Unibotian WA Mission wrote:Was it not their self-declared duty to do so? The fact that you value recognition for conducting your duties more so than respecting a person who has done more for this game than just about anyone by letting him leave in peace and with goodwill speaks volumes about your tasteless and frankly, childish behavior.
I understand your point but I must put in my two cents. This is a matter of recognizing the people whose community he is disrupting. It is one matter to consult a region and and decide based on what the region wants who is most suitable for the position. It is an entirely different situation to say "this is my region and I'm going to give it to someone." The only regions people own in this game are UCR's and we all that at times it is difficult to claim that a single person owns them as well.
Kandarin is handing over a region he does not own like it is a piece of personal property. It would be one thing if the community of The Rejected Realms wished this decision, but clearly we do not want it. It would even have been better if Kandarin asked the region who they wanted to be delegate or kept this decision with TRR. But he made a show out of it, so that is what he is going to get.
I have nothing against Nai. Nai is the unfortunate collateral who was thrust into this position. It is very unfortunate this argument has to involve someone I do respect. But again, recognizing that it was not Kandarin's region to hand over will immensely help in resolving this situation.
Think of your own regions. Think of your own communities. Think of how you would feel if someone just said "here take this" without considering you or your friends' opinions on the matter. Kandarin has his dark moments in this game. We proved this in TEP. He gets something stuck into his head and does not consider the implications it has on other people. If it was not for my interventions in the past, his reputation would have been tanked there a lot sooner than it was. He tends to do what he believes is right regardless of the opinions of other people, or perhaps only the opinion of another person. Communities are a whole and do not function when only one person is calling all the shots.
TRR has been a community about defense. It was the easiest region to facilitate a defense army because all raiders and all defenders ended up there at one point. Unfortunately, a defense army requires a degree of flexibility and instability. TRR could not play the defense game and keep a stable delegate within its own core group of people. So we let Kandarin play the part of delegate because he was a loner, kept to himself, and seemed content doing that. We went on playing our game, building the heart and soul of what TRR really stood for, defense and friendship. Ask people who attempted to take TRR how quickly they lasted and look at the people who have time and time again driven those missions. Look at our forums and who is our Root Admin. Look at the previous TRR forums and who was involved there. Just take a moment to peruse TRR's whole community and you will see very quickly that Kandarin has always been an outsider even to our own community. We kept him in power because we were always the ones off running defense missions elsewhere in the game.
Ignoring that....ignoring the fact that an entire community exists in that region independent of Kandarin is going to lead to problems. Kandarin ignored it and now he is going to have to deal with that mistake. Unless he really quit, which I doubt he has, he has thrown a dear friend into the battle to fight for him. Nai is practically his meatshield and he is going to use her to take the negative backlash of his poor decisions, like he has done to many of us in the past and shadows of NS.
It takes a lot for me to come out and speak poorly about someone. I feel I must have substantial proof backing my claims before I will consider publicly ousting someone. So I am not standing here, angst angst, Kandarin butt hurt us. I have enough grounds to stand on to say this is one of Kandarin's many poor decisions that he has made. And again, this is one that I am intervening in and saying "no, not happening." Ask people in TEP, they will tell you about his random removing people from admin and mod positions, his RP Godmodding, his attacks on other players. He hides behind the pretense of being a calm collected person but unless you break him out of that shell and put him into situations where he cannot walk away to think of the best response, you begin to see his true colors. I am not going to sit here and say he is a terrible person. In the same respect, I wish I could sit here and say he is the greatest guy I ever knew in NS, but there is one thing everyone learns quickly about me.....I call the shots as I see them. Good or bad, I say what I see no matter how unpleasant and incriminating it can be at times. Yes, it burns me a lot, but I have nothing to hide. I am who I am and if you do not like that, well you should all know what I say to that.
Form your own opinions about Kandarin. I am not making this into a hateKandarinfest. But I am going to intervene and say this handing over his nation and subsequently TRR crap is utter nonsense and is going to meet a lot of resistance. And if you want to resolve the issue, recognize what TRR stands for. If you do not know who the members were that made that region what it is today, I suggest keeping your opinions about this ordeal to yourself because your lack of information is only going to make you look like an idiot in the long run. If Kandarin is your friend and you feel the overwhelming need to defend him, send him some heartwarming TG's. But this issue is about knowledge and knowing what really happened behind the scenes of TRR and who really ran that region and how ignoring that fact in any delegate transfer is going to bite you in the ass. Many regions, in fact pretty much every single one, can tell you that a delegate is NOT the region.
I am just saying all of this so when a native steps up running for delegate against Nai, there is no surprise as to why. It has nothing to do with her....it has to deal with the fact that TRR was not Kandarin's to hand over to who "he" felt was best. I am also going to ask that all of you who are not involved please kindly stay out of it. We will decide who we want as delegate. Kandarin is not dead in RL so I do not see the importance of honoring a pretend will.
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:28 pm
For another, most of the point of the nation transfer is to make this transition as smooth and imperceptible for most people as possible. Those who have interacted with Kandarin on various forums may be confused, but they're also the people most likely to find this or another post explaining the situation. In addition, I'm planning to telegram a few hundred people in TRR to let them know what's up, so there's that.
