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Posted: April 12, 2009 07:13 pm  | |||
      IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129    |
I'm thinking of making "casual gaming" a new aspect of WG to showcase. Since WG does not ask for extended run-ins, late nights, multiple rune sets, high levels, training, activity over every day etc... We're probably one of the stronger clans out there that allows the members room to breathe. You don't have to be deeply into RS to be in WG. When you think about it - ignoring numbers, if you want to get stronger than WG, you have to return excessively and spend a lot of time getting rich. Casual WG is what I want to express to future members. I'm planning to toss around the word nerd a bit, being careful not to offend other clans. Because we're casual, we pay attention to Runescape in a different way. We realise we're never going to be up at the top alongside DF, EH and Cor because we don't want to waste our lives on PKRIs. As a result of the realisation we're not going to go to that level, we're happy with moderate strength, and we compensate by offering new avenues to enjoyment such as alternate events. Hopefully, by marketing a casual WG, we can get more members. The idea is to make our strength through numbers. So we can't return like DF, but say we had 200 members at some stage... yeah. Do I have the clan's approval to do this? --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 07:17 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | Sure, I liked that about WG in the first place. I don't want to spend all day in some PKRI. -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 07:20 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: [Randy] Group: Raid Leader Posts: 5065 Member No.: 16 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 499 | Didn't we have like some big drop party for something very similar to this # --------------------   | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 07:21 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: His Lordship Group: Founder Posts: 6029 Member No.: 1 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 129 | That was a CLASSIC CLAN campaign from before they removed the wilderness. That was all about promoting wars and frowning on returning. It was a big statement saying WG stood by the old warring tradition. -------------------- | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:14 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | Sure, pretty much embraces what we already are.  I'm confident a comfortable clan with a large enough member base can easily compete with anyone else. --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:17 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Darth Group: Ex-Member Posts: 4601 Member No.: 838 Joined: June 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 558 | Sounds good to me.  --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:19 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Colin Group: Ex-Member Posts: 2039 Member No.: 68 Joined: December 31, 2007 Total Events Attended: 69 | Sure. That's why I'm in WG. Casual atmosphere, yet still skilled in the ways of combat. --------------------   Proud WG member from January 2006 - Fall 2009 | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:32 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Mike|Sonix Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1483 Member No.: 13 Joined: December 29, 2007 Total Events Attended: 103 |
This and what Colin says. I like the idea, just be careful with the word "nerd." --------------------   | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:42 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | Mm yah that's ok with me. There is a small risk that some people will not want to join because of it, but only a small risk. --------------------    | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 10:43 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 | Maybe use addicts, or a synonym of "nerd" that people may seem less offensive. "Nerd" is used a lot in school to hurt peoples feelings.  --------------------      | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 11:15 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Hyperion Group: Ex-Member Posts: 1636 Member No.: 978 Joined: June 23, 2008 Total Events Attended: 141 | Sounds good. No way in hell can i dedicate 14 hours to a pkri as it has been reportedly had. --------------------    Dragon boots:29 Whips:2 | ||
Posted: April 12, 2009 11:19 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: txtawkin/kathy Group: Ex-Member Posts: 847 Member No.: 1604 Joined: December 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 45 | I like the idea.  --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 12:13 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Big_Al_002 Group: Guardian Posts: 1102 Member No.: 1777 Joined: March 21, 2009 Total Events Attended: 25 | yes naize croot plox we should make a category called recruitment and we should put all the links to all the diff forums (would make it so much easier) and members could just click on it and bump, also for a home for recruiting events like soul wars, clan wars, maybe even castle wars, hmm...recruitment parades, pvp -------------------- Guardian from 4/20/09 to 8/4/09, then quit. Back, Trial Guardian 6/12/11.  Proud To Have A Winddancir Original | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 12:40 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | As long as we don't lie, I am for it. I don't want to say we are "Casual WG" and in 3 months the warring turns to let's be the top clan of RS. Make sure that this is who you want us to be and not some recruitment drive that hurts us in the months to follow. We should be recruiting the people who will fit best into our community. Trying new things is usually good as long as caution is used. --------------------  Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~  | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 01:39 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Tnuac Group: Emeritus Posts: 1806 Member No.: 51 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 58 | Sounds like a fantastic idea, but a few things to look out for. 1) If you make such a statement, its important to stick with it. That means not stressing out over pk run-ins and wars (which has been done plenty of times) and not being overly strict. Its easy to get caught up in the moment. 