Amar Q&A (Was No Right Choice)

[Lusipher]

And you Zic need to listen to the goddamn message. Its not bashing ALFA im saying the boy needs experience.

[zicada]

And thus, Dan is no longer a member of ALFA.
Sorry about fouling up your thread amar.

[danielmn]

A. Amarwho? *furrows his brow, trying to remember who this person is, where they dm or play, then shrugs, coming up with nothing*

Nalowho? NaloJade - the mother who has stepped up to dm an awseom campaign on NC when no one else would step up to volunteer to dm a low level campaign (excluding me, but I was shot down because dming only lowbies is considered exclusive dming...good f*&*ing knows we don't want anyone to contribute around here...)The guy who runs that campaign 2x a week, the guy who is responsible for getting fresh blood into this place through the use of NWNC. The guy who relentlessly posts on our forum, who is RELIABLE, who lays it all out on the table and says this is how we roll, anyone got anything to say about it I'm all ears and willing to change some things around in order to make it work. The Guy in PR. That guy whose been dming OAS1, and actively recruiting for the NWN1 platform.

Now, he's got a lot of naysayers I see. Well, I haven't been here since the beginning, and I don't pay too much attention to the forums. I don't know if he comes up with crazy ideas or posts the same thing over and over again.
And I don't really care either, has nothing to do with anything.

WHAT I DO KNOW is this guy has been volunteering and hacking at it, has been awesome the whole time I have been in contact with him. I suppose bad crap has happened in the past with Nalo that I am just not aware of/privy to...but from where I am sitting I can say that this muthah has the determination and steadfastness to get stuff done. I know. I seen him! You want to say he's unqualified, that he shouldn't, cool, you are probably right from where you sit. I am just glad I know and experience a different side than the side you know, and that from where I sit, I'd vote him in in a heartbeat.

I guess my question is, what have YOU done for ALFA lately that make you think you are more qualified than Nalo. I don't know anything about you, what you are currently involved with behind the scenes, ect. Give me a taste of what is Amar, and I'll have a better picture. To define yourself through whom you are running against is a blah way of going about it. Don't tell me what you aren't. Tell me what you are.

If in the end, it's just about "the boy needing some experience"...I suppose we shouldn't have elected Demson to PA last term upon that mindfame. But we did, and even though he couldn't push a full term due to real life creeping in, he did a fine job. Please come up with another excuse other than he has no experience...I've seen that proven to be invalid over and over again.
Peace.

[Amar]

daniel, the first page of this thread is not my official platform. my platform is in the self-nom thread. I left my posts here alone so the history leading up to this point could be seen.

Also, I've played with you on NWN1 i do believe. And I seem to recall some NWN2 as well.

GSID was Invalid_Heart or Takhisis depending on how long ago it was.

EDIT:
For those who can't be arsed, Platform:

Spoiler:

Found out Ill be out of town all day tomorrow, so I figured Id go ahead and toss this up now. Maybe I'll pull someone better out of the woodworks. I know I am not the best choice we have in the membership, but I feel I am far better than those presented so far.

Platform for Lead Administrator

Vision Statement:
We as a community are not healthy. From an outsider's point of view the project looks stale. It seems to be making no movement. Even the once active forums have slopped off into an occasional update here and there. From outside the pane of DM forum priveleges, it appears that the community has not made any progress on a single issue in the last 6 months.

What we need now is not just progress, or recruitment and retention, but drive and passion. We need to take an interest in the needs and wants of the community and put power back into the hands of the constituency. The players need to be the most important piece of this community, as they are the customers, and the rest of us - the builders and DMS, administrators and teams - are here to serve the customer and make them happy.

Purpose:
Bring suggestions by the playerbase to review by Administration and Teams more swiftly
--If any member in good standing can bring me a suggestion with at least 10 other members in good standing giving their explicit support, I will submit it to review by the appropriate team or admin.
--If the suggestion passes review, it will be submitted to public polling to see if it should be implemented.

Use the extent of my power to persist logic through the ranks.
--Less illogical vetoes. No more obsession and nitpicking to the point of upsetting stability.
--The above is in no way directed at the previous LA, but rather various circumstances throughout the years.

Various other odds and ends to help feed the feel from the populace into the administrative levels, rather than persisting the circle-jerk corporation attitudes and methodology of the power groups.

ALFA Experience:
Joined Aug. 2004
Player - Every server in existance since that date.
DM'd -
WD under Thrasymachus
TDC under Coach
I think i did a short sprint somewhere else for a while, but i dont recall exactly.

