I'd like to respond to the overall leadership of the RM faction.
In the past two weeks, I've participated in two of the RM/RHA events on Sunday. And while the RHA had a good turnout of players for both events, the RM hardly had any. My hat's off to Gronath and Dieter trying to rally their players to action. One of the RHA players had to switch to an RM char to make the event a go. During the week, I will see the occasional one maybe two players in the game, but most days, nobody.
My question is, where is Virus? Is he not the leader of the faction? Don't the other members of the RM depend on you to lead them and to make the faction a fun and interesting place to be?
In real life, the solution to a faulty management position is to council the person on what the expectations of the position entails and if he or she has the time and/or ability to successfully fill the role. If not, a new manager is selected.
I can imagine that the successful running of a faction takes up a lot of time to do it right, and issues of work, family, and school will always come first. If these issues are present, then the faction leader should step down and give another player a chance to lead the faction. Otherwise, what's the use of a non-existent player filling the role of faction leader? It just hurts the faction and the game overall.
Freelancer is a public product with real people devoting a lot of time to play the game, successfully manage it, and donate their own money to maintain the server. To me, a faction is a vital component to the over all quality and enjoyment of the game. Faction leaders have to be responsible for the players in their faction and overall quality of the game.
I also feel it's a sign of disrespect to other players if a faction leader doesn't fulfill their role. I actually make time out of my day to participate in the scheduled events for my faction. Real people play this game and they take time out of their lives to be here, have fun, and support other players.
You may be asking who am I. Well, just a noob really. But I'm also the newest member of the RM, and I want to be in a fun and successful faction. Virus, I'll do my part to uphold the values of the Rheinland Military to the other players. I expect you to do your part as well.
Please take an honest look at your time and schedule and see if you can actively lead the faction, if not, either name a successor or ask Xoria or the other admins to recruit a replacement.
And please everyone, this is not a critique of Virus as a person or anything of a personal nature. The RM has every right to be one of the best factions in Disco, and I think we owe it to the other members of the faction to make it so.
