AC, I was rude to you in my posts and I apologize for that. I was tired or rushed when I posted that last couple of things, and I would have done better to have waited until later to have written the posts. For being rude in the way that I said things, I apologize.
With all due respect, it doesn't change the underlying truth behind my posts (if you ignore the rudeness).
When you broke, if I remember right Panzer was in his 230s and you were in your 240s. The last time I heard your levels at the same time he was 248 and you were 257. So, without a concerted, organized, XP-Weekend-to-Catch-Panzer-Up campaign, the handful of vassals who were hunting along with Panzer's hunting were maintaing, or maybe even closing a little, the xp gap between the two of you.
With nine levels, at the last time I knew, between the two of you, the xp gap is probably what? 12 billion or so? maybe 15 billion? With eight vassals or so hunting plus Panzer, and with multiple copies of Path of the Blind, nine or ten levels could have gone really fast, IF you would have just paused for a bit and indicated a willingness to help fix the swearing problem. The fact that you kept saying that Panzer couldn't catch up and that you kept hunting as hard as you did and posting those big numbers only served to discourage anyone from trying to make that effort to catch him to you. Still, the gap kept from getting any wider, except for maybe the last week or so. I haven't checked lately to see what anyone's levels are.
Here's what I'm trying to say. Panzer currently has a handful of high level active vassals. We could have raised that number by a few more easily if we had advertised that a special effort was being made.
Say there were eight vassals. Say they were hunting in the different PotB fellows for an average of 200 million an hour and that Panzer was also hunting with them. A passup of 60% is really easy to get from vassals so use that as a baseline.
200 mill x 60% = 120 mil an hour
120 mil an hour passup x 8 vassals = 960 mil an hour
960 mil an hour from vassals + Panzer's 200 from hunting = 1.16 Bil/hr
We've never bothered to try to organize a massive pyramid chain scheme like that before because they don't work in the long run, but the person on top surely gets insane amounts of xp in a short time. It's been proven before in other clans.
The bottom line is that your break WAS very fixable but you refused to even consider fixing it. The whole situation frustrated me no end and I let it get the better of me. I apologize to you again for being rude in my posts. I should have tried harder to say what I wanted to say without being rude in the process.
As far as the rest of your post. Jamrahj is a good man, and he's a friend. We talk on the phone occasionally. He still has a bunch of characters sworn to me. Jamrahj didn't have to leave.
He was pushing, helping Lyneaone to reach 126, and when she and some other left to start their own clan he left Jam with her as part of that effort (I think, he has many characters I can't remember which ones are on which accounts right now and don't have the time to log in and check. Either way, the characters are all the same person behind the keyboard, and we talk anytime both of us are ingame together anyway, so it doesn't matter which clan which particular character is logged into.)
I never said I'm an asset to this clan, only that I'm upset over the way this break situation has played out. My real life situation is such that I have been pretty much out of the game except for a few minutes here and there and then some early AM play time nearly every morning. The days of my playing for hours every night stopped a couple of years ago. I miss it, but that's the way life is sometimes. I can access the boards at work, but can't log into the game because of the firewall so I post when I can, and I play when I can.
You may be right about my attitude needing to be adjusted. I'll think about, and if I'm turning into a grumpy old man I'll step away from the game.
If it had ever been about me I would never have taken on the role as chain manager in the first place, and I would have just been hunting for these past few years instead.
