Balance has formed.

[Ialiliel]

A new guild has been started on Test server its name is Balance. The idea behind Balance is to establish a central guild of all players where we can leave the politics of split guilds and petty differences at the door and work as one towards a healthier happier community. I if possible would like to see all test players in this one guild so the fragmentation stops and we can all move on and get the community going together. Though it says i am the guildleader i am not we are all responcible for our own actions on test and to each other while i will sit in on any disputes if you so wish that is the extent of my involvement as far as "leadership" goes. You are all big enough and ugly enough on the test server to know your own minds and when something is right or wrong and as adults should be able to feel comfortable with each other enough to express your views and opinions. Up to this point test has not been like this we are all too busy in our own clicks to think about others and what their experience of the game must seem like when listening to us all back bite. As usual what i have said is what i think but instead of jsut moaning myself and others have decided to try and intergrate everyone under one banner and move forward so any previous differences wipe them clean all start afresh and lets make this Community one that will survive through this turmoil and chaos and maybe even flourish through adversities within and outside of the game.

Yours hopefully..

Healsrus.

[Ysharros]

RAWR

Ask not what your server can do for you, but what you can do for your server.

[Truly]

Count me in, as long as ther is pie.

Truly

[Venti]

Count me in. Not sure what happened but just need a stable open guild on test whomever runs it.

[Poldera]

How is the guilding going?

[Ysharros]

It's open recruitment atm but not a lot going on. Much of the drama has died down so perhaps there's not so much need for a "balance" as there may have been a month or two ago.

Test seems to be slooooowly but surely acquiring new players, though it's also lost a few over the last couple of months, hopefully not for good. The original idea of Balance was to provide a central identifying place - but as I said, lately it's been pretty amicable in general and I'm not sure there's as much need for it as there was. Test *does* seem to be acquiring an identity, helped out - paradoxically - by the visiting folks copied over from live servers. It's still tough for the grouping-minded to get groups, but that's going to remain a problem until Test has enough folks in varying level ranges, and that's not the case yet. (Not to mention that not everyone is a grouper, but I'm not getting into that argument since I'm not one myself - live and let live, imo.)

Heals/Ial is AWOL atm for reasons he can't divulge without having to kill us all, but he'd better come back at some point because I know where he lives (even if it's just the general area), and I don't mean in-game.

If you want an invite with any of your chars, Pol, just holler on test chan - fair few people have invite ability.

[Ysharros]

Update - the devil and downtime will find work for idle hands to do... I've just created a "Balance" guild page over at guildportal (here) though it's my hope that all test players will feel free to use it. I'm half of the mind that Balance has outlived its initial premise and usefulness anyway... but it exists, so it'll stay. What I *don't* want Balance or any guild on Test to do is to be exclusionary - and I think most regular Test server players might like a place they can get together to shoot the breeze without clogging up either these (lovely!) forums or the official SOE-Test forum, regardless of their guild affiliation. After all, we're Test players first - at least to my mind.

This is my first foray into the guildportal service and I'm not entirely sure how the whole joining/membership thing works. If anyone can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it. I could read the destructions, and probably will, but nothing beats the knowledge of someone who's been there before.