Let me explain this to you biomechanika.

When Hollafamer, Dhobby, and Lowercase made this guild, it was designed to be a top guild of close friends. As new people were invited the guild became very close and very strong. Only the best were allowed in and as such Active became one of the best guilds out there. But as you may or may not know, the endgame can become boring, so boring that it can lead to people quitting. Now this is where the logic breaks. By being an exclusive endgame guild while at the same time trying to retain members and form strong friendships, Active signed its own death warrant. Over time, many of Active's elite players, Dhobby, Uuaa, swifter, etc. quit the game. This left Hollafamer in a place where he was forced to continually recruit to balance this out.

Now we enter chapter two of Active. Another guild, Corps Meltdown was also built up of the elite. I dont know if they were suffering similar problems to Active, but i dont doubt it. So Hollafamer the GM of Active and Heron, the GM of Corps merged to form a larger, and more powerful Active. This worked fine and it seemed all was good.

Then we hit chapter three. Hollafamer himself, went inactive and "quit" the game. He had reached the limit this game had to offer and despite the good friends he had made in Active he had no reason to continue spending his time at the AH and continuously running Vana. Now when he left, Heron and the other officers of Active took it upon themselves to continue to maintain this legendary guild. They continued recruitment and made sure that the guild was filled at 99 spots and making sure that most of the 99 were active players (a few spots were left for player who had quit but retained their legendary status as amazing players and friends, uuaa among them).

And then today. The beginning of chapter four. Hollafamer returned to Spiral knights and looked at his guild. Of 99 players, he knew maybe 10 to 15 of them. Counter to his original intentions of creating a close knit guild filled with the best, he had the best guild built of players that he didnt know anymore. In essence, Active had moved on without him. Hollafamer looked for a way back to the olden times when Active was extremely close knit and thats why he choose to do what he did.

I'm not going to comment on his decision to kick all players he didnt know and reinvite one at a time, but thats what he did. Other players such as Heron who had a right to GM too and had spent countless hours working hard to recruit only the best felt they had been slapped in the face by Hollafamer. They took it upon themselves to right things, and they re-seperate Corps Meltdown and Active. Now Hollafamer is rebuilding Active slowly but surely on his own, and Heron is leading what was Active under a new name.

Now since this in guild recruitment im going to say some things about Active.
Despite Hollafamer wish (at least i think it's his wish) to make active full with 99 players. It won't happen. Active will continue to rebuild, and then it will level out and maintain its players at around 50 to 60 people. Not because there wont be people who want to join, but rather because thats the limit to how many people Hollafamer will be able to interact with on a regular basis.
But dont look at this as a weakness. By joining Active, you are signing a contract to make friends. You will make many friends in a close knit community of the top players of Spiral Knights. And by no means base Hollafamer's GM skills on what he did today. He is an amazing GM who is dedicated to his guild. You will learn a lot in this guild, and you will enjoy the time you spend in this guild.

--Cobriliant

Hollafamer is back! didn't know that Active had a nice history. thanks for the post Cobriliant and WB Holla.

Good to see you back Holla. Maybe we can actually run some FSC runs now, you were on my friends list after you bought my max shadow wolver cap for 15k CR wayyyyyyy back. :(

Anyway, hopin I can actually run some with you now.

@Cobriliant: That was awsome.
You should make a movie..."Active".

@hollafamer:
Welcome back to SK and good luck with everything.

Best regards,

The one and only, Guardianknight.

Nicely said cootie.
So I take a vacation for 3 and a half weeks, and the guild falls apart.
Officially making a guild called lol

It's great to see all these big names. I wish I could join active but I'm forever a 4* player, and I'm not as active as I would like to be. And kudos to cobriliant, sounded like something from cradle true spiral story (reference to E true Hollywood story). I should've taken a screen cap of my star crossed run in with cootiecakes. I caught you checking out a gate with some guildmates. Just trolling the forums at work.