Ghostiger,Jan 7 2005, 02:04 PM Wrote:I have to say Mongo and Ochhi are right one. As an uninterested observer(I play on a different server) Ill just say that they make a good point.No one's trying to take over a server. There is no system of rewards in place, nor do I ever see Tal implementing them (he'd get beat down on that idea pretty darn quickly).
A guild of friends is more fun than a structure guild. If your going for server domination you need to make use of ranks, rewards etc. If you want to have fun playing with friends then titles just get in the way and lead to resentment.
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Once again, the ranks aren't "favors" nor are they rewards. Take this scenario (which isn't too far away from something that happened shortly after release to one poor guild). There is no officer rank, Tal's the only one with a rank of authority. We managed to end up with one bad apple in the guild. Said bad apple makes trouble wherever and whenever he can. People try to contact Tal so he can become aware of the troublemaker and deal with him appropriately. Oh wait, Tal is away from the computer for a week because he has a conference to attend in Florida. The people trying to contact Tal to do something about the apple get frustrated at the lack of communication from the guild leader and the bad apple is still causing trouble. The guild then gets blacklisted because most of the rest of the server ends up having the same lack of communication from someone "in authority" from the guild and assume the guild leader just doesn't care.
This is close to an incident that did actually happen shortly after release. I just wish I could remember the guild and the server. I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to it because it wasn't a server I played on. An entire guild got blacklisted because one moron caused trouble while the head of the guild was away and unable to take care of it. It's incidences like these that Tal is trying to avoid. It's not for power, or nepotism or anything else ridiculous like that. The ranks are there simply to ensure that the guild on the servers never reflects badly upon the site.
Edit: I hate being trolled, but I'm leaving this post here anyway.
Intolerant monkey.