Officerships **DRAFT v2**

[OnyxBlade]

Okie... Going to start the final push for officer elections and this is the positions I think we need/have a desire to fill, etc.

Take a look, let me know if you have further ideas, etc.

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Officerships...

1) Office of the Quartermaster - Responsible for Keeping the Pillagers Equipped and progressing in their crafts.

Typically, this is the person that will try to keep their eye on everyone as they progress in levels. They'll put a call out to the crafters that such and such needs new armour, weapons, food and jewelry soon.

This is also the person that you can go to and say, "Hey, I'm working on Artisan Jeweller and was wondering if we had any spare adamants sitting around."

This officer will then use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to try and help out.

Notes on this office: For the most part, this kin is pretty good about making sure folks get new equipment. We LOVE to craft! But, this officer is there to help us know who needs what.

This officer will utilize kinfolks to help keep crafting materials on hand and will have the support of the entire kin to help produce the equipment for levelling folks (both in level and in crafting skill).


2) Office of the Banker - Responsible for Keeping the Kinhall Up and Running and Stocked.

Typically, this is the person that pays the mortgage on the kinhall. Provides loans to folks that need that little bit of extra coin to buy a horse or house and lets us know when the bank needs some more funds.

This officer will also attempt to make sure that the 3 kinhall chests are stocked with those necessities that the kin may need in their day to day operations. Food, Potions, Tokens, etc.

This is also the person that you can send stuff to should you find something that others may find useful. IE: Class quest items, Class armour, HIGH LEVEL Legendary Items, etc.

This officer will then use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to let folks know what's needed, what goodies we have on hand, etc.


3) Office of the Recruit - Responsible for ensuring a smooth transition from Recruit to Full Member.

Typically, this is the person that will ensure new recruits are taken care of. Introduce new folks to the kin. Encourage new recruits to post on the forums. Encourage the kin to fellow with new recruits. Put up the poll for new recruits when they're ready.

This officer will work with the new recruit to show them around the kinhall. Show them the ropes, who to ask for craft mats and new armour, where to put the pies, etc.

This officer will use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to introduce new members, setup polls, discuss recruitment opportunities, etc.


4) Office of the Fellowship - Responsible for getting folks together to do "Stuff"

Typically, this is the person that tries to setup stuff for us to do. Whether it's fellowships to get through the hard to do full group quests in the game. Fellowships to go through Epic Quests. Raids, Roleplay events, low-level groups,. Basically, if you need help to do a quest or instance in the game, this is the person to talk to.

Want to hold a party and need help setting it up? Talk to this officer.

Need to get through Book 2 sometime and having trouble getting other folks to help? Talk to this officer.

Simply have a neat idea and want to see if other folks are interested? Talk to this officer.

This officer will typically browse through the forums and find folks that have posted a request for help and then will try to help stir up interest in it.

This officer will use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to let folks know of scheduled events, parties or fellowships.


5) Office of Good Will - Responsible for establishing and maintaining the Pillagers of Pipeweed's good name

This officer will be the person that approaches other kins and persons in the game world to establish relationships with those entities. Whether it's for raids, trades of goods and services, fellowships or parties.

This officer will also browse other sources for events held by other kins and seek out any that may be events that the Pillagers would like to participate in, either as a kin or individually.

This officer will be the point of contact for other kins to seek out relationships with the Pillagers.

This officer will use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to let folks know of new relationships, future events and parties with other kins or in the world at large.

[katarnus]

Wow.

Those all sound really good Onyx. Very clear and well explained. It looks like you took what's currently there and evolved some of it a little. Very well thought out sir!

[Zib]

I agree, nice descriptions. I especially like the office of the fellowship and how it emphasizes 'events' and helping to facilitate completing quests/deeds.

The only other position that might come up is ambassador. Someone who is in charge of public relations, alliances and anything else that might come up with other kinships (i.e. disciplinary issues which hopefully will never be an issue). Since we are a casual kinship (as in we don't want to get server firsts in the raid instances). This might not be a very active position. But I thought I would just bring it up for discussion.

Oh, and we definitely need an office of pie. It is a full time job...or it should be!

[OnyxBlade]

I agree Zib. Having an officer in the ambassador role does makes sense. Someone that would make contact with other kins, someone that would read through the forums at turbine and see what's going on with the world at large. Work with other kins and the Office of the Fellowship to schedule kinship-to-kinship events/raids/etc.

