Seattle_Jim
Newbie
The Nero Alliance would like to officially announce the creation of a new form of compensation to Alliance Contributors. The Ownership of the Nero Alliance has officially empowered the Nero Alliance to grant compensation and rewards to players and staff members of Local Campaigns, as a local campaign may award Goblin Stamps in the form of Dragon Stamps.
The following is the official proposal as incorporated into the Alliance By-laws. Starting Monday April 18th, individuals that have performed duties, made successful contributions, or served previously on Alliance Committees (since their inceptions) may request compensation in Dragon Stamps. All requests for compensation must be sent to John Finnegan directly at jfinnegan1@aol.com, and titled in the subject line: "Dragon Stamp Compensation Request."
Have any suggestions, requests, or question? Contact John Finnegan via PM or via email at the entry listed above.
Section 7.1: Purpose
Dragon Stamps are the official compensation offered by the Nero Alliance. Dragon stamps are awarded for performing tasks or successfully submitting intellectual property for use within Nero Alliance campaigns.
Section 7.2: Awarding Dragon Stamps
An individual seeking compensation for work or submissions is assigned Dragon Stamps by submitting a claim to the Alliance Chairman or a designated individual determined by the Alliance Chairman. Any submissions in regards to compensation requests by the Chairman will be approved by the President of the Nero Alliance, Mike A. Ventrella.
Section 7.3: Awards
Dragon stamp values are approximately worth 5 goblin stamps. Standard rate of compensation for an hours worth of work for the Alliance is approximately 1 Dragon stamp. Standard awards are given for certain positions such as a committee member per month.
The following compensation are standard values of remuneration for service:
Active member on an approved Committee -> Chairman discretion based on participation
Rules Submission once approved (For Non-Alliance folks only) -> 20 + Discretionary bonus
Programming and Database maintenance -> 2 per hour of work spent
Section 7.4: Tracking Dragon Stamps
Dragon stamps will be tracked by a simple database which will be requested from Mike Luther of the rules committee. All additions and purchases will be tracked via time stamp and mandatory notation (via drop down menu or text field), and will be available upon request for review from any Nero Alliance Owner. The purchaser, their home campaign, and character number within the campaign of origin will also be tracked in the database. When an update is made to the database, a letter will be sent to the campaign owner of the campaign to indicate a purchase was made ? any other appropriate e-mails will also be sent to the logistics staff of the player?s home campaign.
Section 7.5: Making a Purchase with Dragon Stamps
To make a Purchase a request is simply made to the Alliance Chairman, who will approve the request as merit dictates, and will update the individual?s total within the database.
Dragon Stamps may compensate players in any of the following formats:
Dragon Blanket: 6
Dragon Stamp to Goblin Stamp Conversion: 1 DS equals 5 GS
Campaign Event Reimbursement: 10 per Event Blanket
Restricted Alliance Magic Item: See Below
Dragon Blanket:
A contributor may purchase one Dragon Blanket per month. A dragon blanket is tracked within the contributor?s home database, and this is in addition to any goblin blanket a contributor earns within their home campaign. A contributor may never possess more then 12 blankets per year from the Nero Alliance. This may also be purchased and placed upon another character within a contributor?s home campaign, thus awarded as a reward to players. Local campaign owners may request awarding Dragon Blankets to a player who contributed something import to the Nero Alliance, or as a special reward for service within their game for the betterment of their games.
Dragon Stamp to Goblin Stamp Conversion:
A contributor may convert her Dragon Stamps to Goblin Stamps redeemable in their home campaign. As a control to prevent abuse, this conversion is limited to transfer within a contributor?s home campaign to reduce the tracking needs and limit potential opportunities for abuses. Once a Dragon Stamp is converted to Goblin Stamps, the transfer is as if the contributor earned it in their own campaign. No additional limits are imposed once a player performs the conversion; it?s a full value goblin stamp within their campaign.
Campaign Event Reimbursement:
A contributor may convert her Dragon Stamps may utilize their Dragon Stamps to be utilized to obtain credit for an event as if they attended. Campaign Event Reimbursement may only occur within a contributor?s home campaign. This may only be used for the Contributor, and may only be used for one event per weekend per player.
Restricted Alliance Magic Item:
A contributor may utilize their Dragon Stamps to purchase magical items via a formula. Items purchased from the Alliance are never permanent, and are never simply enchant based items.
Alliance items are Restricted thus usable within any campaign in the Alliance.
The duration of an Alliance magic item is either one year, or five years.
A maximum of 2 five year items and 3 one year items can be purchased by any one individual per year.
Additional Restrictions:
Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras may only be purchased as one year items. Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras will be spirit linked or spirit locked to limit them being released within a campaign. Items with a spirit link or spirit lock must pay for the additional cost of these rituals. Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras may not possess additional rituals upon them.
The contributor must provide the physical representation to their local campaign so that it may be engraved, placed within their database, and its description noted. The local campaign will be responsible for providing a tag for the item. Rituals that may be placed on a spirit or an item must always be placed on an item. The maximum number of rituals on any item is six.
A spirit link counts as one ritual for purposes of maximum rituals. Any duration ritual (one or five) counts as one ritual for the purposes of determining the maximum number of rituals. The amount of rituals a ritual costs for the purposes of determining the number of rituals an item may be possess in any other way will correspond to the Alliance Ritual system.
Go here for the magic item table.
Once the cost of the item is determined, the price includes duration of one year in the above table. If the item is 5 year determine the final cost of the item by taking the items value and multiplying it by 2.5.
Items placed within any item that possesses a production cost will pay one additional dragon stamp for every 5 production points the item costs. Silvering will cost one Dragon stamp for every 5 inches of the weapon.
