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This is the official wiki page for the ''Spiral Knights'' guild Lancer Knightz. Lancer Knightz is a fairly old guild, dating from sometime in April 2011. (''Spiral Knights'' itself launched on April 4, 2011.)
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This is the official wiki page for the ''Spiral Knights'' guild '''Lancer Knightz'''. Our guild is much like other casual guilds in the game, but with these distinguishing characteristics:
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* We're one of the oldest living guilds. We formed in April 2011, shortly after ''Spiral Knights'' launched.
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Our guild members are diverse in their interests (PvE, PvP, crafting, chatting, etc.) and experience (2-star, 5-star, etc.). If you are a pleasant, active player, then we'd love to have you. Our guild is currently full, but occasionally we can accept new recruits as old members are removed for inactivity.
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* We run a long-lived [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Data|project to collect data on weapons, missions, etc.]].
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<!--* Our members seem to be more mature than those of many other guilds. For example, many of our officers are married with children.-->
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* While some of our members like PvP, we're not into PvP as a guild. If you're looking for an elite PvP guild, then you might not be satisfied here.
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There are no official requirements for entry to Lancer Knightz. If you are a pleasant, active player, then we'd love to have you.
  
 
==Rules==
 
==Rules==
  
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Our guild is casual. Rules and procedures certainly aren't our thing. But there are two common values, on which we agree. Guild members who violate these principles may be removed from the guild.
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Our guild is casual. We have very few rules, most of which are obvious.
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* Be pleasant. If you want crowns, then don't beg; sell something or go into the Clockworks. If you have no energy, then don't beg; wait for tomorrow. If you invite someone to join your party, and they won't come, then don't beg; get over it. If you want to be promoted, then don't beg; fulfill the stated requirements below. Don't use any racial, sexual, or other slurs. Don't scam people or steal from them. Let's develop a reputation, of which we can be proud.
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# Be pleasant. Don't beg, scam, or use any insulting language or slurs.
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* Be active. Everyone goes on trips or is otherwise busy in real life sometimes. It's okay if you don't log on every day, or even every week. But any guild member who is dormant for a month or longer may be removed from the guild. If you need an exemption (for example, you're going on a five-week trip, but you'll be active after that), then mail any Guild Master, stating how long of a dormancy you plan, and you will not be removed.
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# Our guild members sometimes place items in Member Storage. It is intended to help new knights. Take what you personally need, but don't take stuff just to sell or trade away.
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#Although the guild has to pay weekly fees to maintain its guild hall, we do not force every member to contribute weekly. Contributions are voluntary. Suggested weekly contributions are 1,000 per Veteran and 2,000 per Officer, for example.
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In Lancer Knightz, rank is based not on gear or skill, but rather on being mature, responsible, and helpful.
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#When you first join our guild, you are a '''Recruit'''. Your new guildmates welcome you into the guild. They may offer to go into the Clockworks with you or join you on a PvP team.
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#You get promoted to '''Member''' as soon as it's clear that you are going to be an active player. If we invite you one day, and on the next day we see that you're back, then that may be good enough. Traditionally, most people in Lancer Knightz are Members.
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#A '''Veteran''' is a member who has demonstrated that he is active, experienced, and responsible. Promotion to Veteran requires at least one month in the guild.
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#An '''Officer''' is a highly experienced, active, trusted member of the guild. Officers recruit new Recruits and promote new Members and Veterans in accordance with the guild rules. They do not promote Officers or remove any guild members. They do make make expensive guild hall purchases. To be promoted to Officer, you must demonstrate maturity, enthusiasm for the guild, and a willingness to recruit. Apply to the Guild Masters.
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#The '''Guild Masters''' manage the membership of the guild, by removing inactive or disruptive members and promoting new Officers. Occasionally they alter guild policy and start new projects. Promotion to Guild Master happens very rarely, and there is no guideline for who deserves it.