I shall add that available position today!

[OnyxBlade]

Now that I think we have a good basis for what officers we're looking for, give a good long look at them and see if there's any that you feel you'd like to fill or help fill.

Here's our current list of volunteers for our upcoming elections.

1) Office of the Quartermaster: Verewen has volunteered

2) Office of the Banker: Delaney has volunteered

3) Office of the Recruit: Katarnus has volunteered

4) Office of the Fellowship: Bubub has volunteered

5) Office of Good Will: None as of yet

If you feel you'd like to be an officer, throw your name in (if I've gotten anything wrong, or if you'd like to withdraw your name) let me know....

[Delaney]

How'd I miss this yesterday??

Dec 1, 2008 13:46:48 GMT -5 OnyxBlade said:

2) Office of the Banker - Responsible for Keeping the Kinhall Up and Running and Stocked.

Typically, this is the person that pays the mortgage on the kinhall. Provides loans to folks that need that little bit of extra coin to buy a horse or house and lets us know when the bank needs some more funds.

This officer will also attempt to make sure that the 3 kinhall chests are stocked with those necessities that the kin may need in their day to day operations. Food, Potions, Tokens, etc.

This is also the person that you can send stuff to should you find something that others may find useful. IE: Class quest items, Class armour, HIGH LEVEL Legendary Items, etc.

This officer will then use the forums and the Message of the Day (and kinchat) to let folks know what's needed, what goodies we have on hand, etc.

The loans and the stocking thing are semi-new, or perhaps just codified for the first time. I don't have any problem with either, though. For our newer kin, Daemiel is my character designated as the kin banker. Jecii has been gracious enough to help out tremendously with the item/recipe donations - Poprecipebox is his main kin banking character, I believe.

If you have recipes or spare crafting materials, you can send them to Daemiel (and probably Poprecipebox too, but I'm loathe to speak for Jecii even if he has been doing this in the past.) If you *need* anything to complete a tier, or finish a project, for right now please ask myself, Verewen, or Onyxblade. We'll make new formal rules and such about the system in a kinmail. (Please don't ask for 10 stacks of steel to do an entire tier ... )

As far as funds go, we need to start thinking about raising some soonish. Going entirely by memory, we have around 5 gold, with the main cost being the 300s (330?) per week on the kinhall upkeep. We'd be lower, except for a generous donation Sharliana made. Our original fund pool was created by the kin as a whole, through crafting and AH sales, and lasted a remarkably long time. We greatly prefer to raise money as a group, so we all have a stake in it. If anyone has any ideas for raising funds, I'd love to hear them.

I think the other officer positions sound good. Let me encourage all of you to speak up if you are even remotely interested. The 'duties' are far from onerous, and we'd really love to have people step up. It's your kinship, too!

[OnyxBlade]

Good news! Good news! I've just gotten word that Katarnus has volunteered to head up the Office of the Recruit! I've updated the list above.

[jecii]

Greetings

I would like to formally offer assistance to those that craft (Office of the Quartermaster) and to our illustrious long-term burg..err banker, Delaney (Office of the Banker). We can call the position "Inventory Manager" a "non-commissioned officer" type of role that would help manage the 3 regular kinhall boxes AND the 6 in the "crafting halls".

We do(did?) have people to help keep track of the stuff in the "crafting halls", but I think those need a bit of additional attention.

As current uh..recipebox... I think keeping track of those recipes (even though they are more common than nasties in Moria) is still important and I still think we need to keep better track of those that we have and are offering to share. To this end I am continuing to work on keeping a current list of these recipes. With the change to stackable one-use recipes, we've reduced the actual usage of space, but quickly reconsuming it with the new tier of recipes. I must say I like the little ribbon on each icon...it helps identify the tier...I just wish they'd also indicate whether the recipe was stackable or not. (Another pet peeve of mine is that if I dump a recipe into my inventory / bank, and another of that kind already exists and is stackable, that the darn thing auto-stack!!! )

Working toward helping keep track of these things, I have been VERY slowly continuing to work on keeping a current recipe inventory and in some way displaying it for people to use. (currently the web access is very limited....and to this end, I'd be happy to continue to offer I my "assistance" (little it has been thus far) to Sharliana in continuing the development of the website he has been building for the kinship. Right now, my own system needs a minor update to accomodate quantity on the recipe list, but I don't foresee that being a huge issue. I hope to somehow incorporate this into the future site that Sharliana is building.


