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Pretty sure Elarin, the Wodewoses GL, logs in every day. He and I don't log in very often at the same time (which means very little father-son RP time, sad face), but I know from talking to others that he comes around around the same times every day.

Congrats, your garosaur is gender fluid! Don't discourage them.

Daxi Strongleaf said:

You throw a silky red sphere with tan circles onto the ground and it bursts apart in a small explosion, releasing a spoiling the air around him garosaur covered in serpentine, which immediately nuzzles up against you.

What.

You pat a spoiling the air around him garosaur covered in serpentine in a friendly manner.

A spoiling the air around him garosaur covered in serpentine lets out a harrumph of hot breath into your face, displaying her sharp teeth to in extreme clarity.

Lmao what a description! Now I really need to see the full description 

Shaddus said:

If I've learned anything over the years I've been here, it's the following three statements/paragraphs.

Just because you don't see your cl/gl doing stuff, that doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. A good leader doesn't have to trumpet his works. People who need constant validation about their activities make mediocre leaders.

There's very little you can do as a leader that you can't do as not-a-leader to "make things better". If you feel like your leader isn't doing anything, contact them and ask if there's anything you can do to help. 

Sometimes leaders burn out because of too much of the first thing (people bitching about not seeing activity) and not enough of the second thing (people who want results and want to work to get those results).

If I could place a heart on this, I would.

My time is almost entirely consumed by communications, solving issues and thinking of new systems that could bring something better since CL. If only you knew all the time, the love and the effort placed into your treaties, your relationships or your laws you would try to not break them. It is just crazy how many hours you can sink into some discussions and then watch people destroy all of this in a matter of seconds. Really not as easy as I thought it would be.

If I've learned anything over the years I've been here, it's the following three statements/paragraphs.

Just because you don't see your cl/gl doing stuff, that doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. A good leader doesn't have to trumpet his works. People who need constant validation about their activities make mediocre leaders.

There's very little you can do as a leader that you can't do as not-a-leader to "make things better". If you feel like your leader isn't doing anything, contact them and ask if there's anything you can do to help. 

Sometimes leaders burn out because of too much of the first thing (people bitching about not seeing activity) and not enough of the second thing (people who want results and want to work to get those results).

You should know basic game mechanics and have a general idea of how you'll need to do things as a guild/city leader before you contest. It is one of the few roles I will argue that roleplay and mechanics must be met in equal measure.

Serenwilde CT makes me want to facesmash a brick wall. And I love Seren, it's where I go for my 'light' RP. We crushed out the over the top silliness and licking/groping/glomping/skyclad/sleep with everything that moves once before. Serenwilde is not happy forest. It can have happy people but you know, all the orgs have a measure of humour and playfulness, but for some reason Seren always seems to go to the ridiculous extreme. 


ANYWAY. On topic.

I couldn't decide on a  vote. I don't think they should be removed entirely, but I know personally I RP better - less lazily - when I'm not getting the socialisation on a clan. Don't get me wrong. I am in some (though I went through a time of cutting them all out and it was really great for me) and I don't always chat, and I don't always listen, but it's a nice option.

What I loathe, and what I flipped out about in the past, was the level of metagaming that went on in them at times, at the IC things planned out in the clans without everyone having the benefit to participate or be involved. Like city projects and deciding who would design it when people outside the cool kids club would love to be involved too. In deciding which person to make as the next figurehead of x guild and who can we convince to vote, that sort of thing. It's a scourge on the game, all this stuff could and should be RPed out in character. That's why I hate ooc clans. 

Alternatively sometimes I love them because I'm logged in at work, lurking in my manse but can still join in on some idle chat despite not being free to properly play. It's catch 22.

Coraline said:

The funny (if you can call it that) part is they aren't inactive! Only Listeners GM was (think he got replaced recently). I don't know why just messaging people to ask if they're inactive and waiting for a couple of days for a response is so hard..

This just seems to be a general thing. Whenever I hear someone lamenting that they never run into X or Y person to talk about whatever, and I ask them if they've tried writing a letter or sending a message, they react like I've just suggested the strangest thing.

In fact, I was kind of like that as a novice until I got into writing letters as a fun thing to do. And even I can't tell you why I had such a stance initially! It pretty much all boils down to "lol idk"

Tridemon said:

How about... Purify can make Truegrounding cost 1 power, and reduce the EQ cost by 3 seconds.

Neat idea. You could even fully remove power cost from TG and make it same base balance cost as censer. At least then it would get used. There's no need for a power cost since it's not contributing to building melds.