Policy

Play Nice Policy

1. All members must follow the P99 Play Nice Policy

(https://wiki.project1999.com/Play_nice_policy)

Anyone found breaking these rules will be subject to the guild corrective action policy. As one of the top raiding guilds on the Green server our members should work to maintain a good reputation and treat others with respect.

2. “Don’t be a Dick!” Even when you are right, it’s not always the best action to take.

Examples:

Give players the benefit of the doubt and remember there are people on the other side of that camp that are player recognized, respect them even if the GMs would enforce sharing.
Remember that enforcing changes on players who are following “pre agreed to player run” lists is not the only choice.
Work with others to resolve concerns or walk away.
Don’t respond in /shout, /ooc, /auc or other public channels. If you have to respond, use /tell, and remember that officers may read what you send.

3. People before Pixels.

There is a person behind that character. Remember they are wanting to enjoy the game as much as you are. Remember they may be having just as bad a moment as you are. Don’t add to that. Be a force of help in the game. Be positive. Help others, and they will help you. Work with others, and they will work with you.

Application Process

Applying:

We are looking for motivated and active members who are looking to make their way through Norrath’s raid scene. As such we do have minimal levels to be considered.

Prospective members must be at minimum level 46+ to apply.
All applicants must join our discord. Discord is required to maintain your application, and is used for any raid + many forms of information to be communicated to you. If you need assistance with Discord, reach out, we can help.

Application Voting System:

Kingdom uses a phased recruitment process.

All applicants will move to the next phase ONLY after meeting all requirements.

Phase 1 [Tag to Kingdom] – Requirements:
Applicant has joined kingdomdkp.com and submitted an application, member has joined discord, has spoken with an officer in Discord (minimal requirements are to have a headset and be able to listen and respond in discord), and continued the process with an officer to register character at the kingdomdkp.com website. Once completed you may receive a guild tag at the officer's discretion.
Phase 2 [Guild Activities] – Requirements:
Time to participate and get to know each other! This includes talking / working with Raid Mentors, being proactive in meeting or assisting guild members, using guild chat when appropriate, joining guild groups, etc. It is the applicant’s responsibility to introduce / familiarize yourself with those who will be voting for you and/or members of the guild. You will use this time to acquire the “Knight” status required items including pots, clickies, and resists. Acquire level 49+.
Phase 3 [Vote] – Requirements:
Acquired level 49+, has been guild tagged average of at least 21+ days, attended Five+ DKP Events in their entirety (at least 2 include Planes raids), maintains a minimal of 20% raid attendance, has Raid Mentor(s) sign off they are ready to progress, has acquired and posted proof they have achieved “Knight” Raid Gear, and have shown themselves to be an active guild member. Applicant has completed prior Phases in this duration.

Knight Gear Requirements:

Applicants are required to acquire specific gear items and resists not buffed to get a vote for membership with us at this time. You may immediately join us on raids for your attendance, but should work towards fulfillment of the gear and level requirement asap. To see the items list please check out the Knight Requirements list of Recommended Gear Policy.

Raider Requirements lists Recommended Gear.

Communications

Discord

All raiders, members, and applicants shall be required to be in Kingdom's Server on Discord.
- Applicants who remove themselves from discord will be considered to have resigned from the applications process.
- The application process will include a required verification before a guild invite of a working microphone.
When a Raid is called, all attendees shall join Discord, and be ready to listen to raid instructions
Prior to joining Discord, you shall make sure that PUSH TO TALK is activated.
While a raid event is active, keep irrelevant chatter out of voice chat.
If push to talk is activated, you MUST be using a headset with microphone to communicate.
The name format for Discord is MAIN MEMBER/SECOND MAIN
- All attendees shall use the following format in the Discord server: "Mary/Jane"

Website

Open communication should remain friendly and positive. If you have less than positive feedback to leave please send directly to an officer.

