This is an addendum to our Member Management Notes published in our Hive Guild Community.
To find the latest version of this addendum, follow the appropriate link in the footer of the latest Member Management Notes.
Our Hive Guild Community is at /created/hive-179856
Index
- General guidelines
- Privileges when brawling
2.1. New players brawling
2.2. Some thoughts about multiple favorites - Guild blogs
- Contributions
- Auctioned open spot
If you are new to this
Become familiar with the member management, please. Because the guild spots are precious, the last in our list will be removed regularly. That is part of our procedure as noted in **this addendum. And if you don't acknowledge all this until the end of a brawl battle stage after you joined, you may be removed without notice right away. How can we know? Well, you'll see! And any questions are welcome anytime!
Please understand, it is not on me to show comprehension. I'll do the best I can! Though this guild is somewhat managed like a DAO. That is Decentral Autonomous Organisation. So I simply follow the procedures that have evolved here by now. And for when you become passive and no one can reach out to you in time, ugly things can happen. As documented in past notes. See e.g. @anjanida/member-management-notes-defc067f6e74f
If you want to join and stay, we can make that happen even with presently no open spot available. We may schedule it for that you can be there the moment our weakest contributor is removed. Sounds familiar somehow? Like with a mob abandoning their weakest offspring to survive a predator attack. Your contribution needs to be enough for not being the weakest. Everyone who got removed is welcome any time again. It's just that contributions from earlier are at zero any time an account re-joines.
What we expect from any enduring member, in a nutshell:
Priority A: Some contribution within the last 3 brawls. Without at least 1 GP even a focus scroll will make this, if the Lodge is not maxed out for the rest of a season.
Priority B: Be not the weakest contributor in our mob the moment an auction ends. This moment is when a new brawl starts. The second to last score in the list is bold highlighted. That is the tide you need to take in GP without scrolls added to the lodge yet for outpacing that account. Just keep in mind that this is going to be a live auction, so whatever other accounts put into it within the last seconds is summed up to be the final result, no matter what this published report showed some minutes before, or sometimes days. Only the result is published again afterwards.
1. General guidelines
If someone joins or re-joins and does not contribute any DEC to an Officer or Leader until the end of a brawl battle stage after you joined, they may be removed without notice, for opening up our open spot(s) again for those who do account these procedures. (And there has been at least one exception to this first rule already.)
Since neither DEC nor Guild Power (GP) can be contributed within your first 7 days, you need to give an initial contribution to the above mentioned for being accepted to our guild. You will receive it back in the form of GP. One half of it (rounded down) when the receiving one got informed, for you to then make your initial GP contribution to a guild building after your 7 day timer ran out. The second half then after your initial GP or Scroll contribution. That way we can know you are deliberate and know how to handle your wallet. So many don't and that's a shame, yet not our business.
Activity means to contribute or donate GP or Focus Scrolls to the guild's buildings within the recent brawl (usually five days). GP contributed that is not donated counts into activity but not into your guild score. The score is a product of donated GP multiplied by contributed Scrolls, in which 0 Scrolls are not considered, so then the score is equal to the donated GP.
If all account spots are active until the end of a top-up auction and no account is passive for too long, the relevant spots are recalculated at the end of auction and the account in last place is going to be removed. It is easy to stay buoyant. Just accumulate contributions.
If not all accounts are active, the passive account with the lowest number of scrolls of all passive accounts will be removed as soon as no spot is prospect to being open again from pending arrivals, if it remains passive for the time of two additional brawls (usually another five days each). If this falls within the day an auction usually takes place, there may be no auction.
There had already been at least one case in witch we needed to remove a highly decorated long time contributing member for becoming passive. This case is documented at
And there had already been at least two exceptions to the above rules, when there would have been removed an account with only slightly less scrolls than another, from which significantly more GP was irregularly invested (back then it was DEC directly invested, because GP has not existed yet) in the guild buildings over a longer period of time. Or with only being passive shortly at a lot of contributions. These cases are documented at
For more historical annotations on how these procedures are followed in detail, see @anjanida/member-management-notes-qy1lzp
2. Privileges and fray assignments
Sometimes there is a lot of pressure in brawling, especially in the lower leagues. Some players contribute a lot of GP for guild buildings and have a hard time getting into appropriate frays. Therefore we also take into account our guild scores when brawling.