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==History==
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[[User:DarkKnight17|Whitelancer]] created Lancer Knightz in mid-April 2011, with Pula and Shakugan. (''Spiral Knights'' itself launched on April 4, 2011.) After a couple of months, however, Whitelancer left the guild to start [[Valkyrie Knights (Guild)|Valkyrie Knights]], Pula followed him, and Shakugan went dormant.
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[[User:Vroom|Donkeyhaute]] was invited into Lancer Knightz by Pula in mid-April 2011, and was the eighth or ninth member of the guild. Around the time that Whitelancer and Pula left, he was abruptly promoted from Recruit to Guild Master over a 10-day period. As the ''de facto'' leader, Donkeyhaute created our various rank systems, our defunct recipe-sharing scheme, our food-sharing scheme, our ongoing data collection project, and this wiki page.
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By the summer of 2011, most of the guild's members had become inactive, as Spiral Knights often do after a few months. Representatives of [[The Ascendicate (Guild)|The Ascendicate]] approached Lancer Knightz, suggesting that the guilds be merged. Sooch, who was then an Officer, convinced Donkeyhaute that they should try to revive the moribund Lancer Knightz, rather than abandon it. Sooch was promoted to Guild Master and helped rebuild the guild to a high level of activity.
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By the autumn of 2011, the guild had become a bit dormant again. Norpo, who was arguably the social hub of the guild, was promoted to Guild Master. He spearheaded the recruitment of numerous highly active knights. The guild became more prosperous than ever before.
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In September 2012, the Ascendicate merged with [[Delicious Bacon (Guild)|Delicious Bacon]] to form [[Coalesce (Guild)|Coalesce]].
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On 9 November 2012, Epoxee replaced Norpo as Guild Master, after Norpo had grown dormant. Epoxee was our first Guild Master, other than the founders, to live outside North America.
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By March 2013, we were no longer in contact with Coalesce or Valkyrie Knights, as our contacts left those guilds or moved to the Asian servers.
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In April 2013, Fafaprince replaced Donkeyhaute and [[User:Zverolka|Zverolka]] replaced Sooch. (Donkeyhaute and Sooch had led the guild for over a year and a half, and felt that others should get a chance.) Zverolka organized a slimeball tournament.
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In October 2013, Fafaprince resigned as Guild Master, giving the guild a special gift of 300,000 crowns. He is still an Officer in the guild.
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Sooch left the guild in early 2014. In spring of 2015 Zverolka went dormant, Donkeyhaute was re-promoted, and Epoxee demoted himself to Officer.
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Donkeyhaute revised this wiki page in August 2018, loosening the promotion criteria. He is the active Guild Master. Shakugan is technically still the head of Lancer Knightz. Sooch quit the game on March 5, 2019.
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{|style="background:#224466"  style="background:#E2E2EA"
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|[[File:Zverolka1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6| <b>Zverolka</b>]]
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|[[File:Donkeyhauted.png|thumb|upright=0.6|<b>Donkeyhaute</b>]]
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|[[File:Shakugan.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|<b>Shakugan</b>]]
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|[[File:Sooch2.png|thumb|upright=0.6|<b>Sooch</b>]]
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|[[File:Norpo.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|<b>Norpo</b>]]
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|[[File:Fafaprince.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6| <b>Fafaprince</b>]]
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|[[File:Epoxee.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6| <b>Epoxee</b>]]
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|}
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For more images, check out our [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Photogallery|guild photogallery]].
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==Activities==
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Guild members are encouraged to organize projects, events, and activities, to enrich our lives in the guild and to serve the wider Spiral Knights community.
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=== Boss Furniture ===
  
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==Recipe Sharing==
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We have completed our big Snarbolax, Royal Jelly and big Roarmulus statue :).
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We're also about 1/4 done with our big Vanaduke statue - would be nice to get some help on it :D.
  
