Guilds/zFree/Zfree Tale 8 Planning

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In Tale 7 the zfree elders worked hard early on to set up zfree with the materials, equipment and resources and along the way formulated a set of guidelines and principles to guide us towards achieving our guild purpose. We expanded quickly and became a large guild of over 150 members! The collaborative way that guild members work together is amazing, and has helped us be pretty successful as a guild. Our guild has most importantly become a social hub for members to share experiences, wisdom and the fun of being part of this unique community. As we get close to the end of this tale we are starting to think about how we go about getting going again for Tale 8...and your thoughts about what worked, and could be done better would be very welcome! There are some starter questions below, to get things going, based around some key topics - but feel free to add whatever is needed. If you are not confident updating the wiki, please personal chat me <cate> or any of the zfree elders in game and we'll post your comments here for you.

1.  In the beginning:  the small group of founder elders used the initial 24 hours to scout for a location and set about establishing the guild headquarters and initial compounds. 

• Any thoughts about location next tale? Should we aim for somewhere closer or further out from the centre?

• Camp layout - How can we better manage pollution and lag?

• Do we grow slowly by invitation, or quickly and ask member to help provide the resources to make that possible?

• How should we manage the membership and access equitably?

• We are anticipating there will be lots of lovely players wanting to join us again next tale.

  -How big should we aim to be?
  -How do we go about getting stuff together fast enough to meet expectations? 
  -Do we have a 'joining contribution' again to cover guild expansion costs? 
  -Do we establish teams to focus in on the key priorities like animals, flax, bricks, metals?

• Did the guild purpose and guidelines affect your attitude towards being in the guild?

• How about the guild wiki? Was it useful?

• What should the role of the zfree elders be next tale?

2. In mid tale: We started setting up specialist guilds to help coordinate the effort around specific tasks and tests, like 'zemples', zThrone, zBread, for example. We made decisions on projects to contribute towards releasing technologies for all Egyptians, like the Pyramids, and installing new and improved machines around camp for zfree members.

• How can we better involve guild members in the decisions about guild projects and enhancements?

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