Teams:
Craft, Trade & Caravan - Spearheaded the crafting movement and compiled the crafting standards as they last stood up for review from that team. (in 2005?)

Relevant Non-Camarilla Experience:
I have been playing and (DM/ST/GM)ing roleplaying games regularly for a decade.
Currently running a D&D 4E game set in Iron Kingdoms with homebrew conversions to the new system.

LARP Work:
Assistant Domain Coordinator (Concessions) - 5/27/07 - 01/27/08
Assitant Venue Storyteller - 12/02/07 - 04/15/08
Venue Storyteller - 05/21/07 - 02/18/08
Venue Storyteller - 09/14/08 - Present
Assistant Domain Coordinator (Recruitment & Retention) - 09/14/08 - Present

[danielmn]

Thanks, Amar.

"it appears that the community has not made any progress on a single issue in the last 6 months."

What issues if you become Lead would you like to see pushed to the forefront and resolved so that Alfa doesn't look so stagnant from an outsiders point of veiw?

"What we need now is not just progress, or recruitment and retention, but drive and passion"

Besides more enfranchisement to the base as a whole, how do you plan to inspire "drive and passion"? I maintain that Alfa doesn't need MORE to do, it needs MORE HANDS working on the things to do. If you rally the playerbase and set forth many issues that the playerbase would like seen pass, it really does no good if the hands aren't there to then work on those projects. Perhaps anyone putting forth an idea should accept responsibility of seeing it come to fruition???

[Amar]

What issues if you become Lead would you like to see pushed to the forefront and resolved so that Alfa doesn't look so stagnant from an outsiders point of veiw?

An interesting question. But as i cannot see the DM forums, I do not know of any issues other than those the players keep asking about. And the admin forums show the last game-related decision they voted on was in July of 2008. The last discussion of anything game related is of Combat XP, and the conversation is non-conclusive.

Besides more enfranchisement to the base as a whole, how do you plan to inspire "drive and passion"? I maintain that Alfa doesn't need MORE to do, it needs MORE HANDS working on the things to do. If you rally the playerbase and set forth many issues that the playerbase would like seen pass, it really does no good if the hands aren't there to then work on those projects. Perhaps anyone putting forth an idea should accept responsibility of seeing it come to fruition???

I disagree, it would be incredibly simple to implement nearly everything I have seen the players requesting.


Want more hairstyles in NWN2? Someone ported them all over from Oblivion. Its on the vault.

Crafting in either system? All already up and running, multiple servers have already implemented parts (or all) of the systems in the past in NWN1.

Start above level 1? At the same point in the code where we give people 300g and take away their equipment. We add a line that gives them 1000xp and some more gold.

[danielmn]

So you see the main problem of ALFA right now as stagnation due to player wants not being met and/or made visible to the community at large, things that can be put forth for a vote and changed easily. I certainly hope that you are correct.

[Amar]

Sadly no, the biggest problem right now is that we dont have a DM for skullport, noone contributing content for servers, and very little DM support.

Unfortunately the LA cannot help much with those except by trying to up enthusiasm and help people get what they need to be interested. The rest is up to your DMA.

[JaydeMoon]

Amar, is there a right choice yet? Or are you still in the running?

[Amar]

Im still in the running at least until i see more of Faeryll's policy plans.

Im giving 37:1 odds that she wins this cycle though

[danielmn]

"noone contributing content for servers"

I was not aware that servers were not being contributed to. News to me...and other builders. Please keep the broad generalizations to a minimum.

[Amar]

gee, sorry i wasnt being PC enough

None outside the general populace of those that do contribute through various forms of media on a regular basis under the symbolizer of "builder", "dm", etc. have been donating content outside of actually taking on obligations for the process of server building, thereby leaving a lack of desireable quantities of content flow into the servers.

fixed.

EDIT: Added desirable quantities.

[danielmn]

[Mayhem]

gee, sorry i wasnt being PC enough

None outside the general populace of those that do contribute through various forms of media on a regular basis under the symbolizer of "builder", "dm", etc. have been donating content outside of actually taking on obligations for the process of server building, thereby leaving a lack of desireable quantities of content flow into the servers.

fixed.

EDIT: Added desirable quantities.

So, nobody is building stuff apart from builders? That's a stunning revalation.

[Electryc]

Can you catagorize your posts being negative in these forums? Or positive?
People tend to remember the bad things others do instead of the good things they bring to a project. Human nature I'm victim to one in a while. Do you feel like you can get along with the other adminstrators and community with positive attidue? I think LA, is the lead cheerleader for ALFA.