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Lancer Knightz

Better picture coming soon, we hope. Guild Founder: Whitelancer, Shakugan, Pula Approx. Population: 45 Guild Master(s): Shockgun (inactive), Donkeyhaute, Sooch

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.)

We recently went through a laborious cleaning, in which we removed over 50 inactive members. We are currently trying to rebuild with active members. If you are a player of any experience level who plays regularly, then we'd love to have you!

Rules

Our guild is casual. You don't need to be any kind of elite player to join. Rules and procedures certainly aren't our thing. But here are some common values, on which we can all agree.

• Play the game. 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 if you stop playing Spiral Knights entirely, or if you find yourself missing weeks frequently, then please remove yourself from the guild, so that we can bring in more active members. No hard feelings. If you log in after months of inactivity, to find that you've been kicked out of the guild, then please don't be upset. Ask to be reinvited; we'd be happy to have any active player.
• Be nice. Don't scam people or yell at them for no good reason. Don't use any slurs, racial or otherwise. This includes people who are not in our guild. Let's develop a reputation, of which we can be proud.
• Don't beg. If you want crowns, then sell something or go into the Clockworks. If you have no energy, then wait for tomorrow. If you invite someone to join your party, and they won't come, then don't keep asking them; that's begging too.

Sharing

To the extent that it's practical, let's share recipes. How? Well, most low-star items can be crafted without equipping them. Let's say you want a Glacius, so you need an Iceburst Brandish first. Find a guildmate with a Brandish recipe, and have them craft the Brandish for you. Then find a guildmate with the Iceburst Brandish recipe, give them the Brandish, and have them craft the Iceburst Brandish for you.

There are some conditions here. Make your crafter's life easy by knowing the materials and costs ahead of time, by reading the wiki. You supply all materials and costs, not the crafter. It is expected that the crafted item is for your personal use — not for sale or for gifts to friends. Don't make crafting a hassle for the crafter.

Here are the recipes thus far. Want to add your name to the list? If you're able to edit this wiki, then go ahead. List only recipes 3-star and below, that don't require any unbinding. If you're not able to edit this wiki, then contact Donkeyhaute to get your recipes listed.

• Norpo
  • Swords: Super Slime Slasher, Brandish, Calibur, Tempered Calibur
  • Handguns: Autogun
  • Bombs: Haze Bomb, Haze Bomb Mk II, Blast Bomb, Super Blast Bomb
  • Suits: Cobalt Armor, Solid Cobalt Armor, Dusker Coat
  • Helmets: Magic Hood, Elemental Hood, Wolver Cap, Dusker Cap
  • Shields: Great Defender
• Donkeyhaute
  • Swords: Striker, Nightblade, Tempered Calibur
  • Handguns: Blaster, Super Blaster, Magnus, Cryotech Alchemer Mk II
  • Bombs: Haze Bomb, Toxic Vaporizer, Toxic Vaporizer Mk II
  • Suits: Cobalt Armor, Solid Cobalt Armor, Dusker Coat
  • Helmets: Brute Jelly Helm
  • Shields: Jelly Shield

Rank

Rank is admittedly a bit silly, but we like to use it as a small reward for serving the guild well. So let's lay out some rough guildelines, for what rank means in Lancer Knightz.

• When you first join our guild, you are a Recruit. Your guildmates may notice you, welcome you into the guild, and offer to go into the Clockworks with you.
• 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. Membership carries no special rights or responsibilities. Most people in Lancer Knightz are Members.
• A Veteran is a member who has distinguished himself or herself somehow. The basic way to get promoted from Member to Veteran is to recruit one active guild member. (A Member cannot invite people into the guild, but he or she can ask an Officer or Guild Master to invite for him.) 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.

The higher ranks come with actual power. With that power comes responsibility.

• An Officer is expected to recruit new guild members and promote them to Member and Veteran as appropriate. (Although Officers are technically able to promote Veterans to Officers, this is discouraged. Although Officers are technically able to remove members from the guild, this is discouraged.) An Officer is expected to play often — certainly multiple times per week. An Officer who does not fulfill these responsibilities may be demoted to Veteran. No hard feelings. If you are a Veteran and want to be an Officer, you can prove it by recruiting a couple of active guild members.
• A Guild Master has the responsibilities of an Officer (playing often, recruiting new members) and several other responsibilities related to the long-term health of the guild. He or she promotes and demotes Officers to improve the flow of new members. He or she occasionally takes on the task of cataloguing and carefully removing inactive members. Right now we have two Guild Masters. (There is a third, inactive Guild Master, who exists simply to keep a toe in the door for the players who started Lancer Knightz long ago.) 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 find that you never proceed past Officer.

Cleaning House

A guild can have at most 100 members. Because most players stop playing Spiral Knights eventually, any guild clogs up with inactive players. Here is a possible procedure for cleaning out these players. It is recommended that a single Guild Master perform the entire procedure, to avoid mistakes of communication; we don't want an active player accidentally removed! Because the procedure is laborious, it is recommended that Guild Masters take turns.

• An in-game mail message is sent to every member of the guild. There are actually three versions of this message. For Recruits who seem inactive, the message requests a response within three weeks. For other members who seem inactive, the message requests a response within four weeks. For members who seem active, the message simply explains that a cleaning is underway; this is important, so that members don't freak out when they see the roster plummeting.
• A record is kept, of the inactive members who have and have not responded to the message.
• When the three-week deadline is up, all Recruits who were asked to respond but haven't are removed from the guild. As a player is removed, he is sent a final mail message. The message explains why he was removed, apologizes for any mistakes, and offers re-invitation if the player becomes active again.
• When the four-week deadline is up, all other members who were asked to respond but haven't are removed from the guild. Of course, they receive a similar final mail message.

In the recent cleaning, our guild dropped from 100 members down to about 40 members. This required about 160 mail messages, at a total cost of about 4000 crowns and a great deal of tedium. But it's important, to give people fair notice.