Anti-guildFollow

chill man you'll do yourself a mischief.

Well, since you've decided to take this public, looks like we made the right choice! go us!

Edited, Mon Sep 27 12:15:09 2004 by Mulamen

Maybe it's b/c your toon is lvl 6.......

Well if you must know, our standard approach is to have the officers actually READ the applications. Our main officer (guild leader) was out of contact on personal buisiness so we thought it wise to wait. You unfortunately pestered the membership so much, the officers were not at all impressed. I mean come on, you post an application and 3 hours later you are asking for the officers to tag you?

Yes, it is unfortunate but inevitable that we have to close down our recruitment for re-evaluation. And you are a prime example of why.

Obviously the thing to do is for everyone here to app Forsaken Outcasts and Norrath's Reborn Rage over on Quellious. They must have a drive through or something where you fill out an application and the guild fairy baps you on the head with her wand and tags you.

what do you need a Bard for?

No, he applied last Thursday. He started asking for officers soon after and all weekend. He did not get the official word until today, 'coincidentally' the day the GL gets back. As for the low-level characters in Guild. Most of the active ones are alts. Some of the others are people who started with us months ago and have not returned for one reason or another leaving low-level characters on the roster. Most of the active players are > level 25 and it is quite possible a level restriction for recruits WILL be in place in the near future.

Oh and posting '***' to a public board doesn't help your chances DOOD.

I was going to say something abou that, but I held back.

"me no mana now"

/sigh I miss Blurred. Even if it was "wait me one minute -no mana" atleast we had almost a C3 NPC.

You do need to learn patience. And realize that your actions speak more, for who you are, than anything else you do in EQ.

My guild recently went to a level 60 requirement, just to be considered. However, because of grouping with several members, for many xp groups, my app was considered a few levels early.

I'm still a trial member, but it took 3 days to get a response to my app. And in those 3 days, I had invites from 2 other guilds. I politely told them I had already submitted an app, but if things didn't work out, we would talk.

From that last conversation, I have a standing invite to another up-and-coming guild on Xev.

So learn some patience, and be the best person you can be, and you will find that getting guilded can be quite a simple thing.

And as far as Aude Sapere changing their app process...A guild is an ever-evolving entity. There are so many guilds starting/ending, that the ones who stay 'in business' get inundated with applications. It is easy for them to get too big to control. So it only makes sense to change the application process to let them better control their membership.

And while it sounds like you were on the cusp of one of those changes, you still might have had success had you not pursued the course you did. You might have been 'the last low-level recruit' before new level restrictions were put in place.

As it is, you can be assured Aude Sapere will not be interested in you no matter what level you reach...

Threadjack; purely from the point of view of someone who has absolutley no experience with any kind of third-party program, programming language, or even Everquest at all (That's the story I'm sticking with, damn you) you could rather easily make a [blank] bot to automate C3/Ports/Temp-Virt/HoS/whatever and make it in such a way so that it wouldn't be immedietly obvious, especially if you were monitoring tells (and it needn't be monitored in the EQ window, either- you can do it from work, for instance, with a simple Telenet window).

Still, it's a bit of a risk, although if you make it properly it's a very, very, very minor one.

Back to the main topic; man, you're a complete idiot.

Blurred was obviously a bot, he would sit in the same spot by the nexus stone (southeast corner facing south) casting all brands of C, 90% of the day. So much so that when he wasn't there, people had created alts in effigy to the missing blurred (one time I think there at least 6 or 7 female erudite enchanters sitting at his empty spot).
"open trade window for invite" is a great clue it's a bot, not always, but it's a good clue.

I just held out hope it was some war vet sitting in a dingy basement with 1000 crumpled up cigerette packs lying around him and a statue of some lost love made out of whiskey bottles.

I actually had conversations with Blurred on a few occasions. I think he was originally a bot but he was, toward the end of his KEI career, manned by 5-10 Asians that spoke very little English.

Nat