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What have you done to help the guild's development?
In my time here at POTS, I cannot claim creation of many guild systems. What I can claim, however, is that I have played a part in fine-tuning nearly every existing system today.

What are your plans for the future of the guild?
My plans for the future include fine-tuning our most used systems, fixing various overpowered character combinations, and balancing all clans and bloodlines. I also plan to make clear and easy rules for what to do when an RPer is stuck due to another RPer on hiatus, so that our active RPers can do what they want to do with their RPCs .

What experience do you have that qualifies you for this position?
Aside from Luo, I have held the position of Vice Captain longer than anyone else in the guild. While I am not the greatest RPer in the world, my skills as a moderator are some of the highest in the guild. I have settled disputes ranging from simple misunderstanding of rules, to members threatening the lives of other members, and have always approached the situation with logic and reason.

What is your vision of an ideal guild?
My vision of an ideal guild is one where all RPers are both friendly and competitive, where problems are dealt with using logic rather than caps lock, and where people post their all their ideas, be they good or bad, without necessarily flooding the forums.

Do you contribute often in the crew subforum?
Yes. Whenever a new system is brought up, I always do my best to review it, usually finding flaws that others would not. While this sounds like I'm trying to be mean, its simply a way to prevent future problems and improve ideas.

How often can you get online (And on POTS)?
I can be online practically every day, and my activity practically speaks for itself. I am historically the most active member of the guild, and I possess the highest post count by almost 500 posts (I say 500 instead of the projected 3000 because I am adding in Hinote's estimated post count if he still had his original), with less than 5% of those posts being anything other than RP, system contributions, or moderating duties.

Can you tell us what you plan on doing if you're elected?
If I am elected, the first thing I want to do is receive a PM from every member of POTS, detailing what they want out of the guild, preferably in order from greatest want to least. After receiving all PMs, I will organize all the responses, and begin working my way down the list, beginning with what the most people wanted. I will assign crew members to help me based on their specific skills, and together, we will give our members what they truly want.

What are some of the ideas that you have had that are in effect now?
As I've stated previously, my contribution to crew comes in the form of refinery, which is actually why I believe I would make a good captain. Every single person in the guild has the ability to come up with something new, and every member should attempt with their creation. The captain's job is to determine what will work, and what will not, and to make something work if it does not presently. Because of my ability to pinpoint the rusty spots in systems, I would be able to fine-tune them to run efficiently within the guild.

And now, I invite anyone and everyone to post their questions, which I will answer to the best of my ability.

I agree with Minty, would you be able to make POTs as active, and not only as active, but as rewarding, as it was a year and a half ago? If so how do you want to do that? The guild has nearly fallen from its grace, if it hasn't fallen completely. Honestly, what's needed is change overall. Most of the Bloodlines need to be reworked, as well as the demons. Our systems need to be updated, and there has to be something very important; ARCS, something which there just isn't in this guild. Why? Because back when the Akatsuki was made in the guild whenver they would try to get a genin someone in the crew would just say it never happened and back track it all. Honestly, the last thing i remember, of intrest, was Zane's spat in the tower, which resulted in the death of the genin, was made to never happen. Do you know how much that would have developed a plot within Suna?


But moving on, out of my time in Suna I've learned a few things: Kages are usually people in the crew, or friends of the crew, which end up leaving a week or a month later, Letti only lasted 2 weeks, Koi was VERY underqualified for the spot, Jade was too subjected to bias on everything she did as a Kage, despite being a great kage. Which brings me on to my next point, actual good Kages, like Lilly was in Konoha, Luo has been in Kiri, and Bea in Iwa. Within the ranks and such, a problem in POTs is the crew's bias toward the people they know, allowing Koi to be Kazekage for so long is a good example of that, and allowing whomever RPed Letti to just take the spot and never post again was another example.


I could think of much more, but its too late x.x

My questions kind of work from your bad reputation, since that kind of thing needs to be addressed whether earned or otherwise.

In the past you have mentioned things that you would have removed from the guild if you became captain. So whether you've mentioned it before or not, what if anything would you remove from the guild, why would you want to, and how would you handle it?

You have been called a self proclaimed god, usually in more words some more vulgar than others. How would you defend yourself?

You are known for your refusal to let anyone else handle profile acceptance. Would profile acceptance become even slower when you are in charge of everything POTS?

