Maybe I'm just a mean-spirited heartless person, but I really can't get how anybody could be upset or resentful or guilty about this. It's a game, and everybody knew this was coming for MONTHS.

I don't really care if this was done or not, but I think this particular problem is only an issue in Glom, don't think there's really much of decision to make in any other org.

We have five people that are active, deserving, and wanting of 2 or possibly 3 spots. The possible third is particularly wrenching. We have to keep debating who should lose it when we don't even know for sure if we'll have to sacrifice that third person. People have resigned themselves to losing it and then there's this glimmer of hope that may turn out to be false. All of the candidates are willing to step aside, for the good of the org, for the benefit of someone they think deserves it more, for the benefit of someone they think will use it better. The decision isn't getting any easier. We've known it's coming, yet all along it has been a matter of waiting to see what the exact numbers will be before making the final call. And we still don't know.

We already resent the admin (I'm sorry, it can't be helped.) for this change, but we further resent the fact that they are putting the ugliest consequence of this change on our shoulders. You have put us in a situation where we are forced to resent each other for the choices that need to be made and inevitably leave bad feelings. This is a social game, and so not uncommonly, we have become real friends - who are now being forced to decide which of our friends is least deserving of something we all want. It's crap, any way you slice it. I don't blame Xenthos for trying to find any way out of this, because the situation is awful. While we are resigned to the fact that this is for the best for the game over all, a modicum of sympathy for the situation we're in isn't unreasonable. I know a lot of people reading this scoff, feeling that we are fortunate enough to be having this problem, of too many deserving people... yet the sentiment Xenthos expresses is that he'd rather have no one than have to choose who gets to keep it, and he's not alone in feeling that way.

FACT: No one knew. It was a change that was announced all of a sudden several months prior.

FACT: No one knew. It was a change that was announced all of a sudden several months prior.

FACT: No one knew. It was a change that was announced all of a sudden several months prior.

FACT: No one knew. It was a change that was announced all of a sudden several months prior.

The admins have only been saying it the last two months that it was coming 'Soon' when various suggestions for other stuff was being brought up :S It's not completely unexpected, especially since they went and refunded Ascendancy and all that.

Up until the point it was announced, it was only a possibility.

Right, because Glom has active ascendants, ours didn't run away to play in the new orgs. I bet Serenwilde would be in a similar situation had Alianna, Gregori, Sarrasri, Nejii still remained active and playing those characters.

It's easy enough to say stop being selfish, it's for the good of your org (the majority of our ascendants have already offered in one way or another) but it doesn't make it any less of a shitty move to do.

Up until the point it was announced, it was only a possibility.

Up until the point it was announced, it was only a possibility.

Thank you for proving my point.

And Of COURSE you guys are going to take a heavier loss than everyone else, you have more of them, which is why we are here in the first place.

Yes, it sucks to maybe have to throw someone under the bus when you Descend them, but let me ask you a question, how many of your VAs would throw a hissy fit over the IG CT when you said it was them that was on the chopping block, seeing as how Glomdoring is supposed to be:

"F'AI GLOMDORING."

"NOTHING MATTERS BUT GLOMDORING/TALAN."

If they do, odds are you shouldn't of spent the power on them in the first place just so you could have someone else to do a destruction sphere, or have another person to fearaura, or have another Aegis shield.

That's like the physics thing where until you open your hand that tiny cat is both alive and dead? That works great theoretically, but in actual, concrete things, it's silly. You have to plan with the idea that a possibility is going to become a reality sometimes. Buy a box. If the cat's dead, use it to bury him. If it's alive, toss some litter in it and let the cat use it to poo in. Either way, you have a plan in place.