There are more of everyone in the Kzinti than elsewhere....

IMO I think the Kzinti should change their empire status to closed cause I think that they have too many members and it is not fair for them to get almost every new player that comes to the MV.

Belongs?.....He belongs to you!!!

Do my ears (well eyes.....lol) decieve me or is there treachery afoot.

Mumble's tyrannical ways are well known in the ToE world and he is far to evil to simply exist among your more matured entities.....

A Curmudgeon of the First Order he may be, but he is an evil one that spits fire......he is right at home with us!

@Seth. Though in principle i do agree with you, i would have said that all empires should have a member limit to spread the players around some. That being said, there is plenty to be said for being small. In the ToE we are proud of what we have achieved with a vastly smaller member number, as are the Gerontocrats i'm sure, their member number is lower again.

The there is yourself Seth, with even less members you are #3 on the AM, no small feat.

Remember no matter what, there will always be band wagon jumpers......

200??

I was more thinking about 50-65 myself. With 200 hundred members there still would only be a handful of empires. With a limit of around 50-65 you could have far more empires active in the MV.

Though i guess 200 may have been alright 3 years ago. We have to remember we are 3 years on now from the release of GC2 so what we look at now has to be looked at in terms of activity 3 years ago.....

Anyway, nothing will eventuate, we still havent heard anything about the forum tweaks Kryo asked for.....

@GW, you might be able to recruit SB

The Mumble part of my last post is mostly a running gag between the two of us. You could put Stickler for Loyalty on a list of Curmudgeon Criteria, after all...

Which is not to say that the Gerontocrats wouldn't welcome anyone as a new member. Actually, we couldn't even reject a decision to join if we wanted to. That's the practical result of our founder having had to put down this particular hobby and the MV having no way for an emporer to declare a successor.

Have you ever considered starting a new, temporary empire?

There's something that can be said for loyalty to an empire, but if you have no emperor, it makes it difficult to control certain aspects of the empire. You could always create a new MV empire, where all of the members of the Gerontocracy that are still committed to the game could join up to. You would have better control over many aspects that involve an empire, and it would give you a chance to "refresh" your members. Anyone who isn't here anymore obviously wouldn't follow you to the new empire, but those who still were into GC2 would join back up.

Also, this new empire could be permanent or temporary. If Ghostwes comes back, the members of the old Gerontocracy could always re-sign with the old empire. The temporary version would just fall back to 0 pts. From a different perspective, you could all choose to stick with the new empire if you guys enjoy it. This would by no means be permanent, but it would be a nice "refresher" for the older members of the empire.

You could always go the route of the Olympian God's empire - Silverbeacher cut everyone loose once the empire was about to fall from the MV, and they were free to join-up with whomever they pleased. You'd would have the empire, and if Ghostwes ever returned, you (or whoever was the emperor) could just cut the active members of the temporary empire free so that they could rejoin the Gerontocracy, if they so desired.

The Gerontocracy would lose a fair amount of points in the MV, but all of those points would return whenever the old members returned to the empire. So in hindsight, nothing bad would befall either the old empire or the new one.

Consider this my (long) way of providing a suggestion. I am by no means demanding that the Gerontocracy makes this change. I'm just stating a possible route that the loyal members could take.

Best Regards.

What about posting the heads-up in the Gerontocrat (or any other empire's) official thread?

Post the update, then give it a week or so, or make it a personal requirement that a certain number of Gerontocrats (or any other empire's members) reply back to assure that they have heard the update.

What mergers were you trying to perform Neilo? I wasn't here for that kind of stuff, so I have no idea this was even attempted before.

Thanks for the heads-up though. Even with my "solution," it would be fairly difficult.

Especially with a bunch of old gas-bags like the Gerontocrats.

Cypher, AFAIK, the active Gerontocrats are happy as we are. Ghostwes himself pretty much scoffed the emporer thing. My only technical gripe about not having a successor function is that Ghostwes used to make every new member a senator, and now no one can do that. Our roster doesn't look quite as egalitarian as it used to because we've had a few folks join since the Hiatus began.

@ GW - Ahhh... very well, very well. I was merely providing a suggestion.

I'm glad you guys are happy the way you are. Best Regards.

I am working on a Empire Thread so in two weeks,it should be done.

You may address me as Saint Mina or GmOOnii, I will respond to both.

@ InfernalRS, My Empire is on the path of good and we are Inquisitors that show no mercy because mercy is for the weak and old.

Saint Mina of Ophelia VII of Order of the Bloody Rose of Orders Militant of Adepta Sororitas

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     “We are at war with forces too terrible to comprehend. We cannot afford mercy for any of its victims too weak to take the correct course. Mercy destroys us; it weakens us and saps our resolve. Put aside all such thought. They are not worthy of Inquisitors in the service of Our Emperor GmOOnii. Praise his name for in our resolve we only reflect his purpose of will.”

Inquisitor Draco,

Castigations on the Last Days

Don't you mean Freeman?

If you have any interest in the fantasy genre, getting into the Elemental beta might be a good opening front. I'm very interested in that game, but I'm a tad worried that it will end up putting too much emphasis on server-based multiplayer. At root, I think I'd rather that the game had no scoring system at all. But if it has one, I most certainly would prefer a Metaverse-like experience to a multiplayer game where I had to coordinate my schedule with other players.

mADDYman, I think we Gerontocrats already have at least one Old Soul in a Young Body amongst us. In some thread or another, I think Ghostwes even once said something to the effect of your calendar age not mattering as long as you were ready to shake your cane at brats on the lawn (even if that's all you use your cane for). Plus, your experience amongst the fearsome furballs could help us prepare better snacks for the day when they all come 'round to our rest home looking for relaible warm laps.