AstralUniverse wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 9:44 am
JustMonika wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:17 am
You can't threaten to resign, or demand something of someone who isn't there.
Nor can you replace said settlement leader. Indeed, if any of people do resign the situation actually gets worse, as no-one can mechanically be appointed to replace them either. People stop being able to recieve pay, perform the basics of their jobs, exiled people and so forth.
I'm sorry, I really dont mean to condescend, but I've been through such situations in the past and it really isnt so bad. From your words alone it doesnt even sound so bad. All of these things can and will create RP if you let them. It is true that the system isnt perfect but my one and only argument here is that any more added factors into this and we'll just have more jams from other angles when a leader IS active. There are enoguh tools in play already.
JustMonika wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2020 8:17 am
There's a difference between a bad leader [which can actually generate a lot of -good- RP] and an inactive one.
No, there is not.
I'm sorry but, there really is! At least, there's a differnece between a leader who is highly unpopular/disliked, and a leader that just Is. Not. There.
Example:
'Leader! There's a man named Tony who's running around murdering people! We need to exile him! '
Bad!Leader: 'Oh no we don't, let's try and hire him into the guard!/Oh no we don't, let me dress up in my giant pink bunny costume and bounce around a bit!/No we don't, let's exile YOU instead! UP with murder! Up with Chaos! Huzzah Cyric!
All these actions can be responded to ICly, people can talk about them, argue about them, discuss them. Assassins can be hired. Ambassadors sent ect.
'Leader! There's a man named Tony who's running around murdering people! We need to exile him! '
*Crickets*
Leader?
*Crickets*
Oh well then, nothing to be done.
Granted rp can be made of that situation too, but I'd argue less rp and less interesting rp.
I get that people have real lives - I get that sometimes Things happen to take us away from Arelith, even burnout. But I'm going to put this out here now- a Settlment Leadership position is one of the very few positions in arelith where I feel that if you can't put a reasonable amount of time into it (I'm not saying being on for hours every day, but at least a few good few hours in a week) then you should consider passing it on to another person in your faction.
This too shall pass.
(I now have a DM Discord (I hope) It's DM GrumpyCat#7185 but please keep in mind I'm very busy IRL so I can't promise how quick I'll get back to you.)