Sally up, and move out!

Gentlemen.

We have issues present in this community at the very highest of levels. This needs to be sorted, and it needs to be sorted before any attempt at expanding, marketing, etc. can be made. Consider this a more drastic approach to me trying to attempt movement on the staff forums, but it is one that I feel is necessary to take.

First, allow me to explain the reasoning behind this thread:

• To involve the community in the flow of information.
• To involve the community in the repairs necessary to fix this situation.
• To showcase these issues in a constructive setting, agree upon goals to fix them, and fix them.

Secondly, allow me to present the problems for discussion:

• Complaisance and stagnation. There is no forward movement being taken at this time. This is the biggest issue present at this time, and it greatly falls upon the shoulders of staff present (myself included). This is the primary issue that needs to be sorted. Without movement, without ideas being utilized we will fail as a community.
• Attitude and accountability. The highest of ranking should bear the most constructive of attitudes. They should be the ones who present things, who stop arguments that derail threads, who take the initiative and move forward towards fixing an issue, instead of simply complaining/commenting about it. They should also be the ones who work together and not against one another. Internal fighting and animosity leads to a collapse. I have seen commanders and leaders who completely hate eachother work wonderfully in a situation, they simply know how they feel about eachother, and put it aside while striving towards a set goal. I have also seen leaders who completely hate eachother get entire communities lost, because they were unable to do it.

Thirdly, allow me to present the actions that, in my opinion, would require taking:

• More activity, more constructive actions. This community needs to stop simply discussing and complaining, it needs to be able to take initiative and select a course of action. It needs to be able to decide on a course of action, through compromise or a complete agreement, and execute this course of action.
• More communication. Complaining is not communication. Animosity needs to be located and squared away on a personal level, to allow for the community to function. The community needs to be aware of major aspects that will affect them, it needs to be included, do an extent, in them.

EDIT:
A concert and to-the-point summary of what needs to happen:


Because this is something that concerns the community as a whole, I invite everyone to assist in this matter. Just please, do not squander this, and do not turn this into a shitstorm. It is something that concerns all of us, affects all of us, and needs to be fixed by all of us.

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Allow me to speak on a personal level, now. I have seen too many communities wither and die because people were acting like fools. I have lost contact with so many good friends, with whom I spent months ingame, purely because they could not talk things out, sort things out, and move forward. I have seen so much fucking work wasted in those communities because no one took the initiative. I am fucking sick and tired of seeing it.

This is starting to happen in this community, and I do not want to loose this community. The issues above NEED to be sorted out. Admins and staff NEED to start taking a more active role on the forums. I've had a proposition thread sitting on the admin forums for a week now. No constructive input, no support, nothing. It's fucking shameful. I've seen admins constantly complain about shit not being fixed, about how bad the fucking situation is, and yet they have yet to offer constructive input. Or when it is offered, it gets drowned out in noise, something which the community is accountable for. This needs to end, and it needs to end right now, otherwise we will loose this community.