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2. I dont' even know the people. Unlike most, the forums are just about the only contact I have with other players, be they divine or not. So ... again, you're choice.
3. Please, re-read my OG post. Mistake, does not mean Wrong. Also ... please point out to me where I was saying that I know better than they do.
4. Again, my experience, I say it as I experienced it. Nothing more, nothing less.
5. And again, as I experienced it! At no point did I make any statement to indicate anything else.
I don't know what was happening in the background, other than these forums and exactly two discord connections, I do not have contact with people outside the game.
I prefer it that way, because the line between OOC and IC gets crossed to damn often around here.
Where I come from, the phrase "honest conversation" means: to have a conversation free of insults, cursing or derogatory statements.
Contrary to popular belief, English is NOT, my first language. So yea ... expect to see miss-spelled words, phrases that might need clarification, and idioms that you've never encountered before. So again, I ask: Kindly re-read my posts. I do not mean the things you are reading into them. If you find that something I've written pisses you off, please allow me the opportunity to clarify it.
(ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ˢᵐᶦᵗᵉ ᵐᵉ)
So far, I like Hashan. I think it suits Lenn.
If we could improve retention of these new people we could revitalize cities and maintain follower populations for plenty of gods. To me the things that look to cause new people to drop are gameplay frustrations, the bash grind, and the monetization. We older players can do a lot to mitigate frustrations by being more helpful and reduce the grind by grouping with the young more often. We could probably even increase the inflow of newbies by being more vocal about the game elsewhere across the web (besides pastebin).
My point is that we can do something about getting more active orders by being better to our new people.
The soul of Ashmond says, "Always with the sniping."
(Clan): Ictinus says, "Stop it Jiraishin, you're making me like you."
I have it logged, with timestamps.
2019/06/07 17:45:12 - Caelan, Deziny, Dilek, Garros, Miriew, Myna, Peknor, Rangor, and Waayen have destroyed The ruins of a vaulted hall.
Go Eleusis, get those group projects done! Don't let the few group member who stand around with their thumb up their noses get you down.
Ok we get it! Eleusis bad, Eleusis sucks, and so on and so forth. Stay on topic people!
Even with your edit your post comes across like a backhanded compliment about how amazing Hashan's RP is compared to Elesuis so "with all due respect...." you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about and made far too many assumptions about the drive and motivations of others based off something as simple as a lognote to counter a singular point made by Cailin about not raiding and stuff. You are the one who actually missed the point. There are Eleusians doing things to make it better.
Self edit: I have removed the rest of this because it will likely hurt feelings. The gyst was, I dont really give a shit what your opinion of Eleusis is (or literally anything in the universe) because you are consistently wrong and make too many assumptions. Also.. I swear alot. Get over it. It is how I talk.
have a chicken wing instead
The Ashtani and Eleusians were already in the city with a tank when I logged in. I also have no idea how you turn Myna+Miriew+Rangor+yourself vs Argwin+Marcella+Lenn = even odds, even numerically. :shrug:
I guess what I'm trying to get at is that even without an active Divine, it's totally possible to push "big" RP. It's harder. Disagreements don't resolve cleanly and people don't focus. But it's possible.
If I were someone about to pick a Divine role to take on, I would look at Eleusis with their current efforts, think about how little I know of the history of the city, and think "I'd rather wait until they have a solid ethos I can pin down to support and develop." A God can't do much with domestic life RP, there has to be movement.
@Krizal when I tracked in you were there. So... numerically, 4 = 4 is not that hard to establish. The fact that until I have time to fix my curing I am a paper tiger means even with 3 v 3+ me.. pretty even. I mean, I died to being lusted FFS.
Yeah? That is pretty awesome to know your first event was one of us explaining our ideals in some way. It is one reason the Scion "newbies" are required to have their final task open to the public before becoming a full member.
Also, you're pretty spot on with the "domestic" comment. But I would say another aspect is that Gaia was one of the original 3 or 4 Divine when the game started. So there is 20 years of history that person needs to be familiar with. Some good, some bad. But that definitely explains why they just splinter her even more so the new admin can have a fresh page. But she has been split like 5 or 6 times over the years. I would love to see someone willing and able to take on the Herculean task of knowing the history, killing all the other splinters off, and just forming a real Gaia.
Thanks for the encouragement, @Caelan and @Iloisee. I think it probably DOES have a lot to do with the time of day I log in. Things are always really quiet in the US morning, seems like even the people who are logged in aren't very talkative. I didn't even know the Scion ritual happened. Although, we still don't have an MoC or HR, someone halp!
I'm glad to hear the Scion house is doing really well. I've sometimes considered switching to that house to get more into oration/nature theology, along with ritualism.
If the Kin is stagnating, they need to analyze their policies and procedures and cut out what's not working. Build on what is. The Scions and the Kin are fighting for the same village -- encourage collaboration. Establish the Kin's focus and role in the village. An active, moving House will attract a Patron. Two active, collaborating Houses will attract a city Patron.
I don't believe Eleusis is without a Divine because of its history exclusively. I think would-be Divines don't know what they'd do with Eleusis -and- don't want a repeat of this infamous Gaia/Artemis situation.
I still think the main issue would be the community, barring the Scions and few who supported the Gaia/Artemis push for an improved and streamlined forest faction.