User blog:Flamefang/CTF Revamp

If you care about this wiki, and your place in it, please read this blog in its entirety. Do not skim, do not skip, just read.

As I'm sure we all know, Capture the Flag was shut down approximately a week ago due to a variety of issues that emerged during the first few turns of testing. As I'm also sure we all know, the problems we faced stemmed from a single source: an overall lack of interest. Many interpreted my reaction as rage, while others saw it for what it truly was; dissapointment. My job on this wiki, as a Bureaucrat in charge of the Development/Design and Activities Departments, means absolutely nothing if people do not care. I can write an infinite number of blogs, I can churn out as many activities and as many games of the highest quality, but they cannot change human nature. This aspect of human nature has made itself obvious over the past few months, and manifested itself most clearly in the aura of confusion surrounding the launch of CTF. It is impatience. In our modern world, with vast quantities of information at our fingertips, we have come to expect instant results. Capture the Flag, in itself, does not provide instant results. Therefore, I cannot give it to you.

Instead, I propose to bring you something else far simpler. Something quicker, more exciting, and interesting to those of us who are apparently incapable of reading a page of text in its entirety without our brains blowing a fuse. For now, I shall be putting Capture the Flag aside. In its place, I will bring forward Skirmishes. No more moving, no more flag, no more team structure or strategy. Just battles, competition, and group play. I will be posting a team signup here shortly. You will find the instructions for doing so at the top of the page, please read them thoroughly. I will also be writing up a page of rules describing, in detail, how skirmishes will operate here. Perhaps, once this activity is underway, we will be able to return to the old CTF with renewed vigor and purpose. But for now, please devote your attention to its replacement. It's time to end the drama, the controversy, and move forward to bring this wiki something new. Something free of the trappings that plagued its predecessor. I thank you for your time, and your consideration. For, without these, this wiki would be nothing.

Flamefang 22:49, November 30, 2011 (UTC)