Focus = Community.

The Wyrd Angles community and its game guilds are only the sum of all members. This means members are expected to actively partake in the community, joining in organized events, grouping with other Wangles on a fairly regular basis be it within an MMORPG or on a multi player system such as Steam, PS3 or Xbox live, helping others with in game quests or achievements and doing what you can to help the community as a whole. That does not exclude playing solo, forming groups or parties with others, or not jumping in to help every person who asks. It is about finding the right balance to benefit you and the community as a whole. And never forget, the games we play are just that - Games! Lets have fun, create moderate amounts of mayhem, and drink more beer!

Also never forget that you carry the communities name above your head at all times (certainly in games where we have an active guild / clan), conduct yourself in a manner which will earn respect from your fellow players, not contempt. Be proud of being a Wyrd Angle, and make those around you happy to see one. Be polite, both to community members and fellow gamers. Be a nice person - even if this means you have to role-play the whole time (we're sure you can be evil and nice at the same time...)! Don't spam, don't ninja-loot, don't kill steal, don't get caught up in abusive arguments and don't intentionally train

Any member who does not play within game platform / MMORPG policies and community rules will be removed from the community, as this can damage our reputation. Conversely, if another player acts poorly toward you, then try politely asking them to stop or reach a compromise. There is never an excuse for dealing with like by like.

Have self-respect within your game, don't beg in guild chat / voice channels, and especially not in game's general/trade chat, /say, /yell etc. By all means ask for help when you need help, but make the distinction. If it is not immediately urgent or you no-one is around to help, try the forums. For quest / achievement assistance, do some research, and if needed plan a date and time, asking for help from people through a forum post, it is easier to help those who help themselves in this respect.

Please do not auction or sell items in the community guild's chat channels. If you are looking for services (gems, enchanting etc.) - your request should be polite and specific where possible. Wyrd Angles' members are under no obligation to fulfill the requests, however if they are not busy and have the time to spare, then providing assistance is encouraged. These should be non-exploitative - neither overcharging a community member nor making a profit from anothers good will. If a Wangle offers you something cheaply, buy it to use it, not to sell it on elsewhere. If no response to your request is received in a guild chat channel, then direct whispers should not be used. By all means repeat the request after a polite amount of time but do not spam.


Member Level Limit

The minimum level limit for a main character in Wyrd Angles is 10.


New Member Applications

Applicants to Wyrd Angles must register an account on the forum (using their primary player / character name) and post in the Membership Applications forum using the template provided, further instructions can be found here.

Once an application has been reviewed, a community admin or a member of one of the office councils will contact the recruit for tagging as a probationary member. If you are unable to create an account please mail an officer (contact us in game to get an email address).

A thread in a private members forum will be created for each new recruit, where members may post comments good or bad. These will all be archived when the new recruit is promoted to a full member, or if they are asked to leave. If a Wyrd Angles member has cause to feel that an applicant would not make a good Wangle, they are encouraged to bring this to the attention of the officers, either by posting in Recruits, or contacting an officer directly. All such negative recommendations will be investigated before the applicant is denied membership.


Probation period

All new recruits have a 4 week probation period and in that time they should spend as much time as possible interacting with the guild - grouping with members, attending events/raids, being active on the forum and in guild chat etc. This will give our current members the chance to get to know the recruit and vice versa. Within the last week of probation full members have the chance to vote on the recruit, and after 4 weeks is up and the officers are satisfied that the person fits in with the guild they are promoted to full member.

In rare cases the probation period can be increased or even decreased (2 week minimum / 8 week maximum) at the officers' discretion based on comments from community members. If there are still concerns over the suitability of a recruit at any point during their probation period they will be removed from the guild where they are serving probation and forum access revoked. In MMORPGs probationary members are not automatically entitled to raid loot or guild bank items.


MMORPG alts

You are entitled to have 1 Alt character tagged during your probation. Upon successfully passing probation and becoming a full member of Wyrd Angles, you must move all alt characters present on the same server into the guild. .

This does not mean that you must join the WA guild in all games. Joining additional game guilds is optional, but it is expected that in any game where you join a WA guild, all of your characters on that server are tagged into the WA guild and not another. This is to prevent WA becoming an alt guild with players main characters sitting in a raiding guild and the rest in WA.


Purging of members from MMORPG guilds

As in most environments people will from time to time move onto other things or have a change of circumstances which requires leaves un-played characters within MMORPG guilds. The officer council of any Wyrd Angles guild may initiate a clean up of old members and remove the guild tag from players characters where they have not been seen in game for a specific amount of time (any stagnant accounts removed will also lose their place on loot tables / DKP / SK rankings depending on what is in use within a particular game).

