Since we're stockpiling gold in the guild bank and it's not really getting used, we decided it might be cool for players to be able to repair from the guild bank on a daily basis, especially since we appreciate all the hard work and dedication many of you have shown. The ranks have been restructured to the following:
Mudkip - Mudkips can repair from the guild bank for 1g/day. Mudkips are any member that is not a Ventrilo Donor or a player that attends a SV raid.
LOLCat - LOLCats can repair from the guild bank for 2g/day. LOLCats is any player that is a Vent Donor but not someone who attends a SV raid.
Goatse - Goatses can repair from the guild bank for 5g/day. Goatse is for any player that regularly attends a SV raid. If a Goatse stops regularly attending SV raids, they will be demoted to either LOLCat or Mudkip (depending on the appropriate choice).
If you have any questions or concerns about the rank restructure, please feel free to start a discussion thread.
I have currently locked the guild bank down (nothing can be withdrawn and nothing can be deposited) because of a bug that happens sometimes when leadership of a guild is transferred from one player to another.
While the items appear to be gone, they are all actually still there. They just aren't visible. They will be visible again on Tuesday when the server resets (this is currently the only fix for this bug, Game Masters and Blizzard technical support can do nothing about it). The only time a problem would occur is if a player deposited an item into a slot that's already filled. If that happened, when the server resets on Tuesday, it would reset with the new item and the original item would be replaced (hence why deposits are removed for the time being). So, we haven't been hacked and access will be restored. We've just been bugged temporarily. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Unfortunately, our previous Ventrilo status module broke a couple weeks ago. I've been waiting for the site to come back up because I had it coded the way I liked it; however, it never did.
I've put a new one on the website now. It doesn't take up too much space, but it is hogging a bit more space than the other one and it does require the use of a scroll bar. Because of this, I've allowed all modules to be collapsed so that you can collapse the module and you won't have to see it unless you really want to.
Be careful when using this feature, though, so that you don't collapse a module that you do need to pay attention to (such as news). I'll look into some vBulletin or vBadvanced hacks for Ventrilo servers but they generally don't have the visual status that I like, it'll be more of a "Who's Online" repeat and that could be hard to fit into the site for an easily viewed space.
Around 6-7am EST this morning, Caliclya's account was compromised and our guild bank was cleaned out once again. Some items were saved by another officer; however, most of the items missing were lost to the hacker.
I have reported the incident to Blizzard and am currently awaiting a response.
For anyone who is looking for a jewel-crafter/gem-cutter, the ever-generous Avanty has extended the offer to be a contact for us. Her alt, Leillani, is the one with the jewel/gem crafting but she is always willing to help us out if we need it.
As per this thread, our bank is being fully restricted once again due to numerous thefts/hackings over the past year.
I realize that our officer team has done an extraordinary job of keeping high value items in the locked tab and we've been lucky not to have any of those stolen. However, every single item in that bank has a value to somebody and it's not right that any of it is being taken to be sold for one player's profit when we've all contributed to it for the good of the entire guild.
Please visit the thread above to read about our new banking procedures and offer suggestions/feedback if you have it.
Sere Vala
