General

Pirate Penguins is a World of Warcraft guild located on the PvE server Cenarius. We are a small, casual raiding community looking forward to the WotLK expansion. We are primarily based on the Pacific coast and Hawaii, so we have members online from around 7 PM to 2 AM Pacific Time.

Community

Our community consists of working professionals, in or past their late 20's, many of whom work in the tech industry. We love talking about gearing, game mechanics, why gnomes are so hot, programming, Daler Mehndi's kickass dancing, gadgets, childhood cartoons of the 80's, games, comics, fun videos from YouTube, and of course, endless discussion about why Linus is the greatest band ever.

Raiding and Progression

We're on a raiding break at the moment. Please check back after WotLK comes out. :)

Membership Ranks and Duties

Our guild leader rank is Quartermaster, held by Esa, and the officer rank is Scurvy Dog, held by Farmaair, Idunna, and Kras. These consist of the officer core. Jobs include making short and long term goals for the guild, organizing raids, tracking progress, maintaining the web site and vent server, and generally maintaining the guild community. Veteran rank is Peg Leg, who participate in officer discussion, help with raids, and can add members to the guild. The general full membership rank is Swashbuckler, while Parrot-lovers are our alternate characters. Bilge Rats are initiates, and the Sleepeng rank is for inactive players. Initiates and inactive players do not have permissions to interact with the guild bank. Also a point of note, the current primary Raid Leader is Farmaair, though you may also refer to him as "Cap'n".

Legal System

Rules are posted on the Code of Conduct page.

Breaking a rule will result in a warning, demotion, or removal from the guild. The exact action will vary according to the severity of the situation. Being kicked out only happens with gross misconduct or multiple warnings. At minimum two officers must agree and no single officer may disagree to remove a member from the guild.

Warnings and Disciplinary Action

We give a maximum of 3 warnings. On the third warning, the officers will hold a vote for removal from the guild. If a vote needs to be called more than once, it's an automatic kick. It is very rare for our officers to give out warnings, so take heed if they do.

MIA Policy

The guild has developed from a social arena into a raiding guild. Therefore, we have members who we may know or have met at some point come by to say hello. However, we like to keep track of our members, both to protect the guild bank as well as for sanity's sake. So if you haven't logged in for over 6 weeks, we will demote you to non-active status. If your alts have been MIA for over 3 months, we may keep your main in the guild but remove your alts. Recruited initiates who have not logged in for over 3 months will be removed. We are happy to reinstate your main or your alts if you intend to play them, so please message an officer to be promoted or added into the guild.

Personal Disputes

If you have a dispute with someone in the guild, please keep it in /tells and not in public chat or the forums. If you would like a mediator, ask an officer to join you in a separate chat channel to discuss the issue. If you have a complaint, please see below.

Complaints

We'd love to never need this section at all, however we've found from past experience it is occasionally necessary. If anyone has a complaint about a member of this guild, please send e-mail to badpenguin at piratepenguins dot org. If you have screenshots, please link or send them as evidence of the complaint, along with a description of what the person was doing.

Recruiting

Membership is open atm. Come by to say hi!

Criteria

If you'd like to raid with us, full epics and great skills are not required, though we do expect your willingness to put thought and effort into your character--and be able to take good-natured advice. We are happy to help you gear up, and we expect you to do your part in said gearing. If you just want to hang out, dance gnaked with your gnome, or other randomness, skip the raiding criteria :)

1. Maturity. We're all adults in the guild and would prefer potential members to behave as such.
2. A sense of humor. We spend a lot of time hanging out in-game, and we want it to be fun time.
3. No gold buyers, gold sellers, or asshats.
4. You must abide by our Code of Conduct.
5. For raiding: have a somewhat reliable schedule. We have a pretty small crew, so it's important to show up to raids regularly and on time.

We also welcome players under level 70, or at 70 but not geared for raiding. Just understand that though we probably have alts at your level, we will probably not be as focused on them as on our main characters. In general, we do not believe in twinking, because leveling and grouping with a character is the best way to learn its class well.

Applying

First read our Code of Conduct, then send e-mail to join2008 at piratepenguins dot org with answers to the following questions. Full sentences, details, and correctly spelled words will always be more impressive than not.

1. Character name(s), class, level and server.
2. Why are you interested in joining us?
3. About you: Where you're from, what you do or like to do, what your other commitments might be, what other games you've played and liked, that sort of thing. We like to put a personality to the player, and dislike anonymity.
4. Normal play times: when are you free for groups?
5. Guild/raid history: what have your previous guild and raid experiences been?
6. Mention any members you know, from this or other allied guilds.
7. Questions you have for us.

Important point of note: If your application is accepted and you're into the raiding thing, you will need to provide a contact method outside the game (e-mail, IM, phone if you want, etc.). This info doesn't go past the officers, if even that. It is used for contacting you if you DC, don't show up, or corresponding about any issues that arise. We will avoid using it unless necessary, though we do need a way of asking you if we should hold your spot or move on after a DC or no show.