EreRant #9 / Survey Results

[ereblog]

Normal people would just call it a night, but I don’t have class until 3 PM on Tuesday’s and have grown quite used to staying up absurdly late on Monday evenings because of it. And I was still in my speculative writer Ereblog mode. So I put on my trusty hat and paced around town for a while in the gloom, stopping to exchange a few words with the

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[shibayama]

This sounds oddly similar to my current linkshell...
It's *very* cliquish - usually with the leaders friends ending up having item runs dedicated to them, or rule infractions that many of the members are angry about, but because they were commited by a member in the clique, are overlooked (ex - member in glacier lotting on 2 big pieces and winning them both -sch body and dnc pants - when theres generally a "one item per run unless it goes FL" concensus among members - the result was that my friend who lost both items complained about it in tell to the lead and was promptly asked to drop shell while the offender is still in. Leads in-game fling is also very bossy and mouthy and seems to think that its her job to keep everybody worshipping the leads at all times - which they love - they love love looooove it when you get on yer knees and remind them how magnanamous they are for allowing you to come to such events. If you try to make a good natured rib or jab at the leads you'll usually get a /tell to not be so abrasive and rude ect ect. The leads GF-ish thing is pretty much the professor umbridge of the ls... "Hem hem! Behave now or I'll make you carve 'I must not have a personality' into your hand!"

Also for how self-riteous as they are, they never seem to handle a screw-up or loss constructively - usually a pitiful loss is blamed on luck with a "great job guys! We got sooo close this time" schpeil afterwards. I'm all for keeping morale high and all, but usually the losses are things we *can* avoid and work on - like in einherjar - the black mages nuke, then draw the mob to them and promptly flip the fuck out and run - causing our rather DD heavy group to have to chase after it, losing time. If i make a suggestion about it I'm swiftly told that it is the leads responsibility to talk strategy - then please do it...

Most of the members are honestly great people, and I'll be sad to leave them but there are so many outdated rules and policies and the uppity leads make for a rather unenjoyable endgame environment. When I move servers next week I think it'll be a nice change of pace both casual and endgame wise...

[ereblog]

AXI isn't THAT bad though. As I've said in the past, they're not deliberately unfair. They just don't seem to have a strong idea that being fair is something that requires effort and constant work. That doesn't make them entirely blameless, but nor does it make them fully guilty either.