Missing Leader
 

As a long standing member of Clan Storm and TBC, I have the sad duty to announce the information I have recently discovered. After repeated attempts to contact Roxy thru E-mail and such I dug allittle deeper to see if I could find her home E-mail. Upon further examination I discovered that shes been playing the POTCO online games rather frequently and as soon as today. It saddens me that she has chosen not to respond to any of our communications regarding our Clan or the TBC. I now no longer beleive that it is a case of too little time, like she announced in her last post, but rather she no longer wishes to be a part of Clan Storm or the TBC. It's a shame, alot of people have put alot of energy into her creation and made it apart of themselves. I now have the unfortunate task of trying to find a new guild and to say goodbye to some freinds in my own, now defunct guild.

My my... I am greatly disheartened to hear this. My guild joined the Brethren Court not to long ago, and the concept and organization behind it was beyond unbelivable. Tis a shame, seeing as how so many put so much energy in to TBC, and your guild. I hope that you will be able to find a good guild, mate, and I'm hoping that you, the rest of your guild and the Court will be able to grab hold of the reigns as soon as possible. Good luck shaky!

Best of luck on finding a new guild.

Is the Court going to elect a new leader or will it fade into the shadows of pirates history...

Odds are that a new POTCO leader will be elected.

Well then we should take a vote! i might actually have my guild become active again i got tired of showing up when nobody else was there.

It's been a number of months since any post here. Allow me to ask:

Is there truly any reason for TBC to continue? I've questioned its purpose before and I'll do it again now.

There are plenty of good active guilds still playing, mates. Take a look at those.

Best wishes to all.

I have questioned that same thing too my friend. The idea behind it is still strong.

I hear ye. But a strong idea, in order to make it to fruition (and thereafter remain strong) requires both a strong leader AND a dedicated one. Dedication without strength won't do the task, nor will strength without dedication.

My personal belief is that the concept as well as the organizationw as far too involved for this game. It required far too much from people in order to make it work--nearly as much work as it would require to actually lead a business. When you consider that actually running a business is a full-time effort, I can understand why somebody would not be able to keep up with all that is required in a game.

I personally was not interested in the whole TBC simply because of that--it looked like Management and Business Org 101. There was a lot of "stuff" going on to establish a "company" but no product. At least no product worth the effort required that I could see.

You are absolutely right. Thanks for your honesty. I truly appreciate it.

I agree 150%!

I believe that in order for the Court to continue, it needs to be simplified. There was no real need for all of that set up - meetings, HUGE rule threads - BLAH!

The purpose, for the TBC was, to establish a way in which guilds from all over the Caribbean would be able to come together and, basically, have fun! We don't need to hold meetings discussing what guilds need to be added, or what rules need to be enforced. We just need to set up a more simple, more managed way to run things. I have a few ideas, I hope you don't mind me just throwing them out there:

• Make the Court events open to everybody. After all, we're all pirates, and all pirates are entitled to a good time! Just let anybody who wants to come come, don't restrict it to guilds that are well-known, and/or here on POF. If somebody decides to "ruin" the fun, well, thats bad judgement on their part. After all, they're doing it in front of the entire Caribbean - what kind of savvy pirate would do that? Just let guilds come and go, and let everybody enjoy themselves :)
• Theres no need for huge, organized meetings. The only thing that needs to be discussed is events, and when they are to take place. A single suggestion thread would work just fine!
• Don't make the leader (Skirata, as well as the new leader) have to dedicate their whole pirate being to the Court. Its a game, we should treat it as one. Lets just take it nice and slow. That way even the organizers can have a little fun 8)

Also, keep in mind, a huge, organized subforum isn't necessary. No, I'm not saying get rid of it, as it is a great addition to the Court. But you could just have it as a discussion board. There could be a few stickied topics, and then the rest could be for, well, anything! Discussing Court events, screenshots, etc. etc, all that sort.

what is behind TBC is there a reason? I have not seen any events all i see are pirates who don't show up to meetings i've only been a member for a little while but i'm not impressed i'll admit it allowed me to get to know different ppl but thats about it

The TBC by design was to be a group of Pirates (not just individual pirates but whole guilds) to come together to have fun and do some activities outside of POTCO ingame stories. We had various games, races, and etc to bring all Pirates togerther for a common cause. Also it was designed to be able to meet people from all over and to be called upon if needed during POTCO stories. ie: look at the sticky right above these posts. It was actually fun when we had a leader, but quickly became out of control by bad people and the shear size of all the participants. Also there were too many rules but it was a double edged sword since we needed the rules to try to control the events, BUT, we had no teeth to enforce those rules for the bad pirates. Tis a shame, but, that being said, I would like it to continue somehow.

Maybe another meeting should be held? That way, any interested participants can show up, and we all can discuss our ideas.

Isn't that kind of the point? TBC was fat with meetings. Meetings meetings meetings.

If you want it to work, you're probably going to have to do something other than have meetings.