Weeding thru the Recruits.

[Sgt Vimes]

Greetings.

I will from now on enforce a bit of a stricter ruling in the Guild. If an recruit dont follow our basic Roleplay rules wich you can read about here in the forum. Then he will be released from his service to the Theramore Guard.

All recruits should read the Recruiting and Roleplay thread again and try to ablidge to them. If you find these simple guidelines unaccaptable then please leave on your own.

Recruiting will from now on be a bit slower, i belive in giving everyone a chance, even if they have not had any roleplay experiance before hand.

But from here on i advice my Recruiting Officers to take it a bit slow with the recruiting and brief the new Recruits about our standards before they join up. And i have given my recruiting officer full mandate to remove people who we dont see fit for the Theramore Guard.

I will send out this message to all recruits thru the ingame mail system aswell.

Salute.

[Martinus]

There is at least one member (Dwarvenmaster) whose name is incompatible with the naming policy, for example.

[Therania]

Before kicking people, I would advise ye to make the guild active, doing things together, those that cant roleplay, or learn to.

Those are the ones to get the boot.

Donal joined yesterday, and I am very happy, about the setup. Lets see together what we can make of it. Gamefun and roleplay is however my foremost stars on my banner, so lets have fun together and just disinvite those that make it less.

A name however illnamed, or illthought out is just a name. We want the solid people. The ones that makes our lives better. Even if DwarvenMastah, or ElfBustah.

In a week noone will be bothered about it. The one most concernend will be the one with the name so give them no harder time than they gave themselves.

Its just my 50 silver on the subject.

Writing on behalf of Donal

He is a paladin so maybe a tad more forgiving...

[Martinus]

>A name however illnamed, or illthought out is just a name. We
>want the solid people. The ones that makes our lives better.
>Even if DwarvenMastah, or ElfBustah.
>

I am not sure what you mean by that.

If you mean that we should let someone who makes a character with such a name (and because of this is kicked out/not allowed in the guild) make another character (with a name within the guild naming rules) and join the guild with this new character, then I of course wholeheartedly agree.

If you mean we should disregard/abolish the naming rules Vimes posted in the forum, then I wholeheartedly disagree. It's not about the person behind such name really (who might be a wonderful, solid and great roleplayer, for all we know), but about such name ruining immersion for other players - and immersion is something that is necessary for roleplaying.

Just my 2 coppers. :)

[Szticks]

>A name however illnamed, or illthought out is just a name. We
>want the solid people. The ones that makes our lives better.
>Even if DwarvenMastah, or ElfBustah.

I understand what you both, Therania and Martinus, are saying. And I think you are both right. A player might be a very solid and decent person indeed, but I guess one have to consider the context. To me it sounds like Elfbustah or Leetslayah might be two very competent and good PvPers rather than roleplayers.

I give myself as an example. When I created my Paladin I created him with a group of people decided on making a paladin squad. To fit his character I wanted a name that had a German tint to it. Also I wanted a name that would somehow stick out in a crowd. And another criteria I wanted to meet was that I wanted a chance for other roleplayers to consider me as one too. Hence, Florian. I think I succeded somewhat. Leetslayah wouldn't have worked in that context.


I guess what I'm, very long-windedly, trying to say is that if I met Mr Elfbustah down the street I wouldn't consider him a roleplayer at first glance. I can't imagine that he had given a long hard thought on a name to fit his character. I agree a name is just a name, but in WoW the name is all I have to judge you by before I know you.


/player of

Florian - Holy Warrior of the Light (pretentious? me?)

[Therania]

What I tried to say is.

If you get a member of the guild that organizes 2-3 rp events a week and is present at all time and is a solid guy that you really like. How would that compare to a uptight jerk that just complains, goes ooc all the time asking for advice and is just a loadstone to the guild.

Now imagine that the first guys name is Death, because it was the first character he made, and he did not bother to make a new one, because he is busy to organize gamefun for others.

The other guy named himself Ellaron and that was the single roleplaying effort ye saw from him.

And to answer your question. No we should not ignore the standards set up by the guild, BUT, if we have enrolled someone, kicking him out just because of a name, I think is leet thinking. Better give him a chance to see what he is made of.

Apply the standards to people we haven't recruited.

If you have a seriously bad name, you can always come up with good fiction to balance it. Take the Dwarvenmaster example. Maybe that is a nickname, which came up when the guy had a contest with some dwarves up in Kharanos. They named him Dwarvenmaster for the evening, named him by pouring a lot of stout, a whole tun to be truthful, over him. So the name kindof stuck.

If you have that kind of story attached you will smile everytime you see that name.

Writing on behalf of Donal.

[Durak]

Last i saw him he was just lvl 10.

You can petition to get his name changed, if not right for an rp server.

But he probably like most of us at one time, learning the game, learning how to rp, wanting to have friends in game.

Without friendships any game becomes boring.

[Szticks]

>And to answer your question. No we should not ignore the
>standards set up by the guild, BUT, if we have enrolled
>someone, kicking him out just because of a name, I think is
>leet thinking. Better give him a chance to see what he is made
>of.

Very true. What failed here was the recruitment procedures for disregarding an erroneous name in the first place. Kicking someone out after the fact is bad form.



/player of

Florian - Holy Defender of the Light of Theramore (high horse you say?)

[Sgt Vimes]

I did indeed remove him from the guild. Why? it was an combination between his name Dwarvenmaste (note the name was to long to even fit the last "r" at the end of the name but he still went with it) and his repeated begging for money on the guild channel.

Hes been informed that he is welcome to join up again if he gets his name changed on his current character or if he creates a new one. As someone else noted above, he was only at level 10 wich takes roughly a day to get to...

End of story.