The Hero you Deserve

Stalin fucked up the clan horribly, told someone else to lean his miss, and then Mr. T Virus, who wasn't even a well known member, hasn't done fucking anything to justify his position. We have hundreds of soldiers just in it for the pretty names, way too many incompetent commissars, a shitload of branches that have next to zero people interested in them, etc. Look at the Total War branch. Sly has spent like 3 months trying to host a single tourney, and hasn't been able to. The only person who has really contributed anything has been card, who is now active field marshall for 2 different games, and these two games are the only ones that have much activity at all.

The Starcraft branch is struggling due to having roughly 10 people and internal faggot bullshit. The CoD branch is doomed to failure. I think we can all agree on that, because it's fucking Call of Duty. It's spread across 3 systems, not too many people are interested in it, and the CoD community is horrible. TF2 seems to be growing, and since the game is free, it may do quite well, but someone besides Card is gonna have to step it up and do shit. As for Total War, one would think that with Stalin's audience, it would go well, but time has shone that it doesn't, most likely due to the sheer number of Total War games, and the prevalence of TW players who don't care for online MP.

However, I didn't just come here to take a massive shit over all you guys. I know it isn't something that can be fixed easily due to our horrible start due to having a leader who didn't care at all. We can compile a list of people who need to stay as soldiers, and remove all other soldiers. We need to drastically increase the difficulty in entering as a soldier. NKVD soldier needs to be a coveted position. Instead of hundreds of inactive people, we need small amounts of competent and devoted players. If NKVD soldier is hard to achieve, people will work harder to get there, and therefore become more devoted.
We need to scrap all branches but Starcraft and Team Fortress 2. I know you think I'm trying to ruin your fun, but the truth is, the other branches are a disorganized mess with little interest. I say we take a different approach to branches. Currently, we're appointing Field Marshalls and expecting them to build a branch around them, which isn't working. I want to say here, that I'm not trying to stop you from playing games outside of the clan with people from the forums. In fact, just the opposite, I think that's essential. We need to wait until a group of dedicated gamers is already present to make them into a branch, and they can then choose their own officials.

Now as for Starcraft and TF2, Starcraft is suffering due to lack of players. We're looking outside the forums for recruits these days. if you are a SC player, we want you to come play with us, because we need more players. TF2 seems to be going well, but in the future, you guys need to step it up and do some things on your own.'

Anyway, I didn't make this long winded thread just to rage. I want to discuss how we can fix the NKVD, because as it stands, we're in pretty piss poor shape.

I agree with this red bit here. But scrapping some branches this early may be a bit much.

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I agree, as many soldier are inactive.
Proven by that one bm'ing asshole from the Ninth NKVD Tourney.

Yea I'm discussing it with the other field marshals now that I'm back in town. Whats Most likely going to happen is that we're going to require NKVD soldiers to be active on these forums even though most of them will resent it. It's actually quite easy to monitor activity on the ACP. Open recruitment stands for now. Apart from that everything Link said is factually incorrect (as is the usual) so you would be best off to ignore it.

Good job cleaning up your fucking mess.
Btw, we need to stop promoting people all the damn time. Don't promote someone on the promise to do something. Wait until they've already made some contributions.

Actually the tourney just started today thank you very much. It was a shame you didnt take part in it.

I agree with Link here. I don't really take part in clan activities, but I do keep a eye on things here, and I can confidently say that pretty much nothing is going right. First off, we have way to many dysfunctional branches. Especially the Total War branch. If it has taken this long to create a tournament, there probably isn't enough interest. Plus, a Battlefield and CoD branch are incredibly hard to organize. It's too spread out, and we should probably stick to the PC. Otherwise, it's probably going to fall apart.

Another thing. We have way too many field marshal and commissars. Instead of just hiring the people who create a tournaments (and organize it poorly) and play occasionally, we should make the positions something to strive for. Our leaders need to be calm, cool, and mature. Having Napoleon as a Total War commissar totally turned me off from playing in the tournament. I barely expect him to make a competent forum post, much less lead me and other players to victory in a competition. I hate to be a dick, but we should probably hire respected members, you know, so people will actually listen to them.

