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Originally Posted by Francois
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Would you guys please stop quoting the trolls? I've spent a lot of time ignoring all of them, and I don't like accidentally reading their nonsense.
Also, doesn't http://themysticalorder.net show that you have 168 active raiders for the month of July? |
Since you can't see any of the actual valuable data, I'll give you some quick numbers. This guild was
formed in July, so although you are looking at our member/DKP chart and see a large number of members, they may only be showing up once for an initial invite/subsequent raid. They may also be blips in recording DKP data (which, coincidentally is not actually DKP but merely a system of tracking attendance.. the module just works out nice for our needs. Frankly I'd like to replace the module. Some of our starry-eyed coders might make it a project at some point.
Down to the nitty-gritty:
Half (50%) of the members on that list have less than 25% attendance. They are alts, utility characters, recruits who I mistakenly left off the batphone and consequently fell off the map for a while (oops!), members on break for real life reasons such as school, work contracts, trips across the country and/or getting married/anniversaries; people that want to raid but who haven't had the time since the change of pace for The Mystical Order.
65% of the members on that list attend 40% of raids or less. Again, members of TMO have interest in raiding and try to dedicate time each week to play. With different time zones, work schedules, and play styles the people who fit in this group may or may not see each other except in answering a batphone or upon scheduling a raid to Sky or any of the other events that TMO chooses to hold with it's members such as trivia games or PvP tournaments (these are just starting up since everyone is settled in and happy enough with the people around them but still bloodthirsty enough to knock each other around for a bit). That 65% block of players doesn't always have a chance to interact in game but our forums tend to have a lot of activity and we still interact as a guild that way.
As a whole the entire list of players that everyone outside of The Mystical Order poke fun at comprises of people who value this game but also have real lives. When they can, these players are coming together under our system and working with our strings of raid leaders to accomplish a goal. Quite a few have referenced the fact that they are just happy to play, and we're happy to provide a good atmosphere for that.
Sometimes public records are a very flat means of looking at things, aren't they?