On Kha's...

[ForeverGinger 148]

Sa'vi Lord-Of-The-Craftians

 

Before I start what I hope doesn't become a giant mess, I want to say that I was warned against posting this. I was told that I would be ignored. I was warned that I would be hated for this.

 

I'll start off plain and simple. The Kha', both IC and OOCly, have been severely neglected. I admit, we are a minority on the server, but we are still a playerbase, however small. We deserve at least the tiniest amount of respect. GMs, frankly your behavior towards us has been borderline appalling. You refuse to create a new plot for us, yet you do nothing in helping us find a new home. Select individuals use privileges to cling to inactive plots, denying us a chance to begin anew. You refuse to ever acknowledge us when we bring the issue up. And yet, despite all this, we are expected to grow our playerbase.

 

The Kha' need a home. Not a house, a home. We are currently living in a house. A house is temporary. A house is a roof without walls. A house will not last. A home is something to take pride in. A home is more than whatever tiny ghetto we occupy, clinging to life alongside larger groups. A home is something that is ours. A home is something that brings players to us. A home will help us grow.

 

Now, our once proud civilization has been shattered. We have fantastic, well written lore, an engaging religion and magic system, and one of the friendliest group of players I have met. We could grow, if only we were given the chance, but we are not being given that chance.

 

What I am trying to do with this post is bring attention to our issue. If something is not done soon, the Kha' will wither and die. Heck, we're already halfway there. GMs, we are players, are we not? We deserve respect, do we not? We need someone to take charge and do something for us.

 

Yours Truly,

ForeverGinger

[Endovelicus 614]

Can't you just claim a plot for your two player race like 99% of people do?

[ForeverGinger 148]

If you find a plot for us to occupy, we'd gladly take it. The point here is we have tried to find a home, but have been denied over and over and over again. 

[DrakeHaze. 2524]

I'll sell you guys my roadplot

[Endovelicus 614]

If you find a plot for us to occupy, we'd gladly take it. The point here is we have tried to find a home, but have been denied over and over and over again. 

You can't get denied over occupying a plot. You find one and you take it, like everyone else. Or you buy one.

[Rethai 163]

   Unlike the popular vote, The Kha as a whole have grown on me and I have become attached with their culture and way of life. I do agree with your views on the appalling neglect that you and the other players face and deal with continuously. Try asking Jacque (Wink wink).. He may just let you have a spot on Praedium or even get a surrounding plot for you. The southern plots open up frequently.. It would be easy for you to occupy one. Not to throw Adam_barnett under the bus, but I offered him TWO different plots, both which were rejected for being "To small". One was a 2 player plot and I agree was small, but the other (I believe n_forestcanyon2) was quite massive.. especially for a small and decreasing player base. Your player base will continue to decrease if you don't get a plot for a home as you said. Best of luck and wishes to you and the rest of our furry friends. Hopefully the Kha can withhold the rest of this map and 5.0

 

Jacque Praedium

Rethai~

[Jonificus 2762]

So uh.. Why did your old place just disappear? And you lot should just find a plot, yeah. I mean, look at Salvus and the Caliphate, they just found a plot and made it into popular nations, I bet the Kha could do the same (if you actually are active, and have decent numbers)

[Wretched 2075]

When the Kha' can establish themselves as a significant presence on the server they'll be given their own racial plot. As it stands, the Kha' are small, smaller than other RP groups that do just go out and find a nexus plot. Simply because the Kha' have had a racial home before, does not mean they should have one now. I played a Kha' for literally years, I know personally that they have been on a constant state of decline, so much so that they no longer have the numbers to sustain a racial plot.

 

I can only recommend bolstering your numbers and making something of yourselves - become noticed to be a significant factor to roleplay, like the other main races, then you'll likely receive your own racial plot.

[ForeverGinger 148]

I can only repeat, how do you expect us to grow if we have nothing to work with?

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

Well I'm against OOC-based standards that every race OOCly needs to have a default racial plot in ALL cases. Let alone a race as small as the Kha.

 

My best advice is to go about dealing with this problem ICly instead of taking it to the forums.

[ForeverGinger 148]

We've tried dealing with this ICly, only to be shot down. Bringing it to the forums is the next step we must take.

[Jonificus 2762]

I can only repeat, how do you expect us to grow if we have nothing to work with?

You DO have something to work with. It's called Nexus Regions. You're too small of a race to get a racial plot. There are guilds bigger than the entirety of your race.

[Wretched 2075]

I can only repeat, how do you expect us to grow if we have nothing to work with?

 

Seems to me you are being given opportunities to work with, only to turn them down because you want a racial plot. Some of the most significant RP groups are the ones that built themselves up from nothing. Don't be illusioned that you are 'owed' something from the staff, if we were to give you your own custom plot then out of fairness we should be giving every minority group their own plot. If you can't manage to make something of the Kharajyr, the nature of the beast is that it is your problem, not ours.

 

The Kharajyr made a damn fine job of bullying the Kha' GMs out of the Kharajyr. Would this situation be different if the Kha' had some GM representation still? Perhaps. Alas, the bed has been made, time to lie in it.

[cj_scout 305]

As current leader of the Kharajyr, and a long time player, this is something that worries me and I'm trying to fix. First thing's first Benbo, while you may look at it as certain Kha' "bullied" the Kha' GMs away, there was two sides to that whole problem. Yeah, people were rude to the GMs there, I won't name names. But there was also a mass exodus of many of our players (including the Tla') due to one of those GMs in particular, in case you forgot. I never wanted everyone to leave, nor for the Va'Kha situation to get heated. It was poorly executed, poorly communicated, but I stand by my opinion that certain GMs only made things worse for the Kha'. Not all of you of course, Benbo, Geo, and most of the GMs we've had held us together for ages. I'm not trying to blow any of you who helped off, I'm simply saying problems were caused that were the fault of both sides. In terms of neglect, I will be honest. We can not manage a racial plot right now. That's what I have told you Kha' who are still with us so, so, so many times. Yes, I want us to find a jungle, return to doing old ways or find something new. But with our numbers, it is very hard to do anything, and that's why I placed us in Al-Dirakh. It's a place to start and I realize not much has been done, I intend to discuss that as well. Yes it's a desert, unlikely for our people. Yes we're still having problems. But right now all we can do is take small steps at a time, not jump straight to massive plans that fall through, like many of our glorious "plans" before. This warrants further discussion, but I will say that it is dumb, arguably even arrogant, to say that as a race of our size right now deserves a racial plot which peoples 10 times our size don't have. I'm not trying to sound harsh, but we have to be realistic and work with what we have. If someone has a problem with the Kha', a suggestion, I don't care what as long as it's constructive, pm it to me. Okay. /endrant

[WuHanXianShi14 0]

We've tried dealing with this ICly, only to be shot down. Bringing it to the forums is the next step we must take.

I'm sorry, but no group deserves to be granted anything OOCly. If you've been shot down ICly, you've been shot down IC'ly. It's called progression of RP and you need to roll with the results of that RP.

 

Besides, the Kha have a district for themselves in the Caliphate.