me. I was online enough that I was available to handle things usually. I was lucky to have some officers who played a lot and were pretty proactive (tranch, skunky, xebekn, knuckle among others) which made things easier on me for obvious reasons.

I do not condone a dictatorship guild, but on these small emu servers I do believe having an iconic leader is pretty important, especially with the pvp aspect. Guilds need a leader that calls the shots, and the guild needs to have faith in the calls made. I pulled some risky pvp stunts with Heresy on vztz to say the least. Evacing to seb ent after luring enemy guilds down to flank them. Zoning out of pofear while enemy guild is prepping to surprise them (on vztz you never wanted to be the guild zoning in due to way more crashes than here) etc. These things would never be executed correctly with multiple people deciding the next move. Someone had to step up and take accountability of successes and failures made by the calls.

I don’t know everything but I personally think a leader provides a lot of things that an amalgam leadership type cant. The ambiguity of not knowing who is at the top of the chain creates a lack of fear and respect. The greatest leaders in history always led with a little bit of fear to help garner respect. Anyways, eventually someone will rise up and lead, if I had the time I would just for the fun of it but unfortunately I don’t.

[Jib]

im only reading the replies less than 3 sentences long

[FaithlessKR]

Originally Posted by Not_Kazowi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

VZTZ was a much different server. A lot less hardcore I guess you could say. The pvp was better but I think it was because there was a much less sense of investment, so people weren’t so afraid to die and get YT shamed

This is why I like dev/image boxes much better than this shithole. Less investment, more pvp, better pvp.

[Quiet]

Originally Posted by FaithlessKR [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is why I like dev/image boxes much better than this shithole. Less investment, more pvp, better pvp.

Yeah how that teams pvp revamp working for them? ohh 8 online. nice.

[mostbitter]

Anyone would be better, who cares?

[FaithlessKR]

Originally Posted by Quiet [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah how that teams pvp revamp working for them? ohh 8 online. nice.

We had nearly 100 at one point, dev/image went awol. Doesn't change the fact that an active box of theirs is 100x more fun than this sad excuse.

[Agatha]

lite is not a bad guildleader, he's made it this far, he has control of his core, and thats enough. What he needs to do is make the hard decisions, stop trying to appease everyone, and start to dictate this is how it going to be.

He is swayed to easily, by the same tactics he is using right now "i want this or im gone".

Time to cut those toxic entities out of you're guild man.


Edit: time to instruct your guild to find worthly loyal people to PL and gear, 20 of them. you need to relook at your class makeup again and see what you have to much of. Azrael is the superior pvp guild, i have no doubt about that, never have doubted it. But you guys need to get the PVE and structure aspect of you're guild down. You're guild simply cannot start its day WHEN you log on lite. It needs to continiously make gains through the day, you online or not.

[Quiet]

Originally Posted by FaithlessKR [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

We had nearly 100 at one point, dev/image went awol. Doesn't change the fact that an active box of theirs is 100x more fun than this sad excuse.

You mean you had 30 players and a ton of boxers.