On Season 80's Theme

I'd like to take season 80 as a time of consolidation.

Let me share with you my thoughts ahead of the new season.

Firstly, our structure.

We have a very unique leadership structure.

Now, I'm not Catholic, but there is one organisation of close to 1 billion members that has stood the test of time and that must be something worth learning from.

The catholic church has a structure that has shown it can handle such large numbers in such a consistent way theologically and organisationally speaking over so many centuries.

They also have clear rules for appointing a new supreme leader (pope) that prevents fragmentation of the organisation.

Consider the mess at Øutlaws and Z Empire. This season has taught us that they have numbers but no coherence.

Cardinals will have the job of not just leading battles, enforcing rules and providing lands but also to actively guide our players to have our culture.

They will help to set up our sub alliances (Ignis, Glacis, Militem, Academy and maybe more to come) and they will be known as the Bishops (crown) of these sub alliances.

Cardinals must also agree to follow a set of guiding principles which I will share on later.

Cardinals must also pledge to be 100% loyal to whoever replaces me as Patriarch one day.

Even if you don't like the new Patriarch or have a different view, this guy whom we elect from among ourselves to replace me (one day) is our majority agreed choice and *must* command our absolute loyalty.

Cardinals this season (season 80) will not spend time recruiting (unless people want to join) but rather build on what we have already achieved. Build on our culture.

I will organise a list of [DS]  tagged players who have not joined us this season and track them till season 82 (3 seasons). If they are still 'dead', we won't invite them subsequently.

We need to consolidate every 10 seasons or so, and season 80, 90, 100, etc.. will be good milestones to do a stocktake on our progress, culture, numbers and overall direction.

So the theme of season 80 is "Consolidation - of culture and numbers".