Hello all!

On Wednesday the 12th of July we will organise the first of our annual guild meetings. As you may (or may not) know the PSDH commanders have a meeting once every couple months to discuss the state of the guild and our events. This time everyone is invited!

So if you are interested in the future of PSDH and would perhaps like to join the discussion (vocal or in chat), this is your chance!
For now our main topics will be:

• Guild health (members & commanders)
• Getting more people on Teamspeak during events
• Late squad joins during Tangled Depths & Dragon Stand
• TT-Wurm: Vocal explanation of diboofing before event
• Thursday Social Night
• Saturday Silverwastes
• Anything else which may come up

If there's something else you would like us to discuss during this meet, please leave a reply in this thread or send me a message.

After the meetup myself and the other guild captains will be available for anyone who wish to speak with us privately.

When: Wednesday July 12th at 20:15BST/21:15CEST
Where: Teamspeak (ts.psdh.eu)
How long: We'll try to keep it between 1 and 1,5 hour

See you there!

Meeting Notes
Guild health (members & commanders)

• Overall the guild is in good shape. We’re still steadily receiving new applications from people who want to join PSDH
  
  • Currently 272 members
• Dark is going to try to do a purge more regularly, once every 4 months. Reason for a purge is to cleanup the guild and remove everyone who just joined PSDH for
  
  • One or two events and never bothered getting their rank up
  • Make sure of our scribing station or to gather our nodes
• During a purge all Frog Hunters are removed from the guild and all Dragon Hunters are set to Frog Hunter
• Commander-wise we’re a bit low for comfort due to some commanders currently having other priorities in life - which is fine
  
  • At the moment we have 4 new trainee commanders
  • If you’d like to try your hand at commanding, let one of the leaders know and we can give you some information and help you out

Getting more people on Teamspeak during events

• Since last year or so there is a decline of the number who join Teamspeak during events. This is not a problem for events like Tequatl, but it does pose some problems for TT-Wurm and Dragon’s Stand
  
  • For commanders it’s not viable to use text chat while running around since it will mean we can’t move or change direction quickly
  • Before the event we spam in-game chat asking people to join TS, but it’s not working
• Suggestion: Use Discord instead of Teamspeak since that’s what the cool people are using
  
  • Not viable for us since Discord does not have an option to whisper certain people in other channels
• Suggestion: Relay Teamspeak voice to Discord. People on Discord will hear what’s going on on Teamspeak
  
  • Dark has been doing some research on Teamspeak/Discord protocols but has no time to build the app
  • Con: We can’t hear what they say on Discord
  • Con: People might get lazy and just join Discord
  • Pro: At least they’ll be listening
• Suggestion: Cancel event if there are not enough people on Teamspeak at a certain time
  
  • Announce it in map chat that we will cancel the event if there are not enough people on Teamspeak and keep the map updated
  • We would need a backup event to do something else if the event is cancelled
  • Con: We’d probably have to cancel a lot of events
  • Con: If people know we might cancel the event they’ll leave for OC or GW2comm map
• Suggestion: Spam advertisement in maps like OC and GW2comm do
  
  • Not something we’d want to do as it sounds desperate
  • We could try to just advertise once in LA and or DR as these are the two main city hubs
• Suggestion: Get everyone its help enticing people to get on Teamspeak
  
  • If more different people ask for other people to join Teamspeak they might be more willing to install/join Teamspeak, especially since it’s not just their commander asking
  • Doing this in say chat is helpful since it renders a bubble, it’s in your face and hard to miss
• Other suggestions:
  
  • Try to recruit people outside of events
  • Offer cookies
  • Join the commander during walkthroughs even if you know what to do
  • Players who know the event can help the commander by relaying the walkthrough in say chat
• Conclusion: In the end we’ll have to get used to these lower TS numbers since PSDH is the kind of guild who organizes events for everyone.
  
