Major disturbances, information and general conduct.

Hello everyone!

As you may have noticed we have had some MAJOR issues lately.
I am not sure why, but i suspect there are a lot of small things doing a greater harm.
Summer is here and many spend their time outside warhammer, which ofc is very normal. This contributes to a lack of online members.
Also, Chris has stated that he might leave his position as a leader for a while. A guild needs a backbone to lean against and without Chris online very much lately the current officers have been a bit uncertain of how to cope with the problems that have surfaced.
It is understandable that it is hard to make crucial descicions when there is noone to get confirmation from.
This has lead to a deminishing atmosphere. It is VERY serious. Officers have all powers needed but dont dare to do anything.

I have no premade solution for ourcurrent situation.
I have tried to contact chris by telephone to ask who is going to be passed leadership and so on but he has not been heard from.
The situation got so serious that the officers decided to pass leadership to me.

It is very frightening for me to take this position as i understand that these hard times can become very ugly VERY quickly.
My second choice was to leave the guild and join a more stable one. butthen again, i could not leave all the hard work behind me in one gigantic failure.
So....I decided, after talking to the current officers online, to overtake chris leadership until he gets back.

What do I expect to accomplish? Well, tricky question. What i at least want to do is TRY. If im needed as a backbone for the officers i accept this. Even if i might become a scapegoat in a gigantic failure i am good with that. At least i tried as hard as i could with best of intentions and with all the judgement i had.

Some major changes is going to happen with me leading forthe moment. The guild needs it. There is too much disturbance in the air.
My first goal is to increase the number of officers. This to ease up on the administration. The past weeks 80% of my playtime has been spent on solving problems and getting bullshitted for all the problems going on.
I am sure its been just as hard for the few other officers available in the game atm.
Now i will start to keep my eyes open for more candidates to take on officer positions.
I am going to hand out specific areas of responsibility for old/new officers. This to ease up on the massive workload the leaders have today.
3 new officers has already been promoted. Butzig, Banaschar and Mallec. Mallec is on a trial as a Social officer. Dealing with personal grudges and keeping an eye on the general atmosphere. Butzig and Banaschar has become Recruitment Officers. The guild need more active players right now and they are going to try and recruit new members followingthe criterias we need.

Another change is dungeon runs. We are going to set fixed days for dungeon runs. This to keep players from having lockouts when the guild needs them.
At first we are going to try tuesdays and fridays out for BE and BB. Lost vale is going to have sundays all by it self. This way everyone knows that sundays is probably going to bethe best day to farm that place empty!
A solution like this has two sides. One good and two bad. The bad side is that not everyone might be able to come each sunday. Well, that goes for all big communities. Not everyone can catch every bus on every stop. At least we are trying to improve and we will be very open for suggestions and/or changes.

Another change is the Elite Player Nub title. A title that the very best of members can achieve. It is a title one can recieve from participating very actively on ventrilo and on the forums. What is also required is class knowledge. You will have to know all ins and outs of your career. All careers have some pretty powerful abilities other than just healing or DPS'ing. An Elite Player Nub is also running around quite a lot in ORVR and is gathering people in warbands and on ventrilo.
Why then? This is a way to increase the overall experinence of our players.
A Nubling is going to see others have that title and wonder how they can also get it? Its a carrot for people to explore all the tools they have.

One more title i might introduce is something like Penalized nubling or anything equal to that.
A player who does not show up for a calendar event without giving a warning prior to the date will get penalized for 1 or 2 weeks. The penalty will be a shameful title and no way of signing up for further events within that period of time. After 2 weeks the player will be promoted back to their previous title.
This is a very ugly solution but it is needed. To many people have been let down by others not showing up for dungeon runs. It is very frustrating to not be able to do a dungeon because half of the people either dont show up or they have a lockout.

Other than this i am going to try and collect some nice rules and guidelines to post here on the forum. It will look very much like a guild introduction with a set of rules further down the post.
I want this to be a tool for the recruiters. Instead of spending 20 minutes on someone when recruiting we can keep a high quality recruitment in no time. Giving the recruitment officers much more time to play and explore their characters.

Also i am going to recruit a new forums admin. I need one person in charge of this very important aspect of the alliance. So, if you feel you can contribute, be sure to let me know!
This goes for anything btw. If you feel you can make a change and contribute to the envoronment which you spend your time. Make sure i know that so i can give you the powers needed to do that.

Hopefully Chris will be back soon. I do not want to sit sneaky in his chair for too long
But until then, it has been decided that i am going to be held responible for things going on right now. No matter good or bad. This has been enforced by several important officers.

For now, i am saying thank you for reading this. I will come back online soon to work on the new sheet of rules i am going to make upp.
Happy gaming everybody and bear with us this hard time.
Who knows, something EXCELLENT and BRILLIANT might come out of this.

Good ideas it may do much good for alliance, but as atm /a /g chats are bugged i think that all guild should enforce that members join this forum, as Whitescars officer ill do it from today .

Even members of guilds that use their national language should join and add their contribution, my english suck hard but that wont stop me from using this forum that can be key to creating strong alliance which could be on top of destro forces.

With regard to dungeons if u gona try get in this events members from whole alliance, announce it earlier ! I wanted to go many times but when i noticed event in calendar [added the same day] there was full party or noone playing tank wanted to go Dolor asked on /a for 3-4days and I'm sure there is more than 2tanks that went with other group suitable to go . Solid day for dungeons is very good idae

1- The most important role in the guild is the leader, there is a lot of pressure to play but what I have found is that if the leader plays fairly regularly then members stay and stay happy . It is also important that the Guild itself need to be able to get a party of 6 together prime time, not just for instances but for general play, this is so a member can get most of a group together and then ask in ally chat if there is a tank available etc, not asking in ally chat if there is a whole group available as 5 people from another guild will probably have their own group within their guild.

2- Running Dungeons regularly can be a good idea but just a little warning, The alliance main issue at the moment is that we dont get together enough in orvr, I see wb's everyday with leaders from our alliance and members in different wb's. Then when we try to make it an Alliance only wb, only half the people join and nobody goes on vent and is usually an EPIC FAIL within about 10 mins. I understand this may be partly due to the GUILD/ALLY chat s being unavailable.

3- There is never any easy solution, however If people are just patient then it pays off. At Enclave we are lucky as we probably have the most regular hardcore players at r40 wiyj experience and can often get 1 or 2 groups for PVE/premades etc with 1 or 2 people from other Alliance. It seems the whole server lacks healers and the few that we have come with Guild groups and so cannot help other alliance Guilds out, DPS are 10 a penny and I feel bad for Ihhr and Svartsyn as see them asking about groups etc and cannot help as I am a Sorc too but even worse for them no one ever responds but again chat bugs arent helping

4- I have been in quite a few guilds since release of the game and I can say that this Alliance is by far the most friendly, Ive never seen so much /as chat anywhere else, this is great as essentially the Alliance works as one big guild. Its a shame we dont DO as much on the battlefield as we DO chat in the channels.