Information on the Zormite situation.

Drakeero · #1 10-09-2006, 01:13 AM

Uninspired leaders who don't take their rank seriously usually get to watch their kingdom utterly decay beneath them unless they're good, or the kingdom itself is relatively powerful and self-maintaining.

Zormite is not very healthy right now, and it is certainly not self maintaining. It needs a leader who will take its development (not its state of war with everyone) seriously in order to improve.

CidNight1142 · #2 10-09-2006, 01:16 AM

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Uninspired leaders who don't take their rank seriously usually get to watch their kingdom utterly decay beneath them unless they're good, or the kingdom itself is relatively powerful and self-maintaining.

Zormite is not very healthy right now, and it is certainly not self maintaining. It needs a leader who will take its development (not its state of war with everyone) seriously in order to improve.

The only successful kingdom leader in the past year has been Alan Steele. He's the only one who's lasted longer than a few weeks, no matter a year or longer. His approach is most definately not powergaming and manhandling his ranks. He has fun. He runs events because they're fun and he keeps his members happy by being nice to them and not treating the lvl 110 powergamer any better than the babyfaced lvl 4 noob. A little bit of nonchalance goes a long way.

Raelyn · #3 10-09-2006, 01:23 AM

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The only successful kingdom leader in the past year has been Alan Steele. He's the only one who's lasted longer than a few weeks, no matter a year or longer. His approach is most definately not powergaming and manhandling his ranks. He has fun. He runs events because they're fun and he keeps his members happy by being nice to them and not treating the lvl 110 powergamer any better than the babyfaced lvl 4 noob. A little bit of nonchalance goes a long way.

I highly disagree, while I do think that having fun and holding events is a good way to run a kingdom, keep in mind, he became governor because he is Lisa's husband, an already established member of CP, and despite the fact that he had only been playing graal for about a month, was handed the position on a silver platter, after it had just been exploited away from Ziro and sold USD to someone else.

If you want to argue here about Googi's vendetta being proper because Zormite was stolen and sold USD, you might as well replace Alan as leader of CP for the same reason.

Alan has done alot for treating his members well, and keeping the game fun with frequent events, but in that same respect, he doesn't run a kingdom of pirates, he runs a kingdom of adolescents who think pirates are cool. Arrr.

CidNight1142 · #4 10-09-2006, 01:28 AM

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Yeah, mistakes of leaders long before Alan had the kingdom really should lessen the fact that he's still by a huge margin the most successful kingdom leader in recent GK history. To deny that his method doesn't work is pure jealousy.

But you've got a great point, we really should have found some real pirates to play GK. Adolescents pretending to be pirates is terrible. Adolescents pretending to be fish is much more acceptable.

Raelyn · #5 10-09-2006, 01:44 AM

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Yeah, mistakes of leaders long before Alan had the kingdom really should lessen the fact that he's still by a huge margin the most successful kingdom leader in recent GK history. To deny that his method doesn't work is pure jealousy.

But you've got a great point, we really should have found some real pirates to play GK. Adolescents pretending to be pirates is terrible. Adolescents pretending to be fish is much more acceptable.

First, I wasn't implying his method didn't work, no jealousy here.

Second, they don't even pretend to be pirates, they don't even roleplay, at most, they will use the words "Ahoy, Aye and Arrr." frequently.

CidNight1142 · #6 10-09-2006, 01:53 AM

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Second, they don't even pretend to be pirates, they don't even roleplay, at most, they will use the words "Ahoy, Aye and Arrr." frequently.

Yeah, except for the fact that you just removed that information directly from your rear end. You obviously have little to no idea what you're talking about.

If you recall, this discussion is not about the Pirates. It's about Zormite. Let's hear some of your ideas for getting this amazing RP out of your players if you were made leader?

Googi · #7 10-09-2006, 02:30 AM

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Second, they don't even pretend to be pirates, they don't even roleplay, at most, they will use the words "Ahoy, Aye and Arrr." frequently.

That's pretty much roleplaying. RPing doesn't require you to be an elitist who writes a 6 page backstory.

jonnyrocks2 · #8 10-09-2006, 02:38 AM

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That's pretty much roleplaying. RPing doesn't require you to be an elitist who writes a 6 page backstory.

I fully agree upon that.

Raelyn · #9 10-09-2006, 03:30 AM

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That's pretty much roleplaying. RPing doesn't require you to be an elitist who writes a 6 page backstory.

No one needs a full 6 page backstory, but it would help if they acted like pirates and not just talked like them.

For once I'd like to be scammed by a pirate, stolen from, or killed by a pirate.