Should BtSH call it quits?

[The Celtic Viking]

That's kinda exactly what I didn't want the faction leader to be. Why should the chiefs of seperate tribes answer to this one guy?

... because they chose him to have the honour of mediating the major councils?

It ruins the point, surely. The leaders of events should always be choson on the spot considering strength and importance rather than them being the in-game faction leader.

Then you elect the 'faction leader' according to strength and importance. I don't see how that 'ruins the point' (what 'point', exactly?).

I agree council sessions shouldn't be regular, but it does give a place where players can always talk to each other, and gives a regular time when all players should be active. So maybe introduce some regularity just to oil the machine, if you see what I mean.

That's where the tribal councils come in, isn't it? If it helps you understand my point, you can see the tribal councils as "regular sessions", and "inter-tribal councils" as "emergency sessions".

But once again you say all the chiefs need t request the 'faction leader' to hold a meeting. The point was each chief is their own faction leader. I don't think we should use the ingame faction leader at all. If that character also happens to be the best candidate for a chief, then good. But he shouldn't automatically be in a position of power.

I'm not using the faction leader to be a "faction leader" of any kind; if you think I do then you don't understand what I've been saying at all. He's not any leader that the chiefs are subordinate to, he's just a guy all tribes trust enough to hold the inter-tribal councils fairly. He has that power thanks to general elections, so it's not exactly 'automatically'.