Wings Over Atreia: Death of a legion
It happens. You might be trucking along, grinding your own business when BAM! Suddenly your /l chat is gone. What the... ? Yup, your legion disbanded. Or maybe the leader disappears offline for an extended time period. Could be that the leadership drives members away by its actions (or inaction). So the death knell tolls.
With reasons ranging from real life (work, family) to game mechanics (boredom, frustration) to the most frequent culprit, drama (cyber-relationships gone bad, over-inflated egos, power-hungry control freaks), legions fold. it is a fact of gambling -- though not always a negative one. But in Aion, where reputation, rating, and Abyss contribution are significant factors to players, the death of a legion can have more consequences than missing a chat channel. in the event you are lucky and have forewarning, you can plan ahead to minimize the impact on your gambling experience.
If your legion has folded -- or is about to -- what're your options? Let's drop our wings and dive past the cut to explore some accessible paths to take when this fact of e-life happens.
Groups (guilds, kinships, corporations, etc.) in other games may be able to withstand a lack of leadership over an extended time without much difficulty; however, if active leadership is missing in Aion, a nice portion of the game is lost for legion members. Only the Brigade General can assign permissions for the legion, and only Centurions can be granted permissions to invite members, kick members, access the legion warehouse, or activate any captured artifacts in the course of warfare in the Abyss. Only the legion leader collects the kinah and medals from owning a fortress. it is not a matter of losing heart or direction without a leader; players lose out on earned rewards. In other words, the health of a legion can be an integral part of your gambling experience, and the death of a legion has an impact.
Legions die in many ways, from slow nasty deaths in which the life is sucked right out of them to the sudden and unexpected. Whether you listen to piercing shrieks in the course of the throes of death or it slips quietly in the night is contingent on the individual circumstances leading up to it. sometimes, the legions are basically laid to rest. Other times, they are still there in name, but the spirit is already dead as members flock to better environments. Whether their legion is dead or the walking dead, players are faced with the "What next?" query.
Sometimes, a leader declares his purpose to step down and chooses to pass the reins on to another. This can either be a mournful thing (saying goodbye to a nice friend) or a glad thing (when it means the drama will end). For the lucky, the remaining group gets to decide itself what will be best for the legion moving forward. For the unfortunate, the leader gives command over to whomever they desires out of spite. Either way, this group has the most options accessible.
Passing the buck
Daevas of Our Lives, legion episode
Although it always comes down to each individual choosing for himself what is best, this time of transition can be used by the group as a whole to refocus on where to go. without drama (we will cover that later), the most obvious choice is to continue together in the current legion, thereby retaining Abyss contribution and rank. in the event you have cultivated a reputation -- be it for PvP, RP, or what have you -- maintaining the legion and legion name may be important to you. On the flip side, if there has been drama, or in the event you have a reputation you do not require to continue with, you have the chance to rename and start fresh, without sacrificing all of the work people put in to the legion. True, people can look up your legion name two times it's changed, but for the most part, word associations will fade -- as long as your legion turns over a brand spanking new leaf and doesn't basically rehash whatever activities gave it that reputation to start with!
So, possibly the legion surroundings is fraught with drama and the loss of the leader is a welcome addition to your gambling. But what if the leader refuses to let go of what "he" built and chooses in lieu to retain leadership when they quits the game? Worse, what if leadership ping-pongs in activity, taunting members with "what might be"? Both of these scenarios prevent others from helping the legion to grow and move forward. If the leader chooses to go MIA from game but refuses to relinquish legion control, the best choices to consider are moving as a group to another legion, leaving and forming your own legion, or scattering to the winds.
If your group truly enjoys gambling together, then obviously the first two choices are ideal. regrettably, sometimes finding another legion that both fits your group's ideals and playstyle and can also fit all of your group is difficult. in the event you can move to an established legion, you have the benefit of a bigger pool of people to play with as well as feasible Abyss rating.
The last choice -- scattering -- will without a doubt be preferred by some individuals or by a group that was not cohesive to start with. It might even be utilized if no legion can be found to fit your current group and no one is willing and able to step up and take on leadership (trust me, any nice leader knows that there is no glory in walking a legion -- work, more work, and less time to ever enjoy the game). In this scenario, each individual moves to whatever legion best fits each personally.
However, legions are usually formed around similar ideals; there is a reason your group was together in lieu of already in another group, after all. If no one can suit your needs gameplay- or size-wise, you may opt basically to reform as a brand spanking new legion. This will let you keep your ideals in place as well as make certain that there is room for everyone. The downside is that you lose all of your legion's Abyss contribution points and rank. You also lose your legion's reputation; however, if drama was involved, that could be a nice thing. And if your individual members have nice reputations, then those will carry over to the new legion.
High and dry
in the event you happened to have the misfortune of logging in and thinking your legion was unusually calm, only to discover there was no legion (as a group of my friends discovered one fateful day), you have the fewest options; you are much limited to finding a brand spanking new legion -- as a group or individuals -- or making your own. Again, in the event you have a group of people desirous to stay together, there is the task of finding a home to accommodate you. Worse, you no longer have a communal chat in which to collaborate with all of your comrades. With any luck, you still have use of a Ventrilo or similar program for your discussion, because juggling whispers with 40+ folks all trying to share ideas and input would drive the sanest person batty. Not to mention, much information would get lost.
Whether your legion spontaneously combusted or its death was celebrated and mourned, at some point you must pick up and move forward. OK, admittedly there are some folks who choose to stay in a legion of less than four or go legion-less entirely, but this is the minority; gamers tend to be social (why else go in to a massively multiplayer game?). Moving on may not always be simple or even pleasant to start with; for me, even in the worst scenario it was still painful to watch a legion take its last breath. Even amid the bad, there were bonds forged with others, friendships created and strengthened, and memories born. However, like I would with any modify in life, I will choose to make use of the experience to grow. That, and be grateful it's finally over. May it rest in peace.
The afterlife
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