Dryvit’s edit: Before our town lost electrical power last night, Boomer and I were in constant contact about whether or not to do this. It became more and apparent we had no choice. The circle of leadership was being pulled tighter and tighter around Seane with no air gaps left for any soldier to make a suggestion. Even the posts on the site were getting 20 comments at most when we used to get 60-80 per post. Our join page was down to a dribble from 15-20 on weekdays and 40+ on weekends. I had pc’s of soldiers saying they just quit, 2 last night. I hope they reconsider today. I truly feel this is the best thing to do for ACP. It was killing us watching it slowly die and all the while the circle drawing tighter and tighter. Long live ACP.
Edit: I just realized Dry doesn’t know yet, should be interesting…
New Chat HERE!
Ok, so yeah there was a coup. Believe it or not, it didn’t go completely as planned, there was quite a bit of improvisation and lucky yet unfortunate changes in plans. My apologies. While it did not go perfectly according to plan, it went about as well as a coup can possibly go. I would say the general outlook over the situation is first of confusion, then of moderate approval (just based on comments so far). It might take some time to get things back together, but the future looks brighter than ever thanks to the willingness of our soldiers (and leaders) to help us out.
ACP will remain as it was, just with some new (or rather old) faces at the helm. We intend to make ACP far more active, stay loyal to our allies, and above all, have some fun!
Anyway, we are in the process of setting up new leadership. The news is quite exciting actually. The problem is, we will have to revamp the government to make it possible. I believe it will be worth it however.
Keeping this short since its past 3 am, we have potentially 3 (count ’em) former leaders returning! Dry, who helped me set all this up, had agreed to be a Co-Leader in the new administration! Secondly, I was able to convince Saint to rejoin as a Co-Leader! Lastly, Kg expressed interest (though not definite) in returning either as a Co-Leader or a 3rd in Command! The new government could potentially run like a Council (though it would be a true Oligarchy). We will probably still have the two-tiers of leadership with 2nd in Commands and 3rd in Commands, but there will be more of each. Nothing is set in stone yet, however. I cannot give a definite number, however we will surely have more leaders than in the past.
The benefit of having more leaders is you can split up all the work and no one is doing too much. I have already planned out how to work the join page, and with more leaders, we will be able to accomplish far more than in the past. This style of government is still largely untested in armies, the problem being more leaders means more opinions. With all of the talented leaders we have though, I think it would be worth a shot.
Here is a rough outline (so far) of how we may be running the leadership (Note: These are Potential, we will not be able to have all of them, and Acceptance may not mean they will get the position):
Leader: Boomer 20 (Accepted)
Co-Leaders: Dryvit (Accepted), Ktman (Accepted ), Saint1119 (Declined), Kg 007 (Declined)
3rd in Commands: Tylov5 (Accepted), Foxtails (Accepted), Ennbay (Accepted), Dragon 720 (Pending Decision),
Senate Vice President: Ennbay (Pending Decision), Ganondorf787 (Accepted)
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Time for some events info, we still have the UMA Mass Recruiting scheduled for tomorrow:
What: Mass Recruiting
Where: Frozen (Tundra backup)
When: Saturday, September 26, 2009
Uniform: UMA Uniform
Chat: UMA Chat
Times:
11 am PST
12 pm MST
1 pm CST
2 pm EST
7 pm U.K.
Comment if you can make it! We want a good showing to help out our allies!
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In other news, we will be having some practices coming up (we need some tactic training again), and if Kt decides to rejoin as a Co-Leader, we may be able to have his Divisional Practice War. Also, we have promos to come, as well as sorting out the leadership and government, dividing up tasks, and hopefully Senator elections. On the ally front, we will be returning Fjord to the Nachos, and I will discuss with some leaders the options for the other servers. I know I speak for all of the leaders when I say it is a pleasure working with you again!
Lastly, we have a new chat (actually it’s an old one) – xat.com/TheACP
~Boomer
P.S.~Comment if you’re active!
