TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Background: UCR has years of struggle with inactivity and instability. Lately, people talk more than normal.
This is my response to some points and my own idea for UCR.
#1) Ranks as Motivation
This is brought up a lot.
The idea is that the more we open up our ranks, the more people try.
BUT: we already have ranks for grabs...
People aren't motivated for more reasons
we need to dig deeper to make it better
#2) New Reforms / Plans
This is the second most mentioned.
This one is more of an umbrella for all sorts of ideas under the sun about new documents and rules and attitudes.
Issues with these
- Most disagree / conflict
- Talks about changing system/ not using what we have
- Focuses on symptom of problem
We need to agree, use what we got, and focus
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Those were 2 points I wanted to cover. Mine:
UCR's BIGGEST problem is people not even being part of the group.
Forget allies, tech, money
People IN group AREN'T PART of the group.
UCR can't be better if no ones there seeing it get better
That means that our #1 priority is motivation
Key to solving the problem:
#1. Accept it
-If we all agree, we can start working at it.
if we just disagree/bicker, we're slowing things down A LOT
#2. Active > Passive actions
- Threads like this are PASSIVE
actually doing something like going in-game is ACTIVE
We need more ACTIVE action and less PASSIVE action
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My suggestions:
- Separate the High Command and Community leadership
(H-Com handles OFFICIAL functions, UCR-Com leads INFORMAL functions)
- Focus away from Training/Combat and onto Raids/Game nights
- UCR H-Com and Community become PROACTIVE and NOT REACTIVE
(Make things happen ahead of time)
ask for more info, agree, disagree,
but please give it a read |
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GianniKunJoin Date: 2009-08-19
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good luck |
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DDCombatJoin Date: 2012-04-19
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Support. Undecrypted needs this guy to become HR in his group to have a chance.
SURGE Senior Colonel |
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did you get banned on your main |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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No, I wanted to boost TheRegimes post count.
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Support, how about make a project that evolutionizes your tech. UCR's dev team with Orion II was cool, new tech=hype. Hype= Activity, FEAR's new tech brought more activity, when RAT launched Sierra and their other places then members and activity spiked. Its all about tech consistency and bringing new stuff to the table and executing it excellently with good timing. |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Well, I was around when Orion II was pushed out.
That was probably our greatest achievement from a development perspective.
And yet it didn't perform anywhere near the level of WIJ's Back in Buisness or RAT's Spectrum
If we're talking aesthetics, just look at any Nintendo game... they crowd source better than any in the gaming industry.
Yet their games are often recycling Mario and Luigi or Smash.
The games might look nice, and that's a great thing to have, but that's all they do man.
OII didn't revolutionize UCR or make that much hype.
Am I saying we shouldn't have nice looking and playable games? No, but we shouldn't look strictly at aesthetics...
TRA's Fort Rana was, in my opinion, one of the best in the entire clan world.
Better than anything to come out of RAT or FEAR or WIJ.
Yet it wasn't an enormous and laggy masterpiece of building.
UCR's future rests in how motivating we can be for one another. How far we're willing to push our boundaries.
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Fort Rana was bricks and re hashed guns, Fort Kaeum or however it was spelled which was based on a bf4 map was a true master piece. BiB failed, Spectrum failed, look at the state of RAT and WIJ now. |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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I don't think looking at their current state is a good way to determine the success or failure of those previous projects.
That's like saying I build a sand castle, someone comes and tears it down,
and suddenly my sand castle was bad because it could be torn down.
I don't remember nor have I seen a Fort Kaeum, but you're talking about aesthetics from what I can see in your post and I don't think that is a very solid argument.
Fort Rana for sure was a success, masterpiece idk I specifically said it wasn't this grandiose structure but it sure as hell was a fun and sensible map. The gameplay and the speed were just right, the choice of weapons and how to get them was also sensible.
There was a clear and consistent strategy that you could go about and following it would at least put you closer to winning.
Spectrum, particularly if I remember right Fort Borealis (correct me if that's wrong) was also fair compared to RAT's history of very one-sided maps.
WIJ Indigo I think it is, is a very fair map probably a lot better than Rana.
