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Gameplay => Guilds Forum => Topic started by: Zan on April 27, 2005, 07:29:26 pm
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First I want to say that this isn\'t your average guild so if you are looking for a team to join, hoping to climb in ranks, dominate Yliakum and defeat other guilds that disagree with your alignment you can stop reading here .. this thread would be a waste of your time ;)
Also I \'m not quite sure if this post should go here or would fit in the \"General Discussions\" so if any mod finds it should be moved feel free :)
Now ...
I want to create a permanent team which will be in charge of events, tournaments, games, ... like the festival of the hunt for example to make PS a bit more fun.
This could be considered as some sort of guild, only I am not sure whether we will actually appear in the form of a real guild in the game yet or not. It also won\'t be a guild that will be involved in guild wars, alignments, etc.
Would you be interested in joining then put down some info in this thread. Give us your in game name, some additional information about your character, its history, stories, .. and of course why you wish to help.
You \'ll have to convince me that you will be a valuable member and can contribute towards creating cultural events. Skills a member of this team can posses are leadership, advertising, being good with people, able to take care of difficult situations or troublemakers, organised, skills in programming (for mods etc.), skills in website creating or maintenance, graphic skills, storywriting and creating skills, ... You can be asked to come up with and host a small event, game or undergo any other test to prove your ability.
Also please provide some alternative means of contacting you .. email, msn, IRC, .. and let me know where you are from and more importantly in what timezone you are.
Our current team exists out of McKnight (Seiferrune), Phinehas and myself but we can definitely use more capable members.
P.S.: Both current members have proven themselves to me in the Festival of the Hunt .. and for those who were there I hope I have proven myself towards the community.
Also the name will change .. it isn\'t an official one yet.
For more information turn towards the link in my signature.
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I think the word Zan is looking for is \"organization\". That\'s really what this is.
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Very interesting. I was going to do something similar with The Sheeple Foundation. Really, I was. That is until I found out that Arnigus is so fat that he can only take one step every three to five seconds (yes, I RP lag :P). So I decided to try to pull some strings from outside the game.
As for helping, well, I\'m a writer (check out CoS, The Sixth Epoch, or lots of other ramblings if you don\'t believe me ;)). If you can use this skill, you know how to find me.
As for a test, we\'ll have to see how my election goes in a few weeks.
I don\'t have any type of IM (due to slow typing skills).
I\'m US Central time.
I think I\'ll go ingame right now and see if I can waddle past a few buildings. :D
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Sorry for beating you to it .. I also heard Draklar was planning something similar but I haven\'t heard from that anymore lately so I am just starting an organization up myself.
Now you definitely have proven your skill in writing and I think you could pull this election off, though obesity ( read=lag :P ) would be a major issue. I wish you the best of luck with that.
I think you could definitely add some things to our team, even though you might not be able to get in game much. Your creative mind and writings can be very useful. However I don\'t want to take your project away from you. So I gladly accept you into our team but I will have to insist that these planned elections bear your name and are in no way an initiative of this team. :) Though we may possibly be helping out if we can.
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I was just joking around with Induane about you creating a guild/ organization that would handle suchs things. I think it is a good idea of course but are you going to make it a guild or organization? The only reason I ask is because if it is an organization then people already in guilds can join. If so I would like to be apart of it.
PS Not sure of the name though.. I just think people will point and laugh at us :)
Edit: Sorry I read the entire document minus the PS :)
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For the reason you mentioned it will be an organization though there may be an actual guild as well but I will never ask people who are already a part of another guild to leave theirs and join mine. You can be a member without joining the guild.
As for your P.S. look at my P.S. in my first post ;)
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:D Heh, Heh...you just don\'t want to go down in flames with me. :P
Just think of the \'pointing and laughing\' I would have had with the Sheeples. (That was kind of their purpose, though)
I will bend my mind to think of a good name, and perhaps you could clue me in on the past of the org, and we could work on some sort of offical history.
Also, maybe it would be a good idea to start some sort of column in the PS Times.
Oh ya, you would be working with Arnigus Faymore, of the Sheeples, not my char from CoS.
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Reading my mind Under .. I was just thinking of creating a bit of history for us earlier. I \'ll let you in on what I have so far.
As for the PS times we could probably get a column there, I \'ll talk to Adyna about it. Right now I \'m still waiting anxiously on the article of the Festival of the Hunt.
