There have been a lot of things going on lately. So with what time I have, I’m going to try and cover as many points for the lot of you. Some good, some bad. So since no one is around to tell me what you’d rather hear first, I’ll start off with the bad news and finish with the good since that’s what I would rather do. Also, as a precursor, I’m fully aware that it’s April Fools Day. This post is in no way, shape, or form an attempt to trick anyone.

Alliance Split

You read that header right. The alliance is splitting as Devil’s Advocate’s decided to pull me into a meeting last night to state that they’re leaving the alliance. Later on, I found that they have already allied to Faction. This bullocks caught the Love Suicide attendees off guard, but myself personally, I saw this coming months in advance around the time of some of the first joint meetings while Lorek was in Poland. Of course, there was no way for me to know who they were going to ally with, there’s been a lot of association between Lorek and Darton as of late.

Which brings me to another point. While it was stated that Lorek wouldn’t hand the information to get onto our vent, I’ve still seen some unsavory people enter. While no trouble was started and it wasn’t Lorek who handed the information, it goes to show that there are people out there with the vent information. Soon I’m going to be changing that information. Might be today, might be a few days from now.

As for what is left of the alliance, from what I’ve heard from Lorek via the recorded meeting, Instinct is going on break or something. I’ll need to talk to their officers or something to see just what they plan on doing since DA is apparently not keeping them.

What does this change? Really not all too much. Towards the time they split off to “get back to their roots”, which never seemed to happen, alliance teamwork consisted of maybe seeing Lorek or Eggroll in the ending minutes. Other than that, nothing much has changed. We may either work co-op with Instinct or keep things going as we have been. Only thing now is that we have one more guild to worry about.

Guild Point System Released!

That’s right! I finally got off my arse and organized the guild point system and released it. This involved many hours of calculation and distraction and I’m hoping that it’s used for the greater benefit of the guild. Especially ones with gear that isn’t so good and could use improvements.

Speaking of which, the auction thread for guild titles is released today as it’s the 1st of the month!

The system is going to have more ways to earn points as soon as I work out the kinks for the entire lot of it all. Namely, one of the ways is going to involve guild tax and the other will involve recruitment. Point values however are still being touched on.

lol Also, I’m out of time. So my bad for not putting a fancy image or something to distract you. xD I’ll do it next time. Promise! Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane

As you may have seen yourself, we are temporarily allied to Instinct. This was a move that was discussed through myself, Rea, Lorek, Gen, and Mike. The entire meeting was discussing the temporary alliances with both Instinct and Equilibrium, but I stated the issues that were had when Equilibrium was brought up. So that will not be happening unless the guild turns opinion around.

The trial running period will be somewhere in the ballpark of 2-3 weeks. During this period, we will be running the first hour together and the 2nd hour we will split apart and attempt holds on our own individual castles. Most likely, we will all be in a single vent channel to make the first hour a bit more understandable. If this is the case, then please keep random talk to a minimum as it will be hard to hear where we are going and what we’re doing. Personally, I’m going to suggest middle Valk as our first rushing area. Lots of people, lots of fighting, lots of practice. It’ll certainly help with our organizational skills.

Events Page and The Point System

lol I’m sure you can see that at the moment, I’ve been so lazy that the events page has not been made yet. I’ll try to stop being so blasted lazy so that it’s more in line. Additionally, I’m going to be making a new page for guild item turn-in’s. The point system will be drawn up as soon as possible. I’ve already got a few ideas in mind that should indefinitely help. Any opinions and suggestions are always welcome on the matter to improve the overall scheme of things.

Tehe, images are good. Ahem. How I imagine the point system working involves the guild bank and the guild titles. Along the lines of:

Point gain = ((Base Item Cost x Number of Items) / 1,000) + (Zeny Donation To Bank / 1,000)

As you can see, each point you have is basically 1k zeny. There is a limit on things that can be donated and taken of course. For one; only items that someone (or the guild as a whole) could find useful would be accepted. Random quest items are accepted all depending on what quest and the item amount. Depending on how much of a response that this gets, I will be starting a third account to house the items (to which, it will probably be full of smiths and alchemists). The ability for the items to be confused with my own personal stock could be too high and cause a ruckus later on so this course is going to be taken in all likelihood.

Secondly; one that has points cannot withdraw zeny from the guild bank. Due to the bank not being replenished since our last castle hold, this option is on hold until we establish ourselves more prominently and gain a growing bank.

Lastly; while I’m not going to heavily enforce this last one, I do ask you take it into consideration. There are, in spite what some may think, some rare equips within the guild bank that I’m going to be putting on the point listings. Some of them are class specific. I would hope that you only take what you need for a character you use often (which I should hope is the one within the guild) as some others may need that item as their main instead of someone snagging it for an alt character.

Each item in the bank will be assigned a point value and point tallies will be drawn up for each person who donates an item/zeny. At the end of every week values will be researched for each individual item and marked on the point conversion page. Granted it’s not going to have a bunch of fancy forms and such, but eventually I will get that working for you all so it’s not as difficult to find what it is that you’re trading to see the values. The exact time will all depend on the numbers of the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. So one of those three days will serve as an updating time, but only the major items will be marked down such as Stems and Blue Herbs.

Two Main Officers = Three Shu’s?!

There are two main guild officers as you may know. Neko ( Wild~Rose ) and Danny ( :+:Danny:+: ). Both of which now have access to my account and are given authority to use it during Wednesday WoE’s. If one is not on, the other has the capability to run WoE in my absence due to my work. I would hope that you all give them the same respect you would give me during a WoE (er…make that more. How many times have you all said I’m lame? xD )

I will be handing the purchasing of supplies the day beforehand and making sure that you all have what’s needed. The exception of which are white potions, green potions and traps. These things can become too heavy and can be purchased at the tool shop nearby.

lol Okay, I’m pretty sure this is all I had to bring up at the moment. Stay gold everyone and…

Lay back and peace out under the stars,
Saishu Hane