Fallensword guild poll summary and suggestions.
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Fallensword guild poll summary and suggestions.	1
Problems	4
Recruiting new members	4
Guild size	4
Inactivity	4
Quietness	4
Guild composition	4
GvG	5
Relics	5
Titans	5
Personal evaluation	6
Recruiting	6
Guild size	6
Inactivity	7
Quietness	7
Guild composition	7
GVG	7
Relics	7
Titans	8
Solutions	8
Recruiting	8
Guild size	8
Inactivity	8
Guild composure	9
Titans	9
GvG	9
Relics	9
This is not the end. It is almost.	10




Problems
I want to start by identifying our problems. The state of the game is one reason to blame on many of the sections below, but the fact that people are flocking to mom and TED tells me that there are something to do about it.

Recruiting new members

We have not had a single new member for a long while now. And few leaving, few getting inactive. I personally feel, that we are not competent and that there are lot what we can do about it.

Guild size

It seems that by principle this guild was formed to stay small, I am fine with this, so is most other people, maybe have few more members or max 70 or so. So it is not in a way a problem, we are mostly united in this, but the thing is we have lots of grave stones here, that makes us look big to us and inactive to the outside.

Inactivity

Well this is a problem, but one that cannot be helped partly. Real life is out there and we all must abide by it and I respect that, but even so partly it is also due to lack of interest. And part of this is due the game itself and part of it cause we have nothing driving the small share of the pie that is left here.

Quietness

I have not been long here in this guild, but there are still many members from former PANIC. And even when I joined, these times compared to today, it’s like healthy robust person died overnight. It just died out. Partly again cause of the game and the chatty members going out, but partly cause majority has nothing to say, this too can be helped in my opinion.

Guild composition

I am probably using wrong terms here, but with guild composure I mean the things that makes us a guild. The things that unite as to more than just a mere powerful player. Goals, chat, spirit and such. I think its currently quite loose.

GvG

We have 0 GvG coordination.

Relics

Well, I know we and turks medals benefit from our relic war and its not that bad, but the thing here is now that we are tossing it back n forth without resolve.

Titans

A lot of the members taking the poll said that they wanted to titan hunt, but the time is the problem, maybe coordination as well. Yeah.



Personal evaluation

Recruiting

As it stands right now, it does not exist. I think we need to do a lot here, and once we are done thinking the measures to be taken, we want to “restart” the guild, by stating something like rebuilt. Yeah cliché.
I feel that our attractiveness is greatly suffering of our inactive members. Retired, respected members. There are plenty of them. Too many.
Arrogance. I have no idea how much arrogance we show outside, but I feel that we are in many matter very arrogant. It could be just me, maybe I am some humility overlord (real humble right there fellas). MOM has simple motto in their guild bio, we don’t talk, we do. That is todays sexy in these terms.
Our general rudeness. I have to say I am quite disappointed see disrespectful and bitter messages towarded to leaving members. If they didn’t like it here, if they didn’t feel like they get what they wanted from our guild and they leave and we take these actions, what you think they will say when anyone asks about us? What kind of image we give out to anyone curious? Kind of shitty.
Our unity. I think this is our main weapon for recruiting. How unite we look outside, the more that tells of teamwork. Teamwork is the shit that will get us our goals done, teamwork is the respected shit that will get anything done. It will give out an image that tells that we share something more than a thing that is called a guild.

Guild size

In the light of recent events, I think we are big enough. I don’t a mass of idiots doing a guild xp goal. I want that we continue carefully choosing our members like we have done I think?  BUT, I think we need to get rid of the inactives. (Here are few exceptions though, like andy and killrclown, cause of their names, the rest should be open to return when ever if they want to, but dropped.) Btw did iceman found LoFG? I mean if he did start the whole guild up, I think his opinion matters in this part as well. Maybe that’s just me again.

I think we could let go 10 of the retired heroes and anyone who has been gone over 200 days without any information what so ever. And on consideration list anyone who has been gone over 40 days without any information. This would drop us behind in guild level list, but it would increase our attractiveness.

Inactivity

By inactivity I just don’t mean being away 40 days at a time and not doing anything. There is also people who log and do nothing and people who log and do and say nothing. Ever. Real life is hectic. And that will increase as time goes on. Everyone is getting more to their hands each passing day. That is to be tolerated. Anyhow some sort whip of busy or something at all in chat would give the rest of us the right image. Not the image that they just don’t care anymore. That could be it too.