  • Regular guildies will help out the commanders with advertising Teamspeak in say chat during our events
  • If we ever get a prototype to relay Teamspeak to Discord we’re open to try it
  • Hope the expansion brings in more new players and has some cool events which we can do

Late squad joins during Tangled Depths & Dragon’s Stand

• The declining popularity of both Tangled Depths and Dragon’s Stand is not very surprising as the content is getting older and more and more people are done with the content
• Last week with Dragon’s Stand we tried jumping 5 minutes earlier
  
  • This increased both the initial squad members and people on Teamspeak
  • This is only 1 sample, so the data is not reliable enough to say this is the fix
• For Tangled Depths we’re now putting up LFG as soon as we have found a map
• Suggestion: Dropping small wurm after Shatterer and going straight to Lake Doric
  
  • Jungle wurm is nice fast loot, 5 min isn’t going to make a difference here
• Conclusion: Not skipping Jungle Wurm, instead of waiting around for everyone in Lake Doric we’ll start almost immediately

TT-Wurm: Vocal explanation of diboofing before event

• Idea: Before the event starts diboofers go into a separate channel to discuss diboofing if there are new people. It’s hard to type everything in party chat if you want to teach
  
  • Should be nice of people are available to assist with the right classes
  • Kaelik (wasn’t at the meet but people voted for him) and Cori will take the lead on this
  • On the PSDH website there is a comprehensive guide on diboofing
  • Novices get paired with veterans

Thursday Social Night Rotation

• It’s social night so numbers are always going to be lower compared to the other PSDH events. If the numbers keep being as low as they are now (6-8) do we still want to keep it on the schedule?
  
  • People ask in guild chat every week if there are any events going on
• Suggestion: Have people vote for what they want to do that day
  
  • Tried this in the past, people didn’t vote
• Suggestion: Add dungeon/fractals to the rotation
  
  • Problem with this is that it’s for 5 man groups, people are going to be left out
• Suggestion: Put living story maps in the rotation
  
  • Could make it so we’d always have the last three LS maps in the thursday rotation. When a new maps comes out, it replaces the oldest.
• Suggestion: WvW night
  
  • Doesn’t work since we’re all from different servers
• Conclusion: Living Story maps will be put into rotation instead of Verdant Brink, Auric Basin and Silverwastes. These maps will be put into the voted event

Saturday Silverwastes

• Saturday silverwastes mostly done by Ardi. Ardi has not been organising it due to reasons.
  
  • No volunteer so it will be removed from the schedule
  • If Ardi does show up and wants to organise it he will announce it in guild chat during Teq/TT

PSDH Teamspeak

• There are a lot of channels but not really a place to hang-out as a PSDH, besides Crafty Wankers and some random PvE channels
  
  • PSDH started out as a pure world boss guild but, over the years, has grown to be a guild of it’s own
  • If there would be a PSDH channel, some people are more likely to join TS to just hangout. Creates more of a community
• Conclusion: Remove all the PvE/PvP/Event channels and create a new [PSDH] guild channel with some sub-channels.
  
  • If more sub-channels are needed we can create them later
  • Fluffy Bunny PG13 channel in which NSFW and politics are forbidden

New Expansion Bosses

• When the new expansion launches we need to go for the last boss faster. This so we can learn it and then organise it as a guild
  
  • There will be a break of regular events to commanders can go out and learn the events. Hopefully then we can run it in the second week
  • Non-commander guildies can step-up and help us organising. This allows guildies to become a PSDH commander without going through the normal trainee program

Hey all,

The box you all have been waiting for is returning Thursday March 30th. Super Adventure Box!!
On this day we would normally have our Guild Social Night - Voted Event, but this week we're skipping this and are going to do Super Adventure Box instead.

You're of course still welcome to join us on Teamspeak for a casual chat or just so we can hear you rage as you get killed for the dozenth time 

Update: 11/05: If you haven't signed up for the meet, registration will be open until Sunday June 25th
Update 31/03: Early-bird sign-up has finished. It's still possible to register for the meet, but you will not be able to get a PSDH t-shirt. Signup here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1liASephrkZV48Xl2x4nCvhy9lLwIi4GAlmLTTjGvWSM
Update 26/05: Sign-up has now officially been closed. Hopefully we'll see you next year!

Hello PSDH, today I come to you with great news!... euhmm... Good news everyone!

The sign-up for the PSDH Meeting 2017 is officially open! The link for registration can be found below, but before you do that I suggest you first read through this post because things are a little different from last year - in a good way... we hope.

