The new guild should be ClanUK and remain wholey as ClanUK. The reason EQUK broke away from ClanUK was some **** stirring and perceived interfering. There actually was some/a lot of that happening, but those influences aren't around any more.
I think this game is going to stick around for a long time and develop; because of that we need a GM and officers to facilitate the development of the guild. Guild development is catered to significantly in the game. And we want a **** off big castle
The GM and the Officers should be responsible for the well being of the guild. Their primary function should be to ensure all members of the guild are respected and treat other people in the guild with respect. Guild development should be secondary to that. This was the vision we, the officers, had before the raid council was conceived in EQ1 and was one of the reasons we had so much fun in the first few years.
I dont expect we will need any kind of raid council (by that I mean an ideal, a person or a body of people controlling loot or hunts) or rules governing the allocation of loot, due to the nature of the game.
Beyond that I think we should play the game for a while and see what everyone thinks we should be doing and aiming for in game.
I'm happy, in fact keen, to have a shot at being GM, but you wouldnt find me a typical GM. I'd actually do very little apart from planning for the guild short, medium and long term and identifying areas that needed addressing and asking people to be responsible for them. And slapping anyone down if they got a power complex
Would also hope very much that people like Dith, Tenz, Cad, Extro, Gottaa, Unny (list isnt exhaustive) are going to play and are willing to put the time into being an officer.
Overall I think we can recapture the real special place and fun that the guild was in EQ1, but I think a big part of it was a group of officers, of very different personalities, whose primary concern was the people in the guild rather than the ph4test loots and running the guild for your mates. In fact I think we can go one better in EQ2.
Now can people please get on Unnys case and tell him he will be playing and we expecthim to be a bloody ranger