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To the extent that it's practical, let's share recipes. How? Well, most 3-star items (and 2-star items, and 1-star items) can be crafted without equipping them. This means that someone can craft a 3-star item for you, without paying an unbinding cost. You supply all materials, crowns, and crystal energy, but you essentially get the recipe for free. Depending on Auction House prices, energy prices, and how much mist energy you have, this may or may not save you money over crafting yourself. Check out our [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Recipes|list of recipes]].
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=== Data Collection Project ===
  
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==Contests==
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Donkeyhaute runs our long-standing [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Data|project]] to collect data on various aspects of the game. Your data and ideas are welcome.
  
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A lottery will be held every week, either Friday 6:00 PM or Saturday 4:00 PM (game time &mdash; PDT). Any guild member online at the time can play! There is no entry fee, although donations to the prize pool are welcome. The default prize is 500 crowns, but larger prizes such as 3000 crowns, 6000 crowns, 100 CE, or 5-star materials are sometimes awarded. Here is the procedure. Everyone who wishes to participate gathers in the guild hall at the appointed time. The participants form a line, and are assigned numbers as follows:
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=== PvP ===
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:11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, ....
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Then two dice are rolled, to give the two digits in the winning number. For example, if a 2 and a 3 are rolled, then person 23 (the ninth person in line) wins. If a number is rolled that has no person attached to it, then we re-roll both dice. This procedure is fair and should not require more than five thrilling minutes.
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Events may take place after the lottery, if funding allows. Examples include:
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We are always looking for enthusiastic members who are interested in promoting PvP within Lancer Knightz &mdash; either for guild-vs-guild or individual play. Let Donkeyhaute know, if you're really into PvP and want to get more of our members into it.
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*Racing: The event holder constructs a race track and everyone races in it. The first to reach the goal is victorious.
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*Trivia: The event holder asks trivia questions. Contestants whisper (/tell) the answers to the event holder.
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*Riddles: The event holder gives a sequence of increasingly difficult riddles. Contestants must answer them in order. The first contestant to solve them all wins.
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*Mimicking: The event holder performs an action and eliminates the last person to mimic him/her. This process repeats until only one contestant remains.
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==Data Collection==
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==Old Activities==
  
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We have a new project, started by Donkeyhaute and administered by Splinteye, to collect data on various equipment, as a service to the community. Our first focus is on measuring the damage per second of all 5-star swords. [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Data | Check it out]].
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We used to have many such projects. Our [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Recipes|recipe sharing project]] was made obsolete by the mission system. Our [http://lancerknightz.proboards.com/ forum], [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/lancerknightz Steam group], contests, lotteries, and organized PvP are largely defunct. You are welcome to revive them!
  
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==Rank==
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=== Slimeball Championship ===
  
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Many of our guild members do not care about rank. For those who do, let's lay out the guidelines. Rank is not based on skill or experience as a player, but rather on service to the guild. In short, you are promoted for performing Helpful Deeds. The two most common Helpful Deeds are:
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[[File:Monster-Lichen.png|thumb]]
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* Recruiting a new member. The member must accept the invitation (becoming a Recruit) and then play actively (becoming a Member) before your Helpful Deed is recognized. If you are not an officer, then you cannot invite the new member, but you can ask an officer to invite on your behalf.
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* Starting a new program. For example, one guild member made this wiki page and started our recipe-sharing system. Another guild member started a series of lotteries and other contests. Be creative.
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If you wish to be promoted, then contact an Officer or Guild Master to explain how you have met the criteria. Remember that the officers of Lancer Knightz are players just like you. They are not employees of Three Rings, and they do not come online just to keep track of each guild member's achievements. So, even if your promotion is long overdue, please explain clearly and courteously why you deserve it.
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===Recruit===
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Once we had a guild event we called '''Slimeball'''. It's a shield-bumping game that could be played with a little lichen. Anyone from the guild can join, there is no entry fee, and anyone could win. You just need to be quick with a shield. It was quite fun :D thought we had some problems arranging games cause of different playing schedule of players.
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Possible we would give it one more try later.
  
