Guildhouses are awarded through auctions, which tend to favor the ones who grind the most money. This may be a problem for the RP guilds, as their members do not accumulate money through crafting/monster hunting. To ensure there is a good balance between the two types of guilds, we want to introduce also a way to award guildhouses based on contribution to Role Play within the community.

If your RP guild wishes to be granted the use of a guild-house you will have to apply for one. Guilds that have guild-house currently may not apply. Guild-houses will be granted on the basis of your answers to the questions below, on how your guild actually acts in game and after careful consideration by Game Master and Development team members.

So, this is what we want to hear about from you, and please take your time in getting your replies to us, there is no rush. You should answer each question carefully and then pm/e-mail your response to a Game Master, who will then forward your application.

• 1 - How long has your guild been around? (Note - We will try and give equal weighting to both older and newer guilds, it should also be noted that a newly created guild is unlikely to be granted a guildhouse until you have shown consistency and commitment to PlaneShift over time. We can't give guildhouses to every guild or the upkeep will outpace our capacity to support this initiative.)

• 2 - How active is the guild in recruiting new members? (Things you can include - Do you have a core set of players that are highly active and can guide the guild and new comers to the guild? Do you prefer to only recruit players who you know can role-play, or actively recruit new players who will fit into the settings of your guild and nurture and teach them how to role-play on Laanx, or would you have none selective recruitment? Explain to us WHY you would make these choices.)

• 3 - Do you have an official guild history and settings publically available for your guild? Do you think that from the creation of the guild you have stuck to these? If not why and how will you try to address this in the future? (We won't require that all guilds have a website, but we HIGHLY encourage it. If you could include links to either private websites and/or posts from the PlaneShift guilds forum for this section it would be appreciated.)

• 4 - Describe your commitment to role-play on Laanx? (Things you can include - How important is role-play for the guild? All role-play, mainly role-play and some levelling, no role-play and all grinding? Do you, and how will you follow the RP guide lines that are currently in place? Do you create new role-plays and join current ones at every opportunity?)

• 5 - How would your guild use a guildhouse to aid PlaneShift's incoming players and develop its current role-play atmosphere? (Things you can include - Why does your guild need it? How will it benefit the guild? What RPs will be based in and about it? In what ways will it be used to benefit new comers to the game and guild? How will it be used by others outside of the guild? Will you keep your guildhouse open or will you lock the door? What is your role-play reason for this choice?)

• 6 – Where would you like your guildhouse to be? And how would the position effect the role-plays you plan on taking part in? (Locations include - The winch or warehouse district of Ojaveda for merchants? Dark secluded out of the way alleys for the less law abiding? Next to the Laanx temple for religious organisations? Note – there are limited houses available, and we will do our best to award guilds access to a house most suiting their settings. Guilds that wish to expand areas of the game that are, at the time of reading this, under-utilised for role-play, will have favouritism provided they answer all other questions well. Important, the presence of a 'Door' per say is not required to have a guild house, if you wish to be imaginative with the means of entry, you may, but you must explain why it needs an alternative.)

• 7 - Do you accept that any guildhouse given can be taken away at any point if it is found you are unhelpful to new players, combative with Game Masters, failing to role-play or not keeping sufficient server presence to merit the use of a guildhouse or for any other reason deemed appropriate by the Game Masters or any other development team? (Note - A guildhouse should be considered a privilege, and not a right.)

A few final notes...

Do not try to tell us what we want to hear, that in itself will be cause for refusal to receive a guildhouse. We want honest input that will help us to make Laanx a better place for role-play, if you're in this for a guildhouse simply, wait for auctions which may also still be run. Remember that spelling and grammar counts so please proof read and spell check.

Finally, if your application is refused, we will try to explain why. There will also be a three month period before another attempt at applying will be considered.

Good luck to all who apply.