The Watch runs on the "goodwill of the community", which is a lot of words for "all that stuff we give away? Yeah, that doesn't belong to us." I may be in a unique position in that nothing in the guild bank (we call it "The Donation Bin") belongs to any of us, with a few exceptions; almost all of it is seconded from guilds and individuals on the servers we operate on. That includes the operating funds.
Some nice soul on WRA donated enough heavy leather that some very small people can have some 10-slot bags when they show up. My problem is where to put it all.
See, here's how the Donation Bin works.
In theory, each Ward has a vault with 3 tabs, divvied up into matterials & misc, armor, weapons, and our own miscellaneous stuff (uniform shirts for example). And it generally works that way until someone who's been with us for a while takes off. Then it fills up with whatever they were carrying around.
This happened recently - we lost a long-serving corporal to the allure of Cataclysm raiding - and now there's about 16 stacks of ammunition I need to clean out, low-level leather armour, and all sorts of things I suppose I could throw into rotating storage if I was on the ball enough to remember it was there. It's like that one drawer in your kitchen. The Donation Bin kind of...accumulates...stuff....and then one day you open it up and wonder When the hell did we start storing thousands of rubber bands?
It wouldn't be so bad if there were either more boots on the ground or more actual new players. Of the five I attended last night, one was a multibox bot, one was a leveling alt who immediately put me on ignore (which is pretty common) , and the rest were guild re-rolls or other natives taking small mages out for a test drive.
Try that, by the way. It's cathartic. You absolutely can not run out of mana. Seriously. Set fire to level-appropriate monsters to your heart's content until level 15 or so. And then...well, reality sets in. :/
So. Anyone got a use for about 8,000 crafted light shot?
Pelt low level mages with it. :D
ReplyDeleteAlas, they regenerate health too fast for it to make a dent.
ReplyDeletePlus, you know, they whine.