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When you first join our guild, you are a Recruit. Your guildmates may welcome you into the guild, and offer to go into the Clockworks with you or join you on a PvP team.
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Here you can take a look at the example of the field and the game:
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http://youtu.be/kFQYsJL5Oz8
  
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===Member===
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Procedure: Someone finds a field to play. It must be a map with slimes. You need to find a field with 2 gates - at the right and at the left. Don't kill all cause you need a ball! For a ball you need to find a lichen. Better to take one-nucleus. Bump it to the field. Then you call your opponent, a referee and the game begins! For the referee you can take any Officer or GM. You can play without a one but in this case if you want for the results to be accepted you need to take a video of the match.
  
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You get promoted to Member as soon as it's clear that you are going to be an active player. If we invite you one day, and on the next day we see that you're back, then that may be good enough. Most people in Lancer Knightz are Members.
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A good map was found on rank mission 3-1 Alien Ooze on 2nd level.
  
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===Veteran===
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Rule (tentative):
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# You can bump the lichen with a shield. It's forbidden to attack the ball :). After 1-st attack you get a yellow card. After 2 attacks you lose.
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# After each goal the time stops, the referee returns the ball to the center, then he shouts "START" and the game continues.   
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# The game has 2 rounds, after the 1-st the gates switch. Each round is held for 5 minutes (maybe will be set a little more). If no goal is scored you get additional time - 5 minutes. If still no goal then as usually - a penalty time comes from the spot the referee shows - until someone misses.
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# You can heal any time before the game. But if you die during the game - sorry, you lose.
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# The game is played in the olympic system. For the semifinales, finale and the match for the 3-rd place a GM has to be the referee. 
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# When your opponent is announced, you have 4 days to arrange your match. 
  
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A Veteran is a member who has distinguished himself or herself somehow. The most common way to get promoted from Member to Veteran is to perform one Helpful Deed, as explained above. Sometimes a knight who has simply played in the guild for a long time is promoted to Veteran. Sometimes a knight whom we recruit from another guild, who held a high rank in that guild, is granted Veteran status early. This happens ''while the knight is being recruited'' &mdash; not after the fact.
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It will also be great if someone would record videos of the last four matches.
  
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===Officer===
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=== Food Sharing ===
  
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In ''Spiral Knights'', guild Officers have actual power. In Lancer Knightz, that power comes with responsibility. An Officer plays often &mdash; certainly multiple times per week. An Officer knows the policies of the guild, and explains them to other members when they ask. He recruits new guild members and promotes them to Member and Veteran as appropriate. Whenever an Officer recruits a new guild member, he sends the recruit an in-game mail message (not a /tell) explaining how to find this wiki page. An Officer who does not fulfill these responsibilities may be demoted to Veteran. Although Officers are technically able to promote Veterans to Officers, and to remove people from the guild, Officers are discouraged from performing either of these actions.
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Donkeyhaute has launched a new [[Lancer Knightz (Guild)/Food|scheme]] for sharing sprite food, to avoid the mineral bottleneck. Your participation is greatly appreciated.
  
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If you are a Veteran and want to be an Officer, you can prove it by performing two more Helpful Deeds (or one rather large Helpful Deed). Sometimes a Veteran asks for promotion, without explaining clearly why he (or she) has met this criterion. Such a Veteran is actually demonstrating that he is <em>not</em> ready to be an Officer.
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=== Steam Group ===
  
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===Guild Master===
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[[User:GulliverBFG|GulliverBFG]] has started a Steam group for us. As a forum, the Steam group is somewhat more polished than the ''Spiral Knights'' forums. All guild members are encouraged to participate. Here is the process for signing up:
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# If you don't already have a Steam ID, then make one [https://store.steampowered.com/join/ here]. You don't need to play ''Spiral Knights'' through Steam, and you don't have to buy any games.
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# Edit your Steam profile to mention ''Spiral Knights'', Lancer Knightz, and maybe your in-game knight name. A few details like these make you much easier for us to find.
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# Find GulliverBFG or Donkeyhaute on Steam, and add him as a friend. Or, in ''Spiral Knights'', send a mail message to GulliverBFG or Donkeyhaute with your Steam ID. As soon as he can find you on Steam, he will invite you into the Lancer Knightz Steam group.
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# Check your Steam profile for your invitation. Accept it, and you're ready to go.
  
