.:j:. Junker Congress Faction Feedback

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Wow, Ortog has hit the nail there. I would suggest everyone to take their time and read his reply as it is the most accurate one. Basically it was Congress leadership's 80% fault, our affectionate community's 10% fault and Admin Garett's wrong tactics 10% fault.

At least we learned something new too. Lyth has recently sympathised with the Congress xD

Ortog

Congress was a victim of their success, more then anything else. It was guilty of not paying atention to the fact that there was a server out there, there were other factions and other threads to follow.

The over concentration on jump trading while neglecting everything else, the rush for "shinny" toys, the complete disregard of sensible faction goals and pursuit of influence and perks among the underworld, the abandoning of smuggling as main activity, the almost criminal neglect of the furthering of relations with other factions (Congress leadership refused to acknowledge several pleas from members to establish propper faction perks and green cells), the aloofness if not complete ignorance to what was hapening in other houses then Liberty (we used to be allies of GC and had their tech available, we used to be on very good terms with hessians, zoners and mollys) turned Congress into a monstruosity in role play terms. Basicaly all Congress did was waiting for leadership to log and ...jump. That lasted years.

Xeno hunting, smuggling, pursuit of diplomatic efforts with underground factions, diplomatic efforts with factions we should be closer (IMG, TAZ, BD come to mind), propper alliances with emergent friendly factions like AFC, and eficient containement of what was perceived as an arrivist bunch, (take it in role play terms, Marauders should have been defused underworld way), the pursuit of the war effort on Bretonia side, was all ignored and disregarded in favour of base management and jump trading. That is not what junkers lore hints at, junkers are not suposed to be a trade company.

Tinkerbell, Hawk and Tyber didn't steered Congress in this direction. Tinker was a visionary, Hawk was a shady underworld leader, Tyber was a role player and a story teller. JT was a populist, he steered the faction towards what he perceived was the general ambition of the common player, the pursuit of wealth. Therefore he did just did that while going on recruiting sprees, more people meant more scapp, more jumps, more bases. It did not meant better junkers though. He meant well and JT was, if anything, devoted to Congress and our members, he was also impervious to anything else or to other views then his own.

Congress bloated and eventualy imploded due to the shallowness of its goals, Hug might have his heart in the right place but unless he dares to steer the Congress towards its underworld neglected origins, and start assigning people to ranks and roles, the herculean task ahead of him is bound to fail.

The Congress demise had terrible consequences to the server though, as you can notice by the amazing drop in activity. The server powers should have used a diferent aproach, a stick and carrot one, to correct Congress excesses, instead of fueling the flames of hatred. Like it happened to Zoners, Congress, which was also a more or less pacific group,took the isolationist aproach against the wolf siege,we decided to bury our heads in the sand while the server was set to fire by the admins and devs that played lyra while contemplating the flames, oblivious to the fact that erradicating the Congress would bring the server down.

When the zoners were all but mass murdered in the server the population was big enough to be able to take the hit, when the progrom against Congress was unleashed the consequences for the server population should have been evident. As severe as the impending apocalypse in two months time.

I don't think that Congress can be brought back to life, same as we do not se an active large zoner faction or a living dodo either. Regardless of what intentions the present leadership of the Congress might had, they will not be allowed to rebuild, the hyenas will be vigilant and will stop any atempt of recovery. Congress is dead, as the dodo, and the server.