In Game

Stay out of OOC / Shouts / AUC / SAY when the messages are directed to other guilds or players.
Petitions should only be done by Guilds Officers
Members can assist in gathering evidence or counter evidence from screenshots, OBS, fraps, etc. of any raiding offense made by other guild mates or other guilds
Refer anyone asking information outside of the guild to the Raid leaders and/or Officers

Knights, Members, and Applicants

High Concept

The concept of “Mains” is antiquated on P99. Players will now be thought of as such and all characters are grouped together. Each Character maintains their own status based on the requirements they have met. DKP / Attendance is earned across your characters and shared in a single pool within KingdomDKP.com. How you choose to use that DKP is up to you and based on the bidding characters Rank.

Terms

Player / User: That’s you! You are the Player and the website considers you a User. A User can have as many Characters attached to their account as they’d like and all share a DKP / Attendance pool.

Character: Each one of your “toons” Each Character is attached to a User and will earn DKP / Attendance for the User when brought to events.

Rank

Rank is assigned per Character. Each Character maintains their own Rank and is bound to the bidding / raiding policies of that Rank. Again, this is per Character and not an amalgamation based on your highest Character Rank. For example, your Knight Characters must meet all requirements and thus can bid as knight, but your Member Characters are bound to the rules of any other Member Character.

When applying to the guild you must declare your primary applicant character. You will use this character name as the login name for kingdomdkp.com.

Applicants

Must be level 46+
May only have 1 character with a guild tag.
Please make sure this character matches your discord handle for the server and the kingdomdkp.com login user ID.

Members

Attends Raids as Available
Must be able to enter raid to loot & must be lv 46+
- Alternative Characters that are Members, but do not meet above requirements may request no drop items, may receive No Drop Loot only, and must be able to get the character to the location to loot without causing raid disruption. Please see the ROT section in DKP Bidding for more details.
May have an unlimited number of characters guild tagged
Friends and Family invites become Members.
- Friends and Family are individuals known by a guild member in real life. If you have a spouse, long term live in partner, real life family member, or long term friend you have / do meet with in real life, they may be invited to the guild under this Friends and Family option. Relationships developed only online do not fall under this policy.

Knights (nee: Raider)

Must be level 49+
Knights must have at least one DKP event in the last 31 days to remain active. The kingdomdkp.com system will auto inactivate characters. If your character goes inactive, the Knight status will be removed. If a character is inactive or has lost Knight status, they must bid as a member for that character.
Eligible to declare a second character level 49+ to Knight status
Maximum number of Knights per User is 2
May have an unlimited number of “Member” characters.
May have a gear and/or attendance requirement to acquire this status.

Failure to maintain the current requirements may result in loss of the Knight status for 1 or both of the characters.

Allowed to swap a single Knight character once in 90 days.

After declaring your Knight swap in the roster channel you must wait 24 hours before the swap will go in effect. You are not allowed to swap a Knight character again for 3 months. If you wish to switch Knight characters again, you can declare it ahead of the end of the 3 month window so that it will take effect immediately when it ends. (I.e. Knight Swap - Bob/Wizard/Gnome/M/50 -> Mike/Ranger/Wood Elf/M/50). Allowing a character to drop to Member status does not preclude the timeline.
Example; Bob and Mary are 2 Knight status characters. Mary is allowed to become a Member status character, and Bill is picked and attempted to be raised to Knight status. This would only be allowed if the 90 day policy is being enforced on the new character’s Knight status.

DKP Bidding and Verification Process

There are three Tiers for DKP bidding based on your active Characters Rank. Additionally characters with at least Members rank may bid to 30 DKP against any Knight.

In order of precedence the list is

Knights
Members
Applicants

Notes

Applicants may not bid on trade-able items. If a Knight or Member does not bid on them, they will go to the guild bank.
Bidders can bid on loot for another character regardless of which one he or she is playing at the time. Your bid must be placed as that character with information provided of its current tier status. The character you are bidding for must be able to use the item (equip/wear/use/quest).
If the loot is no drop and your plan is to log to your other character, be it your Knight character or your Member character, the responsibility to get the loot is on you. If you win the bid and fail to loot the item you will still be charged DKP.
Your character must be level 46+ to Bid on an item.
All items have a minimum cost of 7 DKP.
Knights must have at least one DKP event in the last 31 days to remain active. The kingdomdkp.com system will auto inactivate characters. If your character goes inactive, the Knight status will be removed. If a character is inactive or has lost Knight status, they must bid as a member for that character.