So, as if the leadership wasn't bad enough, we have shitloads of people with like 5 posts as soldiers. Someone shouldn't be able to post once or twice and then be good to go. That's horseshit. I should know some stuff about them, how good they are, and if they are good to work with. It needs to be much more exclusive. If we want to be taken serious, you actually have to reject a lot of people for positions. You can just hand out smiles and lollipops and expect to be good. Well, that's what I think. I say if we want to do well, we wipe out everything except the TF2 and Starcraft, and demote everyone except Card. Because we are just on a course for disaster right now. Maybe then you guys will get some actual interest.

My apologies. It's still taken months to start, and might flop like the last one. I'm not saying it's your fault. It's just not many people are interested in TW MP.

well the real problem we have is that there are many rounds that are spread out across a couple weeks

I'm trying out for the halo one... Am I still on duty for starcraft 2?

First off, admitting you don't take part in clan activities is not the best way to show everyone how knowledgeable you are on the subject.

The problem is that there does not exist a group of people who want to be Field Marshal in the first place. About ten people applied across the board and all but three of them dropped out because they thought they would be happier off just being a soldier. The two people I have appointed were chosen simply because they took the initiative to help me out and get the ball rolling in the right direction. If you want spectacular results instantaneously I suggest you join the Tea Party and tout the idea of green house gasses as harmless while you're at it.

Furthermore, the issue of a clan spread across both PC and gaming console as problematic is ridiculous. I found it to be a great stroke of luck that xXxLKxXx had Call of Duty for both PC and XBox so he is completely capable of managing the three. Also, he appointed a commissar who has the game for PS3 to manage the branch he is absent from. I have obviously been discussing this issue as it most convenient to run a PC only clan. But why should we exclude people who enjoy Josefvstalin.com but don't have a computer capable of running today's games and must therefore play off a console? I will admit that xXxLKxXx presence has been lacking and I'm addressing that.

As far as Battlefield goes, no one has offered to lead the branch or has suggested a Field Marshal. So we play the waiting game until someone either volunteers or is nominated by a peer.

As far as the Shogun 2 tournament goes, it is plainly obvious that most people in the branch have the most inconvenient times free and thus cannot play together. This is due to the fact that most of our tourney players are in different countries. On a side note, my match against Chairmanyang will be on Sunday if anyone wants to spectate. Don't blame Slydesseryfox he is doing the best job possible and is simply a victim of the times. Pun intended.

As far as the nonexistent issue of "too many commissars and field marshals" goes... I don't know where to begin on that one. Commissars are chosen by the Field Marshal as both a reward for service, skill and to help lead the troops. As long as everyone isn't a commissar, I think we'll be fine.

On a last note I have been in talks with two of the field marshals on the issue of whether or not we should clear inactive members from the clan. As soon as I hear from xXxLKxXx I'll make a post regarding the changes to be made. At this time we're leaning towards cleaning out the inactive members and instituting some very, very small posting requirements to join the soldier usergroup (in order to promote user activity).

I'm going to use my better judgement and just lock this thread as I can't imagine it going anywhere more positive after this post. If anything I'll be hearing from Stalin himself in the morning. It's my first day back so if you want me to address any concerns regarding the clan, PM me and we can talk about it.

Right, well there's no obvious reason this thread to be locked and one wasn't provided so... Yeah, unlocking.

Yeah, lets not lock threads just because we don't like people's opinions.

First off, I would probably take part in clan activities if we actually had some outside of Starcraft and TF2. I was going to join Shogun, but then I saw how it totally fell in to shambles.

Good luck with this, as my commisardom is in a branch Link wants to delete.
So yeah...

The reason why TF2 and Starcraft 2 have shot off is simply because of the simplicity to design them. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make a tourney(no offense, Esac) in Starcraft.

The reason why CoD, Battlefield, and Total War completely flopped is because they're not only trying to include a myriad of games, but in the cases of CoD and Battlefield we're trying to extend them over multiple consoles.

God help the field marshals of CoD and Battlefield, at least Sly has a small chance. In TF2 and Starcraft everyone has the same console and version, it's simple and easy.

But I pointed this problem out a long time ago, we have to few, undeticated followers to expand into so many games so fast. Especially when our high leader hasn't done any real work for the NKVD ever. We need to focus on simple games (like MineCraft) that anyone can easily play and organize.

Hell, fucking Wurm beat Battlefield and CoD put together.

Dude, the general secretary resigned less than 12 hours after I made this thread. I already won.

Things are about the same, you know.

that's a sign things weren't going to well

Ya, and still aren't.

I expect mayor to solve all problems or I will destroy him as well.