Monday, May 29, 2006
Monday morning rant.
This rant is provoked by some talk on guild chat yesterday. I want it to stop right there, so I will explain how things work to all who don't understand.
First and foremost - If you haven't already, read our rules at
http://wowtiger.blogspot.com/2006/03/rules-and-regulations.html
If you have, but you are not sure what they say, read them again.
Pay extra attention to rule number 6. - it goes like this:
Ask for help if you need help, that is what guild is for, but don't expect that everyone will drop everything they do right away to jump into helping you. Everyone in this guild will help a guildie in need IF they can at the given moment. If not, just try having some patience, and try arranging for later time. Don't forget we are all here to have fun. Do not annoy people with requests. If there is no one whilling to help at any given time you will have to do it yourself - we all did. Do not treat players higher level than you as your personal leveling/grinding robots.
All of the rules are fairly simple and mostly common sense. If you are not prepared to go by them, I would ask you to leave the guild immediately.
As it is, Tiger is a friendly guild. Friendship and loyalty is promoted above everything else, however if any of you equal "friendly" with "doing my work instead of me" are dead wrong. All of us did our time with leveling, went on soloing, joining pickup groups, forming guild groups and finally ending the leveling treadmill on our own. Some of you can play more and do it faster, some of you will do it slower, but all of you are able to do it without relying on someone babysitting you all the time - that's a fact. You can ask for some babysitting but under no circumstance are you entitled to demand it. Nobody in this guild will tell you how to spend your time online, and you are not in the position to arrange and organise other people's time.
Here are some examples:
- You finish the quest chain yourself, but there is a hard boss in the end that you need help killing. You ask for help and whoever decides to do it, will have to take 10-15 minutes of his time to do it. This is no fuss and is almost always answered.
(On contrary asking for someone to drop down everything he is doing for a few hours and run arround with you killing murlocs or something, while he has only a few hours time to spend online is much harder - just use some common sense with the requests you have and you will meet a positive answer much more often).
- Instances. For all of you wanting to go to Zul'Farak, Scarlet Monastery etc. You have to understand that we did those instances a million times and that we are sick of them. That is one thing. That is however not the reason you won't get some of us helping you out, but you HAVE to at least do your part of the job before - at least do so much and get a group going, put it on the calendar in advance and ask. You are missing lots of fun that way, because doing these instances of your level with a group of guildies of similar levels, is the way for you to become good ad what you are doing, and develop friends among guildies, because there is no better way of developing a friendship as is doing something hard together and relying on each other and feeling the joy of victory and frustration of defeat together.
One other thing - I do not want discussions about who is good and who is bad and who did what on guild chat - ever. If you have a problem with someone, try talking it out through private messages, if it doesn't work, bring it up to me or one of the officers also in private messages.
I hereby conclude my rant with these words. You guys make a great guild and I wouldn't change you for any other. We are good at what we do and we are getting better all the time. Little patience understanding and common sense goes a long way in improving our relationships, but solid friendships are built brick by brick - they do not just become.
Cheers Tigers!
Perun
First and foremost - If you haven't already, read our rules at
http://wowtiger.blogspot.com/2006/03/rules-and-regulations.html
If you have, but you are not sure what they say, read them again.
Pay extra attention to rule number 6. - it goes like this:
Ask for help if you need help, that is what guild is for, but don't expect that everyone will drop everything they do right away to jump into helping you. Everyone in this guild will help a guildie in need IF they can at the given moment. If not, just try having some patience, and try arranging for later time. Don't forget we are all here to have fun. Do not annoy people with requests. If there is no one whilling to help at any given time you will have to do it yourself - we all did. Do not treat players higher level than you as your personal leveling/grinding robots.
All of the rules are fairly simple and mostly common sense. If you are not prepared to go by them, I would ask you to leave the guild immediately.
As it is, Tiger is a friendly guild. Friendship and loyalty is promoted above everything else, however if any of you equal "friendly" with "doing my work instead of me" are dead wrong. All of us did our time with leveling, went on soloing, joining pickup groups, forming guild groups and finally ending the leveling treadmill on our own. Some of you can play more and do it faster, some of you will do it slower, but all of you are able to do it without relying on someone babysitting you all the time - that's a fact. You can ask for some babysitting but under no circumstance are you entitled to demand it. Nobody in this guild will tell you how to spend your time online, and you are not in the position to arrange and organise other people's time.
Here are some examples:
- You finish the quest chain yourself, but there is a hard boss in the end that you need help killing. You ask for help and whoever decides to do it, will have to take 10-15 minutes of his time to do it. This is no fuss and is almost always answered.
(On contrary asking for someone to drop down everything he is doing for a few hours and run arround with you killing murlocs or something, while he has only a few hours time to spend online is much harder - just use some common sense with the requests you have and you will meet a positive answer much more often).
- Instances. For all of you wanting to go to Zul'Farak, Scarlet Monastery etc. You have to understand that we did those instances a million times and that we are sick of them. That is one thing. That is however not the reason you won't get some of us helping you out, but you HAVE to at least do your part of the job before - at least do so much and get a group going, put it on the calendar in advance and ask. You are missing lots of fun that way, because doing these instances of your level with a group of guildies of similar levels, is the way for you to become good ad what you are doing, and develop friends among guildies, because there is no better way of developing a friendship as is doing something hard together and relying on each other and feeling the joy of victory and frustration of defeat together.
One other thing - I do not want discussions about who is good and who is bad and who did what on guild chat - ever. If you have a problem with someone, try talking it out through private messages, if it doesn't work, bring it up to me or one of the officers also in private messages.
I hereby conclude my rant with these words. You guys make a great guild and I wouldn't change you for any other. We are good at what we do and we are getting better all the time. Little patience understanding and common sense goes a long way in improving our relationships, but solid friendships are built brick by brick - they do not just become.
Cheers Tigers!
Perun
# posted by Officer @ 7:58 AM 
