Originally Posted by chase3001 (Post 13297553)

With the exception of Killer, all the guild officers are external to DVDTalk. They have a real "elite" mentality to running the guild, and there is no room for the "casual" anymore, which in my opinion, was the best part of the guild.

Personally, I'm pretty sick of it, and really am only sticking around for the DVDTalkers still in the guild.

Originally Posted by story (Post 13297943)

Is that the Guild from the merger debacle?

I suppose there's a way to start a guild with people that's truly casual if we want but I don't even know how to get that going.

I wonder if it's less about being "active" and my roster just isn't strong enough. That's my hunch.

Originally Posted by story (Post 13296898)

I was kicked from the guild last night. Really bummed, very surprised. Kicked, then informed of it. Not how I would've handled it. It's unfortunate.

I was told I'm not active enough. Was surprised because there were new rules about expectations and how to get kicked and I wasn't breaking those rules and wasn't warned personally, as far as I know. They didn't say it's any other reason, but behind it, too, could be that I'm not one of the top players (that new Sith raid is nuts and if you don't have the right squad rosters it's easy to end up Rank #45 if you're lucky), could also be I don't always have the best roster for each situation, though I'm really trying hard to remain F2P and just when you start chasing one set of characters it turns out you should've been chasing another set of characters.

I don't know. I understand that officers want to change the direction of the guild. I wish they'd handled it differently. I honestly can't remember the last time I was cut from a team and it has a similar feeling to being dumped. I've joined another guild in the meantime and they seem nice and have an expectation level I think I can commit to and while I have an open mind, the pain is real and it truly won't be the same since its not with you all. I may check out the other Star Wars game that Supermallet mentioned, see how that goes.

It's just a game, but it sucks.

Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 13298102)

It was fun but the carrot kept moving and it was just a race to keep up with the <s>Skywalkers</s> Joneses. Couple that with the guild size of 50 (which is just insane) with varying degrees of interest/commitment, it became a nightmare.

I loved solving the number problems and being crazy efficient with the guild we had. But it began to get exhausting dealing some of the, um, more vocal members.

The merger debacle was a last-ditch effort to satisfy everyone and spread the power around. When it became clear that 50% of the people only cared about themselves and were not interested in shuffling power from the top to the bottom to benefit all 200 people in the long-term, we fell back to a single guild.

By then I was spent.

I don't regret the time with the game or you fine people, but I've never missed the grind!

Originally Posted by story (Post 13297943)

Is that the Guild from the merger debacle?

I suppose there's a way to start a guild with people that's truly casual if we want but I don't even know how to get that going.

I wonder if it's less about being "active" and my roster just isn't strong enough. That's my hunch.

Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13300721)

Just saw this now. The way they put the departure was that they communicated to you guys first, and then facilitated a transfer to guilds that suited your playing need. I guess that wasn’t the case.
Sorry Spatula!

Originally Posted by story (Post 13301179)

I'm afraid that wasn't the case. I logged into my game to find I'd been kicked. At first I thought, oh, maybe because I told them I'm out of town for the weekend and they're doing that thing where they bring in ringers and were making temporary room. But no. When I went to Line, I'd been removed from all chats and had a message from Mino that this has happened. At that point he offered to connect me to a guild, if I like. But no, there was no prior communication, I was cut and found out after the fact.

And to me, that's the frustrating part. We had standards of commitment, I was meeting those. I don't have the strongest roster, but I was communicating with officers and taking advice. Plus, I was told it was because I'm not active enough, not that I'm not powerful enough. The way this went down is just a bummer. Even a week later, it still feels like it just plain stinks.

Originally Posted by story (Post 13300215)

Meatpants! Sounds like a good guild, get me in asap!

Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13301326)

I’m not sure if Obey will chime in here or not but I think it was a matter of weeding out the “weaker” players in order to clear the Heroic Sith Raid. Otherwise, our guild’s strongest players will have gone and joined other guilds. This is the same thing that happened for Tank and is the same thing that’s happening now. I believe that if you would had unlocked JTR, they would had let you be. I believe that there’s a minimum number of JTR needed per guild in order to clear P1 so that was probably part of the decision. Was Cloud Strife part of DVD Talk too?

BTW, who’s left in the Guild from DVD Talk? Myself (Lopo555), Obey, Davidh777 (Seatlecub), DarthCruz.

Originally Posted by story (Post 13302328)

Awesome, thank you. I can join, though I'm about to go to a 3-day conference and I'm not sure how much I can play this Tuesday-Thursday. Should I still reach out?

Originally Posted by 19K (Post 13302387)

I saw that you joined. Awesome!!

The conference shouldn't be an issue at all. Just mention you'll be away in the in-game chat. Or I'll post something for you if you can't get online.

FYI, they dont mind if people post in the chat, in fact they welcome it. Occasionally the officers will make an announcement so it lets them know that members are actually paying attention and involved. I remember posting in that chat was frowned upon in the casual elite... It's pretty much the opposite in this guild.

Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 13298980)

That's a bummer. :sad:

I noticed when you and a couple others were removed and wondered what had happened. I'm not a very strong player, but I am active though I don't always hit my 600 energy. I mentioned that in the LINE chat once and was told that it was OK to just do my best. I often used to expend crystals to make sure I hit the 600, but now I just get as close as I can.

The struggle to figure out which characters to chase is real. I ignored the Hoth snow guys for forever until they became critical in Territory Battles. Then Territory Wars started, and I decided I wasn't carrying my weight until I maxed out my CLS, R2, Zarris, Zhan, and 5s, and those are now among my strongest characters. Except then I needed Jedi Training Rey and I had ignored the veterans too long to get them up to speed. And then Nightsisters became the big thing so now I'm working on those. Plus the Heroic Sith Raid and Dark Territory Battles. It's a neverending hamster wheel.

Originally Posted by LorenzoL (Post 13363291)

I left on my own accord but I know Cruz was kicked out.

Originally Posted by story (Post 13363528)

Yeah, the definition of "inactive" is really more "not as good as other players." Which is fine, I just wish they were more forthcoming.

19k, do we have room in Fathers and Sons? I think we're still looking to get back to 50.

Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 13364648)

:lol:

I have no idea what most of that means!

Originally Posted by pinata242 (Post 13368069)

Is Mino still an authoritarian?

Originally Posted by story (Post 13369479)

Sometimes that's just what you have to do. Does it feel better?