Welcome to your next guild - Possibly.

Now, before I proceed with this introductury post, let me start out by excusing for any spelling or grammatical errors. English is not my first language, so you'll have to cope :) Anyways... on we go.

Renegade Insane Asylum is a brand new guild with one goal - and that is to create a community of likeminded gamers with a desire for a long term guild membership with the goal to make friends... perhaps for life.

Before I proceed with the actual guild information, I would like to share my idea, vision and intention for creating Renegade Insane Asylum (Henceforth known as R.I.A.).

Let's take the name first. It sounds somewhat abstract, but it has an actual meaning.

Renegade: (Which refers to each member... )

Isn't that why we all play games? To have fun.. to enjoy ourselves, and to (even for just a brief moment) escape the problems of the real-world. Personally there is nothing (well perhaps for one thing) that helps relieve stress as much as a good gaming session infront of the computer. So, in that way, we're all renegades from our real life.

Insane:

Insane is a dangerous label to use.... if you put too much into the word. But aren't we all a little insane to spend so much time in a virtual world for enjoyment when we could take a walk and enjoy... life.. the wind.. the stars.. the forest... the sounds.
I'd like to think of myself as a little crazy :) But I don't mind.. because this is a way for me to spend time with many of my friends who live far away.. and I do love games :)

Asylum:

Well... we all have use for an Asylum occasionally... perhaps our community will be an asylum for you?

Personal Info:

As for myself.. I'm 30 years old, live in the northern part of Denmark and work as a system administrator for a very successful IT company. Nearly 2 years ago I found the love of my life in a wonderful girl and we have a 120 pound Newfoundlander (dog) who's 10 months old. We recently took the descision to become parents, so hopefully that will happen sometime in the near future.
We have a wonderful house away from the city so we can enjoy the peace and quiet around us when we get home from work.

Why share so much about myself? Well.. mainly just to give you an idea of who I am since I'm the founder of R.I.A. and the one who eventually will take it upon me to make this whole project succeed. I'm hoping we all in time become close friends and have a place for you to hang out.. and feel at home.. even though this is a base on the internet with people all around the world.

About the guild/community as a whole:

Being 30 years of age, and having played several games throughout the years, I've also been a part of several guilds. One thing I almost continuously bump into is l33t sp34ak1ng d00dz who think they are a better person than you (or at least act like it) just because they have advanced more than you have in a given game.
I have very little patience for people like that I generally try to avoid them. I'd rather surround myself with likeminded people who take friendship first and appreciate the social compatibility there hopefully should be in a guild/community for friendships to build.
It is with these observations and ideas that I will now build a guild/community... to avoid the things I don't like, and to provide a place for people to hang out for as long as they care. Give people a place to come to for a good laugh, or even for support if that should be nessecary.

Guild / Community Structure:

R.I.A. will be a community with interrests in more than one game. In a community with enough people, there will always be people who have an interrest in one game more than another.... with more gaming sections you are almost certain to have friends from the guild/community to play with since there without a doubt will be more from R.I.A. playing the game.

If a new game get's enough hype from members in the guild/community, we will establish a section for that specific game and start to work out the plans and with that be ready at launch.

Members and their Leadership:

I don't want powerhungry people swinging a whip because of a title within the guild. And I want all to be able to feel welcome within the guild, and have a role to fill. Regardless of just being a contributor as a normal member inside the community, or having a leadership role. Being a leader doesn't make you more important than any other member. It simply means that you have been given a chance to lead people because you have the personality, the organizational skills, the diplomatic skills and the desire!

Being the founder, all I require personally is the right to veto any descision if I feel it's damaging for the guild or doesn't seem to go along with the vision intended. This is not a right I hope I will have to execute very often.

The community as a whole will have a global council consisting of at least 1 representative from each gaming section. To begin with, I'm going to aim for around 5 councillors.

The leadership in each gaming section will then have their own democratically elected leadership. Each election will happen once every 3-6 months after game launch. If the leaders have done a good enough job there should be no problems for them getting re-elected. There is no maximum length any leader can serve. As long as the members are content - that's all that matters.

Details on leadership in general is still not completely final and will have to be custom designed to fit each game.

