Knights of Stonewall Update - February 2012
Wow, it's February already. As promised here is this month's brief update on the State of the Guild as of today the 4th of February, 2012.
Officers
I'd like to announce that Justjon has moved from the post of Empire PvE Officer to the role of Membership Officer. His responsibilities now include keeping the in-game and website rosters up to date, ensuring that we know who everyone in-game is by ensuring we all have our username in our member notes and making sure that everyone is at the right rank. I'd like to thank Jon for volunteering to take on this time-consuming, never-ending and thankless task, lol.
We currently have 2 available officer positions, Ambassador and Empire PvE Officer. The descriptions of these roles and information on how to apply are currently posted in the Council Chamber forum.
Guild Wide Meeting
As you should already know, we will be holding our first guild wide meeting today in the IRC channel. Saturday the 4th of February at 12 noon PST, 3pm EST, 8pm GMT. The meeting should take no more than an hour and will take place on our IRC chat channel to ensure anyone, even those without Ventrilo, can attend. You can access the IRC chat simply by clicking "Chatroom" in the menu at the top on the page, or if you would like to use your own IRC client you can find our channel details here. The meeting will be informal and the officers will be there to answer all your questions.
Crafting Meeting
KiddKasper has arranged a meeting for all members who are interesting learning more about SW:TOR's crafting system this Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 9pm GMT (4pm EST, 3pm CST, 2pm MST, 1pm PST). This will be right after the guild wide meeting. All the information on this meeting can be found in Kaspers thread here.
Events
The officers are currently working on finding out what kind of PvE events and in-game social gathering everybody would like to see. The Republic and Empire PvE Officers will be working together to ensure that players on both sides are catered for equally. Johnspiff has already begun as PvP Sign Up thread, so if you would like to get involved in PvP, check it out.
I'd also like to address a common misconception that we have encountered before. The officers are not responsible for running every guild event. We have 486 members in KoS and everyone is more than welcome to create and run any event they choose. We have an Events section on the website that anyone can use to promote their event. The officers are here to ensure that we have events and to help get everyone involved. They are also here to help promote all events, and are always available to give advice on how to use our facilities to get an event going.
Republic guilds
Soldiers of Stonewall has grown beyond expectations and I'd like to thank everyone for helping us by moving their Trooper and Smuggler characters to the correct guild. There are still a lot of these characters in Knights of Stonewall. I'd just like to remind everyone that it is in their own interest to be in the correct guild as we will be attempting to maximise space in the guild banks when they arrive by keeping class specific items in the correct bank. If you would like to switch your character to Soldiers of Stonewall, just ask in the KoS channel for an invite.
PG13 Policy
We have a PG13 policy in all the public areas of the website and in our in-game chat channel. This matches Bioware's "ESRB Rating TEEN". For any of our newer members I'd just like to remind everyone why it exists and that it is not designed to hinder communication, but to encourage it. This policy is not because we are pandering to a minority of members, it is simply there because we don't all want to listen to one or two people talking explicitly about themselves and others. We have provided 18+ channels in Ventrilo along with private rooms, and the game has a private whisper and group party chat function. So we are not stopping anyone from talking about what they want. We just ask everyone to remember that the public rooms are public and so we all have to feel comfortable joining in the conversation.
Finally, I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support for the Stonewall community and particularly for Knights of Stonewall. I want to thank all the Captains for doing such a great job in-game keeping on top of all the invite and information requests. I'd also like to thank the officers for giving up (what has recently been far too much of) their free time to keep this guild working so well.
Thank you all!
Zepari
Officers
I'd like to announce that Justjon has moved from the post of Empire PvE Officer to the role of Membership Officer. His responsibilities now include keeping the in-game and website rosters up to date, ensuring that we know who everyone in-game is by ensuring we all have our username in our member notes and making sure that everyone is at the right rank. I'd like to thank Jon for volunteering to take on this time-consuming, never-ending and thankless task, lol.
We currently have 2 available officer positions, Ambassador and Empire PvE Officer. The descriptions of these roles and information on how to apply are currently posted in the Council Chamber forum.
Guild Wide Meeting
As you should already know, we will be holding our first guild wide meeting today in the IRC channel. Saturday the 4th of February at 12 noon PST, 3pm EST, 8pm GMT. The meeting should take no more than an hour and will take place on our IRC chat channel to ensure anyone, even those without Ventrilo, can attend. You can access the IRC chat simply by clicking "Chatroom" in the menu at the top on the page, or if you would like to use your own IRC client you can find our channel details here. The meeting will be informal and the officers will be there to answer all your questions.
Crafting Meeting
KiddKasper has arranged a meeting for all members who are interesting learning more about SW:TOR's crafting system this Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 9pm GMT (4pm EST, 3pm CST, 2pm MST, 1pm PST). This will be right after the guild wide meeting. All the information on this meeting can be found in Kaspers thread here.
Events
The officers are currently working on finding out what kind of PvE events and in-game social gathering everybody would like to see. The Republic and Empire PvE Officers will be working together to ensure that players on both sides are catered for equally. Johnspiff has already begun as PvP Sign Up thread, so if you would like to get involved in PvP, check it out.
I'd also like to address a common misconception that we have encountered before. The officers are not responsible for running every guild event. We have 486 members in KoS and everyone is more than welcome to create and run any event they choose. We have an Events section on the website that anyone can use to promote their event. The officers are here to ensure that we have events and to help get everyone involved. They are also here to help promote all events, and are always available to give advice on how to use our facilities to get an event going.
Republic guilds
Soldiers of Stonewall has grown beyond expectations and I'd like to thank everyone for helping us by moving their Trooper and Smuggler characters to the correct guild. There are still a lot of these characters in Knights of Stonewall. I'd just like to remind everyone that it is in their own interest to be in the correct guild as we will be attempting to maximise space in the guild banks when they arrive by keeping class specific items in the correct bank. If you would like to switch your character to Soldiers of Stonewall, just ask in the KoS channel for an invite.
PG13 Policy
We have a PG13 policy in all the public areas of the website and in our in-game chat channel. This matches Bioware's "ESRB Rating TEEN". For any of our newer members I'd just like to remind everyone why it exists and that it is not designed to hinder communication, but to encourage it. This policy is not because we are pandering to a minority of members, it is simply there because we don't all want to listen to one or two people talking explicitly about themselves and others. We have provided 18+ channels in Ventrilo along with private rooms, and the game has a private whisper and group party chat function. So we are not stopping anyone from talking about what they want. We just ask everyone to remember that the public rooms are public and so we all have to feel comfortable joining in the conversation.
Finally, I'd like to thank everyone for their ongoing support for the Stonewall community and particularly for Knights of Stonewall. I want to thank all the Captains for doing such a great job in-game keeping on top of all the invite and information requests. I'd also like to thank the officers for giving up (what has recently been far too much of) their free time to keep this guild working so well.
Thank you all!
Zepari
