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Okay, hi everyone. First let me start off by saying that I apologize for being nonexistent (work and then school ate me, like they do), and it's highly likely that I'll be around more often from now on.

On to what I know about the current state of the guild (feel free to correct me or something if I'm wrong anywhere). I didn't receive any information about this ownership change thing, but after a bit of poking about, here's what I think is going on:

1. Judging by the name change and lack of outfit, Terra may have quit Gaia completely. Which would explain the transferral of the guild.

2. She tweaked the name and names of the subforums before she left (because I sure as heck didn't and Phydur (the only other mod) seems to be just as confused as I).

3. If the first two are true, then no, it's not a hacker. Only the captain has control, and I'm inclined to believe that it was ACTUALLY Terra (since her new name has an FFVI ref in it, too).

4. Apparently I'm in charge now. Oooookay.

I was noted on DA, which brought all of this to my attention (thanks again for that note), and the above is what has happened to the best of my knowledge. I have decided to retain captaincy and will be rebuilding the guild as quickly as my schedule will allow (meaning rather slowly, but it's the best I can do). However, if someone else feels that they would be better than I in charge, please EMAIL me or NOTE me on DA (odds are I won't notice PMs) with the reasons why and I will make an executive decision. I'll open a new thread later for suggestions as to the rebuilding process; until then I'm open for questions, comments, observations, complaints, suggestions, whatever.

If anyone has any questions for me, I'll do my best to answer them. HOWEVER! I will respond MUCH faster if I am either emailed (NekoKatsun (at) gmail (dot) com) or sent a note on DeviantArt (http://kaioshinluvr.deviantart.com).

welcome back, neko!
theres not much i can do as a crew member (the 'ofical' term for a guild mod, for those who dont know) but if you need any help, feel free to ask me and i'll do what i can.
oh, the banner that we where using before, since i was the one providing it, you can use that again if you want. you can ask if you dont know the adress...
i hope we can revive this guild to be better then ever!

Right now the guild's name is "Under Construction". That should get fixed ASAP, and have the "Under Construction" notice elsewhere. As for the active members, current members should be notified about the guild since they might have forgotten about it and lost hope when they found it abandoned by its former leader and inactive. Perhaps the members might provide some additional feedback and ideas that might bring the guild back up, and attract new members?

well, once the guild 'died' that is, changed to "under construction"
pretymuch everyone left. me and perhaps 2 or three other people have posted, but i cant remember who...
right now i'm busy with finals, so im not going to bother, but normaly i'd look up who those people where. obviously lair is one of them.
still, i think a thread in the registered guilds fourm to promote our guild would help, but im too fried to think clearly right now....
well i need to get back to work. geh. i dont want to.... crying
good luck reviving the guild, i'll try and be more helpful in the future, but right now, i dont realy have time.

-Coughs a bit- Jeez Phydur, Can't even remember ther person that talk to you.

Thanks.

Glad to see its back and up on its feet here(somewhat), I nearly cried when I saw that it appeared to be dead...T.T

Celly will work hard. ...for cookies! xD

What would you like me to do though?

Yay, the guild isn't dead! *A* I was really worried for a while, but then I noticed there was a new post from a few days ago, and got excited. xd

You should definitely clean up the guild more before trying to put out an open ad for the guild. You'll end up with new members, some of which might add more junk to clean up inadvertently, and it'd be even more work for the mods. Plus, it doesn't look professional. xd Not that we need to be, but if the guild looks nice and organized, then all is good. 3nodding

Old posts/threads, instead of facing deletion, could be archived in a separate thread where regular guild members cannot access them. You'll probably have to make a new RP, or just restart it, depending on how many of the older members of the guild return. Just getting the place more organized could help a lot.

Guild newsletters sound like a good idea, and most guilds will have a mule either to hold onto prize money/items for contests or messaging purposes.

Phydur has made some good points about our guild and what it offers versus other Final Fantasy guilds. A lot of them, including the FFVII one I moderate in, are technically the same. We may focus on a different game in the series, but we are still essentially the same, if you were to change names of characters and locations and such. What I've seen there that keeps people posting are usually threads that are considered "fun". You want threads with topics that will keep people talking. An active RP that is interesting helps to boost activity among members. You could have a main guild RP, and then let other people make their own (with mod approval), so that if the main RP doesn't suit their tastes, they can make one that they will like.

There's a lot of stuff we can do, so to speak, but the best thing would be to stay active, even if it's just the mods. If a person joins a guild and feels like the people who are running it aren't around, then they'll lose interest and leave.

We could always hold contests (bimonthly or monthly) and give away something nice, like a MC or something. Just something for the members to look forward to, and one that they can enjoy.

EDIT: Oh, by the way, I'm not sure if all of you know this, but Kefka has been confirmed as appearing in Dissidia, that Final Fantasy battle game for the PSP. I wonder which character they'll have him face, since it's the main character vs. the main villain (such as Squall vs. Ultimecia, Warrior of Light vs. Garland, etc...). Alas, the main website doesn't have any Kefka screens yet, though. D: I wanna see how they'll make him look, sound, and fight...

WAIT!!!Where r u schooling?