Greetings, knights!

Me and my friend Zanhue are trying something different concerning the people who want to have fun times in LD. We will have some rules in order to maintain a fun Lockdown experience, and the 'puggers' will eventually consist of people who are experienced players of LD. Many of you may also know that some guilds use an alternative guild to get points in LD and get on top of the leaderboards in a sneaky and uncool way. To you guys who would like to see guilds not trying to get on top of the leaderboards, we may form a nice alternative. Also, the idea of Pick-Up-Games is new to Spiral Knights, and we are in an attempt of light-hearted Guild Lockdown between each others, all just for good fun!

It's under development and we have some ideas to manage it better in the future but for now, we'll try and give it a go!
Also, the PUG system is now for both EU and US players Everybody just join the group!
Lets clear things out in the first paragraphs: PUGs are mixed matches of Guild Lockdown. This means that the Guild matches are pretty much basic lockdown with random teams! (This is for people who don't like to read anything too carefully)

General Information and how to be a part of us

• The Spiral Knights PUG guilds are two sub-guilds, (basically guilds with no players in them full-time, except for the team leaders/captains) which organize Guild Lockdown matches for people who don't have time to be in a guild, or are not in a guild. (Players who are in a guild are welcome too)
• The guilds have separate leaders in them, that choose players from those who would like to play some matches
• The PUG guilds are entirely lockdown based and the system works via a steam group. Link to the group is here.
• The Pick-Up-Game system will work via the steam group at first, but will eventually allow non-group players too, who don't have steam. (This is because the PUG is under development)
• We will try two guilds first, and the matches are organized between these two guilds. We can also make different Lockdown Teams, so the third and fourth guilds are not necessary. There is no intention to become the #1 guild on the scoreboard, idea is to give players new experiences!
• When a PUG game occurs, the players are picked RANDOMLY from the players who want to play a match. (It's a PUG, duh...) This will form 'balanced' matches, where there's no complaints about one team only 'spamming' a certain weapon and a vice versa. (We might balance the teams out in a way of class restrictions in the future, but at first we'll only focus on getting this dream to work)
• To play the game, the captains or team leaders invite the players in the guild, and they form a lockdown team. May the best PUGteam win!

Some Rules!

For the best experience, the Warmaster Rocket Hammer and Polaris are BANNED in the PUG games. Why? Because most people complain about these two weapons as they are easy to use, and can ruin matches if used by most of the players. We will think of more rules, such as class limits and weapon restrictions in the future. Feedback is also welcome! Comment and tell what we could add to the ruleset!

Some other stuff! (AKA, ideas and other info)

At first, the guilds will be free, just because we are trying these things out and want as many players to try it out. After we start this thing for good, A crown fee for doing the PUGs is added. It will not be much, We were thinking of something between 250-1000 crowns, which is added in The Guild Treasury before/after the match. This will give a restriction on the players who want to come and play. We are looking for people who are nice and light-hearted, not for people who will complain about everything or who don't really know how the Lockdown works.

We also thought about forming a TeamSpeak server specifically for the PUGs, but those things can cost money which we don't really have. (at least I don't) The Steam Group Chat room can function as a place to organize the PUGs, but not as a tool to make the match easier to be coordinated. (Teamwork is always nice!)

Also, Me and Zanhue will work as the team captains at first. We will be needing some moderators, who are able to host a game with the guilds, but that comes in the future and after we get this fully functioning. Remember to join the steam group if you can! It's the only way to help this progress: We want to see if you guys are interested about this, and we are more than happy to make this happen! Original idea was Zanhue's, I'm just the one who's better at writing things in english, so I posted this here.

We will wait for some weeks and see how many people join the group. The more members we get, the more of a chance for this to take place in our beloved game. Spread the word please! Thank you!

Member count: 22

Cheers!
Dreffy