All Good Things...

Tommy · 2007-05-30T04:57:49Z

O.K. people. This post may make me a bit un-popular for a bit, but it has been a long time in coming. I am clan leader, so it is my job to make this post regardless of it's outcome. One way or another I think the clan will be changing in a major way as a result of this post. Please understand that right now all we are doing is talking. No action will be taken in away with anything for the time being. It is very important for everybody to post their thoughts and comments here I'll just get right to it. This clan has completely lost it's focus. I do believe I am the one to blame for this so I will not be laying it on other people. When I created DOU I had in mind a specific type of team, and this is not what we have become. It is my fault for letting things get out of hand, and now it is my responsibility to try to find a solution to this. Of course what I am refering to is the fact that we have become a clan of 2 different types of players, We have our normal snipers and we have our bolt-action players. However, at this time I do not think we can call ourselves a sniping / camping clan. The problem with being a clan of 2 different types (in this case) is that the two seem to be incompatible. It is probably obvious to most of you that I am not a big fan of the bolt action server. It just isn't my thing. Like I said, it isn't the clan that I started or the game that I play. When it first went up it was a mistake for me to even let it go up because of the long standing rule that the clan would have no two servers that competed with each other for traffic. To be honest I didn't think that people intended for it to be a primary server. But it is now up and popular to a degree so we have a situation. However, I must state that the popularity of the server has been artifically inflated. Another rule that has been around as long as DOU has been around is that no members may drive traffic from one server to another. I have been reading the logs lately on the sniper server and see that 3 of our clan members have made it a habit of driving traffic from the sniper server to the bolt action server. When they see people in the sniper server, they jump in and tell these people to go to the bolt action server. I also have an inbox full of complaints about this on my forum account. The result of this is that the sniper server is empty and people are moved to the bolt server to have a game. I have a lot more to say here, but to keep things straight, I will say that I believe what I have said above is fact, and what I am about to say is opinion. It may or may not be right, but for now it is opinion. The bolt action server in my opinion is what I call a "flavor of the month" server. The flavor may last longer than a month, but I am sure you all get the metaphor. Let me explain why I think this is so. When we started out we had a sniper server. Then a few people got restless so we also put up a redeemer server. When this happened, for awhile people drove traffic from the sniper server to the redeemer server and the sniper server suffered. Then when the novelty of the redeemer server wore off people came back to the sniper server. Then people got restless again and the uzi was added and thus a multiserver was born. I will admit I liked the uzi (it was my idea) as I thought it would be a nice distraction. Then the uzi appeal wore off and everybody was back to the sniper server after all the traffic was removed from it. What a drag. Then came jail break. Same deal. Then came Freeze Tag. Same deal. Then came UT2k4. Same deal. Then came the instagib server. Same deal. NOw we have the bolt action server. Same deal? I think it might as without even talking to me it would appear as though a new game type was added to the multiserver. Every time this happens the sniper server, our flagship server, suffers. The server gets to the point where it is about the most popular camping server online, just to have the traffic driven off of it like it is now. Forgetting about the fact that I am not a big fan of the game type myself, here are some other concerns that I have. First, I hate to say this but I think playing on that server has serisouly diminished the camping skill of a large percentage of the clan. When playing other DOU members on the sniper server I have noticed this. I think I am a pretty good player, but I do not think I am *THAT* good. I think that other members are just not as good as they used to be. Next, I think that the server is attracting people to it that we would be better off not having around. A few weeks ago when the FraggedNation pre-season meeting took place, DOU received high praise from the entire community on how good and honest of campers we are. It was mentioned that ref's not even need be around when we play. Now I hear that during the last DOU Vs. Cops match, the cops people complained about us running and gunning too much, and I find out it was a valid complaint. This is coming from Cops, the undesirable eleme...

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