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Due to incompetent leadership, of which I am partly to blame, and unheeded warnings, the Aoi recently lost their official status. All factions were told to use a tag from now on. While it was debated in the Aoi High Command chat often, a consequences on weather of not we should tag all ships was never made. Due to this failing of our own, the admins saw fit, and rightfully so, to revoke our status due to us having a mere 12 hours of activity.

The admins had every right to revoke our status. We were all informed of the new rules and guidlines when it came to faction activity. Through a nauseating display of gross negligence, the issue wasnt addressed properly by our high command.

While this may be so, I would like to share with you the facts of our true activity:

Quote:Ginko 25/06/2011 18:14:10 00:02:23
Meiyo 25/06/2011 18:12:21 00:01:23
Ramirez 25/06/2011 18:25:21 00:13:05
Kimidori 26/06/2011 23:37:12 00:22:03
Kuro 25/06/2011 18:08:13 00:01:26
Midori 25/06/2011 18:27:34 00:16:25
Aaliyah`Miyuki 23/06/2011 13:41:03 00:00:33
Aaliyah'Miyuki 23/06/2011 13:45:28 00:02:45
Aaliyah-Miyuki 23/06/2011 13:42:22 00:21:53
Aaliyah.Miyuki 23/06/2011 13:41:20 00:34:00
Yasahii 24/06/2011 21:51:45 00:14:19
Fujiwara.Michiyo. 24/06/2011 14:21:10 00:09:45
Chikarashi 25/06/2011 18:29:12 00:44:16
Okami 29/06/2011 04:16:15 00:03:40
Yasashii 01/06/2011 22:28:00 01:05:33
Amatsu-Mikaboshi 09/06/2011 22:55:25 00:42:02
Pythia 24/06/2011 15:42:47 04:52:21
Kodokukan 28/06/2011 13:59:04 03:26:28
Kiri 24/06/2011 22:36:34 05:59:57
Shimekiri 23/06/2011 10:02:30 00:00:29
Sakura.Watanabe 18/06/2011 22:59:04 00:03:37
Suziki.Kawashima 27/06/2011 19:48:59 03:31:10
Sairentokira 13/06/2011 20:32:44 00:07:52
IKN-Kawa.no.Chi 27/06/2011 03:07:04 15:00:37
IKN-Munashii 29/06/2011 01:40:56 09:23:33

All ship info was obtained with the exception of IKN-Kawa.no.Chi, IKN-Munashii, and Pythia (my personal learner that was made not too long ago) from the Aoi Iseijin router. One which I can't edit.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?hl=en&a...=CMyij8QD#gid=0

Adding up the minutes active from untagged ships, the total comes to 2830 minutes. That is 47.1 hours.

Coupled with the 12 hours of activity from the faction tracker, it brings the total time played up to 59 hours.

http://discoverygc.com/server/activity_113th.html

It is my hope, that if admin team would consider, given the facts, giving the Aoi another chance. We made a mistake, a big one. I hope that, given a second chance, the mistakes that lead up to this happening can be rectified, leadership revamped, and new life breathed into our faction. I understand if you do not, it is only logical that you wouldnt, but laying the bare facts down in front of you, we can only wait for your judgment on the matter and hope that you can consider giving our faction a second chance it deserves.

-P.S. It should be noted that Akura is STILL NOT a member of Aoi high command, nor is he the faction leader of the Aoi.

Okay, we'll consider this and make a decision. I expect it'll take a little time to discuss. To uninvolved people, please don't post in this thread, there's enough information here and we will contact the AI if we have questions.

Hi guys,

I'm sorry but after consideration we have decided to not reverse this decision.

Alright.

Thanks for the attention you gave to this. We only have ourselves to blame after all.

The faction was disbanded because of the following:

' Wrote:Faction Statuses Revoked

113th (Aoi Iseijin)
June 29 2011 - (failed to generate sufficient activity)

Lobster just showed that the actual faction activity is in fact more then the minimum of 30 hours. If the inactivity was the reason for the disbanding, why wasn't this decision reversed based on Lobsters "proof"? I'm trying to understand the reasoning here, because I honestly don't.

There's a post about this somewhere but the key thing is that factions have to fly with a tag for the activity to count.

And that was a clear mistake on their sides, they chose the wrong tag obviously. However, it was also clear from the start that this faction also has a lot of untagged ships, that certainly are part of the faction. They can't be seen as indies, because they have the Wild ID. The difference with most other factions is, that this one can't exist without official status. Is such a bureaucratic rule really enough reason to disband a faction? Even after proof that the faction itself actually has enough activity if you include the untagged characters?

The faction made a mistake, sure. Thats why they were disbanded in the first place. But even after specific reconsideration while presented with evidence to back their activity up?

Sure, rules are rules. But rules are there for a purpose, and that purpose should't be DISBANDING factions because of a mistake with the tag.

And Kusari will be even more emptier ...

With no offense this is when bureaucracy wins over the fun from the game.

It's not bureaucracy, fly your chars.