AoRG Forum Meeting - May 23, 2007

[[..Chancellor Announcements..]]

Unireg Administration - Bryannae (Bryannae)
--Unireg Roster has been updated on the AoRG Portal. Any questions should be directed to the Chancellor.

Events Administration - Minya (MinyaDkbld)
--Reminder that Guild Leaders may revise their list of individuals who should receive event related mail by sending a message to Minya, Lirial, Cindy, Raz, Annis, and Kyttea.
--Also, there are no current openings in the Events calendar for this year. For any guilds that have no hosted, a suggestion was to seek out guilds with approved events to perhaps co-host.

General / Healing Administration Announcement - Annis (AnnisXXII)
--Healers Administration is currently closed for restructuring. Announcement will be made when it is reopened.

[[..Member Inquiries..]]

Nathanial (TiefIing)
Q: Concerning land wars, is that type of war simple a term in the War or is it a completely separate style of Declaration of War?
A (KittieVonJager): As far as land goes, it would be a part of the spoils in the terms of war, though it would not hurt to mention something in the DoW either.
Q: Do it would have to be agreed upon by both guilds?
A: Yes.

Cassy (DrkCrimsonTearz)
Q: Wishes to implore the Chancellory to reconsider the amount of matches people can participate in together in an event. It was difficult to find matchs for the Lady Luck event.
A (MinyaDkbld): The topic was covered by Raz's recent Executive Orders. They were create in order to control the amount of exclusivity. All MS matches must have two or more
guilds involved; no three particpants can do more than five matches together in any one event; and only fifty percent of matches by a proctor may include only the proctor's guild.
Q: I do understand the rules, but wishes the Chancellory to reconsider. There are those who play by the rules as they were intended and are being punished because of other's misdeeds.
A (MinyaDkbld): What are you looking for exactly?
Replay (DrkCrimsonTearz): Reconsideration of the rules for those who are innocent and do not abuse the system.
A (MinyaDkbld): You wish us to throw the book at those who are not guilty of breaking mandates because you don't believe they behaved fair? Raz's orders were issued as a response
to the issues you've raised. This is the problem, because Raz made those orders, the guilds you see as being guilty were not breaking any mandates.
Q (AnnisXXII): What penalties are in place now for those who break the mandate limits?
A (MinyaDkbld): The matches outside the limits are voided.
Q (AnnisXXII): Does it help, Cassy?
A (DrkCimsonTearz): No, it doesn't, but thanks for trying.

Trai (TraiTRune24)
Q: Curiosity question, but would a small reason for the new laws also be to cut down on the rather overwhelming amoutn of paperwork that the overseers of the event have to handle as well?
A (MinyaDkbld): The President's third order actually increases the paperwork, but there is hope it will alleviate some of the daily mail received.

Glacia (Glacia8984)
Thought: Note that the letter from Raz said it was a temporary order until the new event mandates are written and approved. There are two teams working very hard at preparing
well-thoughtout and fair mandates for the forum. Many may not agree with the law, but the events Chancellors also need a break so they can also write these mandates instead of checking
over a ton of event logs all the time. I believe it is a fair trade off for well-done mandates and still have events running.

[[..Adjournment..]]

Meeting Adjourned at 10:34pm EST

Healers Administration Notice - May 17, 2007

The Healers Chancellery is officially closed on a temporary basis until such time as staffing changes and other structural issues have been resolved. We thank you in advance for your patience.

..·: L o r d R a z i e l C a z h :·..
.: President - Association of Rhydin Guilds :.
"Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch.
It is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill-
a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life."

AoRG Forum Meeting - May 9, 2007

[[..Chancellor Announcements..]]

There were no Chancellory announcements at the meeting.

[[..Presidential Announcements..]]

Raziel -
Wished to note the three executive orders that were issued this week. He informed that the orders were temporary until the new Event Mandates were released.

If any member of AoRG would like to participate in the discussions regarding mandate revisions, please contact the Tresvir to be involved in one of the teams.

[[..Relevant Forum Announcements..]]

