Judicial Order

[Judge Logan]

So far the current history of the Judges has mainly been one of defense from the “established” factions. Suppose, you consider a moment, as of this writing, the Judges have more contact hours than 88% of ALL the 54 factions on Disco, or a total of more than 4% of the COMBINED hours OF ALL 54 factions. This is NOT impressive as in fact there are five factions with greater contact hours than the Judges. These are facts that anyone with minimal math skills can easily verify. Not impressive, but worthy at least of notice, don’t you think?

This of course, in the eyes of many, was simply achieved by sitting at Newark while we were off darning socks or something. While some accept that simple premise, why else would we have a presence at Newark? What benefit do we get? Consider for example while LN numbers have dropped over past months, the Judges have risen. We do not hand out battle cruisers like candy, but we have grown now to 25 Judges. Many say we do nothing or do not understand RP or some other ubiquitous statement. I find these viewpoints at odds with the facts.

What possible attraction can there be to be a Judge? We are belittled for being at Newark, and then for being at Omicron 99. The lack of vision here is curious. Exactly where can we go and NOT make someone angry or upset? We are one of the few factions that have an actual training program where we train and also weed out candidates. Consider for a moment that of a group that does not accept everyone that comes in with a heartbeat, but is still growing. We have 25 Judges and had 22 candidates that did not become Judges over the last 13 month period, making an annual attrition rate of some 51%. Essentially half of those who apply to become Judges do not make it. Yet for all that the faction grows. Of course we have heard from many “Veteran” gamers that the training program is useless, or training is below expectations, or we are “elitist” and so on and so forth. We have offered training to non-judges, and not one “Veteran” gamer has ever accepted. I guess they know all there is to know. I do wish I did.

You have asked, so I shall ask. How can a faction grow and thrive with as little activity as you all seem to think? Does your faction grow and thrive with no RP and no interaction? Is it possible you are overlooking something? You are all so memorized by the left hand, that you have no idea what the right hand is doing, or that it even exists. Why are we thriving? It must be magic since nothing else is of course possible.

“It's nothing personal - I just have certain rigorous standards that I would expect factions to adhere to when applying for Official status.”

I am truly sorry, but we do not answer to you. You may keep your rigorous standards and God Bless. I am sure the same rigorous standards were in place for each of the other 54 official factions who have done so well for so long. We shall NEVER meet your standards rigorous or otherwise simply because you did NOT write the faction application. Please help someone else if you would be so kind.

Possibly, we do have a plan and an agenda which we do not choose to share with so many “veteran” players of “established” factions. Maybe, we even have designated goals as part of the plan. As for deserving Official status, are we less so than the MANY established factions with a simple linear approach (kill, post bounty, kill, post bounty, kill, post bounty, etc,etc.) to their gaming. As to that the Administrators as a group must decide what is best for the server.

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