I never realised that somehow being a leader of a faction was an inherently bad thing that made you suspect or somehow automatically guilty of oppressing people or put me in the same category as the Nazis. That's a laughable assertion, considering the lengths I've gone to to destroy the evidence of all the nasty things I've done - the genocide, the labour camps, the tattooing of numbers on arms, the experiments, the enforced sterilisation.
Why are people persistently pushing the idea of a division on the server between factions and everyone else? This is a hobby. If you are determined to push the idea of factions being so untrustworthy, then have done and say why. Come right out and say who makes you suspicious. It's always best to have things out in the open. Of course, if it isn't an actual real experience that you could reasonably sort it out with another human being like adults do, then the question of why you don't trust others comes to mind.
If you are engaged in hypothetical debates about the potential problems that the proposal will bring, then even discussing it is pointless. How can anyone convince you of something that exists only in the future? Of course I always believed that the purpose of debate was to persuade others. To convince them but also to shape your own thinking and allow yourself to be persuaded to change your mind. While it is fun to debate things, and instructive, it's a little depressing to see only black-hat thinking used about what seems to a relatively transparent and negligible change to how a game functions.
It will mean ...not much of a difference for me. Maybe less work. Aye, work. Like I said before, two morons in fighters can make the server unpleasant for others, so I don't really think that the proposal would actually make much difference. It might get people to the forums, but with the manner in which some people choose to discuss things here, I wonder if that's an entirely good thing.
And don't take it personally, Dieter. I kind of did too. But it wore off once I got to thinking of other ways to make life more and more miserable for everyone I encounter on the server.
Having said all that, I don't know how my posting in this will be perceived. Because some of you are bound to think that I'm campaigning for more "power" for myself and my fellows. Ah, too late.
Does a referee have power? That's what I thought this was about. Having referees.
@Agmen: You omitted Jinx. Unforgiveable, dude. Twenty laps of 56.
Edit: @Overload: No. There was a notice about that around here somewhere...I'll see if I can get it for you.
Edit: @Agmen: And Megiddo! Dude!! Down and gimme twenty. (our non-skye co-leaders)
