False Hopes and Nemesis are combining forces

As most of you are aware, we have spent the last days discussing possible cooperation between False Hopes and Nemesis guilds in order to progress into 25-man content, and to find a solution to the problem that I simply do not have enough time at the moment to take care of running the guild.

We have agreed to bring the experience and skill of our active raiders to Nemesis, in order to form a larger and better managed guild, with excellent basis for progressing further in the Burning Crusade.

I have distributed the contents of our guild bank to our raiding members according to my best ability, to reward for lost dkp and to remind you that as we have played together before, we will continue playing in the future as well.

With the feedback of our advisers I have compiled a list of people who will be joining Nemesis. If your name is on the list, you can register to Nemesis forums and write an introduction of yourself here. After you have done that you will be invited to the guild.

In case your name is not on the list, but you feel it should be there, please contact me in our IRC channel, or even better write to our forums why you feel you should be included.

I will remain in False Hopes until most of our members have been invited to Nemesis.

Please, remember to read the guild rules of Nemesis, and treat their members with equal respect. We are one guild now, working together to beat the game ;)

PS. I'm sorry I was unable to post this earlier.

Things to consider while I am gone

I just wrote a rather long post to the forums about what I think of the future of False Hopes, and what you should consider while I am taking a break. I hope every active member will read it.

The post is in private forums, so those who are not in the guild cannot access it.

You can view the post here.

My last week before a break

As many of you know already, I am taking a break from raids starting next Thursday (26th) until 15th May. This post serves more as a reminder of it ;)

I will be on our IRC channel, though, and watch the forums and pop in the game every now and then, but while I'm less active I hope those with Advisor or Master Chief (Halo ftw) rank will take over.

I'm expecting you to put raids to GroupCalendar and keep things going while I'm gone. Those with Master Chief rank can also promote, demote, invite and remove people from the guild, so you can deal with recruiting new members as well.

There's still a week to go, so if you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to ask ;)

Fresh outta Easter Egg

It's been quite a while since my last post, and to my surprise I was actually quite happy about the fact that we didn't raid that much the past week. Maybe it's just me, since I've been on way too many raids since we started them, but it feels nice to take a break every once in a while. Though I do hope that that suddenly half of our members didn't quit playing permanently. That would really suck :D

I'm still quite busy with RL stuff so don't expect me to be online much outside raid time. If you have some questions / suggestions / issues please contact some of the advisors or a Master Chief, hopefully they can help you out. I'm trying to anyway take WoW more easy now.

Couple weeks ago I realized that I come online for raids mostly because of a sense of obligation, not that I enjoyed playing the game that much. So I'm trying to focus a bit on other things instead of running FH and raiding, to keep me enjoying the moments I spend in WoW as well ;)

For me it was never meant to take this much time anyway.

The way I read Group Calendar

Since Group Calendar is essentially a limited system with its own variables, I've been trying to figure out the best way to circle the restrictions it has to make raid attendance more meaningful than just based on who is the earliest one to sign up. The time when you signed up does not matter at all.

The calendar puts everyone to standby by default. When you are in a raid I will move you to signed up. For the next raid, I will look who has been on standby day or two before, and then move them to signed up as soon as the previous raid is over. Basically this means, that if you are signed up, you have a guaranteed spot on a raid. The empty spots will be filled from those on standby. However if you are signed up, but do not come online in time you'll lose your priority, and get not attending status, which means that you have chance to lose the priority for next raid as well.

However as usual certain classes have a priority due to them being necessary to the success of the raid.