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I'll read up on that duck. BB, were very careful with our substitutions. No one is allowed to transform into a log, they must switch with A) Something that is relatively their size, B) Something that stands alone, so it cant be the limb of a tree, C) Something that is within a clear range of sight. In this guild, a clone would be the best example of what you could substitute with.

Then we call them out for douchebaggery

No. Doing that makes people schedule their lives around gaia, which is something I will NOT allow to happen. And the reason I push back approvals when people do that is because I'm trying to get a point across: The crew is not the slave pen of the members. We do this on our time, for no pay, to make everyone happy. Demanding that we approve something is rude to us.

Actually, your allowed to ask for another crew member to step in if it has been more than 7 days. I only enforce my 1 day push back rule because it's usually someone asking to get their profile approved directly after submission (DISCLAIMER: I am not targeting any specific individual with that statement. It has happened to me so much that its almost expected. It is not my intention to directly point someone out and make them feel victimized, and if you have been I am sorry.)

What I'm saying is, I do not want people to schedule their lives around approvals. Its as bad as scheduling your week around WOW raids. (DISCLAIMER: Basically the same thing as the last one.)

If this is stemming from the fact that Luo was gone for a while, he had his internet disconnected, then was in the hospital, so posting was quite hard.

I know its not as bad as a WOWtard. I do play WOW, but I've sworn to myself that I would quit if I ever caught my self marking my calendar for a raid (Which I'm still not a high enough level to do. Kinda sad, actually, but oh well)

Our policy is that the crew is running this guild at their convenience, so approvals will also be at their convenience.

...the point that is trying to be made is when you try to ask other to approve stuff, they tend to miss stuff like in my situation so you could have people walking around with broken stuff.

And I understand it at people convince, but after 6 days you basically saying people can harass the crew to get stuff approved

Here's the thing for me: It takes the average person about 10-25 minutes to flesh out a custom application. It takes me 15-40 to THOROUGHLY look it over and figure out what needs to be done. Multiply this over by even five people, and I'm looking at by the VERY LEAST, an hour and fifteen minutes worth of staring at a computer. And this is something I put myself up to do in my own time. I'm not going to spend that much time once or twice a week out of my day to sit and look at consecutive applications, I'm sorry. The reason things take longer in my case at least, is because I go through probably three custom weapons at a time, figure out what's wrong with them, if it can be fixed, and then save that information and move on to the next ones the next day.

Now, if the problem can be fixed, then I hit another twenty minute snag. How can the person fix the problem if it's fixable? Because it's not always as easy as saying, "remove that," or "make it cost this much." So say that all three applications I went over the first day can indeed be fixed. GREAT!....for the person who applied for it. I'll spend probably twenty to forty minutes figuring out if what I say will work correctly not only for them, but according to custom weapon and guild rules, and if it'll be feasible against opponents of their rank and even one rank above just to make sure.

Add only that first group's time that I have to put in, and I'm looking at just under two hours of work. And that's for THREE customs. In the end, this is not to benefit me at all, this is so that someone can happily trot around with their new shiny sword and use it at their discretion. I get no use from the weapon, none of my time back, and finally, no money. I do it because I like to, certainly not because I have to. In all honesty, we could just not have a customs thread altogether and save ourselves the trouble and have a bland guild. Instead, we took customs a step further and even opened up new customs that have never been seen before such as custom technology.

EVERYTHING we do is for the guild. We do it for free, in our own time. And when you literally schedule me to spend two hours twice a week remedying someone's weapon when in all honesty they could've spent more time on it to think of the things I have to think of themselves, it becomes not worth it. (Note: This doesn't refer to anyone in particular. Sometimes we ALL miss things.)

And when I spend maybe too much time on a group of customs, or even too little, I don't mind getting a nudge in a polite PM saying, "Hi! Sorry to bother you, but it's been just a bit over a week since I submitted my custom weapon. Do you think you could take a look?" Well when you put it like that, of course I can. I have no problem doing things for people when it seems like nothing is getting done. But if I'm feverishly working on people's customs, releasing new things for the guild, running a village, AND creating story arcs, the last thing I need two-three days after someone submits something is, "Hey! I need my weapon checked, you were scheduled to do it yesterday, but didn't....." Yeah, well do you want a weapon, or a better running guild? Your choice.

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