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| 19 Aug 2013 06:39 PM |
Cobras. I'm not going to make this a goodbye post, because I'm still going to be around a while longer.
Most of you have heard rumours that I will be leaving in about 3 months.
Those rumours are false.
In reality the figure would be closer to two weeks - or less.
A while ago, when I was about 13. I looked up to jlcompton89, still playing ROBLOX at the age of 17 and laughed. "Hahahahaha, he must have no life! He should be working now pwahaaaaaaa!!"
Four years later here I am.
Do I regret it?
No.
But that doesn't mean I can carry on any further.
I recently messed up some big exams, meaning I will take them next year along with the even harder exams next year - I'm going to try and cram 2 years into one.
Running a superclan dominates your life. Not just the ROBLOX aspect, but everything behind the scenes. I open my XF and 8 boxes pop up at me. I open skype to find 200 unread messages - having been gone an hour. I enter teamspeak to barraged with "John, John, John" accompanied with pokes... On ROBLOX you need to deal with constant hate, constant problems, constant work.
And have no doubt. Running a superclan is not usually fun. It is work.
But work pays off. John's Cobras is amazing - the grouping of all you people whom I love dearly. Each and every one of you. From the squeakiest of squeakers to the shaggiest shaggy to the angriest Scottish rager to the spies of Vaktovia to the ones who even hold my group from me - for a few hours. It's silly but I love you all.
I've had an experience uncomparable to those of most teenagers, it's been worth it. But it's time to move on - for now.
The only valid excuse for me to stay, spending my life on a game made out of lego is if we could find a way to run JC as a business somehow. We have thousands of kids from mostly rich backgrounds in Europe and the US. If anyone thinks up a way that we could monetize JC - on the side of being a war clan (and no I wont sell ranks or R$). Then please let me know ASAP. But I doubt this is possible.
There are multiple reasons why it's my time to move on.
The future of the clan, is up to the clan. You guys will decide the system whereby the clan will be run in the future. I shall then decide the people who run this system.
To really develop a system, we first need to decide on how that system will be run first of all. I'm going to give you a few options and you need to either choose one of them in your reply or add your own variation or a new idea completely. Once we have a main system, we can work on it afterwards and refine it.
SYSTEM 1 The most risky system, but if we get lucky and get a good person, maybe the best. I completely hand over the group and all my funds to a new owner. They will run JC however they wish. The strong points of this system is the owner has freedom to run the clan how they want, if they wanted to launch another revolution they could. The weak points are that if we choose the wrong person, the group could be shutdown, sold, changed completely, and that if everything goes downhill and JC joins the ranks of dead superclans after a leadership change - like VS/RAT/UCR/TRA etc... (which have all either died out completely or suffered huge activity losses after a leadership change) --- if this happens then there is nothing I can do to stop it. The new owner could refuse to return the group or pass on leadership and what we once had could all be wrecked by the selfishness of one person.
SYSTEM 2 A safe system. I would be the Group holder, the Emperor would be the rank under me with all privileges. Each Friday I could meet with them for half an hour or so and offer advice, update the group description, add any videos to our youtube channel etc. However apart from this meeting I would be completely inactive. The strong points of this system is it is safe, the group will never be shutdown and if the clan starts to die, the Emperor could be replaced. The weak points are that the Emperor would not have complete freedom to do everything they want, and that I would be seen as someone similar to SONIC - a greedy person who wishes to retain the group for fame, but who actually does nothing within the group at all.
SYSTEM 3 Again a safe system. I would be the Group Holder and below me we would have a council, elected by the people every month in a forum vote. We could have say 5 council members and then the person who recieves the most votes could be the Head of the Council and organize the vote for the next month and be the decider if the council can not decide on something. We would need to work on this a lot before it is finalized. It's just the main system we're deciding on now. The strong points of this are that it is completely safe, no one person has all the power and so the group should keep going strongly. The weak points are that because council members may disagree, the group may not have a united direction. If council members do not get along, I will not be there to resolve disputes.
Above are just the MAIN systems that will be followed, once you choose this the system chosen will be refined and many options of how that main system can be run will be further voted on.
Thank you everyone for understanding, ignore the haters. |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:41 PM |
| "i'm not going to make this a long goodbye post" |
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Verodoxys
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:42 PM |
| The new leader would be part of your current high ranks right? |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:42 PM |
[Mojkrt the Legendary of Sleet Clan] |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:44 PM |
| You named your-self after PsPJohn1, what'd you expect. |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:45 PM |
| Wow, I was not expectig this any time soon. |
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own1000
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:45 PM |
| Does this mean u will quit o d ing |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:45 PM |
@owen
No, me and John are still deeply in love. |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:46 PM |
| idk if that's psps' s alt or |
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| 19 Aug 2013 06:47 PM |
System 1
"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it." |
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