Re:Clarifying Some Facts (Score 1)

Mr. Shrever, Upon looking up your information in old records, you have not been a part of the guild for going on eight years now. Your time in the guild would correspond to a period where there was more drama and more turnover. The book goes into that period of the guild and discusses the issues in those early years. Back then recruiting standards were more lax and the mix of people that got into the guild were not always compatible with each other in goals, personality, play styles etc.. The Syndicate of today has evolved its recruiting practices to the point that we solely recruit people of similar personalities, goals, values, play styles etc.. and we solely recruit people that we know extremely well. Again, the book covers that evolution. While your opinion of the guild is frozen in time back from 7 to 8 years ago when you were a member, the guild has matured and grown since then. You are correct in that members do have different accounts in different games with lots of characters/aliases. We, however, record every person in the roster one and only one time. We internally track every character that belongs to every member both mains (i.e. aliases) and their alts. However, the size numbers we speak of about our guild are unique, individual people that compose the guild. While we haven't taken the time to sum up characters/aliases/persona (since that is irrelevant to our guild) it would be in the thousands and not simply around 600 unique members. So while you are definitely correct that our members have lots of characters in many gaming worlds, when we speak of the "size" of the guild, we speak of unique people, not characters. In closing, we are sorry your membership did not work out so many years ago and that you carry such venom for the guild today based on how things were years ago but we do wish you the best in whatever you pursue.