How we handle invites

NOTE: The list used below is FICTIVE!


At the start of the week:
On Tuesday, at the start of the raiding week, Neti publishes the ICC invite list which will be valid for the upcoming week. There are seperate sublists for tanks, healers and dps. The overall aim is to have two tanks, three healers and five dps'ers per raid. The first players from every role (in bold) are given priority for each raid in the upcoming week.

24 hours before the raid:
The day before the raid Neti checks the sign-ups for the upcoming raid and makes the line-up. Unfortunately Idlewild, Matmag and Lleu cannot come. For their specific role the people with the highest position on the list will now be given priority. So in this example those people are Pluto for the tanking and Wushi and Redhenry for the dps role.

At the end of the week:
All players that have joined the last raid week (one reset period) are now placed at the end of the list. Idlewild, Matmag and Lleu couldn't come during the last raid, so their position on the list remains fixed and they will be on top now.

Important Notes:

• Anybody can sign up for a guild run. However players who are on the invite list have priority over players who are not. Guildies have priority over guild friends.
• Only main characters have invite priority. Players can be on the list with alts and offspecs as well, but the invite priority of these characters is tied to their main. If a player has an alt/offspec on the invite list, then is assumed that this means they will switch over to their alt/offspec if this is necessary to make the raid go ahead, or if this is needed from a raid balance point of view. Playing on an alt or offspec counts as having played with your main, and will be counted as such.
• When there is a shortage of a certain role, for example healers, the highest notated alt or offspec will be given priority to fill the spot. Per raid Neti will decide if it's necessary to ask players to play a different role then they are used to, to prevent that the raid needs to be cancelled.
• In principle the line-up is made according to invite list priority only. However, if this leads to a line-up which is too imbalanced to make downing the planned bosses infeasible, and another line-up is possible within the current sign-ups, then Neti will 'balance' the line-up with the highest priority players available. (This rule applies only to bosses which we cannot down without specific set-up.)
• If there is no suitable raid leader present within the 10 players with highest priority, then Neti can decide to swap in a raid leader in place for the player with the lowest priority. (This rule is only applied as last resort.)
• If there are not enough players at sign-up closing time to make a line-up, then a call for more sign-ups will be made. Sign-ups after sign-up closing time are first-come first-serve.
• When invites start or when searching for replacements, people that actually signed up for the raid will be given priority, even if they are lower on the list.
• A player who replaces a player at or before the raid starts, is counted as having been in the raid. A player who replaces another player during the raid, and therefore only attended part of the raid, is not counted as having been in the raid.
• One of the officers in the raid keeps track of all participating players and will post a headcount log in the Raiding forum.
• When updating the list, players are given a weighted score, depending on how many and which raids they joined during the last week. The higher their weighted score, the lower they will end up on the updated list.
• Priority on the list is only valid for a period of 4 weeks. Players who haven't signed up for 4 weeks, will automatically go to the bottom of the list, and stay there until they start signing up again.
• If a player decides to change over to a different main, he will be moved to the end of the list for his new role.
• When a new player qualifies for the ICCIL he will be put at the end of the list at the end of the reset period, followed by the players that played during the last week.