Premature Evacuation is Disbanding  

Greetings all,

After much deliberation and painstaking thought, i have decided that I am no longer interested in maintaining a guild. I have decided to take my gaming in a new direction (after all, it is my game) and that is not possible within this guild, but at the same time, I no longer have the energy or inclination to manage a guild. To be honest, I need some time away from it. This is nothing personal against you all, so please don't take it that way.

It will work like this: I consider the guild name as my own "intellectual property" and so I will be retaining it, for possible use in the future. This means that everyone will be removed from the guild within next couple of days. All monies sent in to Lottotoon will be refunded etc.

You all are, of course, free to make a new guild with a new name and keep yourselves together if that's what you wish to do. I feel confident that you will all find somewhere to fit in and continue to enjoy WoW. 

Thank you for all your support over the past year and I wish you luck for the future.


Regards,

- Joey.

About Respecting Your Guildies Personal Space...  

Greetings,

A small problem has come to light recently that I feel needs to be addressed. I am not a sociable person by nature, and a lot of the time I just need to be left alone to do my thing. That's not to say I'm a snob, I just enjoy my own company and being alone with my thoughts and not having to interact with people should I choose not to. In this instance, I will turn Gchat off. This should be a signal to everyone that I don't wish to be disturbed, unless of course it is important. It is definitely nothing personal, and you'd be silly to take offence, it's just who I am and I ask you all to respect that. If you do need me for something, then by all means shoot me a whisper. The same goes for everyone else too, you all have a right to your own space should you want it, and we're all expected to respect that.

Regards,

Joey

- Guild Marshal

Guild Lotto Has Commenced!  

Greetings,

We are very pleased to announce our Guild Lotto commences today. If you want a chance at winning gold every week, read on.

Here's how it works:

It will cost you 2 Gold to play each week. You have to send that, along with your ONE guess per person, per week to a specially created 'toon for our lotto draw. The toon is called "Lottotoon", make sure you spell it correctly and everything as you need to send your money to this toon. Your entry fee goes into the pot, which is stored on Lottotoon, and if it is won, the process starts again for the next draw. If no one guesses the correct number, the prize pool jackpots when you send in your next weeks entry and guess. You need to pick a number between one and fifty.

Tuesday night is Lotto Night, and the number will be drawn at exactly 7PM. Lottotoon will be logged in at 6:55PM server time and he will generate the number using the /roll 1-50 command at 7PM server time. If your number is drawn, your entry will be verified and prize monies sent to you by in-game mail. In the event of more than one person guessing the correct number (unlikely, but odds say it could happen) the prize money will be equally divided among the winning parties.

Entries close on the Monday before Lotto Night (Tuesday, 7PM) at 8PM. No entries will be accepted after this time, no exceptions. You have a week to get your entry fee and guess in to Lottotoon each time, so there are no excuses for late entries.

This post will be updated as needed.

Have fun and good luck!

Joey, Tim and Andrew.

PS - Any questions, contact an officer in-game.

What's Happening To Our Guild?  

Premature Evacuation was founded as a result of a guild gone bad.

I wanted to take the lessons I learnt from watching my previous guild masters make mistake after mistake and the other contributing factors that resulted in the gradual decline, and eventual collapse of my previous guild.

The same things are starting to happen here. I have done everything I can to make Premature Evacuation a friendly and happy environment for it's members, it's up to the members to support the guild and be respectful at all times to their guild-mates. Over the last two months or so, I have been witness to an unmistakable decline in many areas.

I am not blaming anyone specifically for this, rather I think we all have a hand in it. I'm talking about how we've become boasters, braggarts, bullshi**ers, know-alls, and in some cases arrogant and egotistical. The general consensus seems to be that this kind of 'behaviour' for lack of a better term annoys the living crap out of most people, so if you're guilty of it...and do think hard about this...I implore you for the sake of all members to keep your ego from joining Gchat when you do. It's unacceptable and will not be tolerated further, regardless of who you are and who you know in the guild.