Date: August 25th-27th 2017

For this years meeting we will be staying in The Netherlands. We have found a nice remodelled farm (barn) with a nice living area and 8 bedrooms which can hold up to 36 people. It’s located south of Amsterdam Airport in an open and quiet area (middle-of-nowhere-ish maybe) near a lake where we can hang-out, play, have a drink and do what we want (to an extend).

I hear you thinking; But Dark, Netherlands... Amsterdam... coffeeshop... red-light district… Yes I understand some of you want to go and visit Amsterdam while you’re nearby, but unfortunately this is not something we can organise as an excursion. If you want to explore Amsterdam you will have to organize this yourself and I would suggest either Friday morning/afternoon or Sunday afternoon/evening. The accommodation becomes available on Friday at 18:00 and we will have to leave Sunday at 17:00.

A little more about the accommodation. We’ll be staying at “Kampeerhoeve Koole”, this is a renovated farm from which the owners have converted the old stable in a big house for groups. The “house” has 8 bedrooms with 2 to 8 beds, a large living area and a kitchen. Outside we will have a big open field which we can use for activities or just sit and relax in the sun (implying we have any). For those who want to swim, the nearby town (Nieuwkoop) has a swimming pool. This is about a 30 minute walk from our accommodation. If the weather is really great there are also nearby lakes in which you can swim.



How we organize things this year
Unlike last year where everyone was in charge of booking their own room, this year we will offer “weekend-packages” which you can buy for a reasonable price.
The reason we have chosen for this is so we can split the costs easily and keep the price low.

• Full package - 70 euro - This includes a place to sleep, food (dinner, breakfast, snacks) and drinks (soda, juice, beer, wine) for the whole weekend
• Half package - 30 euro - You will book a place to sleep yourself, but you do want to join us for food and drinks
• No package - free - You will take care of everything yourself

The accommodation only has space for 36 people, once these spots are taken we’re full and can’t take any more who want to stay over. Spots are given on first come first serve basis. I will keep this topic updated on how many spots there are left.

As you can see above we will take care of the grocery shopping and will make sure there’s enough food and drinks for everyone. If you have some special requests please tell them and then we can see if they fit the budget or that maybe you’ll have to bring it yourself.

Besides food and drinks we will also organise some activities in which you can participate and perhaps win a prize If you have ideas for activities or maybe have a cool board game which you can bring, please do so!

Things you have to bring yourself

• Your happy face!
• Sleeping bag or blanket + sheet. The accommodation only provides a bed and a pillow. If you are unable to bring either of this, let us know as soon as possible so we can organize something for you.
• Hard liquor. We will only provide juice, soda, beer and wine, any other alcoholic drink you will have to bring yourself (for yourself or to share).

If you would like to bring a snack or food to share we would highly appreciate this. If we all bring something small it will add up really quick and we’ll probably have a bunch of different things to snack on during the weekend.

Signing up for the meetup
Done reading this wall of text, you’re still enthusiastic for the meetup and want to register? Click on the link below and fill up the form. Once you’ve submitted your registration we will review it and send you a confirmation email.

Because this year we will be pre-booking an accommodation we will require everyone who signs up to pay in advance. We know transferring money to someone unknown while the meetup is still months away can be a little daunting, but rest assured, we’re not Nigerian prince who need some cash to unlock their fortune.

Registrations: 33
Beds taken: 29/36

• Mr_Dark + 1
• Nova Lelie
• Major Helios
• Gemgenie
• Ardi
• Elnora Sunbane
• Notechus + 1
• Tyrion Ironshot
• Zorkesh
• Tweetiti
• Rungh Feros
• Merula
• Magua
• Bezglutek + 1
• Jari
• CaDaVez +1
• Toomcioo
• Stormwolf
• Shiroiki Mei
• Kevorkian
• Logarithmic
• Doctor
• Anya Rikku
• Jarabacek
• Marchello

Joining but not sleeping over

• Kylie
• Grant
• Fussypants
• Gunungjato

When: Saturday, September 24 @ 13:30UTC / 14:30BST / 15:30CEST
Where: Exact location unknown, just be on Teamspeak at above time. There will be a special channel.

