Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-1370845-20140901204342/@comment-1309126-20140903213225

The whole no coordinators thing sounds exactly like the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts after Cyrannian pointed out that we didn't need to be at his beck and call for every answer (not stabbing at you or anything Cyrannian). It's gonna go to shit pretty fast because that's exactly what happened last time. The fact that what I said on the previous forum hasn't been taken on board kind of irks me slightly.

All of the users in the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts were equal - it's when users started getting angry with each other did that balance go out of the window because people's opinions shifted. Those with the stronger opinions upset the balance because of it. Other fictions that have had coordinators such as the War of Ages, everything within the Galaxies at War, the Borealis wars, Tantum (up to a point) were all vastly successful because of it.

You want everyone to join and have equal say? Not gonna happen in a million years. Sorry to be pessimistic but everyone will get stuck in their old ways as soon as we start it, because we all want a bit of control in what we do. I might be wrong but I'm not getting my hopes up for it.

I must disagree with Cyrannian however on the idea that the wiki has changed a lot since the War of Ages. Right up until the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts and that massive spill-out the fiction system remained more or less the same with a few hybridizations dropping in places. I think everyone's just afraid because everyone's afraid of everyone's opinions. If you haven't got anyone giving someone a direction then you come up with improvised plots, and, risking sounding unpopular, most users can't formulate a convoluted plot in a logical scope of time.