Those who are higher in the score list receive the privilege to claim a Fray against those below. However, a favorite must be declared in the in-game guild chat BEFORE the start of the respective prep phase, so that everyone can know which frays are under high demand at the start of the prep phase. And these privileges are only valid within the first 24 hours of the prep phase. The Frays that are still open afterwards can be self-assigned, regardless of the privileges, so that no Fray remains open.
In other words: Whoever has named a favorite (see score list) sometime before the start of a brawl (end of the auction) will be given the privilege to lay claim to that Fray within the first 24 hours of the preparation phase, in case someone else has assigned to the particular Fray, provided the account that is ousted does not also have the same favorite and is higher in our score table. Within the second 24 hours those claims will be fulfilled based on the above list from top to bottom. Whoever then still has not vacated such a Fray themself - in order to hopefully look for another one on which no claim has been formulated - will unfortunately have been removed from the ongoing brawl and need to look forward to the next.
2.1. New players brawling
Since new players occasionally join and assign themselves to a fray, another rule has arisen that affects those who have no favorite in effect: Because of this we not only have a first and a second half of a prep stage, but also two quarters of the second half. Don't be so sure about what you catch within the first and come back near the end of preparation to be sure about who's actually brawling. For more on that read the post on How we can organize the brawls together Starting a New Era, please.
Further ideas and comments to this procedure are welcome!
2.2. Some thoughts about multiple favorites
Anyone can proclaim different favorites for different Tiers. Yet not multiple different frays anymore, see @anjanida/our-favorite-frays-and-tier-considerations-splinterlands-guild-brawls
3. Guild blogs
Please share links to your brawl battles worth watching in the chat or even post your own blog articles. See mine at created/hive-179856 or created/hive-13323
4. Contributions
Please keep an eye on our ANNOUNCEMENTS to see which guild buildings we are currently expanding.
On 6/18/2020 we exhausted our membership limit for the first time. Since we want to give interested players the chance to promote #FHREE.org by displaying the guild name, we'll keep at least one member slot open for new members on a regular basis. On 6/25/2020 we removed members for the first time due to pressure to our open spot. If YOU have been removed, please come back again if you want to play with us.
On 6/7/2020 we learned that SCROLLS are counted for the Quest Lodge only 24 hours after a new member joined a guild. With the Guild Power Update in June 2023 this changed to 7 days! So it might be well worth a wait to claim a focus only after that period for it to be counted towards the Lodge.
On 5/21/2021 we finally reached Guild Hall level 4 from all of our contributions. That's so nice to finally have the 18th spot and collect even more scrolls each season. Since then Level 5 has increased this once more. Just as a reminder: We saved up 20,000 DEC in 9 months and then with Brawls 10,000 DEC in just 6 weeks. And 10,000 DEC initially for the Arena level 1 on top of all of that. Not to mention what has been contributed to initiate the guild in the first place. And we even topped this since then a couple of times. Awesome! Thanks to all of you!! Brawls do make a difference here.
In May 2022 we eventually reached a new era in Member Management, because the second to last spot has been taken by a player with a four figure guild score, see @anjanida/member-management-notes-rca22s
We again want to remind everyone of the member management we do here. We sometimes had a hard time to decide who's account is going to be removed. Activity is key! So if you're not contributing Scrolls or GP within the recent brawl, that means you are not active. In order that no one can buy into the guild without activity, the passive account that has collected the fewest Scrolles leaves the guild first, no matter the GP contribution. Unfortunately, the Scrolls are not accumulated if one has left the guild in the meantime. In any case, the intention is that the amount of GP contributed will only come into play if all members are either active or have newly (re)joined. So keep an eye on that. And most importantly: Have fun battling!
Yes, we enjoy connecting people! Let's have a #FHREE fray! ;-) And don't forget to visit our external chat via Peakd. The link is found in-game at our about tab.
5. Auctioned open spot
Just for having that clear: When all member spots are filled, we are in a top-up auction that ends at the start of every next brawl.
There will be no single winner of an auction but a single looser. There is no refund. The benefit goes to the guild as a whole. So every bid will be a donation, just like before. The loser will be the player whose score is the smallest (see General guidelines). The loser is removed from the guild if there is no open spot already or if no passive player is to be removed instead of this player. Unfortunately when a former member re-joines a guild, the GP and scrolls counters will be zero. Please be aware of that. We hope this membership competition plays out well.
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