Ex Community Director Sov

Sir, just because you slightly predate the CTF means nothing in the grand scheme of things because the CTF is where the history books were written. Sir. I would like to take this time to apologize to all the people with irl ctf tattoos that i disbanded the gang without consulting them, but in the end it was for the best.

I was asked some advice today, and it was far from the first time, so I figured I'd type up a little guide based on my experience in this game, others, and life experience to help guide those that might need some tips and advice on how to run a successful gang on Olympus, Mecca for Gamers. Feel free to use as much or as little as you want, adapt it to your circumstances. Chapter 1. Chain of Command There are two basic types of officers. R4: You cannot base this role on anything but personality, mentality, intelligence, and like-mindedness to the r5. Your r4 should almost never be someone young, as also the r5, if it can be avoided. It has to be someone that your gang is capable of respecting, with level headedness, and an ability to handle things around the same level you would. Any disagreements between an r4 and r5 should be discussed between those two in private, and the resulting agreement should be presented as a unified front to the gang. A second r4 isn't terrible if you have R3-R1: Ranks awarded purely for playing as a gang, remaining loyal, being honest, following rules, and actively playing. These can be earned and basically handed to anyone who's earned it, as long as there is a agreed upon system/guidance for the r3's when handling wars. R0: Guests: People who aren't going to be in the gang for long, as you want any long term players able to use the shed. Chapter 2. Interviews Always have voice chat interviews with people you're recruiting. This isn't MI-6 the CIA, or even McDonald's. There's only two reasons to interview. The first, is, you yourself, and the rest of your gang are going to be in voice chat with this person for an extended period of time. Is that going to suck? Are they annoying? You can be nice about it, but if someone is socially going to make your vc a shitty place to be, then they gotta go. Just say you'll consider them and leave it at that if needs be. Recruiting people who make other people want to quit defeats the purpose. The second, is making sure they're not trying to troll/grotty gang you, which sounds like it would really be impossible to find out, but usually the types of people who do it give it away a lot more than they realize. Due to knowing they're lying, they either get really nice to play a happy sarcastic character, or go the opposite direction and make dickish jokes during the interview. Honestly, at a bare minimum you should be rejecting at least 25% of applicants, probably closer to 50%. Zerg recruiting is a ticking time bomb that creates a huge influx of people that implodes and everyone of value goes to a less annoying atmosphere leaving behind the worst and most unbearable players. Grow slow, and carefully, and it would be a lot sturdier foundation. Chapter 3. Shared Authority As a way of investing your gang into their own autonomy, allow voting on certain things. Give valid means and rights for the population as a whole to have some say over the gang's policies such as wars, event attendance, gangshed purchases/moves, ect. People typically have a lot less gripe with governing structures when they have a say in the decision making process, and is handled very easily with the correct tags and discord channels set up separately to discuss it, and a react only channel to vote. Chapter 4. Code of Conduct Who you are as a gang is important to has a ruleset that represents who you are to the server as people, so that your gang is held to a standard of behavior. If you want to be scummy, and let your gang behave however to other gangs and people, that is an option, but it will often give everyone a bad impression of your gang and cause people to gang up on you. If you allow your gang to be rampant server rulebreakers, then you create an atmosphere where staff will have it out for your whole gang and punish you more harshly when you make a mistake. Example: Ctf's motto was "come as you are." CTF wasn't allowed to pretend to be friends with someone and then turn around and rob them, and wasn't allowed to scam people. Our word was our bond, and that was our reputation. Chapter 5. Gang Shed Management The easiest way to manage a gang shed is to forbid anyone from storing any processed goods inside of it. Encourage your gang to get houses nearby for processed, do single runs from unprocessed out of it. Make filling up the gangshed a regular activity, and everyone can use it without keeping track. Tax people who use it without filling it for some vans and box trucks to the gang garage. If you attempt to allow your gangmates to store processed in there, even if there are no thieves, it will ALWAYS end up in a fight. Once you have a populated gang, you cannot keep anything but unprocessed goods in the shed. Some people just have personalities where they 'feel like' they did more than they did, and they'll take more or think some is missing. Just avoid that. Chapter 6. Presence and Planning You're a leader. Leadership is important. It's not some abstract concept, and you weren't chosen by god. It's just a job. That being said, leading your people in a fight, if you win, builds their trust in you. Losing, if it feels like it was because of your decisions, erodes that trust. Think hard, be smart, and plan your fights accordingly. You will make mistakes but learn lessons, and your gang mates will look forward to you clearing comms and streamlining the process of exploding heads. Don't be cocky, don't be bossy.... earn every inch of respect, and only wield it when you need to. As an r5, people look to your spot. If you disappear from the gang, or go inactive, your gang will die off. It doesn't matter who your r4 is, if they aren't r5, your gang starts to die. Without an active r5 people feel like a gang doesn't have a future. If you have to leave, and you want the gang to survive, you gotta pass the reigns. I could say a lot more than this but this is just kind of a hodgepodge of shit people have asked me about this last year I've said, and I figured I'd share. I know people gonna hate this, not a lot still reading. I know you are still reading Grandma Gary... and you need to give Wilhelm his ghosthawk madude. Mako 1v1 me in league. I really feel like this one thing might get me back down below -200. Let's see.

