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Wed May 4, 2005 4:10 pm
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Member Created Guilds
What is a Guild?
- A guild is a group of fellow Role-Players who gather for a similar cause, whether it be thieves guild or a guild of sorcerers that wish to further their powers. Each guild has a leader called the Guildmaster.
Joining a Guild
1.] How To Join
- If you meet the guildmaster's requirements for joining, you can navigate to Preferences -> Joinable Groups and click "Request Approval" next to the guild listing. It is up to the guildmaster to approve or deny you,
2.] Multiple Guilds
- If you are a member of multiple guilds that have paid for their own group, then the most important will be your member group. For example if you are the Guildmaster to the Adventurers Guild, and a member of yet another guild, then your member group will be the Adventurers Guild. Then the other guilds will be listed in your profile under "Groups Joined."
3.] Staff
- If you are a staff member, your group will not change to that of the guild. Instead, your guild membership will only be listed in your profile under "Groups Joined."
Steps for Obtaining a Guild
1.] Cost & Creation
- The first step to having your own guild is to have 300 gold. This gives you IC rights to NPC guild members, an IC guild hall, and a joinable group for your members to join in their Preferences page. Once you have enough gold, you may post at the Sales Counter forum with the following information:
- Name of your guild: This can be anything from a simple "Adventurers Guild" to something more creative like "The Order of Worn Shields."
- What it's about: This should be at least a few sentences of what your guild does, it's goals, or any other important information. Please link to any planning topics or guild-related role-plays that are already posted. Admins have the right to deny your guild's creation if the idea is weak, doesn't appear to have any interest from other members, and looks like it won't take off or survive.
- Add-Ons Purchased: If you're planning on buying any of the add-ons listed below when you make the initial purchase, please list them and fill in any relevant information about them.
2.] Admin Approval
- An admin will review this information and either approve or deny the creation of the guild. If approved, the admin will then create a joinable group with the same name as the guild and make you the leader of that group, in addition to adding title of Guildmaster to your Member Title.
- You may only own one guild at a time.
3.] Adding Members
- Members will request to join a guild by going to Preferences -> Joinable Groups, clicking "Request Approval" and submitting a request to join. The guild master can look in the same place to approve or deny membership.
- If you also have paid for a special member group for the guild, the Guildmaster must post in the Staff Requests forum stating the names of those they wish to add to their group. The members being added to the guild should have agreed to this in advance, and should post in the request topic to confirm their desire to join.
Guildmaster Responsibilities
- Your most important responsibility is keeping your guild alive. Without an active leader who is constantly tending to the guild, it will die. Inactive guilds will be retired.
- You are in charge of approving requests for members to join the guild in Preferences -> Joinable Groups.
- You must post in the Staff Requests forum to have them added to your user group if you have paid for the user group / name color add-on.
Guild Add-Ons
Guild Halls - 200 Gold
- A guild hall is an In-Character forum placed in the Guild Hall forums. Guildmasters may pin, unpin, close, open, or bump topics in their guild hall. Because the post count is on in Guild Forums, you must post all OOC topics in the Guilds OOC forums. You may choose to have the guild forum created at the same time as your guild, or added later when you're ready for it.
- Forum Description: Each forum needs a description. You must provide us with a very short version, only 1 sentence long that has the absolute minimum information in it. (e.g. A castle in Norwood). The full description that you provide to us will also be used, and placed inside the "Forum Rules" section. We encourage you to find a picture for your guild hall too.
Password-Protected Forum - 20 Gold
- We do not encourage password-protecting your guild hall because it hides all the topics from anyone who has not recently entered the password. It also makes it impossible to have an RP topic in your guild hall with anyone who is not a member.
If you still want a password put on your guild hall, you can PM the password to an admin once the guild hall is created and the add-on paid for.
Member Group / Username Colors - 100 Gold
- If you want your guild members to have a specially colored username for the group, which will show up in the online list, you must pay an extra 100 gold. To purchase the color, you must post it in your original request (or if it is decided on later, then post this purchase in the Sales Counter) and include the color you want used. This will be processed by an Admin, and either approved or denied. The Admin may deny if the color is either the same or very close to another guild or other usergroup.
- Starting Members: List all the members who have already committed to joining your guild when you purchase this add-on so that they can be added when the purchase is filled.
Group Icon - 150 Gold
- A group icon appears under each member's avatar. The one given to everyone by default is the Role-Players group icon. If you have purchased your own member group / username colors, you may also request the staff give you a customized group icon, or you can submit your own group icon design for approval. The staff-made icon will match all the other icons already in use, it will simply say your guild's name instead of "Role-Players." If you create your own, it must fit the following guidelines:
- 150 pixels wide, 50 pixels high
- .png file type (no .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, et cetera)
- Transparent background. We have more than one theme and it has to blend into all of them, hence this requirement.
- The icon should be simple, containing your guild's name and maybe a symbol to represent them.
- The text should have an outer stroke / outline of at least 1 pixel in a color different from that of the text (e.g. white text, black stroke). We recommend black.
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