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A Guild Master has the responsibilities of an Officer (playing often, recruiting new members) and several other responsibilities, which are performed in coordination with the other Guild Masters. He (or she) promotes and demotes Officers. He removes inactive members from the guild. He adjusts policy to improve the guild. He designs new projects, and contributes resources to them as needed.
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=== Lottery ===
  
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Promotion to Guild Master happens very rarely, and there is no guideline for who deserves it. Even if you are the most active member of the guild, you may never proceed past Officer. Here is a brief history of our Guild Masters.
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Shuraka held a lottery on the night of Halloween 2012, to give out a variety of Hallow items donated by the guild. Here are some of the prizes awarded: Akiroar got Raiment and Plate Mail. Bionicfusion got Cloak and Hood. Boomkid got Scale Helm, Sallet, and Round Helm. Dhalgren got Cuirass, Crescent Helm, Maid Headband. Donkeyhaute got Sallet and Tailed Helm. Squamph got Crescent Helm and Hood. Swolenator got Mecha Wings and Com Unit. Tsiddique got Toupee and some armors. Dhalgren also got a trinket slot upgrade.
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* Whitelancer started Lancer Knightz with Pula and Shakugan. Our dormant Guild Master Shockgun is a remnant from this era of the guild.
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* Donkeyhaute was invited into Lancer Knightz by Pula in April 2011, a few days after he started playing. He was the eighth or ninth member of the guild. He spent the next two months or so as a Recruit. One day, an Officer noticed him and promoted him to Member. Ten days later, for reasons that are still not clear, he was Guild Master. Donkeyhaute invented our rank system and our recipe-sharing system, and made this wiki page.
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* Sooch became Guild Master sometime during Summer 2011. Representatives of [[The Ascendicate (Guild)|The Ascendicate]] approached Lancer Knightz, suggesting that the guilds be merged. Sooch, who was then an Officer, convinced Donkeyhaute that they should try to revive the moribund Lancer Knightz, rather than abandon it. Sooch was promoted to Guild Master and has been a central figure in the guild ever since. Currently he is very busy in real life, however.
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* Norpo was promoted to Guild Master in late September 2011. Perhaps his principal achievement has been the recruiting of numerous highly active guild members, which have made our guild stronger than ever before.
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Latest revision as of 18:43, 6 March 2019

Lancer Knightz
GuildLogo-Lancer Knightz.png

A selection of Lancer Knightz members.

Guild Founder: Whitelancer, Shakugan, Pula
Approx. Population: 85
Guild Master(s):

Zverolka, Donkeyhaute, Shakugan


Website: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/lancerknightz

This is the official wiki page for the Spiral Knights guild Lancer Knightz. Our guild is much like other casual guilds in the game, but with these distinguishing characteristics:

  • We're one of the oldest living guilds. We formed in April 2011, shortly after Spiral Knights launched.
  • We run a long-lived project to collect data on weapons, missions, etc..
  • While some of our members like PvP, we're not into PvP as a guild. If you're looking for an elite PvP guild, then you might not be satisfied here.

There are no official requirements for entry to Lancer Knightz. If you are a pleasant, active player, then we'd love to have you.

Rules

Our guild is casual. We have very few rules, most of which are obvious.

  1. Be pleasant. Don't beg, scam, or use any insulting language or slurs.
  2. Our guild members sometimes place items in Member Storage. It is intended to help new knights. Take what you personally need, but don't take stuff just to sell or trade away.
  3. Although the guild has to pay weekly fees to maintain its guild hall, we do not force every member to contribute weekly. Contributions are voluntary. Suggested weekly contributions are 1,000 per Veteran and 2,000 per Officer, for example.

