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(08-22-2014, 01:59 PM)Jancis Wrote:(08-22-2014, 01:49 PM)ExKage Wrote: It's hard finding such group that is willing to put ~2 hours per raid night per 2-3 nights a week... when you don't know who or what to look for or you're completely afraid to.
To be horrifically frank, if someone wasn't in my guild/free company I would not make them core.
Period; no exceptions. The raid group is not that person's priority if they can't be in the guild that talks about it, has forum boards about it, can hear each other on a daily basis, work together, etc. It was too important of a show of commitment.
If someone was showing up as a bench spot consistently I would eventually poach them from whatever nonsense guild they were in.
I realize that sounds terrible. Sorry.
I completely disagree with this.
I would understand your position if there were some kind of ranking that depended on guild membership - because in that case, it would be detrimental to the guild itself for the person to not be a member.
But between linkshells and forums, there is no reason why a person not in your Free Company can't be a full participant in your raids and be fully committed.
People join Free Companies for a variety of reasons, and on an RP server it is especially common that people are in Free Companies for RP reasons. Â There are quite a few progression-oriented players out there who are in FCs with their RP group, but still desire (and in many cases manage) to be in statics that may have nothing to do with their Free Company for the purposes of progression. Â I myself spent time before my break in a static formed of myself, one other FC member, and a mixture of friends we met pugging. Â And if you say I wasn't "committed," I'm going to laugh in your face.
You can be on the forums that "talk" about it without being in a Free Company (since your website isn't connected to SE, there's no way for your website to "know" unless you just don't approve them for forum access). Â You can be fully committed and talking constantly about it in linkshells without being in the Free Company, since Linkshells are a totally separate thing.
A better characterization of your position is that you personally don't like taking people who aren't in your Free Company to do serious content - which is a completely valid position to have. Â But saying that someone has to be in your Free Company or they're not "committed" to doing serious content is quite frankly ridiculous.
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