R.I.A. Buccaneers: (Pirates of the Burning Sea)

Now on to what you've been waiting to read about I presume - What role will R.I.A. have in PBS? Now, this is yet to be decided... but it will be one of either two things:
Britain or Pirate.

The coming members of the guild community will be able to take part in finalizing the plans and structure for this gaming section.

A good solid plan, theme and idea will always be prioritized, so if you feel like you are interrested in playing one of these, and at the same time have an interrest in shaping up such a community, then you are most likely what we're looking for, and I hope you will take it into your consideration to apply.

Every guild and community needs a home... an asylum - and so do we.

You will found ours right here: Renegade Insane Asylum.

Now, when you visit this site, you will notice the template might not look like something related to pirates of the burning sea. This template is not finished yet but will be shortly. For now we only have a generic template and the template for the World of Warcraft section finished. These skins are selectable once you are registered.

The Pirates of the Burning Sea game section is well on the way - and with YOUR help, it will be better, more complete and fully flexible to handle our upcoming tasks of running the PBS guild section.

Looking forward to hearing from you and comments are very welcome.

Until then.

Signed, yours sincerely:

Raam
Founder of R.I.A.

Renegade Insane Asylum

I just wanted to add to this thread, that for those who's curious.. I can now inform you that we have decided to go pirate.

Our in-game guild name for the Pirates of the Burning Sea section will be "The Renegade Buccaneers"

Thanks.

i am currently registering .... once i register i would be deilghted to join

Sounds great...

Just visit our website and click the 'join RIAPBS' in the PotBS section of the site.

Remember to register first, or else you won't have access to it.

Count me in...signing up right now

Hi Freethinker,

I cant see you have registered to our site? The same goes to vamps....

Or.. did you reconsider about joining?

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Originally posted by Raam
Hi Freethinker,

I cant see you have registered to our site? The same goes to vamps....

Or.. did you reconsider about joining?

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Had to wait till I got off work...signed up as bdbthinker

As an update, I just wanted to say that we are still looking for passionate people who are interrested in joining us on our pirate endeavors to conquor the seas...

Feel free to visit out website, register and filling out an application.

Thanks.

Im in.

-w

Im in

register as:

ArDontDoThat

Fantastic to see so many new faces coming along.. I'll review your applications as quickly as possible and give you an answer asap.

:)

Bump di pump

Whereever I go, it seems the R.I.A. is allready there
Feels like home in these threads..

--Captain Jherid--

First off, I enjoyed the post. You sound like my type of gamer.

Question though....

I have my heart set on playing a merchant. Do merchants exist in a pirate society or are they strictly raiders ? Im more of a social / crafter / merchant type of player. I dont avoid combat but I tend to enjoy other aspects of gaming far more

Hi riker,
at the moment I'm actually not a hundred percent sure if there will be any form of merchanting for pirates. It looks like we'll only be able to capture ships and raid towns, but nonetheless I have my hopes on some form of smuggling. I guess I should try to squeeze an answer to this out of the devs. For instance, in our guild we do allready have a "Finance and Resource" division. The main idea behind it is for later, when crafting will be introduced into the game, to get our crafters (and hopefully traders) working together more efficiently. (though, the latest buzz is that an 'advanced economics system' will allready be implemented at r1, instead of later. Perhaps that also means crafting? More questions to ask. And also, will pirates be able to craft too?).
I should be able to give you more concrete answers in the near future, hope those answers will be positive, for I'd really like to get you on board

Either way, if all works out as it's supposed to do, playing a pirate should be tougher then joining any of the nations. It's harder to get bigger ships, and there's a lot less 'safe water' for us. Though, a lot of people speculate that the pirate side will initially be overpopulated. We'll see in due time.

Sail safely,

http://www.flyinglab.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11362

according to the responses I got, pirates can indeed be merchants although a tougher path to go. Im up for the challenge though

I applied on your site and look forward to running cargo for you

Hey Riker, just reading over your application together with Raam. Glad to have you on board. Feel free to post a bit on our forums too, they're not exactly at the pinnacle of activity, so I can allways use a hand to make the place feel a bit more lively.

See you around. And lets hope it won't take too long before we can sail out :D

(O btw, I think you might like to hear this: we're also interested in Age of Conan and Vanguard, in due time, if we grow enough, we'll probably also end up with section for those games).