Note: Originally on this time we'd have a Silverwastes run and chest farm. Depending on how many people will join this event might be cancelled.

Info:
Maybe you remember the memorial event we participated in last year with the guild SweD. If you don't remember it or perhaps were not in the guild at that time, here's a quote from his original reddit post:

This will be a very personal post.

On the 24:th of Sep is my sons birthday. He isn't with us anymore. Last year, I lost him to leukemia after a years fighting it (He got very sick on Christmas Eve, he sliped into a coma right after new year and we lost him on Valentines day). He loved games and was very good at them. GW2 was one of the favorites and a wish he had when he got better, was to visit Arena Net (there is a fund in Sweden for children with cancer that help them make a dream come true). He never got this chance. He would have become 16 this birthday.

I would like to do something on his birthday in game under the banner of the guild he created and that I have kept alive, Swedish Dragonhunters [SweD]. I don't know what or maybe if people would like to help me let this guild live up for a day doing what ever they normally does. If so I can give an invite. I'm JonasBL.8270 (EU) in that case. After, you would be free to stay or leave as you want ofcose.

Regards, Jonas

Pm: If Arena Net want to join me and them who has so far (and hopefully more people still) in this Rememberence of a wonderfull son, gifted player (in a number of games), that would have made my son so happy

My Sons name was Daniel

Now back to the present day. Last week I got request from Jonas if we [PSDH] would be interested in helping him out again because he really appreciated what we did last year. For this years memorial he wants to get [SweD] a guild hall and of course I said yes right away!

Outfit Information
Because it looked really cool last year, I think we should do use the same outfits again with the [SweD] guild colors.

Royal Guard Outfit with following colors (from top left to bottom right in this order):
- Burnished Steel
- Fog
- Pastel Lemon
- Stream

If you do not have this outfit, you may still join

How to join?!
I'm not sure if you can participate in guild claiming if you're not actually in that particular guild. If someone can enlighten me if it's possible to taxi people in via squads that be great. According to Merula you can also join even if you're not in [SweD] (of course we would like it if people would wear their tag).

However if you do have a guild slot open, just send me message in-game or teamspeak, or leave a reply in this thread with your account name and that you would like to be invited into [SweD]. Then I'll make sure to send you a guild invite as I'm apparently still an officer in that guild

Once more, show me what awesome guild PSDH is and lets make this happen!

Update: Album is up: http://imgur.com/a/xyInQ

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Hello PSDH!

My, my, my what a weekend we just had... For those of you who lived under a rock for the last 3 months, this weekend we had our first every PSDH real-life meet up in Nottingham, UK. It.. was.. bloody... awesome! We had about 21 PSDH members coming from UK, Netherlands, Ireland and god knows where else. Set up our base camp in the Hilton hotel (sorry about the table mess) in Nottingham and let things role from there.

Words can not describe how I felt when seeing all these different people getting along with each other, talking, (hugging Ardi), laughing, drinking beer and eating cake (damn Shiroiki, still speechless). Some of you I have known and talked on teamspeak for almost 3 years others just joined the guild, but it didn't matter, it was great meeting each one of you and getting to know you on a different level. I enjoyed every second of this weekend, ok.. maybe enjoyed spanking Tweetiti a little bit more

When we (me, Gem en Nova) started planning this meet up about 3 months ago we would have never expected it to turn out like this. Our idea was, maybe a group of 10 or some sort, but never a group of 26 people! I think I speak for everyone that we all enjoyed it very much and don't regret travelling insane amounts of hours to get to Nottingham.

I have said this before; YOU guys make PSDH and this time YOU guys made this meet up!

I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being such an awesome guild, both in-game and real life.