PS....this site doesn't seem to like the words "my" and "assistance" next to each other....it converts them to some mangled word.

...continuing to push back the darkness...one nasty at a time.

[Delaney]

Dec 2, 2008 14:48:52 GMT -5 OnyxBlade said:

Good news! Good news! I've just gotten word that Katarnus has volunteered to head up the Office of the Recruit! I've updated the list above.

Woo hoo! *cheer Katarnus*

[Delaney]

Dec 3, 2008 11:52:23 GMT -5 jecii said:

I would like to formally offer assistance to those that craft (Office of the Quartermaster) and to our illustrious long-term burg..err banker, Delaney (Office of the Banker). We can call the position "Inventory Manager" a "non-commissioned officer" type of role that would help manage the 3 regular kinhall boxes AND the 6 in the "crafting halls".

If I stay on as banker, I'll gratefully continue to accept the help! *grin* In all seriousness, your help has been invaluable and much appreciated.

Dec 3, 2008 11:52:23 GMT -5 jecii said:

We do(did?) have people to help keep track of the stuff in the "crafting halls", but I think those need a bit of additional attention.

Yeah, that's vaguely what I was alluding to in my post. I imagine most of the same people are still willing to facilitate distribution, but we need to make things official and let people know that the resources are there.

[Verewen of Rohan]

I confess that I was one of the people previously delegated to keeping track of the stores in the 2 Crafting Halls. However, since they were purchased by Floggin (who is no longer with us), I haven't set foot in either of them. I no longer even know what their status is. Who is paying upkeep? I assumed that they would have gone with Floggin when he left, which is why I pretty much just cut them loose and haven't thought of them as an asset in any way.

[OnyxBlade]

Me too... I have actually visited the hall once to drop off some wood and such... From what I understand, Floggin left them to the kin. Jecii knows more and if needed, I still have contact with him so I can touch base with him.

In other good news, Bubub has volunteered to help head up the office of fellowships!

[OnyxBlade]

Dec 3, 2008 11:52:23 GMT -5 jecii said:

I would like to formally offer assistance to those that craft (Office of the Quartermaster) and to our illustrious long-term burg..err banker, Delaney (Office of the Banker). We can call the position "Inventory Manager" a "non-commissioned officer" type of role that would help manage the 3 regular kinhall boxes AND the 6 in the "crafting halls".

That's great news Jecii! That will definately help out a bunch!

Thank you!

[jecii]

As far as I know, he will continue to cover the costs associated with them as one of his alts is still the actual leader of the kinship that "owns" one of the houses (Pillagers Crafters Union). The old Mystic Council of Knights house is still available for Pillager use. I'd not be opposed to seeing the Pillagers help out with the maintenance of the crafting halls so that Floggin himself isn't left covering all of the costs.

JECII

[Delaney]

Dec 3, 2008 14:39:16 GMT -5 jecii said:

I'd not be opposed to seeing the Pillagers help out with the maintenance of the crafting halls so that Floggin himself isn't left covering all of the costs.

JECII

I have been doing so, albeit sporadically. You have to sneak in ahead of him to do it, though.

There has never been any formal arrangement for the associated costs since inception of the Hall(s), which has always made it a bit of a sticky issue.

[Delaney]

Dec 3, 2008 13:20:55 GMT -5 OnyxBlade said:

In other good news, Bubub has volunteered to help head up the office of fellowships!

Yay! ;D

[thelonius]

I'd vote yes to start a Pillagers fund to pay rent on all our properties. Besides offering my donations, I'm sure we have a bunch of recipes we could liquidate for sssssilver ;D

[Brunli of the Many Names]

Brunli can mine ores to sell. Also I sold a stack of T6 hides for 2 gold the other day, something else we can AH perhaps?

[OnyxBlade]

And for yet another bit of wonderful news, Zibgar has volunteered to the position of officer. This means for the first time in my time as a pillager we have 2 folks volunteering to the same position.

I've talked with both and they're willing to share the duties, but we feel the pillagers will get a say in it, so instead of the customary 2 choices, the kin will have 4 choices for the officer of the fellowship. 1) Bubub 2) Zibgar 3)Shared 4) Neither

I'll get the polls up when I get in to work.