Quietness

It’s quiet in the game, it’s quiet in the game development, it’s quiet in the chat, and it’s quiet everywhere. There is no reason we couldn’t do sex parties like nmc said even if it’s little silent. Or say hi, or tell us a joke or blame everything on andy.
We though need some new game related matters to talk and think and that might give us something something sex parties.

Guild composition

We have nice people like squirrely that make composing business. That is nice little addition for our unity. We are mostly united and having similar goals like reaching EOC, kicking butts and hunting titans. But I don’t think that shows outside. Our ranks, well they are in a way united, but not disciplined united. Our gvg is a laugh track at the moment. Our guilds diplomacy is in everyones hands. We fell below TED and then below MoM and soon possibly below WAL. This does not give good image outside. Nor inside. There is wide variety of solutions I can think of that will focus on more than 1 issue as well.

GVG

We have no defense. We have no counter attack. We have no initiate. Well most of us are high level so its kind of hard to initiate gvg’s. Maybe we should have gvg’ers. Our stamina gear basicly wears us unable to defend against gvg. And we might have random hero in the heat of the moment to defend our cause. Our gvg rating nonetheless for the moment is one of the highest. :O
I think we should decide to do it properly or not at all. Rather re-focus all that stamina required for buffs and attacks.

Relics

Our war with the turks goes on and on. We cant hold the relic. Or we allow it to happen for the sake of medals. I think we need to rethink it like the gvg. I think we either commit or drop the effort to minimum.

Titans

Well I don’t want to do it, but almost everyone else here does. So go titans! Anyway, we dream of doing titans with team work, but I think we are cut short almost every time after 1 try or so. So in that light we need again solutions that will target matters.

Solutions

In this section I represent solutions or sort of solutions I could quickly think. Once we have witnessed a problem and agreed that there needs to be solution it will be done with in-depth resolving, that will leave least space for error.

Recruiting

- I say we kick the inactive and retired people.
- Then I say we need a STANDARD RECRUITING SECTION that will be put to every single members bio  and on the guild bio. It has to be well thought out text and it must be same on each player profile with same decorations and spacing etc. (Rebels will be hanged from their nuts and squirz will collect them.)
- We need to rethink the recruitment process.
- We need standard copy paste message to a player when we are trying to recruit them and a standard copy paste message to player who is trying to join us. Maybe with applying instructions.
- We want to appear more united outside so we adjust our rank names.
- We recruit few gvg’rs if we want to keep it up.
- We need more dynamic environment to new recruits.

Guild size

-	Again we need to drop people off and replace some. Keep it small.

Inactivity

-	We need to spice up the whole guild and add features, that require some activity. I was thinking we could assign people with guild they are responsible of. To “spy” one of the top guilds if anything interesting happens and deffinetly friend one of the top 250 players who aren’t in our guild.
-	I think sex party is solution for everything inactivity related. (All glory to nmc).
-	You leaders need to chat more. Really. Rest of you need to say something retarded at least.

Guild composure

-	Ranks need brushing
-	GvG and relic problem walk hand in hand
-	More composers than just squirrely or more support to squirrely
-	Less inactives more buttkicking in double xp
-	Guild fsp bank that works with member deposits and from where loans will be given with interest that will slowly replace the guild investment to it. Player leaving or needing will get their investment back, but no the interest. The interest will stay in as the guild bank. If the guild falls down the fsp’s collected by interest will be shared equally between all members left in the guild.

Titans

-	We need titan hunting group and which has access to list their open schedule and see when they can hunt together. Like group calendar.
-	I think it would be entertaining to voice when titan hunting. That could work with skype for instance. People don’t probably  have mics though.

GvG

-	We need to decide if its no or go.
-	If its go we need a gvg team that will coordinate itself. A team of atleast 10 members who will work so that when ever there is a gvg attack they will pinpoint the situation request buff help if need be and start to counter. And people in this team will have to know what they are doing. Otherwise it will be even bigger waste of stamina than it is right now.
-	If its no we let it go.

Relics

-	We deffinetly want to keep our relics, but the question is how much to commit to it. Either fully or minimally.
-	If its fully we need try to get to armor gear if that is what we want. Be it regular gear or armor epics.
-	If its fully we need to have everyone there. Without exceptions.
-	If its not fully, we can continue as we are right now, but put on maximal stamina gain gear and stop buffing lead defender.
-	If its fully we might have to take more than the relics in to question.

This is not the end. It is almost.

I expect you and the guild leadership to take a look at this. From you, I don’t expect a thing. From leadership I expect to ponder on the issues and solutions in leader chat and once through give an assessment. It is irrelevant to me if we do anything or we do a lot, cause we are still a great guild and function better than most.