Quite a few interesting topics were brought up this month. We'll be starting to utilize our donation pool as raffle rewards in the future. Solaris has proposed a guild alliance for Raids and such. Official guild channel is established as Ch6. And Relya will be the Guild's officer and will contribute to the recruitment of members.


Here are some things discussed at the Guild Meeting on April 23, 2016:

• Donation Box & Raffle System
• Guild Alliances & Coalitions
• Official Establishment of Guild Channel
• Promotion of Relya to Guild Officer

Quote of the month:





This month's birthdays:
02 @konekova
04 gutierrez
06 Santa Carp
23 Jardyn
26 @crazysparkle
30 Linwelin



Guild meeting transcript for April 24, 2016 is as follows:
Drakkion
I welcome you to this month’s guild meeting.
Today’s topics will be: The donation box and a raffle reward system, Guild alliances and coalitions, Official establishment of the guild channel, a promotion for the staff, and birthday wishes
First of all I gotta excuse myself. I’m on a terrible laptop to participate on today’s meeting so everything will be a bit slower for me x)
But it should be fine.

Deathlyshade
Before we got onto the actually topics I wanted to ask about the guild website. I checked it earlier today and I think it hasn’t been updated since the 16th.

Ruiha
I can answer that one. I’ve been the main site director and I’ve been really busy this past week that I haven’t had time to bring it up to date. The website might continue to be outdated or delayed during the next week or so.

Deathlyshade
Fair enough, good to know though :)

Drakkion
Then let’s begin
Our first topic will be the donation box. Alstroemeria has a donation box where members donate a lot of items and over time, that box became quite full! Though it hasn’t been used in quite some time. That’s why we want to bring back the donation box! And we’ll incorporate it with the monthly Wind rewards.
You all surely know, that some Winds are competitive but there’s no real reward. Same goes for the raids. The top 3 raid contributors are mentioned, but that’s it.
That’s why we want to use rewards from the donation box for exactly that purpose! The winners of the Winds will be recorded and will be able to partake on a raffle at the end of the month to get a reward from the donation box!

Xbladeslash2
How can you possibly reward players as the donation box contains some of the more exclusive items? Are you going to give them based on their value?

Bigkearog
So if say I got extra glory sword and I donate one but then someone else donates wings, is it totally random or are we gonna have like classed rewards winners raffle and like second place and third place. Know what I mean? Prize tiers.

Drakkion
No, it won’t be totally random. All the items in the donation box will be priced. And the raffles will be corresponding to the prices. The raffle is still a work in progress! A thread with further details will be made on the forum soon. Does anyone have questions regarding the donation box?

Bigkearog
So I could donate some commons and stuff from gatchapons like glory sword extras or only big ticket items?

Drakkion
You can donate pretty much everything for the donation box. Maybe don’t go for small green gems.

Deathlyshade
A suggestion actually. Setting up a guild shop with a slight discount on donated items for any who need them could work? Like basic equipment for the “I just logged in for the first time”

Drakkion
The idea of offering them for sale is not a bad idea and having them discounted for guild members is too! It’s something we’ll still have to see through but I’ll definitely take it into consideration :)

Deathlyshade
Think about it now. A more underhanded merchant could buy and resell any of the discounted items so it might not be a great idea

Drakkion
We’re well aware of the problem of reselling, and will take that into consideration as well! So before we go off topic too much, that should be it for the donation box and the raffle.
Our next point is the guild alliance.
Some of you surely remember the last Giant Lion raid and that we weren’t alone during that. A guild named Solarion was there with us. They were fighting the Lion too.
After the event was over, the leader contacted me and was quite impressed by our sheer force. That’s why he asked me for further assistance.
Solarion is a guild with a similar structure and while they might be small of scale, the offer was interesting. But before I wanted to just agree to it, I wanted to hear the opinion of you guys and what you think about a guild alliance!

Deathlyshade
What would the benefit of an alliance be between guilds and what would we expect out of it and what would be expected out of us?

Drakkion
While we might be able to help them out with raids, there’s probably little things we’d have in return.

Bigkearog
Since there’s no implement of alliances in the game, our contract would be by word which could easily be abused.

Lushous
There’s nothing to be expected, only to make what is best of both parties, it’s the opportunities.

Drakkion
I thought if we’d make an alliance with a guild, they’d have to meet certain standards. Like have a similar guild system or management. And if a guild is raiding regularly, we’d have the benefit of having regular raids too.

Lushous
Did you happen to get their numbers as far as man power?

Bigkearog
We could make a joint discord server or something with them.

