I think Classic also lost a sum of its players when Monthly was removed. Since that was usually announced on the main Graal News page it gathered some members from other servers and sometimes made them stick. I know it was only a few, but it still helped playercount.

Whoever has to fill in for what direction GC goes into, has a very big legacy to build off and follow in the footprints of, so to speak.

Night has been the face of GC for several years. He has the longest tenure of an administration position on Classic out of everyone that has ever been an admin. He has been offered multiple high level global jobs(Bell can approve of that), but he turned them all down, he wanted to be on Classic running GC. He devoted a lot into what it is today, always ejoyed it, besides up until recently. He was honest, and uncorrupted as they come. Never abused, and probably one of the best admins of all time.

Big shoes to fill.
That's a lot of pressure for Night's successor.

Good Luck Glad,
Just pretend you're Rodgers trying to replace Favre.

Nice.

Or could it be a deadly hard task like the lions trying to replace Barry.

Laura ruined Classic

*buckles his chinstrap*

Thor, please draft some O-lineman!!!

If either of those two get control of GC, please, PLEASE turn it into an automated system. Neither of those two deserve the position. Rehire Terazel, he was the best admin behind Nighty. (sup Ter!)

Glad has been helping Thor with the redevelopment of the GC system, of course he's only been giving ideas, but still. I also think it's lame that your assuming he is going to be bad. From past expieriences with Glad, he's a great people person and I think he'd fit great for the job.

Ya but he has some gigantic shoes to fill like a few before have said.

True, but I think people should be more lenient on their judging. Night wasn't as good when he started, as he was when he was during the peak of his job. I think people should give Glad the time to adjust aswell. It's only natural for people to practice. Night was as good as he was mainly because of the length of his "reign".

No, night was a great admin because he had a great attitude, great leadership/teamwork, and good control over GC (while he was active of course).

I think Gladius would do a fine job at GC admin. He just needs time to adjust.

You pretty much repeated what I said, but then said "no". Night needed time to adjust as well. Which was what I was saying throughout the post. Just not as simple.

Gladius doesn't have that leadership quality, and being able to lead is a natural trait not something learned over time. Storm did not have this trait, and looking at his extremely long tenure you can clearly he did not develop the skill.

Oops. I misunderstood your post. I thought you said he was only good because he was there for so long.

I've been on the GC team with Gladius before. He can be pessimistic at times and give you really bland responses("shocking"), but he has good teamwork, creativity/uniqueness, and a good idea what GC needs.

Leadership qualities can be attained. It's called practice, and that comes with time.

If anyone should take the spot, it should be Clel. But with his activity, I just don't see him being GC Admin.

Being an admin doesn't necessarily require uber-leadership skills. It does require the ability to get the team focused on an obtainable goal, good communication, as well as planning/listen to what people want.

I've never really had to be a leader, so those qualities are largely untested so far. I don't plan to be a whip-cracking "do this or you're fired" kind of boss. I plan to hire people who want to do the job in a creative fashion, then let them do what they're good at doing. If they step beyond their boundaries, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. Otherwise, I'm going to let people do what they do and hopefully help Classic turn into a fun atmosphere again.

I'm definately going to need a good GC Dev team though, as my knowledge of scripts/levels/ganis/etc is fairly limited.


PS: leadership can be learned, otherwise NFL scouts/magazines wouldn't always state that "this QB needs to become a better leader in the locker-room for the upcoming season in order to take the next step." Tony Romo managed to do it, and thus the Cowboys finally won a playoff game after a decade-long drought. Hopefully I can follow in his footsteps to some degree.

I think it should be mentioned that with the current situation of the server you can't expect immediate results from a new non-developmental Admin, in the case of GC there is a bit of planning to do, and it's still possible that we could have Team Events running purely for fun on an organised basis which wouldn't require as large a GC Team as has been the case a few times previously.

Having said that Gladius was the obvious choice for me, he has been reasonably active for a period of a few years inwhich he had both hosted and participated within events, he has often contributed ideas for improvements/new events/new tools, he had organised the CTF League and even created a website full of information and advise on playing CTF, when an issue arrises he tends to look at the matter from both points of view and be reasonable and mature with his opinions and is generally a good person to work with (which I believe is a key attribute of Leadership).

if he would have stuck around and stayed strong, i think sting darkmane, had he continued his tenure with Night as Asst. GC Admin to now, would be the optimal replacement for night had sting developed a talent in a development field along the lines.