HOW I GET TITLE MATCH? LIKE THIS!

1. "But Tai, I feel like titles only go to a tiny circle of super best friends because of abuse of power!"

Incorrect. Titles go to people who we felt earned them through showing reliability, longevity, decent to good writing skills, a willingness to make stories and other such things, which most people on here have. If your a newer member seeing someone older get a title reign, your not seeing favoritism, your seeing someone whose put time and effort and earned that belt.

2. "Well Tai, we feel some belts have been mishandled because they've gone inactive for a long time, or a person with a belt suddenly becomes inactive and aren't stripped of the belt!"

In THIS, dear strawman, you are correct. We are not perfect, and there HAVE been issues with the belts going inactive once somebody wins one. Life happens to fuck people up at time, not their fault. We are currently working to resolve this issue and make many belts more active and put in re-vamped rules with titles to make them more active.

3. "Well Tai, you say we need to contact you about title stuff, but I feel that a mod or champion should be contacting ME about if I want a title opportunity or not, because I've been doing good threads and if your doing your job right, you should notice that!"

This...is such a weird way of thinking to me. Like, I have a life dude. I've a full time job, I've other interests, I've family I take care of, I've like 20 of my own threads, and I've a lot of mod shit to figure out...but in your opinion, I NEED to be reading up on your threads and seeking YOU out to give you a title thingy? At what point do I have time to do that? That makes no sense, and frankly, just sounds like egotism to me.

4. "Tai, you say we need to contact you or champions to show our interest in title stuff, but I'm an awkward social butterfly, and the mods seems scary and not open to people, and the idea of contacting the mods about that is scary to me, and I don't think I can do that." (I've heard this one a few times recently)

I mean...tough? I dunno what you want me to do here. If you're COMPLETELY unwilling to put yourself out there and contact somebody else, then how are you even getting threads in the first place? If you're not willing to step up and meet us halfway by expressing your interest to us, then there's frankly nothing that we can do to help you. If you really think we mods are scary or unapproachable, I invite you to approach us and give us a chance to prove you wrong on that.

5. "Tai, I posted my character in the thingy and made my interest known, but somebody else got a title shot before me!"

I doubt this'll come up at all really, but just to cover the bases. This doesn't GUARANTEE you're first in line for a belt or anything. Champions still have a right to do stories they want with people they want and if they already have a storyline going, you might still have to wait a while for your shot. But it lets us know you're interested, and so you'll always be thought of and mentioned when planning with champions for title shots and such.

6. "Tai, I want my character to get title shots, but I don't want them to actually lose any title matches, because I feel that makes my character look weak, so can I have multiple titles/only get title shots where I win? Also, I only want a belt if I can have a multi-year title reign, because anything less than that makes my character look weak" (Again, not expecting this, because I hope people are more reasonable than this)

...You are a very silly person with a foolish mindset. The whole "But my character will look weak if blah blah blah" argument is, frankly, one that should be completely dismissed out of hand. The only think that makes a character look weak is if they get completely and utterly jobbed out by a vastly lesser opponent. Putting up a good fight and losing to a champion doesn't make anybody look weak. I know there are a FEW players I've had to chide about this sort of thing. A loss doesn't automatically make anyone look weak or lesser, and I find that situations that like are, again, due more towards personal egotism than actual RP or story issues.

Don't get me wrong, a storyline is one thing, and nobody wants their character in a position that makes them look like shit...but if your the kind of person that goes "No, my character cannot, under any circumstances, lose because losing makes them look weak", and your reasoning is nothing but pure ego, then I honestly don't want you NEAR any belts.