Simplicity goes a much further way than over-complicating maps. It's also very exclusive to build high-end maps when we're talking about catering to people in general.
Not every clan member has 8 gigs and up of RAM to be running all the maps current clan builders churn out.
And even if they did, why would I want to raid E981-Level maps for 40 minutes just to lose? |
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AriffJoin Date: 2008-09-15
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i like promotion ceremonies |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Ariff:
I think those could be a little different though.
Like, make the ceremony but then something after it that's cool.
Not just the ceremony. |
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AriffJoin Date: 2008-09-15
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maybe a members discussion where everyone can suggest ideas and problems that may need to be fixed? |
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I've always wanted to commit to UCR
Forza Italia! |
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HactedJoin Date: 2010-09-16
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"maybe a members discussion where everyone can suggest ideas and problems that may need to be fixed?"
Probably the best idea |
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AriffJoin Date: 2008-09-15
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like when the HiCOM has an idea/concept/change, they can put it up for discussion in this time to get a feel of what the members who aren't in the HiCOM thinks of it, before they implement it |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Look, no offense,
but that's a bad idea lol.
You're taking something like suggestions and making it sound like it has to have a meeting or a discussion.
That's dull and boring. Not encouraging.
If suggestions should go anywhere,
They should go into an Undec or UCR alt where they're collected and reviewed during the weekend.
Not actively discussed on a daily / weekly basis. That's just poisonous and it could easily get very ugly.
In the past we would have frequent meetings to talk about UCR and it always got out of hand, it always lead to bad sentiments and attitudes. It wasn't helpful.
It also puts people against each other if they have very different suggestions.
One thing I mentioned here was the importance of agreeing with each other or setting aside our small differences.
We can't move forward if we're too focused on small things.
Having meetings dedicated to discussion are useful maybe once a month if ever hosted at all...
Especially on a public scale... |
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VorsaiJoin Date: 2011-01-09
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If I were you I would do a promotion ceremony every Friday, Saturday, or Monday. |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Right weekly but there should be a 2nd and fun unique reason to go.
Not just go there, sit through other people getting rewards/good comments,
and then suddenly you're having a huge and rowdy discussion about how the ranks should look
or if there should be a senate
It just gets bad really quick.
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AriffJoin Date: 2008-09-15
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??? im guessing my promotion ceremonies i attended were hella different (i should change my terms, probably promotion interview?)
i was thinking of people coming into a place where they queue for an interview of some sort
they chat to a HR individually as to why they should be promoted (e.g i patrolled the fort at this time [proof given], i was recommended by someone [proof given])
then 0k b0ss you are promoted, if not here is what you should do (short term/long term) to get promoted to next rank
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as to the discussion idea, i would agree that it should be monthly, or any major changes.
Honestly I haven't seen a meeting which wanted everybody to attend, but that is also my problem since I haven't been attending these if they were provided. I mostly see Officer+ meetings on TS3, and I really don't like TS3, but that is my problem to solve, not UCR. |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Oh you're talking way old school lol
Yeah I guess but supposedly times have changed.
I guess it depends on what the members want but that's outside my know-how.
the old school meetings were something else.
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AriffJoin Date: 2008-09-15
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This gets the low ranks to personally talk to the HRs and get to know them more. This was one of my major factors as to why I got into clanning, and shows that HRs are pretty much average robloxians like them. This may get the LRs motivated to collaborate with HRs in the future.
Members can easily read the promotion guide but really who actually follows through the whole procedures given. Maybe if they were told by the HRs to specifically do this they may look into it as a sort of mission for a direct promotion.
However that was my perspective on this. |
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TheRegimeJoin Date: 2013-01-03
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Well, I'd say it's better to have HRs that are larger than life.
You don't look up to someone like say Brad Pitt or Marshawn Lynch or Lionel Messi because they're ordinary and use the toilet like the rest of us.
People look up to them for those moments of glory that they trained their whole life to be the best they can be at.
Not saying HRs need to be gods but they should look and act a certain way.
That's what drives people. That's part of the social structure we need.
We need those individuals who just attract people like white on rice. |
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