Guild Rules
Basic Behavior Rules
Here in DLC, our primary rule is that we want everyone to have fun and enjoy themselves while playing the game. As such, our cardinal rules concern behavior, first and foremost. Violating these rules will prompt a discussion with an officer; repeated violations can lead to removal from the guild.
- All guild members are expected to be respectful and polite when dealing with other members of the community. Griefing, interfering with other players, and otherwise being a jerk is not permitted.
- Humor is welcome! If someone is offended by a joke, apologize and move on; if you're offended, state that and then move on. There's no need to go into depth on the matter.
- The following topics are off-limits in general guild chat: Personal, Racial, Ethnic, and/or Gender based insults, slurs, or derisive comments.
- Please be mature, but that doesn't mean R rated language or childish behavior.
- Guild chat is English only.
- All players are expected to treat officers and other guild members with respect and politeness.
Teamplay
As a member of DLC, you are to be expected to be a teamplayer. This means, you are required to lend a hand when possible. Everyone helps one another. Selfishness does not help the guild as a whole. Being a teamplayers is much appreciated by everyone. This can serve as helping with materials, lending assistance in raidteams, able to pass or hand over a raid item for a better good, giving input on issues and also solutions to it. It is important that everyone is heared and we expect people to have an adult attitude to talk about problems and raise real issues and with possible solutions. People talking vague or with no facts are more difficult in a team especially when Officers try to have an open communication to all. We expect the same from one another.
Attendance
All players are expected to show up before guild events at least 15 minutes before the designated start time. That doesn't mean you need to be in the right spot and waiting for ten minutes, but you should be online and have any and all prerequisite content completed beforehand.
In the event that you fail to complete prerequisite content before an event, the organizer and/or officers have the right to remove you from the group and bring someone else. Similarly, if you are more than ten minutes late to a guild event, the organizer and/or officers have the right to start the event without you and not permit you to join after the fact. Consistently signing up for events and showing up late is considered a violation of guild rules.
Non-members are ALLOWED to attend guild events regarding specific event circumstances. We have partnership with guild "Devilish Intentions", and they might be invited to guild events, when we are not progressing.
Members are expected to be online at least once per MONTH for at least a brief period. If circumstances will require you to be offline for an extended period of time, notify an officer ahead of time if you can. Without notifications, older characters will be removed from the guild for inactivity.
Our main focus in this guild is on Progress Raiding. That means that the majority of events should correspond with that. While other events are more than welcome, the events that we focus upon will take precedence, and in the event that someone is consistently only making and attending events contrary to our focus we may start canceling those events or discussing the matter with the player in question.
Officers
Your officers are: Officers are appointed based upon experience, ability, and trustworthiness over time. While officers have authority over other guild members, they are not "superior" to other members and should not be considered as such. The officers are subject to the same rules as other members.
If you have a problem with one of the officers, please report it to another officer promptly. This includes situations wherein an officer makes you uncomfortable or appears to be violating the rules of the guild for any reason. We strive for transparency and accountability, but we don't always succeed; let us know if we make mistakes so we can correct them in the future.
Punishments
Violating the rules of the guild is something that we take seriously, as it can lead to hard feelings and damage overall group cohesion. In the event that someone is violating the rules of the guild, we will investigate the matter and take appropriate action, whether the player in question is an officer or not.
In the event that someone is behaving contrary to the rules, the first step is a discussion with the player in question and a notification that there is a problem. No further action will be taken, and if nothing else happens within a month the entire thing can be forgotten.
A separate or continuing incident requires further steps. Someone who is consistently behaving contrary to the guild rules will be assigned a probationary rank with limited privileges for a MONTH's time pending any further behavior violations. Further behavior issues will be dealt with via removal from the guild.
If someone is removed from the guild due to inactivity, they may reapply and rejoin the guild with no penalty whatsoever. If someone is removed from the guild due to behavior violations, they will not be permitted to reapply in the future.