It's hot. My ass is hot, my head is hot. Outside is hot. Inside is hot. AC ain't helping the hot.

I am hot.

I want a cinnamon roll.

....I've been a fountain of quotes lately. Though yesterday - derailed part of our serious talk with a dragon in relation to our 'bumblefuck' of a group.... \ o /

It's such a good feeling when you take the reins to do task management for the with the founder and other staff and... *CHEF KISS* we got a good portion of our new map down to help us with our new lore.

We were only on a VC to work on it for 3 hours, but man was it productive! WOO HOO!

syhrinx - I totally forgot to post this here when I got it. And... this is my fiance's side of the bed. Who's totally fine that I got it. It's the best.





In non FFXIV news... uh... man, why's the weather so cold? It was 50 yesterday and now it went down to like... 25. Reee....

Yasss, this is the way. 

on a side note... my 'niplo'-daeus body pillow shipped. i regret nothing. my fiance has to deal with this. (and laughed his ass off when I said I just straight up bought it.) pictures to come when I get it nice and snug on the pillow. 

man... with all the news... time to go back into the seasonal depression hole even worse now.

i just want to do link backs easily.... why can't these ads include the advertisement board easier? ah well. *pulls pants up* back to work, even if it's slightly annoying. ; A ;

in good news, we're talking about an event for our members! so, that's much better news lol

You're dang right, and yeah, that's usually me 2-3 years in a spot before I try to leave. I just didn't realize how much less I was getting paid for my experience in the industry. 

but can't complain where I'll be at salary wise before I hit 30 next year. awww yissss

I ended up getting a new job that I'll be starting next month. I'm... still floored I'm getting a 40% pay increase...

Do I feel this so much... I have a FC and a personal house on Balmung (of all servers...). I mean I don't worry too much because I do six months, but sometimes... I wanna take that slightly longer break but then I remember the house lol.

In other news, I wanna start working on this character but the site ain't up yet. So I shall... slowly... work on it. >:3

I have no problem mentioning what I voted for, which was 'Yes, with limitations'.

As you mentioned, guilds/free companies are nice to have. It helps give members autonomy and allows them to feel like they are fleshing out the world. However, I can see where your worry comes in with... the issues that you mentioned. You brought up some good points. While I don't know if any of these will be the correction answer (spoiler: we'll never know!), I do believe this might help you with some of your decision.

What if a character is part of a Guild but they don't want to be the leader? Would they need to be responsible for that entire Guild?

That begs the question if you are planning on incorporating player-made guilds into your plot or not. I'd personally err on the side of not allowing them in any site-wide plot and keep core staff-run guilds as the bread and butter for those events.

Should there be requirements so people aren't just making willy-nilly Guilds with one or two people in them?

Yes. A thousand times, yes. Even in games, there are normally requirements for making guilds. Since you mentioned a shop in your original post, you could use that as part of the requirements. I'd also factor in post count to act as an activity gauge. While someone could potentially have reach the required quickly, the post count should help alleviate some issues. (I'd probably also limit this to IC posts and no OOC posts as well.)

What about inclusive-ness and if someone restricts certain people from joining?

There's always going to be some sort of clique mentality forming. So, this would be a knock against not including player-based guilds at all. If someone is rejected based on characters not working, that's one thing. But if it's the player themselves, that would need to have staff get involved.

Yes..... YESSSSSSSSS..... I am ready for this.