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(Player News) NOOB is Born

Tanager

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Over the years, newcomers to Siege have been welcomed with open arms and generosity. While this is still true, I would formally like to continue the tradition of a 'safe' (ish) guild for the shard's youth.

Those who carried this torch in the past devoted a great deal of time and energy to the effort. I respect that, and I am grateful for all their hard work. Today, however, this is not needed as much. I will offer basic supplies and equipment so that they won't be afraid to get out there and play for fear of losing their gear, but I do not intend to give them an endless supply. Nor tools, nor many resources. I intend to promote self-sufficiency, and to create a pool of players that they can hunt, gather, and quest with without announcing their location in General Chat. Additionally, I will provide a secure place to train skills until they can get their own home. Any scripters I catch will be expelled from NOOB.

I think the standard 30 day membership was an excellent system, and I intend to resume it. This includes displaying the guild tag and membership-dated subtitle at ALL times rule, as well as never starting a PvP fight or interfering with one in progress for the duration of their NOOB status. A NOOB may defend themselves from attack, but must otherwise remain neutral until they graduate. Also, as before, any NOOB at an IDOC is fair game.

Of course, ANY player is fair game at any time but I'd like to ask the general population of Siege to go easy on any newblets bearing the NOOB tag. If not, well, no worries - this is Siege. As the guild leader, I am exempt from this consideration, and will frequently leave my guild tag off so as to avoid confusion. Murder me without qualm!

I helped with this task for a while, so I think I have a handle on what it entails. My memory is not what it once was, however, so it's very possible I have forgotten some details. Advice and opinions are welcome.

New to Siege [NOOB] has been born!

{ NEWB was taken :( }
 

FrejaSP

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Great to see you do that Tanager. You did great as one of my co-leaders in NEW2 and will do great as Guildleader for a NOOB guild. If you need anything, just ask, if I can help, I will.
 

Tanivar

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I'll gather, craft, and hunt with your new guild's members. I lean towards that style play as a rule and can be on at various times of day for those who play quieter hours. I don't PvP as a rule, only if bushwhacked by a pesky pker. :)
 

Tanager

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I'd appreciate that, since I don't do much hunting myself. I am hesitant to form any sort of alliances, as NOOB will accept any and all new characters so long as they can keep to the rules while they are guilded. There has been past instances of guilding non-noobs who just want to know where prey is. But maybe somethin can be worked out safely enough, that way they can contact you without informing GC. Not that we have a huge PK problem....
 

Tanivar

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I'd appreciate that, since I don't do much hunting myself. I am hesitant to form any sort of alliances, as NOOB will accept any and all new characters so long as they can keep to the rules while they are guilded. There has been past instances of guilding non-noobs who just want to know where prey is. But maybe somethin can be worked out safely enough, that way they can contact you without informing GC. Not that we have a huge PK problem....
I could pass LBSS leadership to Landreu and join your guild so we could use guild chat. The Alliance I'm part of now hunts primarily spawns and mega-hp monsters which is not something I'm into so Tanivar losing chat with them wouldn't be a show-stopper.
 

Drakelord

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The H^E welcome the Birth of NOOB with open arms, a salute, and a warning, be careful of the Bandits. Those that self-proclaim that they own these lands all across this shard are those Bandits. They have been absent for a while, their noses were bloodied with the meeting of L-B, another group that I say are Bandits as well for they stole my statue, I still await the day they return it, waxed and shined. They know the address. ;):p
 

GarthGrey

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I wish you all the best with this, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't say this. Does this mean you're going to stick around for a while this time ? Because you tend to disappear for months at a time. Just curious. :) And I too can help you out with anything you need, feel free to drop a book in my mailbox whenever you require things.
 

Tanager

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I do have a tendency to vanish for months at a time, occasionally even years. :oops: Mostly because I get kinda bored in UO, cuz I don't PvP, rarely PvM, and only craft when I need to. So I move on to other things until something new and shiny comes out in Sosaria. But yes, I plan to stick around for while this time! I may not keep up the 12 hour gaming sessions after the holidays are over, but I will be fairly regular. Probably.

