Uite Dauphni, on 08 February 2015 - 04:13 AM, said:
Dear Mercstar,
There is a magical word in the English language that I would like to discuss with you today, and that word is ‘reputation’. You have one, we have one, everybody has one. Reputations have consequences. You've made yours and now you're going to have to deal with it.
You are so fond of saying that nobody can dictate how you play the game that you forget the converse of that: YOU cannot force US to play the game your way either. If your reputation makes people not want to trust you or even play with you, that's your problem, not ours. Whining about it will only make it worse.
tl;dr: You've made your bed, now sleep in it.
What kind of reputation might you be speaking of. Personally as a member of -MS- I understand that certain people may have an issue with certain people within our alliance but the entire time that I have been a member of the MS alliance I can say that very single faction with our unit (7) member currently has had an equal voice and we have all aligned in support of every decision that the leadership has made. MS has shown that different groups of different people can come together and unify for a common goal.
In my opinion the "reputation" you speak of is one that this star league should be knocking down our door to copy. Antonius Rex's leadership model for MS is the only way this "star league of your has a chance of working. Red brought 7 different competitive units together(units that probably have more history and reasons to dislike each other than any of the units you are dealing with) Tonys leadership is not something that should be shunned or feared regardless of whether or not we agree to any decisions you make, but rather if you guys really wanted to unify these groups the way you say you do you should be busting down Rex's door to figure out how to do so. Tony has unified groups that would have otherwise wanted nothing to do with each other. MS is not the "enemy" we are the model for what you are trying to implement. You should be trying to model your "star league" after us.
If this is the reputation to which you refer than I will take your post as a compliment.
Having been a part of the MS from the very beginning I can say that I am very grateful for the MS group of pilots I get to play with each and every night and would not trade this alliance for anything.
-S-