1. You're a piece of shit.
2. You'd get stomped if the FCC was still active.
3. You're terrible at the game.
4. You were our vassal because you weren't good enough to join the FCC.
5. Kesh was never the leader, he organized and coordinated the battles/gear/trade runs. Most of the diplomacy was handled by a majority of the members because we put value on every member's input. If there was a Leader it would be Kalam.
6. Someone has to be the bad guy and we did it well. We gave people content and a reason to care to log into this shitty web-based game.
7. You're jealous because you'll never be as good a strategist as Kesh is.
8. Kesh is love.
I'll not disagree heavily with any of those except for 5.
You may be absolutely right in strat 1,2 or 3, which I did not participate in. Aiight, I was in strat 3 as a FIDLGB eel farmer, but that shit doesn't count.
But in strat 4, Kesh was absolutely the leader of FCC. Of course when he posted some absurdly silly shit on the forums (instead of the normal silly shit), people would try to rein him in a bit for diplomacy's sake. But the only person to maintain constant contact and coordination between our factions when we were FCC puutie vassals was Kesh. Bale would come in if Kesh wasn't available (lol), and Murdertron did actually take quite an active role in diplomacy with us. Not sure about other factions. He may have just thought we were cute, you know? That's why I hung out in MB TS sometimes, anyway.
I could not comment on your internal affairs; Kesh could have held council and not EVER acted without a complete consensus of all FCC members for all I know. I wasn't privy to that shit. But for external affairs, Kesh was the guy in charge. If you asked anyone in NA1 who to talk to if they wanted to get a hold of FCC, you know who they'd say.
Diplomacy was mostly reached by complete consensus in my faction. I'd ask every active strat member what they thought about any big decision. Either we had the same sort of ideas, or they deferred completely to my nerd dictatorship. Guess which one it was, given your knowledge of Frisian protocol.
Even so, if you'd ask anyone in NA1 at the time who to talk to if they want to get ahold of the Frisian faction, and they'd say me. Probably, anyway.
Just because decisions on stances, attitudes, and policy towards other factions were reached on consensus within the faction doesn't preclude Kesh from leadership.
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Sorry, I've got a jonesin' for Strat 4 so instead of experiencing a brief period of "wow, FCC is getting FUCKED and we have the best mercs HOLY SHIT THIS IS GREAT TAKE THE DICK KESH" I could experience that the entire time.
Instead it was about 5-8 battles like that and 12 or so of "OH GOD ITS FCC IN A CASTLE WITH ALLERS AND MILEY BECAUSE WE TALKED TOO MUCH SHIT AND THEY HAVE BETTER GEAR AND FUCK SAKE I HAVE TO DO ALL THIS GODDAMN SIEGE SHIT BY MYSELF, BANZAI, AND WHATEVER MONKEYS I CAN SCROUNGE UP FUCK"
Shame about that.