In Lancer Knightz, rank is based not on gear or skill, but rather on being mature, responsible, and helpful.

  1. When you first join our guild, you are a Recruit. Your new guildmates welcome you into the guild. They may offer to go into the Clockworks with you or join you on a PvP team.
  1. You get promoted to Member as soon as it's clear that you are going to be an active player. If we invite you one day, and on the next day we see that you're back, then that may be good enough. Traditionally, most people in Lancer Knightz are Members.
  1. A Veteran is a member who has demonstrated that he is active, experienced, and responsible. Promotion to Veteran requires at least one month in the guild.
  1. An Officer is a highly experienced, active, trusted member of the guild. Officers recruit new Recruits and promote new Members and Veterans in accordance with the guild rules. They do not promote Officers or remove any guild members. They do make make expensive guild hall purchases. To be promoted to Officer, you must demonstrate maturity, enthusiasm for the guild, and a willingness to recruit. Apply to the Guild Masters.
  1. The Guild Masters manage the membership of the guild, by removing inactive or disruptive members and promoting new Officers. Occasionally they alter guild policy and start new projects. Promotion to Guild Master happens very rarely, and there is no guideline for who deserves it.

History

Whitelancer created Lancer Knightz in mid-April 2011, with Pula and Shakugan. (Spiral Knights itself launched on April 4, 2011.) After a couple of months, however, Whitelancer left the guild to start Valkyrie Knights, Pula followed him, and Shakugan went dormant.

Donkeyhaute was invited into Lancer Knightz by Pula in mid-April 2011, and was the eighth or ninth member of the guild. Around the time that Whitelancer and Pula left, he was abruptly promoted from Recruit to Guild Master over a 10-day period. As the de facto leader, Donkeyhaute created our various rank systems, our defunct recipe-sharing scheme, our food-sharing scheme, our ongoing data collection project, and this wiki page.

By the summer of 2011, most of the guild's members had become inactive, as Spiral Knights often do after a few months. Representatives of The Ascendicate approached Lancer Knightz, suggesting that the guilds be merged. Sooch, who was then an Officer, convinced Donkeyhaute that they should try to revive the moribund Lancer Knightz, rather than abandon it. Sooch was promoted to Guild Master and helped rebuild the guild to a high level of activity.

By the autumn of 2011, the guild had become a bit dormant again. Norpo, who was arguably the social hub of the guild, was promoted to Guild Master. He spearheaded the recruitment of numerous highly active knights. The guild became more prosperous than ever before.

In September 2012, the Ascendicate merged with Delicious Bacon to form Coalesce.

On 9 November 2012, Epoxee replaced Norpo as Guild Master, after Norpo had grown dormant. Epoxee was our first Guild Master, other than the founders, to live outside North America.

By March 2013, we were no longer in contact with Coalesce or Valkyrie Knights, as our contacts left those guilds or moved to the Asian servers.

In April 2013, Fafaprince replaced Donkeyhaute and Zverolka replaced Sooch. (Donkeyhaute and Sooch had led the guild for over a year and a half, and felt that others should get a chance.) Zverolka organized a slimeball tournament.

In October 2013, Fafaprince resigned as Guild Master, giving the guild a special gift of 300,000 crowns. He is still an Officer in the guild.

Sooch left the guild in early 2014. In spring of 2015 Zverolka went dormant, Donkeyhaute was re-promoted, and Epoxee demoted himself to Officer.

Donkeyhaute revised this wiki page in August 2018, loosening the promotion criteria. He is the active Guild Master. Shakugan is technically still the head of Lancer Knightz. Sooch quit the game on March 5, 2019.

Zverolka
Donkeyhaute
Shakugan
Sooch
Norpo
Fafaprince
Epoxee

For more images, check out our guild photogallery.

Activities

Guild members are encouraged to organize projects, events, and activities, to enrich our lives in the guild and to serve the wider Spiral Knights community.

Boss Furniture

We have completed our big Snarbolax, Royal Jelly and big Roarmulus statue :). We're also about 1/4 done with our big Vanaduke statue - would be nice to get some help on it :D.

