It's time for this conversation to end. Let me be very clear that your voice has been heard but we are not going to set up guild recruitment threads for every special group that jumps up - and that is exactly what you are asking for.
Let's be very clear about what the goal is: To make it easier for players to find guilds that are appropriate to their play needs. Be it style, region, language, or any other determining factor.
Having a single thread in each server forum makes it very easy (via standardization) for players to identify just where to look. By allowing guilds to post whatever they want (within guidelines) to describe their guild, it's very easy to read over the guilds in the thread and find a selection that may best fit individual player needs.
Other benefits include the end of squabbling conversations between guilds that don't like each other and try to steal recruits (a very real problem that was happening on many server boards), and a very easy to moderate setup. If it's not in the guild recruitment thread, it's in the wrong place.
The primary reason though, is to deliver standardization so a player new to any server knows exactly where to look for accurate and up to date information about guilds active on that server.
This is that simple.
I understand fully that many Australians have chosen Najena as their home, and that's cool and a great show of organization on the part of folks from Australia. That said, it's very easy to say WE ARE AN AUSTRALIAN GUILD in your guild description in the guild recruitment thread. Amazingly easy. There is no need for a wave of sticky guild recruitment threads that break things down by global regions, and if we are going to give special preference to the Australians, we can't possibly deny the players from Singapore, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, and beyond (and yes, I have had direct contact with EQII players from all of these countries).
The simple truth of the matter is that all servers have international audiences. Yes, the servers for the US audience have more Americans on them than any other group, but there are folks from all over the place on each server. That diversity is awesome and I know of more than one multi-national guild (including the one I'm in). Segregating folks due to national origin is not a good solution.
I expect that the matter can be laid to rest at this point. Further discussion will not change the current plan with guild recruitment threads on the Najena server board, or any other on these forums. I'm locking the thread at this point, as the matter is closed and it's time to move on.
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