Issue #19 Sunday 21th October 2012

 

**The News In The Guild**

 

"Here we go, here we go, here we go....Here we go, here we go, here we goooooooooooo". There's football fever in the air here at 'The Star' today fellow Guildies. After the sneek peek that was mentioned at the end of last issue the entire Guild was stirred up with rumours about what it could mean.

 

Fear not Atlantis for all was revealed earlier today by our Editor 'Burnside' with a P/M to every Guild Member which explained everything you needed to know about the new football league. What makes this news even better is that we are the proud sponsers of this new Atlantis Football League (AFL) and we will be providing you with the latest exclusive reports and match results printed all here in our little paper.

 

What makes this even better than the news that came before this and before this, that, is that if it wasn't for this announcement there would be nothing else to report about today. Yes it's true, again we have no news except for the above announcement to mention. No new members, no leavers, no advancements, no nothing. But nevermind about all that, because what we do have for you is an exclusive report made by our roving editor 'Burnside' about his travels within the Guild. So all is not lost.

 

**Other News**

 

Following the city visits made by 'Burnside' he returned to 'The Star' HQ today with blistered feet and a sunburnt nose.

 

"I could only make it around half of them" he said panting like a dog, "My donkey collapsed and refused to budge an inch further despite being offered three carrots and an apple, then my shoes wore out and the mean buggers would'nt give me any unless I paid for em, and you ought to see the prices they were asking, scandalous to say the least".And the expenses this rag gives me would'nt buy a pair, and I'm not paying for any out of my own pocket"

 

After we stopped him going on and on and on (sounds familiar), we eventually sat him down to write up his report and here it is:

 

40 cities in total were visited at random, of these only 6 refused to answer the door, it was later found out that these were actually abandoned cities and their Lords or Ladies were expelled from Atlantis, thus leaving results from 34. (Hey he can count).

 

Of those 34 all were very satisfied with the guild.

33 out of 34 were very satisfied with the guild leadership with 1 being fairly satisfied (He has now changed his mind to very satisfied after being hung up by his toes for 7 days).

 

30 out of 34 were very satisfied with the amount of polishing and motivation they recieved and the other 4 were fairly satisfied.

 

33 out of 34 were very satisfied with trading opportunities with 1 (Yes the same one) being fairly satisfied.

 

There were 3 suggestions made by members to improve the guild, all of these suggestions were already in the process of being acted upon by various leaders and have now been implemented.

 

There were 2 main areas of contention:

 

1. Polishing and Motivating: Quite a few of you mentioned that some members were not 'Doing their fair share' and rarely bothered. Following the survey carried out by Donalddo, Genius8 and Slyfoxy and subsequent reminders sent out to individuals this no longer seems an issue, and thanks must go to those three members for their time and effort.

 

The other problem with this issue was the placing of preferences on profiles, some still do not have their preferences on at all and at least 1 member said that he was not going to put it on his city name because it was not part of his city name and never would be, however he has put it into the text of his city.

 

This issue and argument could go on and on (A bit like Burnside when he returned Hehe). However, It is thought that this is a minor problem, each player plays the game in a different way and quite rightly so, it would be very boring if we were all the same now would'nt it.

 

2: The second issue surounded the ability (Or not) of being able to ask for trade or P/M via an all members message, some thought there were too many messages going out and others thought taht the all members message system was a good communication tool and let others know they were online. Without the facility of a guild chat room we will not get that kind of interaction and to continue with the amount of all members messages we were getting at that time was unrealistic. As a consequence the deision was made for the all members message facility to be turned off and messages put through a guild forum thread. We will have to wait and see if this is the solution.

 

To sum up: It appears that the guild is doing very well and the majority of members are very satisfied, (long may it continue), The hard work is paying off and if we all push that little harder we can catch the number 1 spot, however, this is not a priority, what is, is that the guild is succesful, and helps players advance by its diverse opportunities and entertainment.

 

Burnside would like to thank all those who entertained him in their cities whilst he was on tour.

 

The leadership would still welcome any ideas and suggestions (no matter how trivial you may think they are) by placing them in the appropriate guild thread, with your help we can only grow better and stronger.... Long live Atlantis.

 

NEW**Sports News**

 

This is a new section to 'The Star' that we will be launching when the Football League is up and running. It will contain daily and or weekly game results (this has not been decided yet) and plenty of naughty revelations and juicy stories from within the footballing community.

 

Speaking of one such scandalous story, it was earlier discovered that 'Slyfoxy' was trying to impersonate 'Burnside' one of the Atlantis Football League's (AFL) top officials. Luckly he was spotted by our ever watchful Editor 'Burnside' and has been punished accordingly. We're more intrested in why "the said Mrs Burnside" was at 'Slyfoxy's' house in the first place. Oooo...how deep does the rabbit hole go we wonder.

 

That's the sort of story that only comes around every few months, so what luck it happened to come out just as we were launching our new section. Not only that another certain Editor at 'The Star' (no names) is very happy in that he now has something to use against 'Burnside' for the 

--"Dog Turd In The Top Desk Drawer Prank"-- which he is quite aware about. Moving onwards..

 

So thats all from 'The Star' today Guildies. Hopefully your daily news fix has been satisfied and remember that if you wish to have your say about yourself in our **Spotlight On** feature then P/M 'Burnside' directly. See you tomorrow...

 

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Editors:Burnside, Lord Zand