See you next year

-Dark

P.s. We're currently gathering all the photo's so we can combine them in an album. If you have some photo's to include people send them to my e-mail


(1) Darkward .. (2) Marithia Redwood .. (3) Major Helios .. (4) Baroness Regret .. (5) Zia Vidarr .. (6) Elnora Sunbane .. (7) Ardi Veftvohl ..
(8 ) Alistair .. (9) Seren .. (10) Avaross .. (11) Shiroiki Mei .. (12) Nova Lelie .. (13) Anya Rikku .. (14) Crash Perfect .. (15) Zorkesh Lifeweaver ..
(16) Cadavez .. (17) Mrs Cadavez .. (18) Tweetiti .. (19) Yu Takami .. (20) Rungh Feros .. (21) Merula .. (22) Mrs Dark .. (23) Stormwolf
Rabi En Rose - Making the photo

This week I had the idea spinning in my head about setting up discord server for PSDH - just for chat, if you want to talk use Teamspeak I know we already have the facebook gruop chat and no idea how active this is, hence why this topic.

Do you think PSHD would benefit from a separate chat group like Discord?

A reason why I would prefer Discord over Facebook is that you can join a Discord server by clicking link, were for the FB chat group you have to be personally invited.

Update
We now have a PSDH discord server. The voice channels are disalbed because we have Teamspeak for that.
Invite link: https://discord.gg/kMgX23k

With the recent GW2 spring update changes to the meta events were made to the Heart of Thorns maps. For us in particular; Tangled Depths.
Because of these changes we don't have to spend 2 hours in Tangled Depths to make sure all lanes are fully upgraded and everyone has his
participation level to at least 100%.

Last night we had a meeting with all guild leaders and commander to discuss a new schedule and here's what we came up with. Spoiler alert: Not
much has changed... The biggest change is on Wednesday were we now start the evening with Shatterer and then do world bosses until it's time
to jump to Tangled Depths.

The Thursday guild event has been renamed to Guild Social Night, were we will have a 4 weekly rotating schedule of Auric Basin,
Silverwastes, Verdant Brink and a voted event. With the name change we like to emphasize that this day is not like our other events as in we claim
a map as our own and then start organizing things. We will still go in a map and create (hidden) squads for people to join, but it's more casual,
even us commanders would like a stress free day once in a while This day is also the prefect opportunity for guildies who would like to get into
commanding, but don't want to start of on a full-fledged event like Teq, TT-Wurm or Garent. So hop onto Teamspeak and join the social banter!

An other change is that now all PSDH event days start at the same time; weekdays at 19:00UTC and weekends at 11:30UTC. Hopefully this will
make it easier for people to remember when our events start. The PSDH Calendar has also been updated, including the times when we jump to
a map, so no more excuses for being late because you didn't knew when we jumped

As always we'd enjoy getting feedback from our members on changes like these.

Monday	UTC	BST	CEST
Tequatl	19:00	20:00	21:00
Triple Trouble Wurm	20:00	21:00	22:00
-
Tuesday	UTC	BST	CEST
Nothing
-
Wednesday	UTC	BST	CEST
Shatterer	19:00	20:00	21:00
Great Jungle Wurm	19:15	20:15	21:15
Modniir Ulgoth	19:30	20:30	21:30
Shadow Behemoth	19:45	20:45	21:45
Tangled Depths Jump	20:00	21:00	22:00
Chak Garent	20:30	21:30	22:30
-
Thursday	UTC	BST	CEST
Guild Social Night	19:00	20:00	21:00
- Auric Basin
- Silverwastes + CF
- Verdant Brink
- Voted Event
-
Friday	UTC	BST	CEST
Nothing
-
Saturday	UTC	BST	CEST
Tequatl	11:30	12:30	13:30
Triple Trouble Wurm	12:30	13:30	14:30
Silverwastes	13:30	14:30	15:30
-
Sunday	UTC	BST	CEST
Dragon's Stand	11:30	12:30	13:30
Guild Missions	13:30	14:30	15:30

Couple weeks back we had a discussion about our current events/schedule and it gave us some valuable
information on how to move forward. If you have any more input regarding this, feel free to leave it behind in this thread.

Currently I'm working on a plan which will (hopefully) boost PSDH as a guild and give us a solid foundation
to build and expand upon - PSDH v2 if you will. Before I For this I would like to know which events you want
PSDH to organize every week, not thinking about how it would fit in a schedule or if we have commanders for it.
If you have an event which is not available in the poll please post a reply in this thread so we know about it.

There are two polls on which you can vote. First one is about the events, second is about how many times you join PSDH for events.

Events: http://strawpoll.me/7161224
Participation: http://strawpoll.me/7161325