Vesper OOC Announcement

Greetings my fellow Vesparians! In light of everything that has happened this past month and for the future progress of our Vesper community; I have a number of OOC announcements to make and requests to ask of you! I will keep them as brief as possible to make easier reading for you all .

1.) All of you need to sign up to these forums and just take 5 minutes a day to read them for updates and events etc. You also need to make reports here for your promotions to higher ranks. We are nearly finished importing everything over from our old stratics forums, we only have to move over old reports and then will remove the old stratics forums.

2.) All Redguard are required to create a character profile and citizens are encouraged to do so as well. This will allow us to keep track of peoples promotions and progress as well award them with medals.

You create the profile on the following board:

3.) For the Redguard all promotional requirements are now in strict effect. You can find them on the Vesper Redguard thread here: Vesper Redguard. (I've got to re edit the pictures for the new black forum background but the promotional requirements are readable). At the bottom of the page you will also see the questions for the promotional tests. This will encourage you to read the threads on our Guild Information board to learn more about Vesper.

4.) We are reintroducing a Medals system for our members to be awarded. You can find the information here: Vesper Medals.

5.) Vesper Command is currently developing an internal reward/restriction system for our guild. Similar to what other guilds have in place but unique and tailored to Vesper. Do not worry this won't be the introduction of heavy restrictions, it is being created to keep with the Vesper way of Life, our guild rules and core values that we've always followed. The main reason for this is to get our members more involved, give them something to work towards and be rewarded for and create roleplay for you all on a personal level.

6.) We will be working to host a balanced template of events each week. Vesper Command wants to achieve a balance of PvP, PvM, Pure RP and fun games each week. We want there to be something for everyone to enjoy, we don't want people burning out on one thing by doing it constantly etc. During this Nujelm campaign that just finished there was alot of work and effort required behind the scenes which took my attention away from getting events done to accommodate the other event types. I don't want that to happen again. We want to keep plenty of variety in Vesper for new experiences and diverse roleplay. Also playing with the idea of reintroducing the weekly OOC gear hunts on Sundays during the day before RP events that Twothumb used to run for Vesper back in the day doing peerless, champ spawns and the like.

7.) As you can see from some of these points one of my main focuses is to get all our members more involved. You are all valued members and I want to give you all the best roleplay experience. I don't want us to just turn up to an event and follow my orders for the night and then log off. I want our members to be fully immersed into events to feel they are making a difference with their actions having an impact on the course of events and in turn developing the roleplay of their character.

Like the other night when I gave you all homework to think up ideas to solve our economy problems, I am working on numerous event ideas that require our members to think and solve problems in order for the event to progress. These events range from set time scripted events to ongoing storylines for casual roleplay outside of events. I am also back to working on the Republican Games idea that will be an ongoing event series to bring about some friendly competition and teamwork as you compete in your teams for the league doing different games etc.

8.) There will be some structural changes to the blackguard in the near future.

9.) Everyone needs to mark their rune locations on the outskirts or out of view from the main RP hubs. So no using runes marked directly outside swaggers or outside Cove barracks or in middle of stonekeep for example. Also a reminder to go off screen before you recall out (I know I'm bad for this sometimes so I've gotta have a word with myself in the corner too).

10.) I'm going to be getting strict on this now, I will remember as much as I can at the start of each event but it's also down to YOU. REMOVE your Illegal Jewelry and other Illegal non RoE pieces of armour when you turn up to events. Our guilds rules are as follows:

I will start dishing out punishments for those people who break these rules.

11.) During events and roleplay guild/alliance chat is to be kept to a minimum please. Unless you have a problem or important question then you should be focusing on roleplaying in game during an event and outside events when other roleplayers are present. If you want to have a chin wag then go to party with that person.

Also when I'm busy hosting an event please avoid spamming me on ICQ or Discord unless its an emergency. You can see I'm busy and 95% of the time its things that can wait till after the event which I'll be more than happy to answer then, so just wait till after. This goes for anyone hosting an event, let them focus on running the event.

12.) Another reminder that please DO NOT GO AFK in RP Hotspots. If you need to go afk then simple go somewhere quiet and out of the way and use hiding skill if you have it. Even on a human you have 20 natural hiding so you have a chance to hide.

13.) Thank you all for taking part in the Nujelm campaign, I know the odds were against us but you all fought very well considering. As I said it was a tester campaign to identify problems with new RoE and to create balancing procedures to put into effect for future wars. The majority of you voted to abandon the campaign so we pulled out, I will not try to force the guild to do stuff they are not happy with but thank you all for sticking it out and giving it a chance anyway. Myself and Rim have very good relationships with the other guilds GM's and AGMs and during the campaign we were all working hard on the ALL GM discord to address and solve problems. The other guild leaders were very understanding, helpful and trying their best to balance things which I am very grateful for. We have a very good ALL GM this time round in RP who are all friends and work together very well.

Through the battles we did have the ALL GM has identified a number of issues that we need to address, debate and find solutions for before we carry out a big proper war. So we will be hard at work on that in these coming weeks.

14.) Some of you expressed concerns about Vesper being Isolated from the rest of the RP community due to this war which is damaging our roleplay and preventing us to grow and progress properly whilst the other guilds flourish with eachother. This was a very valid and worrying point which I brought to other leaders straight away and we have been discussing it. We are working on solving this with all the other leaders being very understanding. We will be making a armistice/peace accord so we can focus on roleplaying with eachother again. The other leaders have brought many ideas to me about stuff and scenarios we can do together.

15.) There will be a big war campaign eventually which I am planning thoroughly and this war campaign is being designed to not Isolate us in RP but allowed constant interaction with the other guilds on a non PVP scale. I will design it to perfection don't worry. Before this war campaign happens though we will have a period of sort of peace where we can all RP with eachother again. There will still be some battles like little skirmishes and we still need to do some naval battles to test those, in what RP form they come in is yet to be decided whether they are proper battles or training exercises etc.
Before we get into the big war the ALL GM has a number of issues with the RoE and balancing it needs to find a solution for and I personally do not want to bring Vesper into another war until we're in order internally as a guild with everything set in stone and our numbers boosted a bit. So we focus on ourselves for now .

16.) We need to focus on recruitment, Vesper Command is creating plans of action for this at the moment and we'll get the recruitment supplies stocked up in next few days so you lot can drop banners when you get a chance. Ask your friends though if anyones interested in RP, I've gotten many recruits in the past just by talking to friends on ICQ.

17.) Thanks for reading, Vesper will rise again