Northern Sky

Recruiting
Only players that seem to be a good fit for the guild will be recruited. Members of the guild can recommend another player to be recruited.
Invitation
Players who want to join our guild should have a look on our website to get a feeling for our guild. They should also have a look at our Guild Charter. Recruitees must be at least 18 years old and be able to speak English. After posting the information about the player on the website the Guild Recruiter (Northern Sky rank) will have a chat and then decide to invite or not invite the player.

The class of the player isn't a free ticket into the guild. We believe that a member that doesn't fit, harms more then his/her class could help us.
To be a member
Members should be nice and helpful. They should try help other guild members when possible. Remember that we all play WoW to have fun (this is true for lower levels as well as higher levels - don't ask someone to do something you wouldn't expect to be asked yourself).
Promotions
To be eligible for promotion you have to be an active member of the guild, e.g. help your guildmates, install the NS addons, keep your roster updated and so on.

Promotions can only be done by the Guild Recruiter and have to be discussed in the forum (via polls). Promotions into the Officer/Knight rank has to be done through voting, 3 NO votes will prevent the promotion.
Warnings
If a member is warned three times he will be asked to leave the guild (or if necessary: kicked). Warnings are given by the officers/knights. The following is not a complete list but should give some hints:
- intentional (or repeated) ninja looting
- rude words in any open channel (raid channel, guild channel and so on)
- verbally attacking any player (guild or non guild player)
- intentionally causing a wipe
- applying to other guilds
- ...
The officers will discuss these matters in the officers channel and/or forum.
Looting
Special attention must be paid to the looting aspect since it's a very hotly debated subject.
In general when doing guild-only parties/raids, the common lootrules are:
- Bind on Equip (BoE) items: all greed(Coin) roll on the item, if you win something that another guildie needs, pass it on.
- Bind on Pickup (BoP) items: all pass (Cross) unless you need (Dice) the item, if all passed discuss do a manual /roll and the highest roller gets the item (or a shard if the winner rather wants that and a willing enchanter is in the group)
- Epic items: BoE: all greed (Coin) roll unless you need (Dice) the item (ie, you have the right class for it). If no one needs, one person can auction it off and split the cash between all attendees of the raid/guild in equal shares (if all agree to it otherwise /roll)
- Epic items: BoP: all pass (Cross) unless you need (Dice) the item (ie, you have the right class for it), if all passed discuss do a manual /roll and the highest roller gets the item (or a shard if the winner rather wants that and a willing enchanter is in the group)
- Gems: In this category all gems, and such items (pristine black diamonds, righteous orbs, brilliant chromatic scale, carapace, to name a few), they're worth a LOT of money so all should roll greed on them. What each person does with the won item is his/her choice. Pass it on to a guildie for no cost, or low price, sell it on AH, it's the person's choice.
- In General: If YOU don't know what an item is for and it's BoP, pass. Do research to know who needs that particular item before mindlessly rolling on it and finding out later that you didn't need it after all (and risking a /gkick because it will be considered a ninja act)
- ALWAYS agree on lootrules before starting the raid/instance, if YOU are looking for a particular item, SAY so in advance, and ASK if there's any objections to you getting that particular item if it drops.
- Additional notes:
  Greed roll: Press the "coin" icon in the loot roll window
  Need roll: Press the "dice" icon in the loot roll window
  Pass: Press the little cross icon to the topright of the loot roll window, or let the timer run out
Note: rules for your particular party/raid can be different. Everyone should agree on them before starting.

Crafting reagents obtained during the raid will be sent to raidbank without exception.
- The raid leader will designate a raid miner who will mine all ore and send it to the guild bank NSraid.
- The raid leader will designate a raid herbalist who will collect all herbs and send them to the guild bank NSraid.
- The raid leader will designate a raid skinner who will skin all corpses and send items collected to the guild bank NSraid.
Changes to the Guild Rules
This list of rules is a living document and will be extended and modified to be adaptable to the way we want to have our guild. Suggestion for changes to the Guild Charter and Rules can be made by every member. The Officers and Knights will then vote over the Change Request. A request will pass if there are no more than 3 NO votes.
Leaving Northern Sky
There is NO guarantee of a second chance, getting invited back is based on a decision made by Class Leaders and above.

All RP will be erased from anyone who quits the guild.

IF you are invited back you come back as a new member.
This means:
- You come back as an Initiate,
- You have to undergo the 1 month trial
- You get put up for membership vote again,
- You have 0 RP in all instances,
- and you have to regain the trust of your Class Leader.
So think twice before using the /gquit command.
Miscellaneous
Anything not listed in this article is subject to the best judgement of Officers/Knights online at the time.

Updated 30/09/2006: Ichigo