Data Collection Project

Donkeyhaute runs our long-standing project to collect data on various aspects of the game. Your data and ideas are welcome.

PvP

We are always looking for enthusiastic members who are interested in promoting PvP within Lancer Knightz — either for guild-vs-guild or individual play. Let Donkeyhaute know, if you're really into PvP and want to get more of our members into it.

Old Activities

We used to have many such projects. Our recipe sharing project was made obsolete by the mission system. Our forum, Steam group, contests, lotteries, and organized PvP are largely defunct. You are welcome to revive them!

Slimeball Championship

Monster-Lichen.png

Once we had a guild event we called Slimeball. It's a shield-bumping game that could be played with a little lichen. Anyone from the guild can join, there is no entry fee, and anyone could win. You just need to be quick with a shield. It was quite fun :D thought we had some problems arranging games cause of different playing schedule of players. Possible we would give it one more try later.

Here you can take a look at the example of the field and the game: http://youtu.be/kFQYsJL5Oz8

Procedure: Someone finds a field to play. It must be a map with slimes. You need to find a field with 2 gates - at the right and at the left. Don't kill all cause you need a ball! For a ball you need to find a lichen. Better to take one-nucleus. Bump it to the field. Then you call your opponent, a referee and the game begins! For the referee you can take any Officer or GM. You can play without a one but in this case if you want for the results to be accepted you need to take a video of the match.

A good map was found on rank mission 3-1 Alien Ooze on 2nd level.

Rule (tentative):

  1. You can bump the lichen with a shield. It's forbidden to attack the ball :). After 1-st attack you get a yellow card. After 2 attacks you lose.
  2. After each goal the time stops, the referee returns the ball to the center, then he shouts "START" and the game continues.
  3. The game has 2 rounds, after the 1-st the gates switch. Each round is held for 5 minutes (maybe will be set a little more). If no goal is scored you get additional time - 5 minutes. If still no goal then as usually - a penalty time comes from the spot the referee shows - until someone misses.
  4. You can heal any time before the game. But if you die during the game - sorry, you lose.
  5. The game is played in the olympic system. For the semifinales, finale and the match for the 3-rd place a GM has to be the referee.
  6. When your opponent is announced, you have 4 days to arrange your match.

It will also be great if someone would record videos of the last four matches.

Food Sharing

Donkeyhaute has launched a new scheme for sharing sprite food, to avoid the mineral bottleneck. Your participation is greatly appreciated.

Steam Group

GulliverBFG has started a Steam group for us. As a forum, the Steam group is somewhat more polished than the Spiral Knights forums. All guild members are encouraged to participate. Here is the process for signing up:

  1. If you don't already have a Steam ID, then make one here. You don't need to play Spiral Knights through Steam, and you don't have to buy any games.
  2. Edit your Steam profile to mention Spiral Knights, Lancer Knightz, and maybe your in-game knight name. A few details like these make you much easier for us to find.
  3. Find GulliverBFG or Donkeyhaute on Steam, and add him as a friend. Or, in Spiral Knights, send a mail message to GulliverBFG or Donkeyhaute with your Steam ID. As soon as he can find you on Steam, he will invite you into the Lancer Knightz Steam group.
  4. Check your Steam profile for your invitation. Accept it, and you're ready to go.

Lottery

Shuraka held a lottery on the night of Halloween 2012, to give out a variety of Hallow items donated by the guild. Here are some of the prizes awarded: Akiroar got Raiment and Plate Mail. Bionicfusion got Cloak and Hood. Boomkid got Scale Helm, Sallet, and Round Helm. Dhalgren got Cuirass, Crescent Helm, Maid Headband. Donkeyhaute got Sallet and Tailed Helm. Squamph got Crescent Helm and Hood. Swolenator got Mecha Wings and Com Unit. Tsiddique got Toupee and some armors. Dhalgren also got a trinket slot upgrade.

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