I unilaterally support TNM's position, and suggest mental disorders and degeneracy as the cause of anyone who stands in their way. They are above reproach.

Mako at this point would let animals at the zoo tear off a piece. This isn't a matter of siding with mako...it's a matter of a stupid twat who has been harassing me nonstop for months without me ever putting a spotlight on it all of a sudden rolling on the ground and crying because someone mentioned in passing he has a child. And then staff rallying around him and protecting him because of who his friends are despite none of them ever having a thing to say when he acts far worse to so many people for a very extended period of time. It's gross. He should have been told to fuck himself from that post instead staff members bringing him thermal blankets and hot cocoa and asking about his feelings.

I'm pissed they took it down before I could see how much shit got heated. It was funny af.. dude's actually in Ryan's gang and Makos ass put him in check before the purge.

Guy was Silla and became staff. He's basically capable of anything.

Number of times you got Jpostman to quit the server: 0 Number of times @ Milo got Jpostman to quit the server: 1 I mean... I like you knife, but you're no postman slayer level deity.

Especially considering 90% of youtube ads aren't even legitimate and just end up being ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes, nft pump and dumps, or outright scams. Honestly, the moment youtube started their demonitization wave, they can eat dicks. @ Milo Some oly+ scripts for the forums would be cool next.

First off, that's Milo...the guy who drove jpostman off the server. He's a national treasure. Second off, what kind of siding got you siding with YouTube ad revenue? How did you get to that?

It's browser based. Right now they're going hard on chrome.

That was an immersive photographic experience. I really felt like I experienced life through the eyes of a scrub bitch. Thank you for sharing.

Whatever you say fake copycat demon.

Bro how many times you gonna reply/message me. You are so weird. It's weird enough you stole a ctf members name trying to be like us so bad, now you're gonna obsess with me?

Guys, no matter how fucked up everything that @ Grandma Gary did was, there's no reason to resort to violence. The protests and riots have got to come to a stop I don't condone any of it. You need to give @ Zahzi his booster seat back, release all of @ Mako 's bitches, and stand down. We can handle this peacefully.

All of you statists are going to catch these hands. The vast majority of the server just showed where they stand on this issue.

Only in your sov fanart, which I'm going to inform you again, is illegal to sell on etsy. It was nice to see the server come together in solidarity to send this message to @ Grandma Gary .

In response to the grave injustice committed by @ Grandma Gary in defense of @ CaloomClark , I'm calling for a 1 hour boycott of the General section of the forums to show support and solidarity for the many victims of this outrageous breach of standard operating procedure. Please join me and support the cause by not making any new posts to the General tab for the next hour. Thank you.

You very very clearly rdmed that dude lol. Without any question hawk. He stopped as soon as you engaged and you killed him at the beginning of his animation of exiting. There was nothing he could have done differently at all than what he did to try to comply.

We get whole magazines of everyone who's been arrested within the last week in the city sold in corner stores. The photos are so amazing.

I'm a fan of these. It's like when your local PD has a facebook page.

Bro why are you always lying and making up stories?

Once got a doxxing ban from @ ThatNerdyGuy for saying house went to hooked on phonics university. Simp.

Superior genetics. Jews on another level.