No More Empty Promises

I did the soul searching in my bout of inactivity.
It really does hurt and makes me feel like a shit human being to leave you guys unattended.
I've lost a number of friends in WG because of my lack of dedication.
You're a second family, and every one of you matters.

So I make this pledge of ten things, which I must keep at all times.
May it be known to all of you, to my God, and to future members.

I, His Lordship, pledge:

• To attend at least one planned fight every week. If one does not exist, I will create one
• To attend at least one non-wilderness event every week
• In the above two items, one must be in the American or European timezone so that the majority of WG can SEE my activity
• To spend five hours MINIMUM playing Runescape outside my WG obligations every week, on training or skilling
• To idle on the IRC while I am at work, so that clan members can approach me more often*
• To post a sign-up for every single planned fight that gives a day's notice or more
• To post win topics on Tip.it and RSC for as much exposure as possible
• To not come online while intoxicated
• To visit the forums every day and respond to all PM's that require it
• To update the clansite every month

* I will not respond for up to an hour if I am teaching.

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Notice these are all personal statements. Nothing that relies on someone else. That way, if there's any failure, only I am to blame. Now, the reason you can be sure I'll follow through with this is that now I am motivated by grief.

I have lost too much on my watch. We had 80 members not long ago. The ball was rolling and I failed to rise to meet the activity standards. Gary was the last straw, and there's another I know to be leaving. When they do, emptiness will live where passion once was. I must fight to keep you guys going strong.

On a list of commitments, you guys are right behind family, friends, study, and work.
That puts you in my top five, above working out, above music, above any usual pastime. Enough rambling, I'm getting mushy. Just know that I'm sick of letting you down. Literally sick in the stomach at the thought of it.

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Additionally there is going to be one major change. Very rarely do I bypass the council and tertiary input on something like this but there's not way it won't happen.

[u]Raids are no longer mandatory if you are online.[/b]
Maths raised a good point. They don't contribute at all to our growth. It's world switching, getting bank loot. There's nothing beneficial from them apaart from that. They don't teach organisation all that much since we don't fight any major clans - we're not ready. At some stage we'll have more unplanned fights, but right now we are not ready.

Raids, now being optional, should still have similar attendance though. They are still enjoyable and we've got into the habit of having those regular times, and eventually we'll be fighting other clans regularly on them. The only reason they are now optional is because I'd rather you spend your effort on the planned fights, which are many times more important. If you had to choose to assign your limited hours, pick the planned fights.

I'll work on getting a standardised planned fight time to fill every week. That way you'll know there's always a fight at that time. Perhaps 5pm EST on a Sunday. They seem best. I'll do that in consultation with you all.

Anyway, that's my little spiel. I pledge to give those things as the bare minimum, and on top of that, things like the Aussie raid, more apps etc. You'll notice that when I vowed to improve, I gave a set number, this will ensure no cheating or corner cutting.

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Randy, thanks for this idea.
If you guys have a pledge, post so as well.
Let's all agree to be active.

I just don't understand how you can just jump from your current activity levels to the activity levels you describe above without altering your RL drastically.....
How are you going to do it

My pledge is already on Randy's post in General Matters...

Oh Gene Gene Gene...

Well I can't convince you with words, as I have broken promises many times in the past.
I must win you with actions, so discussing my shortcomings will have little bearing on things.

Had a big rant posted but I don't want to ruin this with negativity.

It better happen this time, this is an oath and a promise to all of WG, I won't forget you made this in two weeks time.

Good luck.

Nice topic Gene. And yeah, I don't see you as much nor do we talk. I know your a busy guy IRL and that's fine. Reading this topic shows that your going to improve as 1 and with the WG intentions. Just.. do what you have to do as a Leader Gene. That's all I have to say.

-Joey

I think we should make F2P mandatory, because they does depend on numbers and also it is way more active and it involves less hopping. Example, We ran into 3 clans on the same f2p world the other week and got a great fight with gladz and the. If that was Not Mandatory, our numbers would have shrunk and we wouldn't have been able to put up that fight.

But i agree with the P2P raids, as now they bore the shit out of me and we barely find anyone.
^ YOu were referring to aussie and US Raids right?

Great Read, Thanks for the heads up.

And one more thing.
Tension is running really high.
Let's be understanding if someone says something pissy.

This is a great post, very fitting. We all need to work together as one to make this community better than the best. We do this by being welcoming, successful, and looking out for one another because we are all family.

-Ali

You need to set up a highlight, because when i message u, you never respond. It might be that u dont care, or that u dont realise it.

i am aware of the ULTIMATE highlight, but why cant we just approach u with Hey Lordy.

Will be nice to see you back +)

i don't like the intoxicated one (N)

Looking forward to your new found activity.

Planned fights are good but having goals make them better.

WG needs this right now. I hope you deliver.

I hope this works out and I'm looking forward to it, Gene.

Ontop of this oath you need to let us know a promised consequence that will happen if you do not deliver I respect the post though.