Raid leaders: How To Post A Raid Signup for your raid.

[Abbi]

Do not post your raid signup in this board directly! Instead, use the calendar.

First, go to this link. Look for the box on the calendar that represents the day of your event.  In the upper left corner of that box is a number: the day of the month.  Click on that number.  You'll get a screen like a normal post screen, but you get to specify an event title and a date; the date should already be set for you if you clicked on the correct day of the month.

For example, if you want to post an event on the 14th of the month, click on the number 14 in the Calendar.

It's important to note the fields in the "Post Event" form do different things:

• Event Title is what shows up in the Calendar display, and is not visible anywhere else. The event title does not need to contain a date or time, but it should be short; e.g.: "Baron Farming"
  
• Subject is what shows up in the forum post as the topic name. The subject will need to contain a date and time; e.g.: "Baron Farming - 8pm Fri 13 Jan".

Make the calendar entry (the Event Title) as short as possible, since the space on the calendar display is quite small. Keep the Subject as short as possible too.

Also, try to stick to a common format for the date. The preferred format is to append the date/time as " - 8pm Fri 13 Jan" which is a separator, time of day, short day name (Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat), day of month, then short month name (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, etc).

Using a common format means that it's easier to read the Raid/Group signups page. Including the day saves a few seconds - most people know that certain days of the week are "good" or "bad" for them, not everyone has a calendar in their head to map from "13 Jan 2006" to "Friday next week".

When possible, please be considerate of other raids. This means:

1.  List and link to the raids that are going on at the same time.
2.  List and link to another raid doing to the same place during another time of the week.
3.  Mention whether there will be a lock or not.
4.  Mention when the lock ends.

And if you mess it up, we can always fix it for you, so no worries.

[Abbi]

Note: if you make a signup post and forget to link it to the calendar, you can go back and do it retroactively. In the bottom bar, right above the "Jump to:" box, there's an option to Link to Calendar. Use that and you're good to go.

[Marco]

That's good to know.

Is there any way to modify or unlink a calendar event once I've made it?  I managed to screw up the event title on one of my posts, and was unsure how to fix it.

[Abbi]

Sure thing. Go to the calendar and find your event. Right before the event name, there ought to be a * -- click that and you get back to the edit screen.

[Diallia]

Also note you don't need permission to start a raid.

JUST make a sign up sheet and take initiative.



Diallia

[Fubby]

Now that we have several runs to the same place through out the week, and several runs going on at the same time, I would encourage the sign-up posts to do three more things:

1.  List and link to the raids that are going on at the same time.
2.  List and link to another raid doing to the same place during another time of the week.
3.  Mentions whether there will be a lock or not.

A good example of how it is done is here:
http://www.sasu-er.org/index.php?topic=299.0

[Ulveig]

Ooo...even better, post when the lockout for the instance begins, and when it ends, so people can know when they can't go in the instance if they want to be on that raid.

[Eviscerator]

Since there arent times on the Lockout stuff, I'll say this here.

All Instance resets happen early in the morning server time, around 6 AM, usually.

[Raynulf]

I'm going to also try implementing somewhat of a dkp system, but it will really just be the same thing TRUST runs have proven to work-

....

Dragon Kill Point and other such loot systems exist as a means of quickly and impersonally allocating loot to people.

Trust works by every player personally taking responsibility for deciding loot allocation, as it trusts that players can use their judgement and sense of fairness to make decisions.

They both are means of deciding loot, but polar opposites otherwise. I think you have reached a very different perspective on what Trust is doing to what I did if you feel it is in some way using a DKP system.

[Fealoce]

First (I didnt read every post here just the first 3)

I can not click on the "number" of the date to create a post.

I am the Guild lead for Mischief and Malice. I would like to either be able to post a run  or have one of my officers do so. Please advise.

[Abbi]

Heh, the link hasn't ever been updated. Fixing it now.

[Stavromoon]

Please check and see if I did it right.

Thanks,
Stav