Klesta said:
[member="Popo"] That's why I thought it was best to wait until the questions pertaining to faction flavor were answered before we roll anything out. Once the content is made clear then we can go ahead and roll our artwork out.
What faction flavor? Granted, the only staff members I'm aware of is Suravi and Caius, but even so none of them have popped up, said anything, or even given hints as to what the goal is other than "
We're gonna make the Republic great again. It'll be amazing. We'll build a wall and the Mandos will pay for it" kind of responses. There's loads of things you can do and I even more or less spelled out a road to doing it with waypoints, rest stops, and highway signs along the way.
The general staff reaction, the only real response I've seen that actually looked like competency, was Caius' respons in the Solutions thread. Even then, it was basically a generic "You guys can do what you want, we won't really stop you. Go be productive" which, from prior experience as a FO for this faction and a FA for the Mandos,
doesn't work. You want folks to do stuff, get them motivated. Get them invested. Don't just sit back and go "Yeah, we can totally do all this stuff.... Well, you can, I'm not. Go for it! I'm rooting for you!"
If a Faction staff member doesn't have the time to post, and I've seen at least one or two references
in the Republic back room of Faction staff not posting reliably (or at all), then that hurts the faction. Yeah, you can have staff that don't post much, or at all, IC'ly. Does it work? Not really. Are there exceptions? Sure. Even so, those factions usually die out because there's no drive from staff or membership. Faction staff are leadership and lead by example. One or more staff members not doing anything? Aren't visible? Can't dedicate time and effort for even an IC post on occasion? Thank them for their time, show them out, bring new blood in. Don't think it works?
*Points at Mando faction*
As a former FA for that faction... I WASN'T DOING ANYTHING! Between work, life, and studying for class as well as re-re-learning time management skills... never posted. Had no muse, was basically a wall decoration for a while. What happened? Someone called for a FO vote because they were tired of the faction being stagnant. What happened? New FO, faction invigoration, and everyone became motivated overnight. Yeah, I got kicked to the curb, but hey, wasn't doing anything helpful other than making sure the office furniture didn't float away. Now? The faction is doing far better, it has motivated and active leadership, and has some serious drive because they're leading by example.
TL;DR
I am
still seeing all talk, no action. If you guys
acted as much as you
debated in the back room or took the time spent on pushing artwork of pretty women in Republic uniforms to actually push a concept, you could probably get the wheels spinning in a direction. What direction? No clue, but a direction is better than sitting still.
Suggestion:
Stop debating, start acting. The longer you sit and debate and hem and haw over what to do and what not to do and how to actually
function to bring life back in the faction, the easier it will be for the faction to be steamrolled and/or die out.
Hell, I'd even argue if someone actually takes this advice and runs hard with it, starts threads and pushes agendas to get the place rolling and living again, maybe you should put them at the helm for a bit. See what happens.