Earning DKP

For a comprehensive list of DKP awarded per qualifying event, please visit the bottom of the Raiding page.

How to Bid

In order to expedite the process for loot distribution, especially in the case of no drop loot, the proper format for bidding is required for your bid to be considered valid. An improper DKP bid may result in a null DKP bid. A bid requires four pieces of information. The format is as follows:

/auc Character_Name - Knight/Member/App - Link of Item you are bidding on - Amount of DKP

Auctioneer or facilitator of bidding will define the channel to be used and must be clear of non raid related and bidding chatter. If multiple items, we may use another channel.

Troll bids, typing in numbers in the current bid channel, or bidding on gear you can't wear when it is a no drop item during this process may receive a negative 30 dkp penalty.

Bids have no required minimum increment bids as a rule, expectations are that consistent (more than once) 1 up bids may result in a bid process being closed early. This is entirely up to the person facilitating the bids. If the facilitator of the auction states “bid more” to continue bidding, this must be followed as an expectation.

Some Drop-able items will go to the guild bank to fund guild activities, and will not go up for bid, or may have the bid canceled in the middle of it. The guild / raid leadership will try to announce this before the raid if possible, but does not preclude an item from being claimed by the guild if not. Trade-able items that are at a very low bid may have the bidding canceled and claimed for the guild bank. This may be at a very short notice, IE: mid bid.

If you have a typo, correct it immediately or that is your bid, even if it is 544 and you meant 44. Correct it fast!

The person running the auction is the final judge of the bids, but is expected to follow the rules set here. There should be no “new” or “unexpected” rules made up on the spot if one addresses the concern already.

Winners when announced will close bids and no other bids will be accepted. Auctions will normally have an announcement for the status of the bid process (1st call, 2nd call, last call, closing in xx seconds) as examples that may be used. Last minute “snipes” may also be ignored. Auctions must be called closing if less than 2 mins and 30 secs are left on a corpse, Closed at 2 mins minimal. Bids may be closed sooner.

If a tie bid happens, the first tie bid seen by the auctioneer is the one taken.

For example, if Bob is facilitating the bidding for an item, Mike as a member and Jim as a knight both bid 30 dkp and that is the highest bid, Mike as a member would get that lead if he showed up first in Bob's chat channel. In the case of a tie, it is fine to +1 the bid. So Jim as a knight could do 31 DKP to win the bid.

The auctioneer may on occasion call out the leader in the bids for confirmation. This is not required, but is used to help facilitate a faster resolution to the bid process, and allows for members to assist the auctioneer.

Verification and Use

You will have a total of 72 hours after a DKP event has been entered into the DKP website to request adjustments. After the 72 hour period is over that raid will not be changed. It is your responsibility to verify and watch your own DKP.

You can NOT use DKP that has not been updated on the kingdomdkp.com website.

If you have won an item, and spent DKP, prior to, or during the middle of a raid, you may not use the total DKP from the website that is listed, and must subtract that DKP for yourself.

In the event that you bid on an item, but do not have the status or DKP listed on the website to match with your bid, your DKP bid may be nulled, and a DKP penalty may be incurred.

If you overbid on an item, the cost of the item plus the amount you overbid by will be a dkp penalty, even if you don't win the item. If you overbid a 2nd time, you will be charged double what you bid.

Examples

If you are a member and you bid in error, the first error will incur the following penalty. Bid 55 and the max you have to bid is 50, you will be charged a penalty of 60 DKP. ( 55 original bid + (55 bid -50 max amount you have limit = 5dkp penalty added)
If you are a member and you bid in error a second time, the second error will incur the following penalty. Bid 55 when the max you have to bid is 50, you will be charged 110 DKP for the item. (55 original bid X 2 = 110 dkp penalty)
Penalties may cause your DKP amount to go into the negative.

Items received by spending DKP are not allowed to be sold outside the guild. If you wish to sell these items, please do so within the guild discord/forums or on officer approval sell directly to the guild bank at a discounted rate. If you are caught selling an item that you purchased with DKP outside the guild you may receive a severe DKP penalty and / or additional penalties up to guild removal. Rare exceptions may be made to this with prior officer approval. Items where /ran are used will be a FFA status where they can be sold outside the guild.

