The following is the clan charter and rules by which the Crusader Clan is administered and run. Please stick to these rules to avoid any unnecessary disciplinary action.
Sections on this page: Voting, Membership, Leadership, Activity, Rank, Bylaws, Disclaimer
a. All elections and voting, including amendment of the Clan
Charter and Bylaws, shall be decided by majority of votes cast,
except as provided below for removal of Leaders.
b. Any Member may initiate voting by posting a proposal in a public
note to the Clan on the Personal Board. The member shall specify
voting by messages posted on the message board or by voting booth.
The member shall also specify a deadline of between 7 and 10 calendar
days from the time of the proposal for discussion and voting to take
place.
c. All members shall be eligible to propose issues for voting and
to cast votes.
d. Voting on Member Candidates, outcasting of Members, and removal
of Leaders shall have a fixed period of 14 days. Elections for
Leaders shall have a fixed period of 7 days.
e. A vote may end when a majority of votes equal to 67% of members
who have logged into the game within the 30 days prior to the start
of the vote has been reached.
f. For votes by posted message, a Member may cast a vote publicly
or privately to Leaders only, at his/her discretion by posting a
note on the Personal Board. Votes on the admission of Member
Candidates must be posted privately to Leaders only.
g. Leaders shall report numerical results of any election within
twenty-four hours after the election ends in a public note to
the Clan on the Personal Board.
a. Members shall be admitted by majority of votes cast during the
fourteen-day period following an application, posted privately to the
Clan Leaders on the Personal Board.
b. A Candidate must have attained at least 50 levels and 50 hours game time.
c. A Candidate and/or his/her alts may not be Members of any
other Clan.
d. A Candidates must be a Cleric or Paladin or become Cleric or
Paladin at his/her next remort.
e. The Clan may outcast a Member only by majority of votes cast
during the seven-day period following a publicly-posted complaint
by another Member.
a. There shall be five Clan Leaders. Every year, there will be an
election to select the leaders for the next year. Current and former
Leaders may choose to run for re-election should they choose.
b. A Leader Candidate must have attained the Clan rank of Sergeant
or higher.
c. The Clan will take votes for Leaders beginning at 1 a.m. mud
time on June 1 and ending at 1 a.m. mudtime on June 8 of each
year.
d. Five votes will be held simultaneously. Each clan member eligible
to vote will be allowed to cast five ballots, one for each position.
e. The five Leader Candidates with the most ballots cast in their
favor across all five votes shall become Leaders.
f. In the event that there are insufficient candidates to fill
all open posts, then the vacant positions shall be filled by
an election proposed by any Member when a candidate becomes
available.
g. In the event of a tie, the Clan will hold a run-off election
beginning at 1 a.m. mud time on June 9 and ending at 1 a.m.
mudtime on June 16.
h. If a Leader steps down before his/her term expires, the Leaders
shall call a special election to fill the vacant term, beginning
not later than one week after the vacancy begins.
i. A Leader may be removed from office by 75% of votes cast
in an election called by any Member for that purpose or by decision
of any two other Leaders. The position shall be filled as for a
voluntary vacancy.
a All Members will meet activity requirements of 15 points in a
calendar month from any of the following categories (1 point each):
* spell-up (SU)
* corpse retrieval (CR)
* newbie bag (NB)
* donation of 1000000 gold
* other activities, such as hosting games, on behalf of the Clan.
b. A Member who does not meet activity requirements in a given
month will be placed on inactive status until any calendar month in
which he/she meets requirements.
c. An inactive/unexcused Member may not run for Leader.
d. To get credit for an activity point aside from gold donation,
you MUST post a note on the personal board to the leader who is
currently tracking activity. The note subject must begin with the
appropriate activity code (NB, CR, or SU) followed by a space. NB
notes should also be posted to crusader to ensure each Newbie only
receives one bag.
a. Ward: 0 months of active status.
b. Gallant: 2 months of active status, plus 100 levels or 100 hours game time..
c. Sergeant: 6 months of active status.
d. Lieutenant: 18 months of active status.
e. Crusader: 36 months of active status.
f. High Crusader: former leaders.
g. Holy Crusader: current leaders.
b) Members may not engage in name-calling, swearing at members, or any other types of personal attacks.
c) Members may not engage in player killing. Members may engage in race/class wars, wars not involving the clan as a whole, and duels.d) Members must maintain good or neutral alignment. If a Member's alignnment becomes evil for any reason, he/she must become good-aligned within forty-eight hours.