[Discuss] Poll: Who read and understood that this is a light weight game?

[AJ]

On 9/13/05, Timothy Collett <danaris at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sep 13, 2005, at 1:24 AM, Espire wrote:
> 
> > Important Orders from Grig (12 recipients) (1 hour, 7 minutes ago)
> > Message sent to: Morgoth, Alanna, Eavan, William, Quixote, Aramil,
> > Castamir, Sponge, Moonglum, Lorien II, Yavanna, Gwaethinriel
> > BG leaders, it is time to take charge of your groups, if you cannot
> > participate in the turns, patticulary near the end and beginning,
> > then you should consider relinquishing your command.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Why does one have to log on 4 times a day? I get the battle bit
> > and trying to win... but it is not needed. You don't win or lose
> > logging in often. Try clear orders and solid strats that do not
> > depend on logging on every 5 minutes. Try doing the impossible...
> > don't gasp... let everyone use their brains and figure out what to
> > do on the fly.
> >
> > You want a bigger game stop treating people like so many pawns and
> > mapping out their every last move.
> 
> In reference to the message, the positions in question are those of
> the leaders of BGs--purely volunteer positions, which are
> specifically for handing out orders during certain time frames. It's
> not a position with any game-mechanics responsibilities, and I can
> assure you, as Ruler of this island, that I would not tolerate anyone
> giving the BG leaders more than an irritated complaint if they did
> miss a turn or whatever.


ruler of the island? :-O :-P 
New position perhaps ;-) or are we getting a little overconfident :-D

In fact, the setup of the BGs is designed to work *with* the people's
> login times, with those who were most active and strategic-minded
> being given the leadership positions. Two of the BGs were for people
> who live in Europe, and log in during those times, and two for those
> who live in the Americas, with other people being split between them
> as their login times allowed. I was attempting to create a system
> that would allow us to mitigate against the worst disadvantages of
> low activity without actually demanding more activity from people.


Um That is what is undesirable. Awarding people based on their activity even 
if it only a "BG Leadership" because imo it's discrimination even if for a 
non existent position or RP position.

aJ
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