Sorry I felt like posting here.

I'm tired of all this rig-er-maru about how infamous Gregar is. In all actuality, Gregar is a cool guy if you understand him. He plays it by the rules and God forbid you don't. I respect him for that and I'm sure others feel the same way.

Now onto my questions...

Gregar, do you have any intentions on changing Guild Rules or anything pertaining to the overall "safety" of the guild. If so, could you give some insight on it.

What are your views on the idea of a guild that relies on numbers rather then rank. Meaning, are you subject to a chuunin winning a battle between a genin and a chuunin just because of his rank or do you believe the genin cam win with enough training.

What views do you have on our current activity? Do you have any incentives in mind for posting and recruiting? Or are you just going to "wing it".

The final question, yet the most important of them all. In the event that you do become guild captain, will you take complete control of the guild? It's to my understanding that you are a part of the backbone of this guild. You basically are the wall that keeps people from RPing with the characters they create. Are you willing to give that up in order to focus on leading a guild and keeping it active? Or will you bear it all on your shoulders alone?

Becuase I am limited to a device other than a computer, I cannot writenlong responses. Therefore, I will answer these questions in intervals, starting with hikaro, since she asked first. I assure you, all questions will be answered in as timely a manner as possible.

Removals? There are certainly things I want to remove, but I would.never remove them without the general consent of the guild. But I'll br honest, if it were totally my choice, I would want to rid the guild primarily of puppets (they're just so out of place, and its dang near impossible to RP them without being OP or worthless.) And sharingan (its legalized cheating, as far as I see it).

Self proclaimed implies that I called.myself that, which I have not. If you mean the fact that people think that I think of myself as a God (DISCLAIMER: I do not.think of myself as any sort of God or divine being.), I defend myself simply by reminding you all that I am just like you, someone at a keyboard. Yes, I take my job seriously, but is that any reason to demonize me? People.are.entitled.to their opinions, yes, but I believe a large amount of these opinions have been born from assumptions. I invite everyone to form their own opinions without the bias of the past, and then determine what I really am.

Even slower? You wound me, hikaro. "Even slower" implies that I'm slow at all in multiple profile duties. Rest assured, profiles will not slow down, but neither will my other duties be neglected.

@ Duo: If someone has a bad reputation the questions need to be asked. I have seen why Gregar has his reputation, and honestly think it is a matter of the appearance rather than the substance.

@Greg: Do not misunderstand, profile assessment necessarily takes some time, and there is only so much time to spare no matter who you are. The self-proclaimed god thing was odd, while you have been called that. I basically meant what Hinote said.

Now for an actual question. You do tend to rub people the wrong way, especially new comers. Do you think this would cause trouble if you were a Captain?

Edit: Attempt to make the question make sense. It's still a bit odd, but not quite sure how to phrase it.

As I do not possess a machine with enough speed to make looking through the sun's archives practical, I will have to ignore your first question, Akita. It WILL be answered no later than Wednesday.

@Akura: Truth be told, my first step as captain will not be to recruit people. Heck, I will actually discourage recruitment. Why? Because everyone agrees on one thing: systems need to be reworked. Now tell me this: why bring new people into a guild when its in the middle of overhaul? That's not effective at all. Systems get ignored, the inductees hate all the waiting, and the recruiters are not proud of the guild they advertise.

I plan to have no recruitment contests as captain. I plan to have every member, crew and noncrew alike, work on all systems until they are perfected. And THEN, the priority will be to recruit, and this time, it will be effective. Members will have access to complete systems, all attention can be focused on recruitment, but most importantly, we will all be proud of the guild we are recruiting for, which will make the applicants more likely to stay than any other factor.

The no kill policy? I believe I would keep it, in the interest of protecting lower levels from high level RPers. Death of an RPC would be excellent for Plot development, but its not something that can be so casually done to another person's RPC.

Once you become Guild captain, would you take on an apprentice of sorts for the profile Acceptance forum?

I know you said that the Profile forum wouldn't slow down, and you do amazingly well. Say you are working on a project that definitely requires guild captain, and you're tied up for the day you usually check the profile thread during an influx of new members, and the profile thread becomes clogged with about ten or so profiles. Then having an assistant of sorts would be immensely beneficial. Or say your computer gets another virus, or any other such tragedy. Again, you do immensely well on your own, this is just completely hypothetical.