The Antichrist

Kidnapping new players off the street, robbing them for pitiful amounts of cash while getting disputes midway for rdm. I take it back.. you were real server staff.

No. He's made some mistakes but I've definitely seen worse.

Right about now I'm wondering where Mako sits in the power structure, more specifically, if he has the power to demote swat. There's bitches lives at stake and you're using it as a chance to make jokes.

Right about now they are checking Mako's room and seeing I'm absolutely right. There are no bitches. Plan your next move carefully. With all these hostages that certainly must be at play, you wouldn't want anyone to get hurt. Best to meet my demands.

I have been very patient with this server thus far, but now I'm at the limit. I might have taken things too far, but it had to be done. @ Doc @ codeYeTi I have kidnapped all of @ Mako 's bitches. You will put tower and house cap back onto the server or he will never see any of them ever again. This is not an empty threat.

lol @ Marcus you just pushed him to dms.

lmao sorry cyan i o7'ed already. This would be the time to bring in water fighting though. Everyone knows the champ is gone

I've made it clear where I stand on this already. One of the smartest moves OS has ever done. Not much needs to be said. I know this is big boomer energy, and I am at peace with that... but the fact that a paragraph is enough words to send you kids in 2023 into borderline panic attacks means you kids definitely need to read more.

It's already been said.. you're just posting to show off the new tag.

This. That has never been a rule on civ.

There's a huge difference between attention and clout. You desperately crave the approval of others.

Like 50% of your forums history, which is very limited, is to talk shit to me. You don't know me. You get how weird that is right? Like how weird that looks?

Imagine beeing such a bot you come to the forums and repeat something you're told to say at someone who has never once even seen your name. Did they clap for you like a retarded kid who got dressed by himself?

LoL I'm sorry @ Fefe I wasn't trying to hurt or upset you. You have your right to your feelings and the space to express them.

You @ CaloomClark simps make me sick. You're never gonna get the buck tooth hickies that you want from him.

I'm on the fence. @ Mako would you have taken @ CaloomClark 's ghawk for that blatant af combat store or let him off the hook with absolutely no punishment like @ Grandma Gary did?

Lmmfao so mad. Should try to be not mad more.

It's nepotism. Given a job that 100% doesn't match the skillset. Supposed to be constantly engaging the community. Does not. Supposed to be supporting a fun atmosphere. Gets mad when he loses and often abuses staff powers to spawn in things he ought to not be spawning in. If not checked, will do some extremely shady af shit to bring in server income, clearly if anyone remembers the invisible bergen incident. Is non communicative to the community at large, only ever talking to his extremely small circle of people... which is like, the prime failure of his entire job. He's turned huge chunks of the community against him because he doesn't know how to earn respect of others, and has produced frequent situations with his poor judgement. But you know what? None of this is his fault. I'm not even being sarcastic. He was placed into a position, to be the first person to do the job, without any guidance, training, or coaching and clearly no leadership experience and no customer service experience to boot. That is the fault of whoever just plopped him into that role. Prolly Ryan. He might have made a really good SECOND community manager, after someone with more maturity and experienced filled out what the job is supposed to be.. but he's just winging it every day and neglecting his responsibilities to the community as community manager. He does the DEV part of the job, does it well, and does it a lot... but his role doesn't mean DEV. It means forward facing face of the server. He won't even talk to most people. He issues formal announcements, but I think almost every active staff on the server has talked to more gangs as a whole than him.. and it's supposed to be reversed. The smartest way to fix the situation would be to make him a Sr Dev, and Income Manager/CFO or some shit... as the only part of Community manager he concerns himself with is making the server money. Then replace him with someone more mature, with customer service and leadership experience or just someone with a natural skillset that is well liked to do the public facing part of his job. We don't do that though. Because everything is nepotism. It's a huge funny coincidence how the best person for every job just so happens to be friends with the person above them. And that in turn creates constant situations where whenever they fuck up, it's their friends job to 'discipline' them, which we all know nobody is going to actually do.

@ Mako This server doesnt have thousands of serious players. In the future, start talking to many many active people from a faction not just the leaders before implementing stuff and you'd get a fuck ton less blowback for it. You need to learn how to listen to people and accept when something you want to do isn't popular and you need to reconsider. Interacting with wide groups of this community, accepting when you're wrong, accepting when what you want to do isn't popular, and actually listening to the playerbase as a whole instead of a single figurehead would render you a far better 'community manager,' aka 'leader,' than you currently are. I say this with sincerely constructive criticism based on what people say mixed with my personal experiences with you in civ council. You're a good dev and a shitty leader. You can learn how to be better at the latter and you'd end up as beloved as some of the best staff on this server.

It would be really cool if there was a medium for raising issues that wouldn't be shrugged off and ignored other than going to the forums with drama. Don't get me wrong, I thrive on the forum drama... especially now. But 99% of the issues on this server are because there is no legitimate way that is actually listened to for the community to voice concerns and problems that will actually get anything done. This place suffers from the same type of problems as autocratic regimes. When you deal with democracies, people are voted out, problems are fixed. When you deal with places like this, you basically have to go for someone's head and oust them by force or o7 to make any kind of a point. Nobody is infallible and every single person should be questioned and called out when they're wrong or not in step with the rest of the community. Sycophants hurt this community. If you find yourself always agreeing with leadership, you are a detriment to this server and you should go away. You only care about the approval of authority figures. People on this server have been calling for a new chief for more than 6 months now, and absolutely NOTHING has been done to fix the problem. That being said... It's been real @ PolarBear . You're a real one. It takes a special type of brain to be able to deal with careering medic. I wish you the best.

Apparently both of you did lmao. I forgot about you saying that lol. Nuts. I guess it's across the board.

I dump money into stock in the company I work for. No matter what it's guaranteed to survive because it's vital infastructure. If we get a good contract, I get paid more. If we get a shitty contract then the company makes bank and my stock portfolio climbs. It's win/win.