Sooner

No.. but it does get a bit frustrating watching Kid bust his *** raid after raid and get a few thanks tossed his way each time, but if there's a problem... oh boy... the **** starts flying.

EDIT: Now that I'm slightly less wrought up.... A much better translation of my comment would be: If all you have are complaints, go run a raid your way. Perhaps implying that we're never going to run a raid again, and complaining about the communication methods we have available is intended to be helpful, but... it really came across, to me anyway, as just ********.


But, I do have to ask. In exactly what way was this comment:

helpful?

This (the mid-issue slump combined with i19 in closed beta) problem is going to resolve itself fast. After I19 hits, we'll have a full hive/abyss every time. It won't be a problem again for quite awhile.

The ball was dropped early by posting the next raid and then immediately trying to change it. That was what caused this whole problem and it was an organizational problem that has never happened before and probably won't happen again. It was an oops, and the problems that occurred this time are not likely to ever occur again.

But... back to the snark at hand... if you make a snarky comment... you're probably going to get a like response back.

You misunderstand.

The raid was not canceled because no one responded to the initial posting.

The raid was canceled because when we realized Kid couldn't be there at the regular time and T asked what the rest of us wanted to do, pretty much no one responded.

Now... I told T myself that most likely no one had looked at the thread again, and were unaware that the question had even been raised, but, none the less, that was the medium we had available to discuss the problem.

The leadership is not the issue. We have plenty of people capable of taking on any of the roles (T could have taken the lead, and any number of people could have stepped into his normal role). The issue is that we had to call the last raid d/t no enough people coming out, and it was starting to appear that THIS raid just had too many strikes against it.

The number one thing that influences whether a raid happens or not is participation. That's it.

We - the raid leadership - discussed it and decided that given the poor turnout at the last raid, the lack of apparent interest in this one, and that not just the raid leader but several other of our more experienced raiders were going to be unavailable, the best thing was to call this one.

If at any point, you're unhappy with the way Kid and his team make decisions, feel free to run your own raid.

I would rather not skip it. We have the habit of doing it Saturday afternoon

This has the advantage of maybe giving some people who aren't normally able to the attend the opportunity, but we do run the risk of losing some regulars.

Also, the above mentioned habit.

This is pretty doable, and has the advantage of maintaining the highly successful leadership we've become used to, but the disadvantage of people missing it because they don't know about the change in time.

T, you've run a number of successful raids in the past, definitely have the leadership to manage this. I'd have no objections to this.

To sum up, I DON'T want to skip it. I guess option 1 or 2 would be my vote.

We miss you too!

Ici will be there, of course, T.

Ny for the win.

For SERIOUS!

Ooooh! We summoned the Hickman!

I tell ya what, Troy, I was very interested in option to appear in a comic - hence the dramatic bidding war and huge price tag - and I am still very interested. If that is still an option, I'll keep on waiting. As long as you haven't forgotten me, I can sit quietly and wait.

And in true Protector tradition, we have thoroughly hijacked this thread!

Well... I'm still holding out hope that it will happen. So keep the funds. But thank you so much for the offer.

Ok, I poke at him sporadically.

Yep. For the economy present at the time, it was a HUGE amount of money.

+1

I was one of the Protector PERC reps for awhile, so I do understand the amount of work and the frustration that goes into volunteering. Again, TS, I really appreciate you stepping in like this, especially in the middle of a bit of drama.