Kairyuu wrote:Seems like Reck is back (finally).
In other news, I've opened talks with another small guild about them merging into our guild in exchange for some officer powers and such (because I'm apparently PR now, *cough*). Once we hear back from them as to whether or not they're all interested, I'll lay out the exact proposal, and we can vote on it as a guild.
Current things we're considering offering/they've requested if they decide to go for it:
1. Officer status to all of their officers.
2. Insertion of one of their members as head raid leader, moving BBM and me to a subordinate position.
3. They have a web domain and a programmer working on getting it up and running, and would like to use it. This particular one we're iffy on, as we know that several people have an interest in the site we already have, and would want to be involved, regardless of what domain the site is under.
To be perfectly honest, I expect them to demand more than we'd be willing to give them, (as in, I believe they'll try to pretty much take over the guild) but if this works out we may have initial stages of a working raid group ready as soon as a few days from now.
as official whiner and policy nazi, allow me to review these terms and conditions
officer status to all of their officers seems like it clashes completely and utterly with the philosophy of a democratic process we seemed to agree on; if this plan has changed due to everything falling apart, i think that this is a bad thing to do until we have some solid guild structure
what are their goals as a guild? they seem focused on raiding - i don't want to start some massive rift between the new blood and the old guard on how much we're raiding, etc.
if they have their own domain and whatnot, doesn't that require either a name change on our part (which i'm strongly against, if they want to merge into us, they need to be accepting of our terms and conditions; i have a lot of negotiation experience if you need someone to strong-arm them onto favorable positions for us) and/or a lot of confusion over the domain and whatnot?
i'm very, very wary of this, we need to hear exact terms and conditions from them and then counter; make sure they give us an entire list of what they want before we start offering them things, we need to get in a position where we're making them tailor their demands to us instead of us tailoring to them
No more shitloads of free time.