The following is the official proposal as incorporated into the Alliance By-laws. Starting Monday April 18th, individuals that have performed duties, made successful contributions, or served previously on Alliance Committees (since their inceptions) may request compensation in Dragon Stamps. All requests for compensation must be sent to John Finnegan directly at jfinnegan1@aol.com, and titled in the subject line: "Dragon Stamp Compensation Request."
Have any suggestions, requests, or question? Contact John Finnegan via PM or via email at the entry listed above.
ARTICLE VII
ALLIANCE COMPENSATION: DRAGON STAMPS
ALLIANCE COMPENSATION: DRAGON STAMPS
Section 7.1: Purpose
Dragon Stamps are the official compensation offered by the Nero Alliance. Dragon stamps are awarded for performing tasks or successfully submitting intellectual property for use within Nero Alliance campaigns.
Section 7.2: Awarding Dragon Stamps
An individual seeking compensation for work or submissions is assigned Dragon Stamps by submitting a claim to the Alliance Chairman or a designated individual determined by the Alliance Chairman. Any submissions in regards to compensation requests by the Chairman will be approved by the President of the Nero Alliance, Mike A. Ventrella.
Section 7.3: Awards
Dragon stamp values are approximately worth 5 goblin stamps. Standard rate of compensation for an hours worth of work for the Alliance is approximately 1 Dragon stamp. Standard awards are given for certain positions such as a committee member per month.
The following compensation are standard values of remuneration for service:
Active member on an approved Committee -> Chairman discretion based on participation
Rules Submission once approved (For Non-Alliance folks only) -> 20 + Discretionary bonus
Programming and Database maintenance -> 2 per hour of work spent
Section 7.4: Tracking Dragon Stamps
Dragon stamps will be tracked by a simple database which will be requested from Mike Luther of the rules committee. All additions and purchases will be tracked via time stamp and mandatory notation (via drop down menu or text field), and will be available upon request for review from any Nero Alliance Owner. The purchaser, their home campaign, and character number within the campaign of origin will also be tracked in the database. When an update is made to the database, a letter will be sent to the campaign owner of the campaign to indicate a purchase was made ? any other appropriate e-mails will also be sent to the logistics staff of the player?s home campaign.
Section 7.5: Making a Purchase with Dragon Stamps
To make a Purchase a request is simply made to the Alliance Chairman, who will approve the request as merit dictates, and will update the individual?s total within the database.
Dragon Stamps may compensate players in any of the following formats:
Dragon Blanket: 6
Dragon Stamp to Goblin Stamp Conversion: 1 DS equals 5 GS
Campaign Event Reimbursement: 10 per Event Blanket
Restricted Alliance Magic Item: See Below
Dragon Blanket:
A contributor may purchase one Dragon Blanket per month. A dragon blanket is tracked within the contributor?s home database, and this is in addition to any goblin blanket a contributor earns within their home campaign. A contributor may never possess more then 12 blankets per year from the Nero Alliance. This may also be purchased and placed upon another character within a contributor?s home campaign, thus awarded as a reward to players. Local campaign owners may request awarding Dragon Blankets to a player who contributed something import to the Nero Alliance, or as a special reward for service within their game for the betterment of their games.
Dragon Stamp to Goblin Stamp Conversion:
A contributor may convert her Dragon Stamps to Goblin Stamps redeemable in their home campaign. As a control to prevent abuse, this conversion is limited to transfer within a contributor?s home campaign to reduce the tracking needs and limit potential opportunities for abuses. Once a Dragon Stamp is converted to Goblin Stamps, the transfer is as if the contributor earned it in their own campaign. No additional limits are imposed once a player performs the conversion; it?s a full value goblin stamp within their campaign.
Campaign Event Reimbursement:
A contributor may convert her Dragon Stamps may utilize their Dragon Stamps to be utilized to obtain credit for an event as if they attended. Campaign Event Reimbursement may only occur within a contributor?s home campaign. This may only be used for the Contributor, and may only be used for one event per weekend per player.
Restricted Alliance Magic Item:
A contributor may utilize their Dragon Stamps to purchase magical items via a formula. Items purchased from the Alliance are never permanent, and are never simply enchant based items.
Alliance items are Restricted thus usable within any campaign in the Alliance.
The duration of an Alliance magic item is either one year, or five years.
A maximum of 2 five year items and 3 one year items can be purchased by any one individual per year.
Additional Restrictions:
Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras may only be purchased as one year items. Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras will be spirit linked or spirit locked to limit them being released within a campaign. Items with a spirit link or spirit lock must pay for the additional cost of these rituals. Items such as arcane armor, damage auras, and protection auras may not possess additional rituals upon them.
The contributor must provide the physical representation to their local campaign so that it may be engraved, placed within their database, and its description noted. The local campaign will be responsible for providing a tag for the item. Rituals that may be placed on a spirit or an item must always be placed on an item. The maximum number of rituals on any item is six.
A spirit link counts as one ritual for purposes of maximum rituals. Any duration ritual (one or five) counts as one ritual for the purposes of determining the maximum number of rituals. The amount of rituals a ritual costs for the purposes of determining the number of rituals an item may be possess in any other way will correspond to the Alliance Ritual system.
Go here for the magic item table.
Once the cost of the item is determined, the price includes duration of one year in the above table. If the item is 5 year determine the final cost of the item by taking the items value and multiplying it by 2.5.
Items placed within any item that possesses a production cost will pay one additional dragon stamp for every 5 production points the item costs. Silvering will cost one Dragon stamp for every 5 inches of the weapon.