By the way Valbrandr if you are interested in joining the team please provide me with the proper info asked in the first post. :)
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I do want to be involved. My ingame name is Valbrandr Wulfenstein. I am a founder of the Sentinels of the Ragnarok and one of the founders of the United Realm of Planeshift. I am an able writer, along with organizational skills. The main reason I want to be apart of this organization is because in order to attract new people and keep those who are already here we need to make the game as fun as possible for the player. My email is jesseduck60@yahoo.com. Hope to hear back soon.
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And of course you can count on myself as well. Valbrandr and I are not seperated gepgraphically, and can thus work together well to accomplish things too in joint efforts.
I sent Adyna several screenshots I took of the festival (thats what I was doing when I would dissappear for a bit), and she is using at least 3 of them in the next issue of the PS Times. And of course you can catch me daily in the URPS channel.
Also my email is OldSpiceAP@gmail.com
Edit: Forgot the info you requested from the first post.
Give us your in game name: Induane Lasumi
Some additional information about your character, its history, stories: Too long for here, refer to our guilds history on our site or our main Sentinels of the Ragnarok thread.
And of course why you wish to help: I actually started a thread on this and met you as you posted in the thread I started. Hehe, my reasons for wanting to help are that I think this event can help with the problems I was concerned about (mentioned in that thread).
Skills:
Leadership: Co Founder and co leader of The Sentinels of the Ragnarok
Advertising: Spend several hours ingame spreading word of the festival.
Being good with people: No good examples, just take my word for it. :)
Skills in programming (for mods etc.): I created one, albeit a bit too late, on a slow connection, with bad results (windows installer didn\'t work). I\'m already in progress on a new one :) (much better and smaller too).
Skills in website creating or maintenance: Origional guild web master before someone better came along :)
Graphic skills: Most of my mod work on the festival patch is an example (if you ever got to try it out).
Example of my work (http://www.geocities.com/brantwatson2002/fullbanner.jpg)
The other thing you listed are not really my forte\' but however I can help I can and will.
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Thank you both .. your memberships are currently pending.
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This sounds interesting. I\'m far too inflammatory to join, however. Please let me know about any of your events. Also, I\'d love to help. My in-game name is Mulla Nasrudin. May I suggest \"Culture Club\" instead of \"Culture Team\"?
UTM: here\'s a potential weight loss program that seems to work for others: Go into \"Options/Camera\" and lower your distance variable. That way you will be a bit myopic, but you\'ll be able to walk.
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I will definitely do my best to let as many people as possible know when one of our events take place. And I will also remember your name should we ever need more manpower.
Thank you.
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will Boy George be in it????!!!
sorry that was culture club :P
good initiative.
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Hmmmm... I can\'t seem to access your forums right now. I could yesterday, but not now. So I\'ll post the names I came up with here for now.
Unified Culture Society; Hmmm?sounds kind of stuffy.
Heritage Coalition; :/
Hand/Will of the People; Vaguely?cult sounding?
Legacy Rising; Pompous?but sounds good.
Culture Club; XO Awful!
Ethos Fellowship of Yliakum; Now that is a good word.
Traditions; Simple.
Enlightened Circle; Even more pompous.
Founders; Na.
Weavers; Cryptic.
Servants of Yliakum; Modest.
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Very nice Zan. If i did not have my own impossible \"project\" right now, I would help. But you still have my support, both moraly and finantialy.
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Fine, no \"Culture Club\", but it sounds like your basically starting a Rotary Club. Which I think is a good idea. I think something that smacks of \"Parent-Teacher Association\" will be a good way to start. Like the \"Hydlaa Cultural Preservation Society\". You could arrange for historical storytelling or even re-enactments from the mythology.
Man, we need a theatre around here...
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What a coincidence. As I was smashing scapwood into small bits with a large maul and burning them today, I thought to myself, \"You know, they should have an in-game forum.\" Seriously, I did. A real place, like the ancient Greeks had. Though perhaps we could let the ladies play...well...the ladies.
As for the name, I kinda like \'Ethos Fellowship of Yliakum\'. \'Fellowship\' isn\'t to stiff and formal and sounds more like what we have going on here. And \'Ethos\' is the perfect all encompassing word. Look it up. You\'ll see what I mean. ;)
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I would like to throw in a few names as well if you dont mind:
The Entertainment Society
The Recreational Center
Entertainers Guild
Entertainment Affairs (With Zan being the Director)
Ill think of some others but I believe it should have to do with the fact that this organization will be setting up entertaining events.
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Thanks for the help with the names everyone.
