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Policies

Tue, 12/15/2009 - 19:04 — admin

Requirements

Code of Conduct
This is the Code of Conduct that Months Behind expects its members to abide by. Members who do not follow these rules will receive punitive action.
  • No offensive slurs are allowed, in any form of public or guild communication. This includes racial as well as sexual slurs. Find a more innovative word to use; I would suggest trying "Potato."
  • Have courtesy towards other players. Basically, "Don't be a dick."
  • Follow the Blizzard Code of Conduct at all times. Getting banned isn't cool.
  • Be helpful toward your other guild members. Be willing to help where you can.
Ventrilo
You must be on Ventrilo for each raid, no exceptions. If you don't have a microphone or can't speak on vent, that's fine, but Vent is the primary form of communication that the raid leaders use, and you need to be able to hear them.

Ventrilo Etiquette
Don't yell. Don't talk over top of the raid leaders. Wait your turn to speak. Listen to the raid leaders - they don't like to repeat themselves.

Ventrilo Server Information
See the Ventrilo thread on our Guild forums.

Expectations

Be Helpful
If you wish to raid with Months Behind, you must understand and respect the amount of work it takes to make a hardcore raiding guild successful, by ALL members. You must familiarize yourself with our policies, and stay informed about our raiding schedule. Although there are very good reasons to have officers and well-defined responsibilities, know that going above and beyond your guild "role" and rank is never frowned upon. We expect all of our raiders to maintain a positive attitude, and to contribute in any way they can to help foster a friendly and supportive atmosphere in game and in guild chat.
Be Attuned
It should be pretty simple; if an instance requires attunement, and you're not attuned, all the invites in the world won't get you inside. Getting yourself attuned to things should be your #1 priority. If you're particularly slow getting attuned for new instances, you should expect to lose your spot in our other raids as well.
Be Prepared
As a raider, whether you are an officer, a core raider or a back-up, if you have any desire to attend a raid you WILL come prepared.

Preparedness Defined:

  • BE ON TIME. You MUST be at the instance by or before the scheduled starting time, ready to go. This will be strictly enforced. This does not mean that you get to the instance, get an invite, then go eat dinner. Ideally, within a minute after invites are completed we should be pulling. We are going to raid less in the expansion than we have in the past, so it is very important that we make every minute count.
  • BE INFORMED. Know what instance we are running, and try to learn as much as you can about the instance ahead of time. Understanding instance themes, boss/mob abilities, locations, and your role in the raid will greatly speed up the learning curve. Also, have an idea about what loot drops and what loot you want.
  • HAVE REQUIRED MODS INSTALLED AND UP TO DATE. See Guides:Mods for a listing of required mods.
  • BRING REQUIRED CONSUMABLES. To do this, you must be properly informed. Make every effort to come to each raid with all the appropriate consumables for your class and your raid role. Failure to do so puts stress on and is unfair to everyone else who put in the effort.
  • YOUR FAVORITE jelly bean flavor is "Crazy Confetti." Congrats, you passed our little test. Make sure to include this on your application so we know you actually read the policies.
  • PAY ATTENTION. For the full duration of our scheduled raid, you are required to pay attention to the raid leaders, your surroundings, and your computer. You should not be missing instructions because you are watching TV. You should not be going AFK. There will ideally be a few times when it will be ok and appropriate to go AFK, and obviously if you have a desperate need to go AFK that is OK too, but it is your responsibility to TELL YOUR ROLE OFFICER. It is not acceptable to waste 1 other person's time, let alone 24 other people's time.
Communicate
At all times, the burden falls on you, the raider, to communicate with your guild and your officers any information that is pertinant to the smooth and effective operation of our raids. There are many ways to do so and they include:
  • Talking on vent
  • Actively browsing and contributing to the forums
  • Talking in guild chat
  • Whispering your role officer
  • Sending in game mail to the appropriate officer

You MUST make an effort to not only inform the guild about your raiding availability, your plans, and your thoughts, but also to listen to what the guild has to say. At the very least, you must register on our forums, and we strongly encourage you to take a few minutes here and there to stay informed about the latest news, information, announcements, etc. A lot of action takes place outside of guild chat and ventrilo, and you are responsible for finding out any important information. Your #1 communication responsibility is to keep your role officer informed, in a timely manner, about your availability.