Some people will disagree with the hard line I'm taking on this, may even be offended. I'm sorry if that is the case, you don't have to agree with it - but you do have to comply with it if you wish to remain a member. If you feel you can't comply, you are always free to leave.

This Guild is my baby, and I work hard on it most days, seeing it go down the same path my old guild did is simply unacceptable to me.

I'm not asking for much, just respect each other. Don't bullcrap, don't go on about how great you are, don't always be the first to correct someone, argue with each other in private rather than Gchat, dont complain about every tiny little thing that you perceive as wrong and sometimes, just sometimes...help each other even IF there's nothing in it for you.

If the current trend continues, the Guild will be disbanded.

Sincerely,

- Joey

Guild Marshal.

Happy Anniversary Premature Evacuation!  

Six months ago, Premature Evacuation was created with specific goals in mind. We wanted a place for mates to hang out and talk crap, we wanted somewhere we could all relax and be ourselves, we wanted a place where there'd be no pressure to gear up and we didn't have to play according to what someone else wanted. We pay for the game, we play it how we want.

I believe we have achieved those goals admirably.

I would like to extend a huge thank you to all our members, for making Premature Evacuation the great guild it is today. Though we are a small guild, and don't have a huge roster, I believe it's better that way (wtb tanks and healers though) otherwise, we'd lose touch with what we originally set out to achieve. So, happy anniversary Premature Evacuation and here's to another 6 months of awesomeness.

- Joey and Tim

Guild Marshals

Inappropriate Chat...  

Greetings all!

Some concerns have been raised, and indeed I have witnessed a thing or two in Gchat that has prompted me to write this article. I am not one to police what people say, I don't think I have a right to do that, but I draw the line at comments that are racist, homophobic or otherwised directed at minority groups in a negative manner. To me, such comments are repugnant and have no place in Premature Evacuation, and indeed are prohibited in Gchat as per the Code of Conduct.

Maybe no harm is meant and thats fine, but people can still take offence - and it's my job to try to keep everyone happy. So, I implore all members to refrain from making any comments which can be construed as racist or bigotted. You have a right to think whatever you want, and to believe whatever you want, but please just keep any thoughts like that to yourself.

Understand too, I am not pointing fingers or laying blame on anyone specifically, rather I'm just reminding everyone that those kind of comments are unacceptable in Gchat, and that indeed goes for me and Emi as well, as the Guild's Officers.

By all means get as crude or rude as you want, that's fine, but please just excercise some common sense and respect the beliefs and feelings of your fellow members.

Thanks,

- Joey

Guild Marshal

A Word On Using The Guild Bank:  

Greetings Guildies,

The time has come again, to put a call out for item donations for the guild bank. Weapons and armour are what's really needed, and generally anything above level 15 will be fine - so if you get any weapons or armour that you dont want to sell, or if you're just feeling generous, please - stick it in the Guild Vault.

On that note, I would like to just remind people on what we want in there and what we don't want in there. Remember, it's for desirable goods that people would actually want to use and not a repository for crap. (Trust me, you shoulda seen some of the stuff that was in there, it wasn't pretty =\)

Grey items of ANY kind are useless, you should vendor those.

Any cloth (including bolts) below Mageweave is common, and easily obtained in the game world. However the Bank will gladly accept any Mageweave, Runecloth and Netherweave cloth you care to give it.

No consumables, please. Again, easily obtained through the game world, and they just take up so much damn space. And since the bank tab cost 350 bucks, it's space needs to be regulated so we dont have to spend 5 or 6 hundred gold on another tab. This includes potions, armour kits and the like.

Thats about all I can think of for now, but if I remember anything else, I'll edit this article. The guild of course, thanks you for your generosity - there have been some really awesome donations in the past. But in depositing to the guild bank, we do ask you to excercise common sense - space is a valuable commodity. Ask yourself if the item in question would be desirable to you under the appropriate circumstances.

Cheers,

- Sev