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About Convicts

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:39 am
by kordaer
Already posted a bit of info about us, but here's a more detailed run down.

Just a quick summary first:
- we're mostly aussies
- we may refer to some of you as yanks, or dirty poms, etc. but it's just a bit of friendly slang, no offence intended (honest!).
- we mainly play aussie hours - 3am to 8am EST. Friday and Saturday night EST is usually the best times for us to participate in EST raids. Sunday night EST is Monday for us, when we're at work or whatever.

The core membership of Convicts originates from Nocturnal, a Hib/guin guild that began at release. There aren't many members of Convicts that wern't a Nocturnal at one stage or another. Nocturnal began as a guild for aussies, and slowly grew to 150 or so members, incorporating people from around the globe. It eventually reached breaking point, when a number of its core members left to form Convicts.

Convicts have a few yanks that play odd hours, and a few euros. Most members are either working, bludging at Uni/College, or dole bludging. Whatever the case, there's guaranteed to be some kind of bludging involved, as that's the Australian way :bigups:

As Convicts on Hib/Guin, we mosly ran in guild groups. After doing pickup groups for 12+ months you come to realise what a waste of time they can be, especially once gank groups popped up all over Guin.

We never ignored our realm though. While we ran guild groups mostly, we always filled up spots with whoever we could find. We're apart of the Vae Victis alliance there, an alliance that was always about defending and taking what was rightfully ours (whichever relics we felt like having). It was a huge alliance of the major guilds on Guin, which made co-ordinating relic defence and offence so much easier. Now though, there exists a number of smaller alliances that have splintered off from it, but we've remained with VV through out.

In the last few months, RvR has really dried up during the offpeak hours when we go out to rvr. So that's why we decided to come here, to try out a new realm and actually get to enjoy some rvr during our prime time.

We ran a lot of guild/alliance/open ToA artifact/ML raids on Guin, and we'll be doing so again here. A lot of them were spur of the moment, and some were planned well in advance. We'll try and post the planned ones up here for those on at our hours to join in.

Officer wise, most of us are GMs, so if you need to talk to once of us, just /who Convicts.

Looking forward to doing some great things with this alliance!

Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:17 pm
by Mandrocsson
we actually do have a website

http://www.guildportal.com/Guild.aspx?G ... abID=70580

so feel free to visit, have a look around and then promptly get flamed off the boards :biggrin:

either way happy to be in the alliance and hope to do aliancey stuff with you soon

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 1:08 am
by Ormeld
Sounds great! really helps the members of the alliance who are familier with you guys, you all seem like great people from the chats i've had with you all, i cant wait to see you all at 50 and rvring! Look forward to slaying tons of albs/hibs with you all.

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:00 am
by Twystyd
Any idea when you crazy outbacks will be leveled up and RvR ready?

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:15 am
by Adida
it's good to have aussie players in the alliance ^_^ we have a longtime member from japan in our guild who plays close to the same times as yall ^_^ Look up bikuri or zuuljin in game.

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:16 am
by Hall
yay the swedes and the sleepless wonder Hall have someone to play with
:)

Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:10 am
by Adida
doh almost forgot been a while since i'vebeen on i know we had 3-4 aussie players in our guild a couple months ago before i left. Hopefully they are still playing :)

Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:42 pm
by Mandrocsson
as to the post above from law actually most of us are 50 by now there are only a few lazy/less active members that arent.

as for when we will be more activly rvring well some of us are activly rvring now, and im sure that more of us will join in when we get a little bit better gear -- or when we arent busy doing ml raids etc :biggrin:

ope to see you out there soon