All sergeants are equal but Tiiga is more equal then others

When Tiiga found out his virtual career in Imperium was a flatliner he decided to start his own organization. The initial values and principles are actually quite good. Everybody is equal and all have the same rank (sergeant). Why not, it is quite ridiculous to hand out virtual military ranks in a game like this and worse, to feel yourself a very important being because of such a rank.

But there is a problem. You not only have ranks, you also have roles and security levels. Server admins will need to look after the hardware and software. Others will need to act as moderator to keep the peace and settle disputes. And you have people who must process the administrative mutations from the member databases. Not to mention recruiters and hosts on chat-channels. All the roles demand certain powers and authority. And there goes the equality. Some members are more equal then other members because they have too.

And this is Tiiga's biggest flaw, he cannot deal with it. He will give his loyal minions just the bare minimum of what they need to do their job. No-one gets full power. This makes daily management a tough cookie. And that is because of Tiiga's second mistake. From his point of view the game is not ready for the next four years, he does not see the need for any activity. He just can't understand people want to be around, talk about the game, about the ships, about living the dream of The Verse.

"Join XPLOR, shut-up and wait" has been Tiiga's mantra for  the past two years. The second mantra Tiiga spreads is that Imperium charges membership-fees and have a website that cost ~ 1200 dollar per year and that Tiiga is giving all to XPLOR for free. So again, shut-up and be grateful for all the miracle things Tiiga does for XPLOR.

The third mistake is that systems are overdue for maintenance and because there are no active server admins available, an outage is usually for days and even weeks. The central system xplor.today is monitored on distance by a minion who usually responds within a day but the TeamSpeak server has had several outages because no-one is able to acces it at admin level except Tiiga.

Because of this the members who try to make XPLOR look alive, usually burn-out in a period of a year or two and leave. Tired and frustrated of running in walls Tiiga built around his precious Kingdom. No other founders are left or active. It is just Tiiga who is not active as well but peeks around once a month.

How does one usually leave XPLOR as active member? Well, the answer is surprisingly simple: Because of a dispute with Tiiga. Every ex-member we interviewed for this Black Book has the same experience with a similar pattern:
1. One works very hard to make XPLOR look alive.
2. One runs into the limitations of the hardware, software or organization setup.
3. One tries to fix the limitation by proposing an improvement.
4. Ones initiative gets sooner or later blocked by Tiiga, usually in a blunt and rude manner.
5. One complains in chat, forum or PM and angers Tiiga.
6. One gets the choice, eat it or leave or one gets banned instantly.
7. One usually leaves if not banned.

In the past two years such experiences happened in the recruiting department, in the peace keeper department, in the technical infra department, in the member administration department and last but not least in the department where XPLORS Ship Program was managed (separate topic in the Black Book).

And here we run into the next paradox; Tiiga's self-fulfilling prophecy. Because of the reason Tiiga does not trust anybody he drives good members away enforcing Tiiga's believe he just cannot trust anybody.

In February 2017 the last large group of active player broke away from XPLOR. XPLOR is in deplorable state when in March there is an argument on Discord about a ship. The argument itself was innocent but Tiiga pops up and bans the one who started the argument instantly.  All sergeants are equal but Tiiga is  more equal then others. The Code of Conduct is not for him but by him. XLOR is run by a dictator.

Quad Erum Demonstrandum