An Anime Princess, on 15 February 2015 - 09:57 AM, said:
i'm pretty sure at some point the population will swing badly and we'll lose a billion planets but that won't prevent anyone from shooting robots, the actual fun part of the game
The concern I have for Kurita right now is that what I see, which is admittedly a very incomplete picture, is you building up a community that's too much like Davion's old community, a community that eventually bombed out. You seem to be relying very heavily on a relatively small base of ****-hot loyalist units, because that's what what I see Kuritans boast about again and again and again, and fine, I'll be the first to admit you guys are doing reasonably well there. Your units, including newer entrants like NKVA have never failed to make a good showing. But I worry that maybe there's too little emphasis on breadth of community and working to build up the DCMS, instead of the individual constituent units that comprise it.
We've worked hard to maintain a very different paradigm from that, and huge swaths of our most active member base have no affiliation with any of our units. Our community-building efforts have had their ups and downs, and I think the FWLM is badly in need of some renewal there ourselves, but they've been long running and at times rather ambitious (see Marik Civil War) with an emphasis on the overall community. It's why we organized early, and why our population has stayed relatively stable.
Of course,
both of our communities might get a little further if we also behaved ourselves a little more on the forums. Mass malicious trolling does not generally endear one's cause to any broader community, but I digress.
The point, I guess, is simply that as long as there's a recognition that momentary good times don't last forever, and it remains an active consideration, communities can survive. What kills them, and what I firmly think did in Davion more than anything as I've watched their community and attitudes, is pure and simple hubris.
Edited by Catamount, 15 February 2015 - 02:00 PM.