Thursday, January 10, 2001

The State of the Guild - by Leon Knight

Newly Acquired Ranks, and open DC Positions
We've had abit of trouble deciding who would take over the new DC seats. We have five people we're looking at and trouble picking them. So I will be ICQing each of these five people asking them to please e-mail me about what they'd do differenly as a DC'er, what are their plans, and why they feel they should be a DC'er.

After talking abit with Wind Wolf he has accepted the offer of Shogun. I'm very happy about this as he has proven himself and also (Which I look for most in a Shogun/Commandent) works well with me(Something which Trundle and I were very, very, good at I always thought)

New "awards" to be added to the Guild.
Kindness of our Hearts: This is given out for a single great act of kindness for the month

-Given out, by the GM or highest ranking member at the meeting, each month for a single great/kind/nifty act done.
-This award can be earned, once per month.
-Everyone submits any acts of kindness to the GM. The GM then picks the three best and then guildmates vote on one of the
three.
Note: This let's members who don't have enough free time playing to get MotM to have a chance to get this for a single great/kind act.

Dedication to DwB: An award given out to the guildmember who best shows the dedication to DwB and it's members.

-This award is given out for the dedication that is shown during a length of membership, to the guild.
-This award can be earned once during the course of guild members, and is given out once every two monthes.
-The older members (Will, Zan, Applesmash, LK, and Shouden) will vote for the recipient of this award.

Also, there was some talks of trying to find an item in-game that could be given to the member who won an award. No ideas yet still. So if you have one, please share it with us on the message board.

New members in the Guild.
Corran (Who some will remember from DwW) has come back to UO and returned us. So say hello. Shouden has also come back to us. Also, Dr Ricecake has been put on the stone. So say hello again.

We also have two new recruits. HawkeThorn and Ironman. Hawke is very new, only a few days experience and Ironman has been playing about two months. I've hunted with Hawke and have spoken with Ironman. Both seem like fine fellows. Their ICQ#'s will be posted in a bit.

Future of UO
Servers cost alot of money to run. While OSI has said they plan to keep UO around for ten years if everyone leaves for UO2 or Shadowbane, whatever other online game, and they aren't making enough money to keep it running they most likely will shut it down. So with UO2 coming out I'd personally say UO has a year left. So therefor it's wise to plan for the future.

DwB, as some of you might not know, started in Diablo with Shouden. We've done a bit of moving since then, to AC, EQ, D2, and SC. None but UO worked well. I would like for Rad, to post about moving to AC. Tell us why you feel it it didn't work and what you feel we'd have to do for it to work. I'd also like anyone else who was a part of any of these
attempted movings to post as well.

Also, I'd like for everyone who'd like to step up and say what online games they've been watching to please come up, post a link to any site with info on the game, and explain the reasons behind why you feel the game is right for the future of DwB and your friends and guildmates.

Hmm... Think that's it for now. Thanks for reading all this.

And welcome back DragonLance. Rocks to have ya back.