While your post contains a lot of feel-goody platitudes, I think it fails to understand the basis of the entire region as a whole.
I really don't understand why people feel the need to egg on this ludicrous anti-gameplay or even anti-NS vitriol over the past several months.
Sometimes a little bit of optimism is a good thing. Also, nothing that I said was anti-NS or vitriolic.
With all due respect, Sovereign Dixie
...That always comes right before someone comes disrespectful....
you disappeared well over a year ago and hadn't been back since yesterday.
Yep. RL happens. Sorry it inconvenienced you.
I don't think you truly understand the struggles that the Taijitu community has been going through lately. "Community first, NS Gameplay second" truly does not make any sense. This entire regional culture and the in game region and all of its structures and offshoots are part of one Taijitu. You can't pretend that they are two entirely separate universes, because they are both integral aspects of the one Taijitu experience. In fact, how would NS Gameplay, from a Taijitu perspective, exist at all without Taijitu existing?
As far as me understanding the issues which the region is currently dealing with... Well, your entire post basically confirms that I do. A shrinking nation count, a lack of activity, conflicting opinions within the region regarding its stance (if any) on inter-regional affairs. Yeah, sounds about normal to me.
To categorise priorities is not a failing to adress the regions issues from a hollistic standpoint. Just like any political entity Taijitu needs to emphasize its strengths while working to overcome its weaknesses.
The proposition is just silliness.
If you views carry their own merit you should not have to assign terms such as "silliness" to opinions with which you disagree.
I have not been posting for the past two to four months now, on purpose, to protest the growing sentiment that the 'fossils' are not necessary for Taijitu to function, well let's see about that.
Ah, so you disappeared to, eh? Besides, the thing about fossils is one sentiment you've expressed that I can agree upon. But I'm far deeper in the strata than you are, for better or worse. *shrugs*
Taijitu has fallen from 500 nations to 337 between August 15th and November 7th.
Taijitu has fallen from 984 posts in August, gradually to nearly half that in October, 557.
Taijitu has fallen from 33 new member in August to just 3 in October.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. When interest falls, so do the numbers.
But no one batted an eyelash. Members like myself and Myroria and Dyr have tried to help and we were met with an attitude like our contributions were not important because we were some old crones who were overbearing or too mired in our own thoughts or something like that.
Yeah. I've been there and done that.
There have been a lot of times in the past six months that Taijitu has had the opportunity to stand out and has simply failed to. Even now, there are discussions about another NS World Fair and no one from Taijitu has offered to submit for a venue or discuss the possibility of Taijitu hosting the World Fair. I get the sense that everything's fallen to a shambles, and now we've elected a Delegate who has expressly told us he's simply going to ignore the laws that we fought so hard to overhaul and re-establish over the past year and a sergeant with no knowledge of how NS military works, and a willingness to raid which will most definitely get Taijitu banned and excluded from defender channels, and at the very least lose a trust that has been built up over years with defenders.
So here's what it seems to come down to. You don't like the methods of the elected delegate, and the views of the military contradict your own ideology. Well, shit happens. What it seems more like here is that you have an interest in keeping the region active on the inter-regional scene, and more importantly, falling in lock step with the organisations that you agree with.
I know that at least 75% of you were not around when I had to carry the region on my back to help get it where it is today.
Your humility is an inspiration to us all.