A lot has happened in the past few days, so I’m going to start addressing the lot of things that need to be addressed. If you read this and are in Love Suicide, FN Pirates, or Kakumei, please direct other guildsmen to read this post. It’s something that affects us all.
The Recent Castle Hold
As you most likely know by now, Kakumei has taken hold of bottom right Valk on Saturday. While this is great and the absolute first time our alliance has held a castle in Valkyrie Realms, there is one fundamental thing wrong with this. It was FN Pirates turn to hold.
During the last few minutes of WoE when we were holding, Killer Tomatoes came in with 5-7 members. One of them being a snap champion. Makk’s order to break the Emperium was shouted and by all means, breaking should have commenced then. Others were shouting that we don’t break.
This should never happen.
The leader of the WoE that day is the only one that should have the command to be breaking Emperium. You can by all means say something along the lines of, “We have dealt with the opposing force. There is no threat.” But never should someone be saying “Do not break the emp.”
There are some things discussed on a meeting that occurred September 21. One of which being that the leader of that day’s WoE needs to say something along the lines of: “This is (Jah Shujin, Makkarei, Vostvania), break the emp now!”
No deputing the matter as 10 people shouting at once gets very confusing which was the case then. Which caused Greywolf to hold on the actual breaking process. He was killed by the snap champion and FN Pirates lost their only temp-breaker.
The fact that people were shouting about the matter gave rise to a new policy which I will cover now.
The Result For Future Reference
The choice was either that FN Pirates would take their turn again or take the treasures that drop. A more obvious choice of taking the treasures now came by Makkarei’s decision due to the fact that holding next week is no guarantee. This would have also been at Love Suicide’s disadvantage as it pushes back our own people by one week when Greywolf is from LS and the idea of having Greywolf hop from guild to guild per WoE was mine.
For future reference. During other people’s holds, again, do not shout any commands concerning the Emperium. Doing this compromises the integrity of the guild leader whose turn it is and creates more vent clutter that disrupts the important command.
Let’s say that for example it’s Kakumei’s turn to hold. The emp room is rushed and Atsu gives the command to break, but one of our people says to not break. This opens up a can of worms. Now lets say their emp breakers are all dead. Each and every one of them and it’s at the point in WoE that if you don’t break now, you don’t get a castle. Someone from either Love Suicide or FN Pirates breaks the Emperium and takes the castle.
Every bit of treasure gained goes to Kakumei. This is something we need to avoid.
There is of course a conditional. If no one at all interferes with the command. We do all we can to hold back the force, but all of Kakumei’s breakers as well as Atsu dies. The only survivors are from FN Pirates. If FN Pirates somehow breaks the Emperium before the WoE and gets the castle when there was 100% no hope of Kakumei getting it, then the rights would belong to FN Pirates. Of course, do keep in mind that I can imagine the holding guild would give a cut to the guild that was supposed to have held. The original guild does not get left behind.
The Wednesday Concern
There is still no set written rule about it. Theories were discussed and favor for one method over another was expressed, but no details point for point were set down. This is how Wednesday holds are going to be as I understood it. Note the emphasis. If this is not how the others interpreted it, it will be put through review and then discussed more thoroughly.
- Wednesdays are free for all. This does not mean however that we travel in separate groups. If you are to stray, it is for scouting other areas.
- The loot entirely depends on attendance at the beginning of WoE. Let’s say that Love Suicide has 4 people show up, Kakumei has 5 people that show up, and FN Pirates has 3 people that show up. FN Pirates holds a castle that WoE. The divvy of the liquid assets of that WoE would go as follows:
Love Suicide = 33.3%
FN Pirates = 25%
Kakumei = 41.6%
The loot divvy of course going to the people who attended. Well, at least that’s how I handle the loot obtained. Kakumei has a guild fund to supply their people, whereas I am the guild fund.
- The one’s that come after the starting point can attend, but will not have an effect on the loot divvy. I can imagine that there can be a few minutes of leeway time, but this needs to be discussed.
Feels like I covered everything concerning that. I’ll fill in any blanks that anyone discovers as I’m informed. Also, as usual, to receive supplies for any WoE from here on, they need to be posted in the most recent thread for WoE Sign-ups. If a thread is not made by me, by all means do what Kuros did and make the thread yourself.
That Hint of Chocolate
I’m sure that you’ve heard inklings of the discussions in Ventrilo that have hinted at the new ally that will be coming to the table. This ally is the old guild M&M. I have yet to speak with any of their members, but Atsu insists that they’re up for the idea. I want to have a meeting with myself, Makkarei, Atsu, and their guild leader. I don’t care if it’s in RO or Ventrilo. Terms also need to be discussed. They are a good force to have on our side. So I am for this idea.
If any of you express discontent with the idea of becoming their ally, tell me in the guild forums to discuss the issues.
Abyss Lake Parties
Parties were held off yesterday due to a birthday Lorek had and may very well be held back another day if we lack the items to actually get down to the map. The TKM is back on Loki and parties will be held as often as possible. The goal of the TKM is to get the lower tier leveled people to get up to at least 90 so they are in range of the TKM whose sole purpose is to kill down there.
The first party will be flexible with leveling. Only 1 or 2 leeching spots available at any time as we need to have the exp tap for days divisible by 5 on Gold Acidus. I would like there to be as close to a full party as possible to maximize our (and my TKM’s) killing power. Priests are always a must in this situation.
Loot of course will be divided up equally and parties are going to be alliance exclusives. So please, no outside alliance invites unless they’re recruit hopefuls. This is an effort that I made to make sure that the alliance gets stronger. Not the ones that will be fighting against us.
Concerning leeching, I will constantly have either my stalker or blacksmith down there. The stalker for obvious reasons and the smith to of course make elemental weapons for the alliance easier. When he hits a high enough level as a mastersmith, overupgrading will be a hell of a lot easier. Especially improving the fact that when RO has it’s formula’s reworked in the Renewal Project detailed in Doddler’s journal that the upgrade level of your gear will matter quite a bit with damage. Don’t expect the mastersmith to overupgrade that helm of yours, because they can’t upgrade armor.
Wrapping Up
Those are the issues at hand. If you’ve any concerns, comment here since I’m especially grubby for comments. Mmmmmm…Comments….lol So stay gold everyone and…
Lay back and peace out under the sky,
Saishu Hane
You bet! We have snagged the very first God piece that Love Suicide has ever seen! The Wheel of the Unknown is the piece and there is currently a discussion thread up in the forums concerning its future. I won’t disclose any of the information on here as the aforementioned thread is in a section that only guildies and allies can see. You can toss your two cents in on that thread and help decide where this item is going since you all worked long and hard for it.