2003.6.29
Hermit's Grove is a guild on Shadowbane Asia Ardan server for those who enjoy hunting rather than getting involved in warfare, either alone or with friends. Information about how to join us is at the bottom of this page.
A thief character cannot be a mamber of this guild.
We do not discriminate anybody for his/her race or language in the real world. Everyone who wants to join this guild can become a full member.
Discrimination is treating somebody differently from others for a reason which he/she cannot control. Excluding sombody because of his/her native language is discrimination, but excluding somebody because his/her manner in hunting was bad is not a discrimination. Those whose behavior makes other members unpleasant will be excluded from our guild.
Neutral
Hermit's Grove will make nonaggression treaty with other guilds as mush as possible. But Hermit's Grove will never make an alliance treaty with other guilds. Our guild members are prohibited to get involved in any war with our guild crest shown on his/her character, except when our own city is attacked.
If you leave the guild temporarily and does not carry our crest, you may get involved in a warfare. However if the behaviour results in an attack of our city by someone or some guild, other members of Hermit's Grove will not probably keep you in our gild.
Our town at this moment is closed. This makes a great inconvenience, but this is necessary to keep our neutral guild safe. Opening the town will allow anybody to get involved in a warfare with our crest on.
Our base is a town at 520 615. It is located along the seashore on the left of Donaugh Highland. Bog of the Black Drakes is also in a running distance from our town for higher level characters.
We have everything you need for everyday hunting; access to bank, places to sell items, repairing equipments, and obtaining verious scrolls.
But we don't make high level equipments by ourselves yet, so you need to visit other cities for them. You also need to go to other cities for training your characters.
Once in a while you need to go to other cities for training and for other reasons. Since our town is closed, you will have to be invited again to be back to our guild. To leave the guild temporarily, it is advised to do so while some IC member is in the game. You should notify him/her before you leave. There are members of Hermit's Grove who own character's which can summon you back to the town. You can "tell" some member, and we will try to find one.
Here's ankh's rule, which we all follow:
No fee is collected for town maintenance. No building is collected a profit tax. There is no tax for being a member.
The owner is not necessarily the person who has built it, althogh so far the person who built a building is the owner. If one has built too many buildings and cannot pay their maintenance costs, he/she can give the right of a building or two to somebody else.
The owner can configure the building and its associated vendors in any way he/she likes. If you don't feel like sharing asset, it is ok. Even setting buying price to 1% is ok. (That wuold make tons of complaints, though.) You can also share the building's management with other members. Hiring and upgrading are up to you.
However, ToL must be maintained by the GL. Its maintainance cost is high,
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Only ToL has to be strictly maintained so that it never dies. Other buildings
will
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maintained by the owners.
Buildings are costly. There may be members who want to try management but do not have enough gold. Please feel free to negotiate with members who have money.
It is up to you what to build and what to sell. There can even be two swordsmiths in our town competing with each other. You can also place trainers. But if you place a building, you need to pay its maintenance costs, too.
You can place whatever you want, but don't place guards who attack other members. ;-)
This rule seems to conflict with the rule 1, but without ToL the town can not be maintained. All members have to cooperate to keep the tree alive.
The GL can pay the 300,000 maintenance costs easily anyway.
Please use in-game guild chat for any guild information.
The official guild bbs is Poo BBS. (This is Poo's private bbs, too.) Please report building and vendor upgrades to the board.
If you understand all of the above and want to join Hermit's Grove, please tell a guild member in the game. You can stay in the guild for a while and if you like it you can remain in the guild, or if you don't like it you can simply leave us. You can even come back later if you feel like to.
Piko Poko, the Guild Leader