Rot Policy

Characters under level 46 may place a bid at this time. Bids > no DKP requests.

If an item is still up for rot, IE, bidding has closed for rot and no lower level characters are bidding, a character may request the item based on tier consideration even if they do not have the DKP. A DKP minimal price would be charged and will allow for going into the negative in this situation.

More than 1 character of the same tier requesting the item with no dkp will be resolved by /random 100.

If you have looted an item previously, and it's rotting, you may loot it again for 0dkp for a bank set. This falls into the last priorty of all other options.

Raiding General Info

Any Member or applicant 46+ with a headset may join us for raids. There is no limit that would currently prevent attendance other than a minimal level and headset requirement.

Knight Requirements List

You must meet all requirements below and present proof with a full screenshot of your character in the Discord Channel #raid-requirements in order to be classified as a raider. A full screen with your buff window displayed is necessary. Any action that involves doctoring or lying about requirements will be treated as lying to leadership and will be dealt with using the corrective action policy. Items marked as “player-made” can often be made by members in the guild, so asking in guild for assistance is encouraged.

Magic Resist (MR):
- 85 unbuffed MR (See Wiki Page for list of MR gear)
Level Requirement:
- Level 49
Levitation
- One form of Clickable or Spell
- Exemptions: classes with Levi / DMF
- Potion of Antiweight (Wiki) player-made (Alchemy)
- Pegasus Feather Cloak (Wiki)
Thin Boned Wand (Wiki) x2
Midnight Mallet (Wiki)
- Fully charged
- Guild will provide your first and replace used ones after, so save the used ones
Ring of Shadows (Wiki) x2
- Second is for recharging used one (maintain at least a single charge on the used one to recharge)
- Exemption: Classes with Invis capabilities
Bark Potion (Wiki) x2 for each 7-Day Raid Boss (REQUIRED FOR ALL MEMBERS)
- A few more is ideal but 2 is the minimum requirement
Leatherfoot Raider Skullcap (Wiki) // ask in guild for assistance after acquiring alligator skin
Reaper of the Dead (Wiki)
Shiny Brass Idol (Wiki)
10 Dose Kithar's Disease Treatment (Wiki) player-made (Alchemy)
Null Potions
- Regular is fine, Greater not needed
- 10 Dose Null Potion (Wiki) player-made (Alchemy)
Potion of the Frost
- You must have at least one charge. A single charge Potion is acceptable, however, using it will consume it and you'll need to repurchase. A 5 charge has a larger upfront cost, but can be recharged as long as you maintain a single charge on it for a lower cost
- 5 Dose Potion of the Frost (Wiki) is the most commonly held option by Raiders at the moment due to the above (maintain at least a single charge on the used one to recharge)
10 Dose Potion of Stinging Wort (Wiki) x2 player-made (Alchemy)
- Second is for recharging used one (maintain at least a single charge on the used one to recharge)

DKP by Event

The following specific DKP earned list is for general reference and may change in the future.

Rotational/Situational Content
- Fire Giants: 1 DKP on time bonus + 1 DKP per hour^
- Phinny: 1 DKP on time bonus + 1 DKP for Phinny Kill + 1 DKP/hour^ Swirlspine farming
- Plane of Fear: 1 DKP on time bonus + 1 DKP/hour*^
- Plane of Hate: 1 DKP on time bonus + 2 DKP/hour*^
- Sir Lucan D'Lere: 2 DKP
- Brother Q/Z 1 DKP (Until July 8th, then changes to 0 DKP)
- Guild dungeon crawls: 1 DKP/hour^
Raid Targets
- Vox/Naggy/Draco/CT/Inny:
  - 8 DKP for responding to 7-D Batphone** per target spawn (if spawn times constitute separate 7-D batphones)
  - +20 DKP per target kill (No kills = No DKP beyond answering batphone)
- Quakes for Vox/Naggy/Draco/CT/Inny:
  - 8 DKP for a Quake 7-D Batphone** (only one which includes any/all of the targets)
  - +20 DKP per target kill (No kills = No DKP beyond answering batphone)
- Maestro: 6 DKP for Seal Team contested kill, 4 DKP for Seal Team uncontested. (At this time, all Maestro are expected to be uncontested by ST).
- Bonus: FTE bonus is +40 for contested mobs, ie FTE race for naggy vox, inny, maestro. RL will declare which are races and which are not
  - FTE bonus may be split among a group if more than 1 person is responsible for FTE (IE: 2 players on Draco and one takes DT so another can pull it).
- First time raid target kills are double kill DKP

