Finally we get down to the nitty-gritty parts, the farewell fuck you's. Had Affinity been the shell it wanted to be, it would have worked passed this point and moved on. I can say with clear conscience and sound mind that they have not. I presented you with the problems of the LS more than a month ago and where did that get the shell? Turmoil. It's easy to place the blame of the problems on a few members who openly speak of them instead of shouldering the responsibility and working passed them. No one person was to blame for the breakdown of the shell and I can say whole heartedly that I am also partly to blame, but I will be damned if you pass of the problems of the shell entirely on my shoulders.
I can honestly say my work in posting this has done more for that shell than any so-called leader. You ignored your members, good people who have been with the shell for over a year, and chose to pass the blame onto them. This I cannot ignore. You tell me your shell is fine and dandy, but it seems like some people are leaving and quitting, so how can you tell me straight faced that everything is fine? A simple Flame board thread shouldn’t make a person leave unless there is simply more to it.
Leadership makes a shell stronger. Leadership can strengthen good players and make them better, it can even make bad players good, but Affinity just didn’t have that. It’s true we had sound tactics and skilled players, but there is more to the game than that. You have to have leaders willing to work for the greater good and we didn’t have that anymore. There were maybe 1-2 people in there trying work to improve the shell that I could consider leaders, but all their effort is in vain when the “real” leadership of the shell is out to sabotage what’s left of it.
<Payge> I’m about to start some shit though
You can honestly tell me this is the type of leader you want? I am telling you it’s not what you want, need nor should ever have to put up with. She had the ill intentions of kicking and forcing members out of the shell with solid proof of it provided by Payge herself and yet you still refuse to believe the truth. This isn’t the shell anyone signed up for especially not me. When I joined Atiba made the decisions and although I cannot say he was an exceptional leader, he was still a decent guy. I can safely say neither about Payge, I have lost all respect for her as a person. She has no leadership qualities beyond possessing a pearlsack and when it came down to it, instead trying to come to a resolution about the shell, she chose to start her little quarrels. She knew what she was doing as I know what I am doing with this thread. If you haven’t guessed it by now, my intentions are the same as hers were then; I intend to destroy what’s left of the shell and make myself a little bit happier. Well not entirely, I just want Payge gone as she deserves nothing less.
Now, where do you go from here as a shell? I’m going start with the members who have posted here and pointed the fingers. You are all looking in the wrong places. You want this to go away and quickly? I suggest you start looking inward and not outward. The insults and the attacks, they do nothing to make your shell any better, so why then? Granted I have thrown some insults, but those people have earned my contempt and deserve far worse. For once, I suggest you actually look at what I posted and consider it. Stop trying to ignore the members of the shell and do what needs to be done for the greater good of the shell and not just for you.
Start with sky, it’s where we started and it’s where you should begin. Begin to farm on a regular basis; get everyone to be active and participate and not just the few who are really helpful, but everyone. Do gods when everyone can come and not just you. As of late Pauk had the tendency to pop gods when only a few people could make it which is unfair to EVERYONE no matter how you look at it. You may think it rewards those who came to farm, but a lot of those farmers had to leave just before you popped or could only come for a short periods of farming and you are wasting drops. Although I am very thankful for my E.Head and M.Hands, but it will be awhile before I can ever equip them and there are several people who deserved it as well as could have used it now. Quite ironic, you kick Ekin because he got an Osode he might not use often, but WILL use and yet you hand out items I cannot even use without even a thought of it being a waste.
Stop wasting people’s time. This was always the biggest pet-peeve of mine and I am sure it didn’t help the shell at all. When we did anything, leadership was extremely indecisive and 30 mins would pass by before anything would be done. Put that time to good use. I know people are still arriving and possibly more people are needed to farm, but as long as there is a tank, a DD and a healer, you can always farm something in sky. Get a water, it is the simplest thing and barely takes a party to get. Camp Ullikummi, a RDM can solo him (well not all RDM can, but he is that simple). Whatever, but don’t sit there and make sky into a guaranteed skill up party in the entrance like you have been doing. It’s a waste and that’s not what your members joined for.
Most of all just do it. The LS is failing because nothing ever happened. You’d invite new people to the shell because you all had great big plans, but once you realized you neither had the time, effort nor the patience to actually lead the shell to do something great, those that joined left after getting a few random items. Of course you bash those ex-members for leaving after they get those items, but how can you blame them? You lured them into a LS with promises and goals that really were never going to get accomplished so why the hell should they stay? So they can waste away in a shell that was supposed to provide them with everything and yet provides them with nothing? We were supposed to be doing at least 1 HNM per day, but we haven’t touched a HNM for a very long time. We did maybe a couple of Cemetary Cherries, but since we killed KB many months ago, the shell has been devoid of any action.
I am neither your leader nor your problem. I have since left Affinity because I like many others were no longer welcome so fixing your shell is entirely left in your own hands. Whether you can accomplish the task and work passed this is up to you if you chose to continue; however, as a member of the Quetzacoatl community, I cannot stand by while you treat people like shit and expect to gain new members when you cannot even take care of the members you currently have. They deserve some fair warning of what they are about to join and I am giving them that opportunity. If you really want me to stop this, then you must present me with at least some evidence of change, some evidence of improvement, but until then, I stand on my position that Affinity is a bad choice for an end game shell.