I know our website likes being difficult sometimes but usually you \'ll find if you wait two minutes you can get into it. We are working on a new and improved one though.
I will pick out the best sounding names and make them into a poll on our website, my personal favorite is Ethos Fellowship of Yliakum as well I think.
As for the reenactment and historical storytelling .. great ideas which I hope we can realize.
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i like \'Ethos Fellowship of Yliakum\' as well sounds very rp
i found a shirt which has \'culture front\' written on it... now that is not a bad name for a guild... of course it would be more fitting in a modern or cyberpunk rpg
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Valbrandr and Induane you are both now officially a part of our team. My apologies for taking so long .. we \'re having some problems with the forums.
They are up and running at the moment though and I hope they will stay that way so you can go register and I will give you access to the members area.
Just follow the link in my sig ;)
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Thank you very much Zan and company. I will register as soon as the page is up.
Hmm... does the link in the sig work for everyone else?
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It works off and on for me.
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Yes sadly the current server isn\'t reliable at all so you need a bit of luck to get in. I hope we can move it soon.
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I was having a lot of trouble too, untill I linked directly to the forums in my fav list. Since then, not a single problem.
Try this. (http://s10.invisionfree.com/PS_Festival/index.php?)
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Thx Under, your link worked so I will get to register now :).
PS I made two posts so if you have time check them out.
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We now have an official in-game Guild named Ethos Fellowship .. of Yliakum was too long to add since guild names need to be under 25 characters.
Do not worry as it is not neccesary to be a member of this guild and none of you need to leave their old guild. It is just a way to connect us to the game better as well as some free advertizing. If you wish to join the Guild, just find me somewhere around Hydlaa.
Currently we have the following Categories:
-Hired Help: For those who wish to help out but have no desire to remain active within our Fellowship, these members will either promote quickly to a more permanent category or leave the Fellowship as soon as they move on.
-Sympathist: These people do sympathize to our cause but won\'t be an active participant for various reasons, however they won\'t leave as soon as the Hired ones.
-Referee: The members who will be taking care of refereeing games and/or tournaments to make sure everything happens fair. This will be a very temporary position for most.
-Actor: The people who wish to bring culture and entertainment to the people of Yliakum in the form of plays.
-Bard: Slightly different from the Actor category as they prefer to work and perform solo, as well as write their own material.
-Ethos Assistant: These people will play a key position and be recruited to juggle a large variety of tasks as well as be in chare of public relations and internal relations.
-Outer Circle: The members of the Outer Circle form the medium through which the Inner Circle spreads their ideas and projects to the rest of the Fellowship. Proof of dedication will be sufficient to be able to join this Circle.
-Inner Circle: The core of our fellowship with only the most active, dedicated and capable members. They will work closely together and are the masterminds behind all of our projects. Only those who are capable and get voted in by the entire Inner Circle and myself are allowed to join.
-Patriarch: This is simply a ceremonial position which has to be filled for efficiency purposes and because every guild requires one \'leader\'. The Patriarch has an equal say as every member of the Inner Circle in all matters though.
We will not be a regular guild and will not be competing with others, though we will possibly form alliances with other guilds.
Our only goal is to provide culture and entertainment to the people of Yliakum.
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Well Zan, I would like to join. The organization of cource. But I wish you the best of luck with Ethos Fellowship as well :)
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Thank you Robinmagus :)
As for joining .. I was thinking, perhaps we could form some kind of alliance with Raven Guard? Of course that wouldn\'t be any kind of alliance based on power but just a sign of support and good will from both sides.
But I suggest we discuss that somewhere in private maybe.
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Despire our internet being down I have not been idle for the culture club. My works have included:
1.) Cleaned up the Festival patch making it modular so that dates can easily be changed, rewrote the linux version reducing its size from 24 MB to 3 mb. I\'m also reading a bit on windows batch editing hoping to do the same for a windows version - if anyone is expirenced in this email OldSpiceAP@gmail.com - I could use some help - and I know even less about macs, so I\'m considering buying one with OSX so I can do some learning.
2.) Finished the Hydlaa Theatre of the Masq mesh medeling. I\'m currently learning how to texture in order to complete my work. It turned out better than I had hoped, and despite the fact that there is probabily little hope of it being added to PS, I\'ve had fun with it and perhaps it will spark the idea that PS needs a theater.
3.) Without the internet my idle mind has been pondering all sorts of interesting ideas, I\'ll try to post on the culture club site from here at work