Activity Points:

Activity Points are given based on the following criteria:

• Showing up on time for a sanctioned event. Players who have previously committed to attended the event that are present at the designated rally point, ready, and in the event group(s) by the cutoff time (usually 15 minutes before event start) may earn one (1) Activity Point.

• "Mission accomplished" - If the raid achieves a goal, then those members who helped will get a bonus Activity Point. Goals will be made clear before the sanctioned event starts, but some examples include: defeating raid bosses, winning battlegrounds, holding an enemy town for a period of time. Players present in the raid at the time a goal is completed may earn one (1) Activity Point.

• Patience. If the raid spends a significant time attempting to accomplish a progression based goal (e.g. downing a new raid boss), the raid leader may award Activity Points even if the raid does not accomplish that goal. This will typically be awarded at a rate of 1 AP per hour.

• Staying power. The Activity Point system is designed to encourage players to work together, success or no, and so raids and events may be assigned ending times as well as starting times. Players still present in the raid until the raid is dismissed by the leader may earn one (1) Finish Activity Point. These are not awarded if the raid ends on a Boss kill or mission accomplished goal. Finish points are typically awarded when the raid ends with a significant amount of time since a boss kill, in the process of trying to accomplish a goal (like killing a boss). They are also typically awarded for participating in additional, voluntary activities beyond the end of the raid.

Activity points ARE:

A record for the leadership to show who makes an effort to participate and contribute to making the Guild and the game fun for ourselves and each other. They are to remain transparent, public and maintained by the officers of The Collective.

Activity points are NOT:

Bargaining chips, buyable, spendable, forms of bribery, or able to be adjusted in any way. They exist seperate from the Demerit system. They are not DKP.

Sanctioned Events:

A Sanctioned Event is any Guild event (marked as such by the Guild leadership) that benefits the Guild as a whole. Generally Sanctioned Events are designed to take up a few hours at a time, and are activities that 10 or more people can participate in. Some Sanctioned Events may include, but are not limited to:

• Endgame Raiding, (Zul'Gurub, Onyxia, MC)
• Battlegrounds, (Warsong Gulch, Alterac Valley, Arathi Basin)
• City Raids
• Guild Meetings
• PVP Practice in the STV Arena
• Helping the guild make a video
• Resource gathering events (Herbs/Ore/Cloth)
• Flightpoint collection patrols
• Social events

Deprecated Instances

This applies to AP awarded for PvE raids. As the guild progresses into newer raid content the officers may, from time to time, reduce the value of older content. This will be done as that content becomes less relavant to the success of the guilds raid progression as a whole.

Storing and Reporting

Activity Points are stored and reported using the guilds Activity Point web pages. The officers are the only members authorized to award or change event AP. Captains are authorized however to view it. The guild Activity Point summary lists each character grouped by class. The summary information for that characters attendance history is shown, including number of loot awards and total activity points.

AP Ratio

The AP Ratio is a simple number that helps the delegates evaluate how well awarded a single player is compared to his peers. It is calculated by taking the total 90-day AP (see below) of a character and dividing it by the total 90-day loot awards +1:

Ratio = Total AP / (Loot Awards +1)

Catching Up

Activity Points will be tallied using a 90 day rolling timeframe. In other words, a player's total Activity Points will only be tallied using points earned in the last 90 days and only those points from the last 90 days will be taken into account when awarding loot. This allows players new to the guild, or new to raiding in the guild, the ability to catch up with everyone else.

Likewise the number of loot awards also use the same 90 day rolling timeframe. Only the loot earned in the same AP timeframe will be used to calculate the characters current ratio or be reported in the characters loot totals on the guild AP summary page.

Summary

The Activity Point system encourages guild participation above all. You help us all have a good time, and you are rewarded with the fruits of loots when the situation arises.

To repeat, we want to encourage GUILD participation as well as RAID participation. We have no required attendence policies so the idea is that this system will incentivise members to support the guild, participate accordingly, and thus reap the benefits of their effort