Dragon (DragonMcCombs)
Request: Individual requested that the Templar University Schedule be placed in the AoRG Weekly Newsletter.
Q (AnnisXXII): What is the Templar University?
A (DragonMcCombs): "The school portion of the Templar. The answer to what Loreil wasn't doing...?"
Comment (VvRazielvV): Submit the paperwork to Annis and it will be looked into. There will be a disclaimer though stating that the University is not directly AoRG related.

Alex (AlexCollinsworth)
Q: Could Sir Dragon explain exactly what Templar University is for those who know nothing about it?
A (DragonMcCombs): Says it is like "Loreil 2.0". The University is similar to the Academy.

Tradan (Madcatz1)
Comment: It seems the Templars have divided Loreil and the Wardens, and is not something AoRG should be involved in because it is more of an internal conflict of Loreil.
Q (VvRazielvV): AoRG has no official involvement with either group. At one time, there was diplomatic relations with Loreil and there was an ambassador from them. When Michael Damascus resigned from his post, there was never any further discussions between Loreil and AoRG.

Cassy (DrkCrimsonTearz)
Comment: She has been looking at the portal for a University and believes that the Templar would be a great addition for studies within AoRG. She is glad to hear the Chancellory will be looking into them.

Nathanial (TiefIing)
Comment: The Templar people don't bother to ask if you want mail from them before they sent the stuff to you.

Alex (AlexCollinsworth)
Comment: As there is no working agreement with Loreil, but their schedule is posted in the newsletter, it only seems fair that the Templar's schedule be granted the same rights.
A (VvRazielvV): A valid argument and one that will be taken into account when the materials are submitted.

Annis (AnnisXXII)
Comment: Wishes to say that this information on the Templar came from out of the blue and she has never heard of it before. The information when first received was discarded, but she does have a fresh copy of the information now to be reviewed.

Maddie (Madcatz1)
Q: When will CoA get word whether or not it has been accepted into AoRG?
A (VvRazielvV): As soon as a vote has been concluded, the guild will be notified.

Mun of Raziel (VvRazielvV)
I'm looking for a talent with maps .. gaming cartography or whatnot. I'd like to try and get a new AoRG map going for when we update and improve the land mandates down the road.... there's plenty of time but I want to get it out there. There may possibly be a contest with some in-game rewards.

[[..Adjournment..]]

Meeting Adjourned at 11:05pm EST

Executive Orders 01.05.07, 02.05.07 & 03.05.07

By executive order of the President of the Association of Rhydin Guilds:

01. From this day forward all Mass Combat (MC/MS) matches in Events must have in participation members of at least two different AoRG guilds.

02. Members may not stack event matches. This has become too great a problem. For this reason I am reinstating an executive order that I made in that past that was overturned during an interim administration. There may be no more then 5 matches per event that contain the same three members in the same match in any capacity (proctor, challenger, challenged).

03. It has been made clear that too many are not participating in events in the spirit of the events system. The main purpose for events is to provide interaction between the guilds of AoRG. For this reason I am ordering that from this day forward no more the 50% of the matches submitted by members of a guild can contain only members of that guild. Any matches above 50% of all the matches a guild has submitted in an event that only contain members of the submitting guild will be completely voided and nullified. This will be determined at the end of an event when all the matches are counted and will be counted by the time matches were submitted.

Example... 100 matches are submitted by proctors of guild XYZ. Of those 100 matches 52 of them only have members of XYZ as participants. Only 50% (In the case of a decimal we will round up to the nearest whole number) of the matches XYZ submitted can be allowed with all participants being from XYZ, which equates to 50 matches. So the last two matches submitted where all participants are from XYZ will be voided.

KISS - The easiest way to follow this Order is for proctors to follow this principle: For every match you proctor that contains only members of your guild, you should proctor at least one match that includes at least one person that is not in your guild.

These executive orders are being implemented to provide a more fair and more interactive environment in Events.

All orders here are in effect until new Events Mandates have been created and approved by the Chancellery.

More executive orders may occur as we proceed with the business of creating new Events Mandates which is next on our docket.

The Vice President is asked to include this message in the Newsletter and the Chief of Staff is asked to forward it to the Guild Commanders from her office with any staffing notes she may wish to make.

..·: L o r d R a z i e l C a z h :·..
.: President - Association of Rhydin Guilds :.
"Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch.
It is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill-
a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life."