I have a few questions for I suppose anyone in the guild who cares to answer them.

1.)How would I go about interacting with the members to see if I would mesh and get along with the guild members to wish to apply?

2.)Now I deplore drama created in most guilds, how is drama handled and is it handled differently on the different levels of seniority?

3.)What classes are you looking for if any in the guild at the current moment.

4.)When release comes will there be a ranking type system as in A team or B team and if so how will that play out?

5.) how can you set your vent name to be the same as character name if the game hasn't been released? Do you use the name you wish to use? What do you do if it has to change? Change the vent name?

6.)Will the guild be having guild crafters and if so how will that be established?

Well I suppose that is enough for now to clutter the boards.
These are just a few questions that I have floating around my head.

The reason I posted on your boards is that I am in Mountain Time zone so only an hour ahead and also you were the guild who had the most planning and organization that I have seen thus far.

Thank you for your time in advance.

Mabuz

Welcome to the forums and thanks for considering our guild. Ill see if I can answer some of those questions and I am sure others will add later on.

1.)I am pretty sure you are able to talk in some of the forums and also I think Karma is allowing certain people who are interested into vent.
*Karma or Marroc some help on this question.

2.) As of now there hasn't been any drama what so ever since the game hasn't even been released yet. So I don't think we can give you a definate answer on that. I think Karma or Marroc can give you that answer or some idea.
*Karma: Drama is more about picking the right people as not to set up drama. No matter what you do or how well you pick your people, sooner or later there is going to be some drama. Trick is to squash it and move on, dont dwell on it or keep rehashing it. We are all adults and thus we expect you to act as such. We ask that any problems be handled through Marroc or myself on a private nature, the entire guild doesnt need to hear or deal with anyone dirty laundry.. If you like that sort of thing I take light starch on the shirts and dryclean the britches please...

3.) At this time we aren't making class restrictions since no one knows as of now what those classes are going to be like. We do indeed know what we want to play but that could change in a later date. When it does come to a time where we have a shortage of a certain class I don't think myself and some others would have a problem rolling that toon. It will all balance out in the end.

4.) As of now I don't think there will be a A team or B team just Guild Team. Obviously it might change at the later date. We don't consider our selves teams but as a guild and thats what we will be owning order and instances as as a guild.
*Karma: We are keeping it small at this point. Until game goes live or we hear from beta, no one knows how big a guild needs to be. Paul already said that with the way the system works, small guilds have the same chances as the large guild... So I believe Marrocs and My preference would be to keep it small.

5.) As of now we are using our forums name to register on vent. The names we are using at the moment are the names we want to use ingame, but obviously some of our names will be taken. That said, it would not really matter mainly because by the time the game is released we will already know who is who even if they had a different name. We are becoming tighter as a guild and a family of friends.At that point you will be able to chose to use your forums name or your ingame name in vent. Karma and Marroc won't have any problem setting up another account if you want to use your ingame name.

6.) Again we will have everyone want to chose what they want and when we have a shortage we have people that won't mind filling them up.

Hope this helped. I know some of the answers I gave here might not be what you expected but I am pretty sure the guild leaders and other captains/officers will answer them.

well said broken

as far as crafting i will be happy to pick up whatever is needed in the guild, and as far as i know there will be no one doing only crafting, items crafted or looted within the guild cant be sold to other guild memebers, it is either given for free or "traded" to the banker (say you donate item X and banker decides its worth 5g you then you can spend that on other items )

1) anyone can apply go ahead and fill out an app if you want, the more information (to an extent) the more likely you are to be accepted.

4) for now there will be no team A or B at all, i doubt there will ever be, since there is no massive raids, but i cant say for 100% because it is just to early to tell

**feel free to edit my post if i got anything wrong

*at the moment the banker is me but i believe ranks lower than GM are subject to change pre-release*

Tetsaigah:
I couldn't find anything to edit, so i decided to just add my respose into yours elite. Although, it seems that you guys have covered everything...
Only thing i can add is a little bit to number 2.

2.) So far, as Broken Ice said, there hasn't been any drama. Also, on the second part of that question, I don't think the way drama will be handled is going to be effected by seniority.

Now I understand there is no selling of items to the guild that is stated in the guild charter.

More I was wondering but I should have been more clear is that depending on how crafting is released will people who take up crafting be able to ask for materials from the bank or other members of the guild or would they have to get them on their own/ask the banker/Elitegrim?

On a seprate note tho about improving your web site as I see the post about guilds getting in on the look of the web site.

On the home page you might think about shortening the main section as it is far to long. This can be done by various methods. You can archive old news from months back, You can thumbnail the images, you can make the calender collapsible are just a few.
The left and right columns are too long for the forums page unless you are a member as I cannot see that if I am not a member. The same issue is also present on the calender page.
A couple last ideas is put small images on your who's online section if you cannot see who is online like for instance the logo for WAR. You also might what to make a graphical link to the official WAR page not just the text link at the top of the page. The reason for the image link is it shows more support for the official site as well as it gives more advertising to the game itself.

well that should be all for now. Hope to hear more at a later date.

I can honestly say I don't really think there is anything wrong with the front page. Might be because there isn't..... I don't see what you mean by the left and right columns being too long, they are actually pretty short. I don't understand the calander thing either, as it doesn't take up much space at all.

If your resolution is huge it looks like the left and right are missing.. just black. I run 1600x1200 atm and it looks that way to me.

Tet,

When you are not aq member the left side column including who is online, hottest topics and most active topics is what I am referring to. When you are not a member you only see 4 topics to choose from thus making the left hand column very long and ragged looking.

The front page the column length is fine but the center section is very long.

The calendar page has the same look as the forums page which is the left and right side columns are long making them look ragged.

It might just be I am running at 1280x1024 that all this is just off they were only my suggestions. as to what I was seeing is all.

I logged out to look at all the stuff from the view of a guest and I'm still not seeing what you're talking about.... oh well.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa142/grimunforgiven/123.jpg

looks the same to me, and half the guild is in beta already so im not to worried about getting into guild beta.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa142/grimunforgiven/123.jpg

I hope we get in guild beta I'm getting tired of seeing applied next to my beta status

amen brother

I was just throwing some ideas out is all to maybe help out a bit is all.

The background is very common it seems from looking at other guild sites. That is all those were.

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