As for supplies and whatnot, keeping up with that should be what keeps me in the game. Gives me a reason to do PvM and crafting, because I just don't need anything myself so I don't bother. I might even go mining! Only thing I can't acquire myself is power/stat scrolls and mastery books... but frankly, by the time they are skilled enough to need them, they are skilled enough to join a champion spawn hunt or earn gold to buy them. We don't really get that many new players, I don't think the demand will be that high. If I fall flat on my face with this, well, Siege will just be back to where it was before I gave it a go.

Thank you all for your support and offers, you're all very kind. If I run into any problems I'll let you guys know!

:D
 

Tjalle

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The H^E welcome the Birth of NOOB with open arms, a salute, and a warning, be careful of the Bandits. Those that self-proclaim that they own these lands all across this shard are those Bandits. They have been absent for a while, their noses were bloodied with the meeting of L-B
Yeah, what a bunch of lame-asses. :D
The second another group of PvPers showed up they ran away only to never log in again. Hi-Fail strikes again.
I guess they couldn´t handle Siege...
 

FrejaSP

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Yeah, what a bunch of lame-asses. :D
The second another group of PvPers showed up they ran away only to never log in again. Hi-Fail strikes again.
I guess they couldn´t handle Siege...
4 PvP ran them off? Could the shard not had handled that them self?
Maybe it's about time we rebuild an army of Virtue Knights to handle next group of that kind. We need some Sheep dogs :)
 

FrejaSP

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Back to topic, I'm sure Tanager can handle keeping NOOB neutral and get some deals with PK's about going easy on them.
 

HoldenCaulfield

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Hi Tanager,

Glad to see you embark on such a task.

I think one thing I'd really enjoy seeing would be a capture of some key metrics and analytics with respect to players coming through the guild.

If we can capture some of these things it may help us evaluate and make informed decisions.

Maybe start with a simple excel sheet:
Date Joined: (Date)

Recruit Type: Prod Transfer, Free Shard Transfer, New Account

Referred By: General Chat Blurb, Stratics Post, Existing Siege Player

Playstyle: PvM, PvP, RP, RPPvM, RPPvP

First Guild Joined: TDO, GIL, CLAN, HI-5, LB, Nerd, O-G, (None), ETC..

Current Guild: (Similar to Above)

Active: Yes/No
Etc...

Am I being too geeky? Apologies if so, I just think it would be a neat project and gauge to population trend and whether hope exists to grow. We could even setup a real time dashboard. OK too much time on my hands lol.
 
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Lady Lavendar

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I'm happy to hear you are going to make the guild NOOB. I have wished we had a new player on Siege guild again for some time. Please let me know if I can be of help.
 

kelmo

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Tanager has been very present. I encourage folks to lend her whatever support you can. Make some extra scrolls or potions. Donate the crap power scrolls. A cheap suit...

I think I will place a donation box at the Umbra Hub. I am discriminating though, if it is trash it is trash.
 

Tanivar

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What flavor scrolls and what should be on the cheap suits? What else should I particularly make or find to donate?

There are four chests in front of my greenhouse next door to Landreu's house that I'm tossing pinks and various odds and ends into. Anyone who wants to sort through them and take what they want, they're at the location below my sig.
 

Larisa

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Tanager has been very present. I encourage folks to lend her whatever support you can. Make some extra scrolls or potions. Donate the crap power scrolls. A cheap suit...

I think I will place a donation box at the Umbra Hub. I am discriminating though, if it is trash it is trash.
Since I made a gargoyle, I noticed it was very difficult to find any type of gargoyle armor anywhere. I did manage to find an lrc suit but there's not much out there..SO I have been collecting gargoyle pieces and was going to start a newbie vendor at my house...but if you're going to put a donation box at your hub I will gladly fill it up :)
 

Eärendil

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Although I am still not as active as I wish (most probably until April), I am in touch with her to integrate NOOB into my hunts, which should be a cool occasion for younger players.

See you!
 
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