Dwarves are go!!

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Daerflin

Retro RPGer
Strangely enough, and contrary to my complaints in a former MMG, I'm starting to believe the only way a guild will hold together in a game is for it to have a very strong leadership of GM and officers with clear and enforcable rules, expectations and code of play. In (brace yourselves) EQ Unny was a very good example of how to do this (although it drove him to dispair). Unny respected and listened to the guild and officers, but ultimately it was not a democracy, because he held the respect of the vast majority was able to make the final decision about things with no ifs buts or maybes.

At least that way the members know where they stand, what the rules are, everyone has equal rights and opportunities and ulimately if it's not your style of guild you option is to join a guild that suits your play style rather than launch a revolution

In CUK I guess part of the problem is there is no "leadership" and rules as such beyond Roch on the forums, so every in game guild ends up with some poor bugger nominated as GM who then has no real authority to do anything other than get whinged at

Just thinking out loud here.. feel free to shoot me down in flames
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Agree 100%, having an unbiased and strong leader for an MMG guild who is also perceived as unbaised and strong by their guildmembers (and THAT is the critical part) will go a long way to quell internal problems. It won't fix them but it will deter the "Cloak & Dagger" contingent from playing their games so much and will give the rest of the guild confidence that their leadership is taking them forward as a guild.

Finding one is more problematic however as most Leader types within CUK are percieved to have connections or leaning towards particular subgroups - whether due to friendships or previous experiences in game or previous guild affliations. The danger is of having a Leader and Officers who are percieved to be members of an old boys club, which is probably why you resort to "Democratic Elections" for officials with each new game which end up with a bunch of really nice popular people who are probably woefully suited for the job.

And no you can't have Unny cos he's an Officer in the guild I'm in on Azsune :D
 
Nymawae

Nymawae

Eternal Trial Member
/agree with the bit about being perceived to be, as well as being unbiased.

It's a shame as it completely spoils games for me. It's why I stopped playing EQ, DAoC and WoW :(

It's a bugger to find an answer to innit... /nod
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
Spoils em for me as well Nym.

P.S Use the thread in the members area, we can say it's on page 4 already if you are worried about your bet Nym :)
 
Git

Git

Your opinion is worthless....
im the last one to post on this thread in that section..... so the saying nothing to see here move along is most appropriate.
 
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