Malum Factum sounds like a swell bunch of people. I feel like I should apply right now and bring all of my friends too.
Again, we want to thank everyone for the free bumps. You would all be mad if we opend up all the stores and jacked the taxs to 15% then left, We didnt do that. We kept it at a reputable 1%. Yes, we left the server. This was not the intention when we ran for vanarch of that province. PvP died on that server, the economy is so jacked up.
Again, Malum Factum wants to thank everyone for the free bumps O.o haters wanna hate!
Hakurai of D4H (note their recruitment thread hasn't recieved this treatement) managed to keep all his stores open and the tax rate at 1% even with his guild transferring off. 2 people are capable of keeping a vanarch running and if you cared at all for your reputation you would of done the same.
PvP is perfectly fine on Basilisk I can get into a fight day or night (and probably lose).
Agreed on the economy though, its a problem!
No hate here, just don't like seeing people represent themselves as something they are not, mature and drama free? If that were true your thread wouldn't be getting so many unwanted visits :D
I am speaking from my experience and I have no problems at all finding PvP.
I am sure people did that, just as I am sure people do that on VoT, I just don't let that ruin my fun.
The mature and DRAMA FREE thing to have done would of been to finish up your Vanarchy or at the very least leave a skeleton crew behind to keep your Vanarchy operational, that can't really be disputed. Nothing wrong with that logic every action has a reaction, abandoning a Vanarch zone after making many promises about its maintenance was always going to cause drama.
Mature people understand you don't make promises lightly, you don't quit when the going gets tough and you don't cry foul when you are called out for doing the wrong thing, mature people apologise when they make mistakes rather than looking for a way justify them.
If you wanted it bad enough you would have praised our guild so that we'd have enough policy points to keep stuff open.
It's rather silly that people come here and talk trash, when we were showing up every day to pvp. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. We won fights when we had fewer numbers than the opponents. We lost fights with fewer numbers. We won when we had more. So what? There's never going to be a right or wrong side to these arguments, it's all hearsay and perspective.
The overall population of Basilisk Crag was low, so we sent a scout over to VoT and JC and asked friends how they were enjoying the servers. They all reported back that it was lively and active. It was apparent that we would need to transfer to another server to keep our guys entertained in TERA, it was a matter of when.
There was talk of server xfers being shut down that week. So we had a guild discussion, and transferred before free xfers were taken away or before xfers were removed completely. We definitely considered the vanarchy when we made that decision. We figured the praise points we already had would convert to policy points and that we could keep stuff open. Unfortunately, that was not the case and all our active 60s were already xferred off. We opened what we could.
I totally get that it's annoying to not have the specialty vendor open, but we can't change anything about it now. On VoT the taxes are higher in Cutthroat than Bastion, so I usually stock up over there. Not quite the same situation, but there are ways around it that are more productive than QQing.
Malum Factum is a very active community, and it's been around for almost 10 years. That won't be changing anytime soon. We're more than just a TERA guild - we play other games together, we're friends, we hang out online and in person together, etc. At the end of the day, we make decisions based around our community, just as any serious guild would.