GRN feedback thread

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[font=Tahoma]The lack of a proper GRN faction is holding this mod back. It is affecting a lot of other major factions who’s entire point of this mod version is to fight the Royal Navy. I think something needs to change.

The GRN has been plagued by inactivity for months now. I used to be part of you myself, and I noticed that after Exile left, it never achieved it’s former glory. After the very slow start in 86, you guys had a short spike of activity and daily raids. I feel that at this point, your inactivity is actually hurting the mod.

There are a few things fundamentally wrong with your organisation.

[size=medium]Leadership
There is no clear leader of GRN. While, after many delays, Jeremy_Hunter was appointed as official leader, but it is very unclear because Dab is still in control of a lot of things by the look of things. I don’t know if that is because Jeremy doesn’t do his job or something else, but the current situation isn’t working. My attempts to contact Jeremy regarding various GRN business came back with responses like *meh* or some sighs. This seems to me like a lack of interest in GRN. A lack of interest from a faction leader ploughs through faction morale, resulting in desinterested members as well. A faction leader should be the face and the example for the faction. Come up with idea’s, take initatives and support members doing the same.

Communications
Justice League is one of the few people posting communication threads on the forums, representing the GRN or the King. I have no idea how he ended up in High Command, but in my opinion, he is very unsuitable for a responsability like this. Not only does he show the clear lack of internal communication, his English is extremely lacking and his attitude is plain arrogant. He doesn’t understand the more complex replies and simply ignores 80% of the response. This is shown for example in the following threads:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?...pic=125883
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?...pic=125623

It is simply embarassing to see that he is the voice of an official military faction.

The internal communications issue is another matter to adress. It seems like there is a lot of confusion amongst your own High Command regarding decisions like base permissions and laws. Gallic law STILL lacks any form of ruling, apart from a general prohibition. When people build a base anyway, they get a weak response from someone, resulting in a very weak show and lame excuses to keep the base intact. You don’t have the forces to enforce your patch-up laws or any other laws for that matter. Get those regulations up and running and you’ll have a much easier time managing your house.

Next to that, threads pointed to the King, the Royal Navy or Gallia in general usually get ignored until it is bumped several times. How can you deserve the power over an entire house when you can’t handle basic forum responsabilities?


Activity
If we take a look at the activity tracker, we see a LOT of Capital ship usage. It is a general policy for respected military factions to use a limited number of capital ships. Seems like GRN has a different policy, as you can even fly a tagged cruiser at the lowest rank possible. The rule allowing official factions to shoot transport now changed, but the reason official military factions were an exception was because they showed some responsability with their usage.

Moving on, there are zero patrols. The GRN has a huge area of operations. That you don’t patrol Gallic House Space seems reasonable, as activity there isn’t very booming (it’s increasing though), but you have the entire Tau sector the Royal Navy claims as theirs. There is a very diverse group of people flying around there. Why aren’t you out there enforcing Gallic law? Why aren’t you out there at all?

Cooperation
GRN’s will is law, no matter what. That is the impression I get from dealing with GRN on a skype-political level. Gallic players should unite to make the best of this wonderful house, but every attempt at a proper government is blocked by GRN, or Dab who claims power and screws all others. Even in a time where GRN lost their official rights cause of the lack of members, you still claimed total leadership over Gallia and its affairs. The GRP took some initiatives on adapting to 4.86, weeks after it was released. All progress was publicly slashed away by Dab, who on its own didn’t agree with every other faction leader in Gallia.

Accept the fact that you’re failing and broken, and adjust your attitude accordingly. Accept that there are better and more active factions in Gallia who have just as many rights dealing with the running of Gallia, instead of the GRN “because that’s how it is”. It doesn’t work, and the players are the victim

So, your main argument against all this is “join us or stfu”. The GRN in its current form is something I don’t want to be part of. The leadership structure is broken and the general policy is fundamentally flawed. I don’t want to be part of such a GRN, but I do want a GRN that works. Why not get your act together and get it done? If you’re not up for it, just stop trying and disband, you’re doing nobody a favor by going on like this.

Oh and before you post a serious/official response, please respond to the general points I’m making. Picking out minor things out of this story and ignoring the main line to draw away attention isn’t going to work.