Current Order Status

[McNeo]

Anyone can understand that changes don't all happen at once. Furthermore, the reason people blame the leadership, is because the leadership took it upon themselves, when they became leaders, to bear the responsibility for the success or failure of whatever it is that they lead. That said, I too get very tired when people tell me how to do my job and show absolutely zero motivation to get involved. Another reason that folks may not get involved is because they think that they may be marginalised once they've served their purpose, or may put effort into an initiative that is actually dropped, which makes it a waste of their time. Others are likely to be suspected of pushing their own personal goals into a faction if they get involved (Im pretty sure that would be the suspicion of many if Doc Jameson, for example, showed a great deal of interest in getting involved).

A cynical individual would say that you've had more than enough time already to effect changes that people have been grumbling about for a while now.

But a less hostile view would be that you can actually get the ball rolling on all three fronts (Rheinland, Bretonia, Kusari) by finding three people in your HC who have time and assigning them each a house to cultivate relations with. Assuming your HC is full of people who lack motivation and/or time, push them back into the ranks and find people who do have time. This part is the hardest part, as ideal replacements are always, always thin on the ground. Some individuals are sufficiently intelligent, but prohibitively lazy, whereas others have a huge amount of motivation and interest, but are too prone to mistakes (sometimes serious ones).

Rod, please elaborate on your opinion about indies. Particularly the part where you've built in the concept of damage limitation to the Order's reputation with other houses (which you cant possibly maintain if you don't absolve yourself of responsibility for indies). Bear in mind that I only say indies should be treated this way when there are a large volume of poorly organised players (Liberty, Corsairs... you can see where I got that experience) that refuse to communicate with the official faction. As I percieve it, the Order has a lot of those kinds of independent players, perhaps not by volume, but by play time.