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Soren Miren Wrote:I'll refrain from commenting on any specific player(s) from the Aion community, but I do think its important to recognize that subversive behaviors can come from anyone, even those with the popular interest at heart, to sway things such as these.
Aside from the previously suggested measures, it may also be prudent to discuss what kind of vote we will have well in advance of actually having said vote. As a community site I think ARP was obligated to open the poll to every individual. If this site is specifically devoted to the coalition as an organization and individuals who wish to associate with the coalition, then we have the option of reserving voting rights to representatives of affiliated guilds. Given that the requirements to have a seat on the RPC aren't necessarily subjective, I don't think its unfair to go this route.
Those who choose a guild/linkshell/company before launch already have their representation in the coalition. If individual guilds like, they can hold their own private polls on their websites/forums in advance of the coalition poll, and vote for the winner of their individual poll.
I'm expecting someone will bring up the ethics involved in not acknowledging the freelancers for such a poll. For the sake of not critting anyone with a wall o'text, I'll just keep off that subject until that time >.>
Who were you on ARP?
I joined ARP about a week before they voted on servers. It was pretty Toxic, and then got confusing as hell when NCsoft pulled their own poll. It will probably get hairy here since everyone has friends they want to play with.
The best solution is to do it as soon as possible, even without server names. Someone mentioned just stating a letter like "We'll go to the server with the Z as the first name" and that would actually work (Unless there's no Z XD) or something similar. That way those who are rolling with friends can EASILY go "I'm going to this server, come follow me!
" Unfortunately it seems like a convoluted situation and this way, while easiest, is the most confusing. The council voting is fine but freelancers should get represented in the vote.
Basically the sooner we can pick a server the better. The reason why Aion was so hairy was because it took FOREVER to get the poll up over which server we would go to... even with the beta servers being named exactly the same. The sooner it gets done the less of a problem their will be. People can mobilize friends and everything once it's decided. I HOPE SE has the foresight to give us server names soon (Or that the servers are the same names as Beta)
Expect complications, absolutely...
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