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I'm in a vaguely similar situation, although its a lot different. Some people may remember the guy who posts about being addicted to a particular MMO from time to time, thats me, and oh boy have I gotten myself into a mess now (kind of).
tl;dr my guild is fucked and I might end up being GM
Simply put the leaders of the guild I'm in and our biggest ally both just quit, then a lot of people left the guild and betrayed us. They're working (the ex-leaders) on picking new leaders but its undecided on concretely. Meanwhile our ex-leaders managed to piss off over half the other notable guilds and we're at a huge disadvantage--no matter what we do currently we're standing to lose the war.
Heres where it actually becomes related--of the three people that are candidates for GM I'm one of them. Why? I honestly do not know, I have very little experience leading a guild, if you even count what I've helped leadership in other guilds with experience. I was more of a errand boy. The only things I can think of that got me into this position is I've offered feedback on decisions to people who didn't understand why we couldn't attack someone for strategical purposes, I'm really active and I'm a good player.
The enemy has us drastically outnumbered in a way that it would take a miracle for us to win, we're not taking any chances, they aren't. Right now we're staring each other down hoping the other makes the first move. Time goes on more people are quitting. The only hope to even be able to fight them on a slight disadvantage is for the new leaders to drastically change their political position and then a lot might rage quit since they do not realize we cannot win.
I've actually flirted with the idea of running a guild before, but I'd need more experience leading guilds in a lesser role to be effective. I'd be fine with it if I had more experience doing things like it, but I don't. One thing I can see possible is that I could have someone from our ally who has several ex-gm's that have run successful guilds to be "acting gm" and help transition me into the position. Another being to form a "cabinet" of players whom I know are loyal and logical in thought. I'm deeply afraid that if I am chosen for gm I'll fuck something up, but at the same time I want to. I want to do it, but I don't want to do it. I can't figure out which. But if I do GM the guild and fuck up its going to kill any bit of self esteem left which would not be good for me in the slightest.
Of the other two candidates one has proven to be too quick to run off attacking without thinking it through, the other I'm unsure of but from what I've seen he could possibly make a good GM. Probably better than me as GM, hes a better player too. Of course the two guilds could just stay merged and let the other guilds new leader run it, who has a ton more experience from what I know than the three candidates for my guild. But that presents its own challenges as together we would be a huge guild and most times guilds get to being huge they get tons of backstabbing inactivity and the like going, as can be seen by our current situation.
I don't know if I should be flattered that I am nominated to gm a top 5 guild or if I should be fearful that I might fuck something up and ruin my e-rep amongst other players. If I'm not GM when (if) he fucks up it'll put me on a guilt trip because I could have possibly been more aggressive in getting the role and changing it... Either way this isn't good for me in life in general nor for my guild.
Life sucks. Not even shitty browser games comfort me anymore, and all this happens when I have midterms and shit coming up I need to do to stay in college so I can ride off my parents as long as possible.
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