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(C&P'd excerpt from my Main Discussion Thread post for convenience)

Because of the holiday weekend coming up (for whomever here is Christian) and, therefore, the natural lull in the action that will come with it, I recommend that we take the rest of the week to do planning and come up with a check-list of what we need to do, what needs to be changed/edited/updated, and a general check-list of what we want/need. We'll be able to discuss and come up with our game plan, so to speak. Then, starting Sunday or Monday, we'll begin implementing those tasks. As we go along this week, I plan to prioritize these tasks into what would seem logical to me. I'll post the updated copy at least once or twice and you guys can critique what you believe to be in error and not.

To get into specifics, here are the two main points:

-Get Xenos to name a Captain
-Recruit

Frankly, given Carlos' position, he would seem the logical choice. As to recruitment...we can discuss that later once our plate is a little more full. I think that something that should be done prior to recruitment is updating the listings and what not. We all know that 6pack1 has not posted here in over a year. While I do not intend to delete his profile. I would like to make a "Inactive/Retired Templars" thread in which we could put such listings and place the thread in the archives.

Carlos, namely if/when you would become Captain, you would need to start delegating tasks and try to set up a hierarchy. Given that this is a "resurrection" of sorts, I don't believe we should require ranks to be reset due to their relatively believable settings now. Front Page should remain untouched in my eyes. Also, I believe that we should NOT do any Training while running this place. I believe us too few staffed and too much on our shoulders as it is to worry about that -- not to mention that it's real "purpose" was never really made known, only advertising "Easy Promotion Here".

I have other things I had thought of, but I'll let you guys toss those ideas around before giving more ammunition. This post is long enough as it is.

I'm going to open up a thread specifically for this just to keep clutter down.

And we are good to go...


NOTE: Although that list is only the beginning I would also like members to specify the threads that need to be corrected and what needs to be corrected in them.

Basically, let's break down the stuff in parentheses and also include anything that I did not put in them that should belong there.

Thank th' lairds yeh remembered ah dinnae want responsibilty mrgreen

In a' seriousness though, ah agree with Alucard's plans, though ah should mention that ah've put the rp on temporary postponement, nothin' drastic! Jus' a few days or so, ah need some time tae revise fer an exam.

Your passion on this endeavor shows that you've already given it a lot of thought and crossed it with different angles. I can't find anything I'd like to add because you seemed to have covered the bases well.

Recruitment ideas have always been awkward for this guild . . . I don't know how other guilds go about it. Could we implement the 'training' RP? Don't call it a 'recruitment' thread just a normal military style RP in Barton Town or a military sub-forum or something. We would call it the same thing and have a start date placed on it. People would make some military profile as either an attacker or a defender. We Templars could even join as a unit or against each other. It will have no bearing on the guild itself and we don't even have to have the same BT characters if we wanted to try something else. This would allow us to have fun and see other players as they take on military based characters. We can then send invites to the guild based on performance.

I like Me=Me's idea very much.

In my opinion, we should recruit members whom we find in the O/M and in other forums around Gaia. We should also put a role play into effect in Barton Town, while having the training RP occur here within the guild. The role play in Barton Town should be some sort of operation -- a real one. As we recruit and as members from the Barton Town RP see the guild, they can see how we RP by looking at the training mission within the guild. However, we should have a real BT mission occurring in Barton Town for others to join in with, because... Well, just think about it. If you go to Barton Town and you see two RPs there, one a training mission and the other a real mission, which would you join? The real mission, because you'll probably find a more serious environment and a more interesting plot. Therefore, we have a training mission within the guild -- that'd be the on we're currently planning -- and a real deal mission in Barton Town to help with our recruitment. Again, that's just my opinion.

1) I'm not sure which number this will go under so I'll just ask. So are we going to then be having the same exact RP going here and in the public forums? If that's the case, why not just hit two birds with one stone and run the RP there and use this thread as a communications hub for that RP? Although it was said that a "real time" RP would be good for newcomers to see, I think that our abilities, standards, and overall way of running things would be adequately shown there, no?

Others feel free to discuss:

2) @Me=Me: Are you willing/campaigning/able to/everything to be Captain? I am not trying to thrust power in your hands or a time commitment and responsibility that you aren't able to provide. Frankly, since Xenos made you crew, I believe that it would be the logical choice.

If there is any doubt, I'm sure a dual Captaincy could serve well? Reason for that is because although I have the time right now to become Captain and take the reigns...I may not have that luxury later in the month. I'd love to...although don't want to bank on it. Motherplucker already has a hands-off approach and, frankly, I happen to know that York is already beating his head against the ground with his leadership position elsewhere.

3) If that is all that there is, I plan on contacting Xenos Monday and have power transferred ASAP. Afterwards, we start spring cleaning and construction of the Recruitment program.

Motherplucker - you'd be a a big cog in that respect because the RP is your creation. I think that the introduction, background information, rules would need to be expanded on and edited both for the forum environment and also for a greater understanding of the guild so our newcomers aren't WTFing as they are reading. Agree? I'd be honored to help you with that as well.

That all sounds awesome.

I didn't plan on saying, "Hey, come see if you make the cut!" I honestly think we should keep the OOC content to "this is the RP", "these are the rules", "here are the members", "here is when it starts" type deal. Have the PM/guild invites be somewhat of a surprise.

Who knows.... maybe people will like us so much they will click one of the links to the guild and put in a join request after the first page or two?

And about my second point?