Other Policies

Alts in Raids
Months Behind does not allow its raiders to bring alternate characters to any guild-run raids, regardless of instance difficulty or gear availability. Our goal with any and every instance we run, especially farm-status content, is to clear it quickly and efficiently with as few wipes as possible, which requires that all our raiders be on their main characters. If we have too few members to perform a specific role, and the officers feel it necessary that an alternate character be allowed to perform that role, the OFFICERS will announce that we need a role filled (ie, "We are short on tanks, does anyone have one available?"). That is the only appropriate time to offer to bring an alternate character.

Do NOT request to bring an alt to a raid for any of the following reasons:

  1. You don't need loot on your main
  2. You're bored of playing your main, in the instance in question or in general
  3. Anything else we feel we need to add in the future

The officers will decide if and when alts are necessary, and will even try to approach a player directly rather than making a general request of the raid. Bothering officers with erroneous requests to bring alternate characters may result in punitive action.

Switching Mains
As far as "switching mains" or "making your alt your main," the same rules apply. It is, generally speaking, not possible. However, the officers may allow it in very specific situations.

Switching an alt to your main will only be allowed if ALL of the following conditions are met:

  1. The alt is of appropriate level and gear quality to fill the desired role.
  2. The change would be beneficial to the raid group (ie: there is an excess of your main's class and not enough of your alt's class).
  3. The officers approve of it. This includes the role officers (both of your current and desired role), the GM, and any other officers who may take issue with the switch.

If you feel that you meet the above conditions, you may approach your role officer, who will present your case to the other officers for discussion. No further action would be necessary on your part unless asked for it, so please be patient and allow the officers to come to a decision. Keep in mind that your request will, in all likeliness, be denied - don't be upset when it is.

Loot issues that arise as a result of any potential switch will be dealt with at the time of the switch, if not beforehand.

Alts in the Guild
We also reserve the right to deny anyone's alt entry into Months Behind. Typically we restrict people to one alt apiece, just to keep the guild membership manageable, but there are exceptions (such as people with multiple 80s).
5- and 10-man Instances
Loot in these instances will be distributed using the patented Not Being Retarded method. It can be best summarized thus: When an item drops...
  1. Discuss who can best use it, try and come to an agreement on who gets it
  2. If that fails, have all members who desire the item roll for it
  3. Group leaders should act to keep looting in the groups they run as fair as possible, so choose your leaders wisely

Barring gross exploitation or mishandling of exceptionally valuable drops, we don't care about who got what in your Utgarde run. Don't cry to us if you don't like that the druid got this or that random blue over your rogue. We don't care.

25-man Instances
In Wrath of the Lich King, Months Behind is using a loot council system. Attendance, performance, preparedness, and attitude are all key factors in loot determination. The loot council consists of the Guild Master, and the four Role Officers.

When an item drops, loot will be handled in the following procedure:

  • A LC member will link an item in raid warning and ask for tells
  • If you are interested in the item, whether for mainspec or offspec, whisper the appropriate person. Be sure to include the item you are replacing, and any other pertinent information (ie: if you would get a set bonus)
  • After a few seconds, whispers will be closed and the officers will choose who to give the item to.

Any loot disputes (which are generally pretty rare) should be handled outside of raid hours in order to keep the raid moving.

Tier Sets
Many classes have multiple Tier sets available to them. However, when you are awarded a turnin piece at any raid in which Months Behind controls loot distribution, you will be expected to use that to acquire a piece of the set designed for the role you were recruited to fill. That means if you raid as a healer, you will use your tokens to get healing gear. If you raid as a tank, you will use your tokens to get tanking gear. This rule will be strictly enforced, and violations will not be taken lightly.

It is possible to acquire multiple sets, however in most situations you will not be allowed to get a second token unless everyone present that can use it has already gotten one.



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