Notes:

*Please note the expected DKP will change when Sky is released to be 0 for fear, 1 per hour for hate, 4 per hour for Sky first 60 days, 2 per hour for sky after 60 days from release.
**Batphones may only go out for 7 day targets. Announcements may be used for all other targets going forward. #rc_batphone does not count towards DKP consideration at this time.
^Please note that events round down for DKP time. For example, if the raid goes over by 10 mins you do not earn extra DKP.
Socking/Tracking/Powerlevling Guild accts/Ontime may accrue DKP but may not apply towards attendance.
Only 7 Day targets at this time apply towards attendance.

Planar Port Procedures

The guild bank will attempt to pay for port reagents for trash clears and raid targets. Members should port 1 character only (Knights may port 2 characters). Port reagents are expensive. Please only bring characters that are being actively used for the raid or will be able to benefit from loot acquired through the DKP system.

You get one chance for a free port up if you are late. The port will occur approximately 1 hour after initial start. You need to proactively form a group up to 5 characters with all the late stragglers and simply inform the raid leader/officer. Once you are acknowledged do not spam/ask/beg over and over. After the first hour has passed you will pay for your port and you will have to find a wizard willing to do it. Please use /tell for this. Do not flood coms with your request. Please understand raid members attending the event may not be available to port you.

GUILD CORRECTIVE ACTION POLICY

Process of Corrective Action - Unfortunately, even in a guild that has seen many positive moments and with a great working rapport there will be need for corrective actions to guide members when there is a misstep.

First incident - For minor or unintentional missteps, any officer may choose to document the incident and use it as a teaching/training opportunity to encourage a change in behavior. Some misconduct deemed to be gross misconduct may skip further.

Warning - Gross misconduct or some repeated offenses may result in a written warning from an officer via Discord, and a notification to guild leadership. If the behavior continues further disciplinary action will be taken.

Loot Probation - If poor behavior continues after being warned, loot probation may be implemented as the next step in resolving the issue. Loot probation status will be decided by officer vote and may take the form of any or all of the following:

Reduced DKP for raid sessions

Made temporarily ineligible to bid or roll on items.

Other actions as determined by the officer council.

Tag Removal with/without Reapplication - Extremely unbecoming conduct, continued warnings or other corrective actions needed may result in termination from the guild, voted on by the officer council. The characters associated will be stripped of their tags and removed from the guild Discord channel and forums. At the time of removal it will be determined if a player may be invited to reapply. These matters are attended to on a case by case basis and each will be discussed with leadership before any final decisions are made.

Miscellaneous Rules

Guild Bank

To fund our activities the guild relies on selling certain items to raise funds. You can view what the guild is currently selling by going to http://bank.kingdomdkp.com (Guide to come!)

A few items may be stored in the guild bank for future needs.These items will be utilized for raiding or recharging purposes and returned to the guild bank.

Loot Council

Certain items may be loot counseled to members. These include some epic pieces and certain clickies.

Streaming / Recording Policies

If you stream or are recording a video intended for public distribution you must hide guild chat, any raid voice communications, or other communications as specified by Raid Leaders or Officers. (Streaming Package / Guidance to come!)

AFK

If you are going AFK more than a few mins (5+), you must camp out of the game. Inform your group and officer/raid leader.

If AFK for up to 5 mins, you must dismiss your pet if you have one, you must use the /afk tag, and inform your group.

Discord activity should follow these same rules. If you are unable to use Discord for the above time frames, you should be following our AFK policy. Disconnect from Channel or move yourself to AFK Channel if you are not actively utilizing Discord.

Failure to follow these rules may result in immediate and serious repercussions. Members being afk can cause a serious disruption of raid activities.

Example: If we have a target in the window of a raid area we are clearing, and a member has gone afk in said zone. We are required to have all logged in characters zone out before we can come back to engage. If afk in game, this delays our response time.