Difference between revisions of "NEW"

Joining

Membership of NEW is open to all those new to the shard, with skills less than Grand Master (GM) who agree to the current membership rules available at the guildhouse. Established characters who do not meet these requirements will instead be offered help in finding a regular guild unless they have been away from the game for a long time, in which case we can add them to NEW for a couple of weeks or so until they settle and meet some other players.

The easiest way to join is simply to use general shard chat, (just type a comma to use this) and ask if any NEW leaders are available. If none are on hand, you will be able to find several locked down books at various sites around the shard containing information about Siege and also the Siege public discord address. If you are not yet a user of discord simply ask a player in general chat to contact Shalimar or a NEW emissary.

NEW is active.

Rules

NEW has a number of simple rules for its members. The majority of these are concerned with guild communications plus security and maintenance of the guildhouse. You will be asked to read our guide book at the guild house and agree to it before we add you to NEW. Other rules govern the members' conduct with other players to ensure that NEW remains strictly neutral, and these are summarised here:

• Never attack other players unless the other party consents (e.g. for training purposes). Members may defend themselves when attacked and/or call for help, but can not act as aggressors.
• Never snoop or steal from other players without their consent.
• Never loot someone else's kills except with their consent.
• Never become involved in other guilds' fights/disputes.
• Always show the NEW guild tag.

Again, updates of our guide rules are in the book you will read before joining the guild.

Graduation

The standard term of membership in NEW is approximately one month. By this time, most players have trained their core skills to at least GM level and have had time to interact with other shard members and hopefully have some idea of the regular guild(s) they would like to join. However, NEW recognizes that not everyone advances at the same pace and thus there is no formal limit to the length of membership as long as a member is judged to be making some efforts to improve their skills. Of course, members may leave at any time if they feel they are ready to do so.

All members are strongly encouraged to join a regular guild as soon as they leave NEW (or start their own if they have come to Siege with friends). If members are unable to decide on a guild by themselves, NEW will help find one that matches their style and will put them in contact with the leaders of that guild.

Guildhall

Both the size and site of the guildhall has changed during the course of NEW's existence but for the past few years it has been a keep located on the coast a few screens east of Britain (1868x, 1559y; 5º42'N, 38º19'E). This is a quiet area, well away from the vicious Dark Wisps that have plagued many a NEW member in times gone by! A teleporter links the guildhall with the Siege Hub, enabling easier access for those unable to Gate Travel.

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  The New Guildhall

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  The New Guildhall on Radar Map

Soulstones

In addition to its role in helping newcomers, NEW also used to act as a repository for soulstones recovered from IDOCs. Returning players who had lost theirs could search through the storage bins in the hope of finding their own lost stones. Vet rewards such as soulstones are deleted by the game now at IDOCS, so it is not possible for anyone to save stones for a player who has left the game. A couple of players still have some old soulstones rescued from IDOCS so ask for Sara Dale or me (Shalimar) and we will look to see if we have yours.

History

The NEW guild was formed in around the year 2000 by Luxor of the LoV guild. He saw a need to give new folk a little help as it was then very difficult for some to get a foothold on Siege. In those early days the guild was not very high profile and when the Power Hour gain system was introduced, and getting skills to GM became fairly straightforward, Luxor did not feel the need to keep the guild going and it became largely inactive.

With the advent of the Rate Over Time skill system on Siege there was a need for the guild once more. Luxor, however, had announced that he was leaving UO and the guild was taken over by Freja in June 2002. She enlisted four assistants, all sharing the same character (Tengel) as only a Guild Master could add people to a guild people in those days. Under Freja, NEW remained fairly low-key but was nonetheless far more active than it had been previously.

After a year of running NEW and with her key aides having left, Freja looked to take a break and thus it was that in April/May 2003 Shalimar took over as Guild Master, a role which she has continued to this day. Under Shalimar's stewardship the guild has become legendary as the place to go for assistance when starting on Siege. In addition to Shalimar there are a number of co-leaders or “helpers”, experienced Siege players who are able to add players to the guild, provide help to members, and to assist in restocking the guildhall.

In year 2012, Shalimar hade to take care of some RL issues and the NEW guild is inactive at the moment. The Guildhall is still standing so we hope to see Shalimar back.

Freja aka Tina Tink remade the guild year 2012 as Newborn on Siege 2, NEW2. The need for a NEW guild had changed over the years, so have Siege. NEW2 do only get a few members a month and Tina Tink is closing NEW2 15th Feb 2015.

Per Feb 2015, Siege will try to help in other ways. Freja, TDO and Safe Haven offer young Siege players access to the old NEW2 houses and a teleport system, that will help young players getting around.

The guild's basic rules for members have undergone several changes over the years but are essentially the same as they were back in 2000.

Early 2017 Tanager remade the New to Siege as NOOB and Siege again have a New to Siege guild.