Terror Australis (sigh an unfortunate name in light of our current geo-political situation
)is a serious raiding guild, that endeavours to retain some elements of the family style (ie we dont deguild people for missing raids).
We are currently in the latter stages of farming Time and have begun our move into GoD (of course we hit targets of opportunity in OoW as well).
Our Guild Leaders have worked very hard at trying to strike a reasonable balance between keeping a core phylosophy that is inclusive and welcoming and keeping the right structure and people to keep pushing forward for advancement into to new territory. It is something of a tightrope and hats off to Krystaline and Eriand for the effort they put in to try to maintain the balance.
An earlier poster be-moaned the slow and tortuous death of the roleplayer. I share some sympathy with that sentiment.
I was never a supporter of the "thee and thy" crowd, nor had sympathy for the "role play *****", but I have always had more empathy for the role play aspect of the game than the min/maxers.
Sadly we as we have moved to become more serious about raiding into GoD the tendancy toward the min/maxer style has become more predominant in out guild, I suspect this may be the case in many of the "serious advancement" style of guilds, from one point of view the demands of GoD seems to require this. Although I do not subscribe to that train of thought personally.
Edited, Thu Oct 20 05:41:46 2005 by Iluien