@shyb:
knyte, and other people in corp, if there was any wolf involvement in drama with you, i was totally unaware. but i suspect certain people kept things secret from me cause my main task in clan "government" was trying to get people to quit doing dumb stuff like this and focus on making a good gaming environment.
That's been my exact impression of your leadership since at least March. Hence my doubt that Colonel was actually speaking for you. Maelstrom et all. made it pretty clear that the Wolves are hellbent on fixing any internal gameplay problems, something I commend your (former) clan for.
@Genghis:
An often-forgotten fact is that these management structures exist (at least in theory) to amplify a clan's ability to contribute to its members within the game and handle necessary decision-making tasks that also contribute to the clan's core activity. These aren't things made "just because." In the case of CORP, our decentralized structure was put in place to allow the clan to scale while still maintaining inter-member familiarity and helping members improve themselves as players. The GC exists not for fancy Japanese titles that meant nothing more than "advisor" but to refine clan policy (for example, improving how we dealt with alt accounts of non-member mains in order to best understand how we could improve as a clan; or changing our membership/expulsion guidelines to better contribute to community norm enforcement which ultimately makes the game more playable). The dojo system isn't a rehash of Wolf fleets or Falcon parties but instead a way for all members with initiative to contribute toward the clan's core mission of gameplay and improvement- e.g., by running monthly tournaments on various templates or by designing and playing on interesting RP templates that modeled a historical or fictional scenario.
In short, CORP is about gameplay, not politics, and I believe that its ability to scale and maintain member familiarity, as well as its unusually high rate of activity (compared to other RP clans, at least) reflect that. Even the Achilles incident is overblown af- no one outside the clan would know about it if I didn't mention it, most of the clan didn't know about it, and it was wrapped up in a few hours with no impact on clan operation).
So don't knock management structures as a whole to make your clan look more worthwhile.
Edited 8/12/2015 03:46:10