Although characters may be removed from the WA guilds through stagnation, to reflect the sense of camaraderie within the community the member's forum account will remain active. At any time, the member may return to the community and request their characters be given a guild tag in any MMORPG where Wyrd Angles is present.

Please note - if you know you're going around the world for a year but would like to remain in one of our guilds - please let us know so we don't clear you out!


Purging of members from the community forum

Although we do not like to do so, inactive members may be purged from the forum if required to clean up the membership lists etc, though this is not a common occurrence and the period of inactivity may be specified in years rather than months.

Removed members wishing to rejoin the Wyrd Angles community can do so via a normal application, and will be required to undertake the standard four week probation.


Events

The primary aim of the community- as already mentioned - is to have fun, cause some mayhem, and drink beer, a secondary aim is to keep friends and gamers in contact across different games - giving them a sense of home. Please try to remember this before you get caught up in XP or loot worries, panicking about not having a group, or a myriad of other things that spoil both your enjoyment and that of others.

Enjoyment should be your number one priority. Community / guild events are aimed at everyone having fun, and while fun is a key ingredient in our MMORPG raids as well, we expect our members to be focused and come prepared. MMORPG raids are for the good of the game guild as a whole, not the good of the individual guild members. Unwanted loot generally is allocated to the guild bank within the game to be offered back to members e.g. as craft items.

Any member may arrange an event, party, raid or quest group, as long as they do not conflict with existing events of the Wyrd Angles guild within that game. Every Raid / Event should be posted in the events forum with set information included. This will include raid leader/event organizer, level limit (if unclear), start time, finish time and any specific loot details (see next section) Any open raids or organized farms will be marked specifically in the raid info. If you attend one of these, do not expect to be assigned to an all guild group or a camp area.

During any organized MMORPG raids (or organized parts of open raids), please keep babble to a minimum while explanations are given by the raid leader and/or loot is being distributed. We use the raid chat channel for instructions and directions, and extra chatter makes it easy to miss this important information. People are also expected to use Ventrilo or other voice communication to make it easier for the RL to provide instructions.


Loot

Within MMROPG's the community guilds generally use a system called Suicide Kings (SK or SKG) for handling raid loot, maintaining a "Need"- and a "Would Like"-list. Recruits will have to wait until they have passed probation before they are added to the Need-list.

The officer council of each Wyrd Angles guild may decide to change loot distribution systems or specific rules to ensure that they are using what is appropriate for the specific game. In these cases, the loot rules used within a specific game will be clearly posted on the forums.

It must be stressed that loot orientated people will not enjoy life in Wyrd Angles. We are not a loot orientated community - we play to enjoy, not to become uber. If you are bidding against a fellow guild member and see that he would benefit more from the drop than you, it is up to you to withdraw your bid and the item will go to the person that is 2nd highest on the list.


The Guild Banks

The Guild bankers within our MMORPG guilds volunteer their time to the Guild for their specific jobs. Please respect this at all times. You are expected to travel to them and should not keep them waiting, or have the item mailed to you. If they are online, ask if they are available for an exchange. If you're an hour away, then ask if they will be available in an hour's time. Get yourself to the arranged meeting place (not 3 zones away) before you ask them to show up. If anyone has to wait, it should be you. Information for specific game guild banks is present on the forum.


MMORPG Guild Funds

The MMORPG guild's maintain Guild funds where the game allows. These are for funding of organized raids, prize money, and anything else that benefits the Guild in that specific game. The funds consist of old items from the guild bank having been sold as well as donations by our members. We will not charge membership fees to increase Guild funds. Equally, these funds are not available for loan to Guild members.


Donations

Anyone wishing to donate money or equipment to one of the MMORPG guild's should use the in game guild bank for this or send an in game mail to an officer. If you choose the latter option, please make your intention clear.

Anyone wishing to donate real money (Paypal) towards the cost of running the website and forums should follow this link - note, any money paid into this can only be used to pay our Dreamhost account, the money can not be extracted from the system to buy the officers beer etc.


Forum Signatures & Avatars

Large dimension signatures may distort the page on some lower resolutions. Large file sizes result in longer page loads; they also use up significant amounts of bandwidth which for some users is limited or paid for upon use; they sometimes don't load for dial up users and they make viewing the forum on anything other than a broadband PC (think PDA, mobile etc) nearly impossible.

The following limits should be adhered to, any avatars or signatures that exceed these limits will be removed.

Avatar:
100 x 100, max size - 25kb

Signature:
500 wide x 120 high (including any text lines), max size - 100Kb*


*Please note that the graphic says "preferred" size, this is no longer the case, the graphic is a representation of the maximum allowed size, as specified above.


Updated:  7th January 2012