Last week to sign-up folks!

Hey Guys,

We are planning our trip. As of exactly how late are we expected to arrive in Dorking?
(Just to plan our "killing time" events a little)

We'll need to some time to pre-arrange some stuff before everyone arrives. If you arrive after 17:30 we have (hopefully) finished most of the stuff and things shouldn't be as hectic anymore. Expect an e-mail with more information (including arrival/leave times) next week.

Update: Closed because not necesary anymore.

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PSDH Discord… basically, guild chat, but you can also use it while not in-game.

In the beginning, our Discord was mainly used to facilitate the organization of our real-life meetup. Over the years it has grown to be an extension of the guild to socialize with members even when you’re at school/work or while visiting your grandparents.

Conversations ranging from PSDH/GW2 related to well... anything else. To facilitate this, we slowly expanded Discord with separate channels when we noticed certain topics would take over the main channel a lot of the time and basically block other conversations.

For a while, the PSDH member list does not contain only EU players, but we also have players from the US, Canada and the Middle East. That’s a lot of different time zones and different wake/sleep times and the reason for this topic.

This all links into why I’m writing this today. We’ve had multiple comments/suggestions from people whose phone kept sounding notifications due to new Discord messages, while they were still sleeping. Now you might say, “But Dark, Discord allows/recommends you to set channel notification settings so you don’t get spammed” or “But Dark, your phone as a Do Not Disturb option you can (automatically) turn on at night”, and I know, but their argument was that then they won’t be notified at all and might miss a conversation. PSDH is a social guild, so there should be a “social” solution for this.

The proposed solution is to create 2 “main” channels. One will be used during EU day/evening (say between 07:00UK/08:00EU - 11:00UK/12:00EU) and the other channel after/before those times. This way EU people can mute the “night” channel and anyone outside the EU timezone can mute the “day” channel. The switching between these two channels will not be policed by PSDH “management” but would have to be self-regulated by the Discord users.

Of course, the down-side of this solution is that conversations will be split into multiple channels, where the first part of the conversation can be in 1 channel and the rest in the other which can make it harder to follow. Or when you’re having a conversation and the times comes you’ll have to move to a different channel.

Because this is not a small change (as to just adding a new specific channel), I am reaching out to you today. I want to hear your opinion on this idea since most of you use Discord a lot more than me and I don’t want to implement something which may more people to stop using our Discord.

Voting can be done here - [removed] - Yey if you want the day/night split. Nay if you want to stay with 1 main channel.

Please also leave us a comment below if you have a strong opinion on why this should or should not be implemented.

Fine print: At least 20 votes will be required before I will use the results to make a decision. Voting closes June 30.

Sup P, welcome to this crazy bunch

My only question is: The half package covers if I came in my tent right? - RL adventurer, so it's my most usual home anyway, just without as much equipment as the FFXV boys seem to keep in their pockets.

Unfortunately, they do not allow tents (unless we rent the space for that).

We're still figuring out logistics so we don't have exact check-in and check-out times. For now, it looks like you'll probably be able to arrive at the accommodation after 5PM. Once we have more detailed information I'll send out an email to all registered people.

Hello PSDH!

Good news everyone, we have finally decided on where and when the 2019 PSDH meeting is going to be and opened up the registration! This year we’ll be going back to the lovely United Kingdom and will be staying Forrest Green, Surrey, which is located south-west of London.

Date: August 23, 24, 25 (bank holiday weekend for the UK people)
Where: Forest Green, Dorking, Surrey, UK

We have found a lovely accommodation which is called “The Mill”. It’s a large bunkhouse property which sleeps about 40 people spread over 7 bedrooms. The Mill is situated on the Surrey/West Sussex border. Originally a corn mill, the Mill has been converted over the years to accommodate 40 guests within the main building. The site has 10 acres of ground which comprises of meadow, wood, pond and stream, practically a nature reserve. The village pub, the Parrot, is 5 mins walk away, so for those of you who want to go out for a pint, this is possible, although it’s a small pub meaning they won’t be able to accommodate a large group.



Pricing
This year we’ll be offering “weekend-packages” which - we think - are reasonably priced. The reason we have chosen for this is so we can split the costs and keep the overall price low.

• Full weekend package - 70 euro - Including a place to sleep, food (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks) and drinks (soda, juice, beer wine) for the whole weekend
• Half package - 30 euro - You won’t be sleeping at the accommodation, but are joining us for food and drinks
• Day package - free - You’ll just join us for the day and take care of everything yourself

The accommodation has space for max 40 people, once these spots are taken we’re full and can’t take any more who want to stay over (unless you want to pitch up a tent). Spots are given on first come first serve base.

We will take care of the grocery shopping and make sure there are enough food and drinks for everyone. If you have any special requests please make them known and we can figure out if it fits our budget or if it’s something you’ll have to bring yourself.

Besides food and drinks, we will also organize 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 bed linen. The accommodation offers to rent bed linen for 10 pounds per person.
• Hard liquor. We will only provide 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.

Activities
To be announced. We are still turning gears on what kind of activities we’d like to offer. Once we have more information we’ll let you know!
 
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 the 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 hopefully, we’ve built up some credibility over the years organizing these events. Still not a Nigerian prince who needs some cash to unlock their fortune

Registration has been closed

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIp9CrAHdRndmGuLexHBUT-gkedVBxlF7HIWb4JrkDQaVU8w/viewform

Confirmed Registrations (updated: July 2)
Mr_Dark
Nova
Major Helios
Cori
Tyrion
Quget
Bezglutek & Piotr
Merula
Myka
Boss Spartan
Merlinae
Malfurion
andyfied
Kevorkian
Ganjii
Red
Chifmage
Melo
Kylie
Chris McSwag
Hathorhealer
Jari
Shiroiki
Simon & Hannelore
Daisygreen
Kirsty

Sign me up! MrDark.9634

Edit: Just give me something... Could use some more agony infusions for my naked fractal Norn.