Drakkion
I didn’t agree to anything yet, we’ll still have to see how things will turn out. Solarion has 69 members to answer your question Lushous. But the guild alliance wouldn’t only have to be limited to Solarion but would be open to other guilds too.

Bigkearog
Like my wife’s guild Quodiblets?

Drakkion
Yes, that would be a possibility. To get your opinion on the topic, we’ll have a voting on the forum whether or not a guild alliance is a good idea.

Deathlyshade
As long as we let it be known that if we at all feel like we need to, that we can bail if needed.

Crimsoncero
If we make a voting thread on the forums, maybe we should have it open for debate for a while then open the poll.

Drakkion
Will do x)
Very well then! It was mentioned before, I want to bring your attention to our Discord server. While a lot of members are already on it, many are still missing! Discord is a place where we can have exactly those discussions. It’s also a fast way to chat with the guild, and way easier than Skype. We’ll also make announcement for Discord about events and changes.

Lushous
Is that like Teamspeak or something?

Drakkion
Discord is similar to Teamspeak, with being a chat platform for data sharing and a real light weight, not like Skype. That’s about it.
Tl;dr : Discord is great and you should join
Anyway! I mentioned a promotion coming up during this meeting. And one member will be promoted to be officer. Today!!
Let’s all congratulate Relya, who offered to help out the guild as officer!

Relya
Thank you
Well, I guess it’s my turn to take over as Officer from today on and as officer I hope I can do you all justice. I don’t think much will change from how it was before. But I will continue to support our leadership as good as I can.

Drakkion
Thank you Relya :)
With Relya as officer, interviews and recruiting will go much more smoothly. He’ll also help updating the guild homepage!
Well then. Lastly, we have a birthday today!
Today is Chikari’s birthday. And while I can’t give out too much information, she has a surgery coming up soon. That’s why she can’t be present. Let’s give her our best wishes, and hope everything will be alright :)
Also, Kohanetsu’s birthday is coming up. Kohane has been working together with the guild for a long time and put a lot of love into it to helping make it the great place it is :)
And to thank her for her hard work, we want to congratulate her to her birthday x)
If you want to wish her a happy birthday too, contact me after the meeting and we’ll work things out.
Actually change of plans! We’ll have a group picture with us wishing her a happy birthday and I think right now is a good moment!
So everyone get ready to yell happy birthday in all chat!

Derekchris24
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Johnsparta
Happy Birthday!

Deathlyshade
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

KATEevelyn
Happy birthday hun c:

Lilitharc
Happy Birthday~

Relya
Happy Birthday

Ruiha
Happy birthday Kohane

Lushous
Happy birthday!!!!

Vilson
Happy bofuday~

Crimsoncero
\o/ Happy Birthday \o/

Drakkion
Happy Birthday c:

Celinus
Happy birthday! Thanks for everything Koha!

Garyiscool
Happy birthday

Xbladeslash2
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Drakkion
That was amazing, thank you. I think we’re good :)
Before we end this meeting, I have one last thing. Maybe some already noticed but this month we’ll have a 5th Wind!
The 5th Wind was planned to have a custom guild event similar to the Easter Hide & Seek event we had. We had some ideas in mind already, one being a fashion contest! Where we can show off our greatest outfits and compete with each other for the Most Fashionable Alstroemerian title
But of course, that’s only an idea. We’re always open for suggestions!

Xbladeslash2
If we are going to have a fashion contest, we need to separate people into categories. Not all of us are Fashionogi as people put it.

Drakkion
We’ll consider those into the rules so people don’t have an unfair advantage. But a Fashion Contest is meant to show off pretty things so you should at least put a little effort into your appearance x)
Does anyone have a suggestion for a different event for the 5th Wind?

Johnsparta
How about an item hunt? Get everyone in the guild a Hebona Robe.

Drakkion
I’ll look into the item hunt idea.
Very well then. Now to the Mentor system.
The mentoring system is something I was still working on, but couldn’t manage to get done for the meeting. I promise you that it will be ready for the next time though :)
I was busy with a lot of things and pushed it around for too long but now I should have enough time to get it done.
Before we conclude the meeting, does anyone have something they want to address?

Crimsoncero
I’m in my school robotics team, and we are going to the world championship next week. If anyone wants to watch I’ll put a link in Discord. Also I won’t be here because of that.

Drakkion
I’m sure we can do something about that. And maybe we can even feature it on the homepage

Silverace17
I have something to announce. I don’t know if it matters though
Well, I don’t know if Drak mention this but I’m getting older in 3 days. I’ll be 20 ;

Drakkion
Well then
Thank you all for coming. All the seats were taken this time x)
And that concludes our guild meeting for today. Dismissed!