2) And make sure we still have direction. Just because we're not aiming for the top of the f2p PK run-in ranks, it doesn't mean we're not aiming for some form of top. Balancing community and skills with PKing isn't exuse to pay less attention to either. I'm lookin forward to it -------------------- ~Aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero~ "Seize the day and place no trust in tomorrow"  | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 01:39 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Chimpy Group: Banned Posts: 2521 Member No.: 1474 Joined: November 16, 2008 Total Events Attended: 133 | Sure as long as casual doesn't get blurred with inactivity and lack of effort/time you put into the clan. When there is a war/raid, I want people to be there . But overall good idea. --------------------    | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 03:34 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | Good Idea, but as Tunac and Rach have said already there is no point recruiting using a specific message if you aren't going to stick to it. If you are marketing WG as the 'Casual but good' clan make sure it stays that way. --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 04:05 am | |||
 IRC Nickname: Mr Glennfase Group: Emeritus Posts: 3064 Member No.: 39 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 220 | I think if you say we are a casual clan, people may think we're just excusing mediocrity. I'm in support of this. However, just be careful how you put it. Don't make it sound like we aren't serious about warring. -------------------- That's Mr. Glennfase to you. Ex-Warlord/Council  | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 02:01 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: rachellove Group: Council Posts: 6955 Member No.: 173 Joined: January 31, 2008 Total Events Attended: 305 | I am thinking war is to important to certain members and it will cause drama. -------------------- Thank you Garrett and Dallar. “The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” ~~Colin Powell ~~ | ||
Posted: April 13, 2009 05:35 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Angus0000 Group: Emeritus Posts: 705 Member No.: 572 Joined: May 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 128 | This sounds about right, but using it as a marketing campaign could easily come back and bite us in the ass. I could see it bringing in a lot of people ready to lounge around in the clan but be inactive as hell ingame just because we're "casual". --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 15, 2009 02:49 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Spicy63 Group: Emeritus Posts: 785 Member No.: 50 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 0 | Balance. That's what popped into my head while reading throughout the idea. We wan to have the best of both worlds, and we can. I don't exactly believe "nerd" may be the best way to go bout differentiating between groups in a gaming world. There are two sides of the spectrum in my eyes, Casual & Hardcore, is what separates these two people in WoW terms, since I believe they can ft in this case as well. Casual is the regular player, who most likely isn't tp of the line, nor strives to be. That doesn't exactly mean they're worse at the game, but their time investment isn't as large in it. Whilst "Hardcore" members tend to take the game into a much more serious mindset, dedicating hours to it in order to achieve the best. Something that you might want to make clear is that there is no correct choice, both sides if their positives and negatives, it's a matter of how much time you'd like to spend to go either way. Now, how about we go a different direction in WG. Why don't we take the casual time schedule mixed with the type of players brought from the hardcore side. We could stick with a minimal schedule, but we need to strive to have the events that are on that schedule be the best that we can make them. It needs to be professional. Let's say it's rad time: At that point all your focus should be to shift on making this raid perfect, or,, to make it "hardcore". We want to hold the standards of this hardcore style in our events, while only having those events casually. Therefore, time investment is still low, but quality doesn't suffer. Of course, this is much easier said than done. But if it were to be pulled off, we just appealed to every player we can in Runescape that is looking to be in a clan. We've covered both sides of the spectrum. Not t mention, we just opened up an entirely new option. How many of the members in top clans do you think would lie t be able to spend more time outside the game, but doing so would cost them to loose that experience they had while in that clan. Edit: Many spelling / grammar errors. I'll rephrase it once I'm on a desktop instead of this laptop. --------------------  | ||
Posted: April 15, 2009 03:07 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Olivier1o1 Group: Guest Posts: 208 Member No.: 1744 Joined: February 27, 2009 Total Events Attended: 17 | I sense a WTF coming from some people- you're "casual", and #3 on the raw!? lolies  My full support, just so I can see that. -------------------- | ||
Posted: April 15, 2009 03:12 pm | |||
 IRC Nickname: Group: Ex-Member Posts: 201 Member No.: 1646 Joined: January 18, 2009 Total Events Attended: 6 | I want members coming in that actually play RS. Just keep that in mind. -------------------- RSC Moderator  Originally Joined WG August 19, 2005 | ||
Posted: April 15, 2009 03:14 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Olivier1o1 Group: Guest Posts: 208 Member No.: 1744 Joined: February 27, 2009 Total Events Attended: 17 | The activity requirements won't change, I think. So if they think casual = inactive, they'll get a big suprise. -------------------- | ||
Posted: April 15, 2009 03:30 pm | |||
| IRC Nickname: Spicy63 Group: Emeritus Posts: 785 Member No.: 50 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 0 | Aye - Casual is no way meant to mean inactive. It simply means, they do not focus all their available time on improving their characters, or abilities at the game. It simply means they don't have the time to dedicate multiple hours a day to it. But in the end, we don't need multiples of hours. All we need is a few of them every week to make those events the best it's possible for them to be. -------------------- | ||
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