A friend of mine asked me if "is it just me or do the XS's and XD's have the hardest job in XG" and this is what i replied... this may be a new perspective for some people, but i believe it's been said in other words many times before... anyway i thought it was a good read for anyone confused on some matters that this response may address...
"no it's not just you, but the XS's, XD's, and XC's do have the hardest jobs in Xiled Gaming. this is not by chance, but it is planned for multiple reasons. the first reason is that when we designed the structure of XG, we designed it so that when XG took off (Which it has) the council members would not have to handle the much of the actual clan disputes (which happens a lot, but the council still handles a lot), we have 100% faith in the people we have promoted to do the job for us... now we didn't set up XG this way so that we could be lazy and just stake ownership of something that other people work so hard on. we looked at this from a business perspective...
our generals and captains are lower management, their job is to micromanage individuals set up in the structure underneath of them, the XS's and XD's (and now XC's which aren't an original rank) are the middle management that run entire branches and have a lot of responsibilities... we expect a lot out of these individuals...
we as the council are the upper management, we planned on not dealing with current problems between individuals (we have faith that our middle management can do that) but we wanted our jobs to be to further the company... expand the community to make it better for everyone that is a part of it... the upper management is also the only people with serious financial responsibilities (buying all of the websites, servers, and any softwares we use... not to mention future costs which may be in an area that we haven't discovered yet) anyway, in doing this we discovered that we have great ideas, but we will never be able to seperate ourselves from individuals, because 1. we like gaming with cool new members within our community, and 2. we have to respect and understand all of our members in order to make good decisions for the good of all of our members...
anyway we still give a lot of responsibilities to the XS's, XD's, and XC's so that we can further the community, but also we left room for us to promote more council members than we originally had (ex. viper & blknight) in order for us to KNOW that an individual has the communities best interest in mind, and to make sure they can handle some of the stresses that may face us (for example, if a bunch of XS's and XD's quit, guess who takes back all of those clans... we built XG once, we can do it again although we love the guys we have and hope it never comes to that cus we have a lot of really cool members) you have to go through a lot for us to know that you are the man for such a permanent position such as council...
anyway i hope that explains it... some of these guys who say they aren't having fun anymore as a XS or XD are doing it to themself. when you get promoted you don't have to accept. all of the council has either been an XS or XD or something equivilent (in a previous clan) before. we had a blast building up our clans... if you're not having fun there's nothing wrong with you... you're just either not fit for that job or you r making it more difficult than you have to... we enjoyed each of our ranks and moving up, and now we love our current duties... we often say in XG that "Xiled Gaming is what you make it" it can be a place where you stay a Sgt. and just game, or if you get more satisfaction out of having responsibilities and fulfilling your duties than accepting promotions and working hard to get promoted is what you should be doing. just relax, game, interact with other cool members, and enjoy the community for what it's worth..."
"no it's not just you, but the XS's, XD's, and XC's do have the hardest jobs in Xiled Gaming. this is not by chance, but it is planned for multiple reasons. the first reason is that when we designed the structure of XG, we designed it so that when XG took off (Which it has) the council members would not have to handle the much of the actual clan disputes (which happens a lot, but the council still handles a lot), we have 100% faith in the people we have promoted to do the job for us... now we didn't set up XG this way so that we could be lazy and just stake ownership of something that other people work so hard on. we looked at this from a business perspective...
our generals and captains are lower management, their job is to micromanage individuals set up in the structure underneath of them, the XS's and XD's (and now XC's which aren't an original rank) are the middle management that run entire branches and have a lot of responsibilities... we expect a lot out of these individuals...
we as the council are the upper management, we planned on not dealing with current problems between individuals (we have faith that our middle management can do that) but we wanted our jobs to be to further the company... expand the community to make it better for everyone that is a part of it... the upper management is also the only people with serious financial responsibilities (buying all of the websites, servers, and any softwares we use... not to mention future costs which may be in an area that we haven't discovered yet) anyway, in doing this we discovered that we have great ideas, but we will never be able to seperate ourselves from individuals, because 1. we like gaming with cool new members within our community, and 2. we have to respect and understand all of our members in order to make good decisions for the good of all of our members...
anyway we still give a lot of responsibilities to the XS's, XD's, and XC's so that we can further the community, but also we left room for us to promote more council members than we originally had (ex. viper & blknight) in order for us to KNOW that an individual has the communities best interest in mind, and to make sure they can handle some of the stresses that may face us (for example, if a bunch of XS's and XD's quit, guess who takes back all of those clans... we built XG once, we can do it again although we love the guys we have and hope it never comes to that cus we have a lot of really cool members) you have to go through a lot for us to know that you are the man for such a permanent position such as council...
anyway i hope that explains it... some of these guys who say they aren't having fun anymore as a XS or XD are doing it to themself. when you get promoted you don't have to accept. all of the council has either been an XS or XD or something equivilent (in a previous clan) before. we had a blast building up our clans... if you're not having fun there's nothing wrong with you... you're just either not fit for that job or you r making it more difficult than you have to... we enjoyed each of our ranks and moving up, and now we love our current duties... we often say in XG that "Xiled Gaming is what you make it" it can be a place where you stay a Sgt. and just game, or if you get more satisfaction out of having responsibilities and fulfilling your duties than accepting promotions and working hard to get promoted is what you should be doing. just relax, game, interact with other cool members, and enjoy the community for what it's worth..."