ProfessorDreadNaught wrote:Gamerz has repeatedly made the offer to merge with SWGO. I understand there are some lingering bad feeling between the current SWGO leadership and Gamerz leadership, but I don't understand why this should impede a mutually beneficial merger.
Gamerz is required by it's charter to semi-annually elect a new Council of Seven leadership council. Due to a scheduling snafu we may be forced to reopen nominations for all seven members and start the election over for the upcoming six month term. If SWGO were to merge with Gamerz, all SWGO registered members would be eligible to be on and to vote for the council. All donating members of SWGO would have votes that count twice. All existing SWGO admins would be admins of Gamerz servers/forums. SWGO would continue to exist as the SWBFII division of Gamerz. The SWBFII servers, JBA, Hero Assault and any others would move to the current Gamerz server (replacing the Gamerz servers sitting there) and would run as they did before on a faster, more stable server that costs only $53/mo. (Gamerz currently has a surplus of donations with the ability to sponsor prize competitions and still have more than 6 months of funding in reserve)
Bottom line, SWGO would lose no admins or servers. SWGO would not need to worry about monthly payments on servers. With elections occurring now, SWGO members could actually take over Gamerz and control the whole thing by simple voting.
Talk to your admins and leaders. I wouldn't want to see SWGO disappear because of lack of funding when a solution is easy and beneficial.
So basically what you're saying, is that you would have complete control of SWGO, which is already getting a good amount of donations, and has a far better server than you. You also say that SWGO would be a
division of GMRZ, when SWBFII is the only thing that GMRZ has ever been or ever will be even marginally successful in. Also, obviously the servers of SWGO are just fine, as they get way, WAY more people than you, cause you guys kinda suck.
Also Dread, maybe you can't quite see this past your own ego, but sometimes things run just fine
without you being involved in any way, shape, or form. It's not blind hatred, it's just completely goddamned unnecessary. And the only reason I used sometimes was so that you wouldn't get too indignant and start spouting about how I have no opinion because I was mean to you a couple of years ago. Sometimes you have to just get over yourself, because guess what? GMRZ is pretty terrible, it has hardly any actual players, as opposed to JBA which is almost always full. At most points in the day, JBA has more players than all the GMRZ servers combined, not even counting the other WGO servers. The only "benefit" SWGO would gain, is being affiliated with a group of people that just about everyone in the community hates, and not paying for their servers. Which they already do pretty effectively.
Don't try to say that you're the shining knight in [m'kay] armor, because you're really just a frustrated forty year old manchild with surprisingly pathetic delusions of grandeur. Most people with those think that they're rulers of the world or something, and if they fail at that, it's at least spectacular, if not completely [m'kay] hilarious. A delusion of grandeur that you're really good at managing a group for a nearly dead game? That's just... really, really sad. I can honestly say that if I ever end up like you in any way, shape, or form, I would probably be better off dead. Bye bye.