WG's Recent History

By His Lordship on 23/03/2009

The clan history had been outdated by one year.
I have just completed it to the present day.
If I have missed anything significant, please alert me.
I want a fairly comprehensive history of WG.

Below is that history which I have just added. A little short of 12 months.

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Early 2008

His Lordship left for Europe in early 2008, for 6 weeks. During that time, Dorcha3377 was given leadership, and the clan basically froze. In London, His Lordship hosted a real life meeting. Nine members turned up and together the clan visited JaGeX offices, and later at night went out and had some less legal fun. In the meantime, those members that weren't enjoying the IRL meeting were slowly decaying, waiting for His Lordship to return from the trip to Europe. By the end of the six weeks, WG leadership was inactive, along with the remaining members. His Lordship spent a full month rousing the clan back into activity. The clan website was now several months out of date and needed immediate attention.
A forum switch from z6 to wg.com happened when the leadership purchased a private server. Previously, the new forums kept going down because of a fault with the hosting company. With the new forums came new activity and morale lifted. The clan began a winning streak in clan wars once more and recruitment sped up massively. The biggest change was the merging of the sectors. After one month, WG had almost doubled in size and had grown massive levels. Growth like this was unprecedented. WG had never improved so quickly in such a short space of time. Dorcha3377 stepped down from the council a few weeks after His Lordship's return.
However, His Lordship was overworked and abused, and not offered any help by the membership. Under this pressure, he decided to step down from leadership for good, appointing Abmanju to be the new Primary Leader. Under Abmanju, WG continued it's winning streak, and growth continued steadily. His Lordship would remain in the background, working on the clan website and the recruitment material, and would slowly phase out into retirement. Abmanju and the current council of Stokenut, Darkzero101 and Snowzak, kept WG on a similar path, and started an alliance with The Death Monkeighs, and existing ally of TBE. And, after 6 long months, the clan website was updated.
As WG now owned its own private server, the clan forum technician, Robbiethe1st, was able to create substantial modifications to the forums, including Teamspeak monitors, better skins, and generally more control. The wilderness was still non-PvP, and the clan world began to shrink, and WG along with it. Many members knew they would never see the maxed option wars again. The clan continued growing following its slump due to His Lordship's six week vacation. This came only a few weeks after the WG warlord Snowzak retired.
Under Abmanju, WG continued its growth slowly and steadily. His Lordship was still there on the sidelines, easing into retirement slowly, in case he was needed. However, after His Lordship banned a trial member (Crucio01), several members protested against the alleged power abuse and the rights of the founder's rank. Consequently a big fight ensued and His Lordship cut off his ties with WG completely.

Mid 2008

It was June now, and Abmanju was the primary leader of WG. The clan was sailing smoothly, but not growing as quickly as it once had. After a short while, Abmanju was fighting his own council and there was general leadership disagreement. Some of the members were bickering and not obeying the council, seeing it as week and divided. RSC at this time had hosted the Clan Wars Premiere League, taking to the Clan Wars Arena that replaced the wilderness. WG did extremely well in these categories, although the leadership was not keen to re-enter a second season after members were complaining about the league being too demanding. The clan ran out of motivation to war in the league, and attendance started to fall. Following on from this, the clan began to slump, and Abs took the decline personally.
When August came, His Lordship held a second real life meeting in Paris, as part of his own personal holiday. Those who attended were His Lordship, Snowzak, Dhboy123 (from the Divine Forces), and Bassism. Bassism was really the only member with direct relations to WG, but the meeting is still considered to be a WG meeting. During the meeting, the group played some pranks on Runescape community and WG, and spent the night on a pub crawl.
It was approaching the end of August. The clan was still strong, but Abmanju was having difficulties running the clan, and fighting his council along the way. Several council members (explicitly Robertw56 and Darkzero101) had already posted two weeks notice and were on their way out, another council member, Theevildead2, was retiring to emeritus, and Abmanju was very close to posting his own. The community was getting strained. In a last attempt to save the clan from a morale-breaking situation, Abmanju asked His Lordship to return to WG. His Lordship refused at first, and then after requests from several members, reluctantly took back the position.

Late 2008

Fortunately, in the four months where His Lordship was out of leadership, Abmanju managed to sustain the clan and avoided any disaster. The clan was in a decent shape and under His Lordship, underwent some reparations and recruitment. Upon his return, Lordship made a rather controversial move by the clan world's opinion. He distributed a WG T-Shirt to the members for no profit, and then to the clan community, to fund the cost of the servers. The shirt was a huge success. 40 were sold within a month, and then dozens more over the next few months. Immediately after this, elections were held to replace the outgoing council of Robertw56, Darkzero101, and Theevildead2. Kingrandy0 and Anatcrafter were elected into the council.
Leading up to the end of the year, several key elements in the clan's life changed. Firstly, the creation of a private clan leader forum gave the clan members a more intimate relationship with JaGeX, and many clan members were unmuted through His Lordship's request on the private forum. Soon after this, PvP worlds were released. All of a sudden, the clan world sprung back to life and things were getting into full swing. Through His Lordship's judgmental error, WG was slow to take to PVP, and so was a step behind. Recruitment suffered for several months, while WG remained in the Clan Wars Arena, and the rest of the clan world was migrating to PVP worlds. At the same time as this update, WG's initials were uncensored. For almost 2 years, the initials WG were censored over Runescape. To commemorate the decensorship of the clan's initials, the members put together a public party for the clan world. On top of all this, the clan lost its warlord, Dalejamesw, who left for DF. he was, at the time, the most loved member in the clan. WG held an appreciation event for him on his way out. Following his departure, Mugger84 and Arsenalfan32 were elected into the council as co-warlords.
December was approaching now. December was always a vibrant month for WG; the anniversary became the central element of clan life. The 2008 annicersary was a success, despite the attempts made by SE to crash. The dozens of events were executed with perfection, and the participating members enjoyed the festivities, that lasted for the entire month. Dalejamesw at this time, began inviting himself to WG events and making a fool of himself, and he lost favour with WG and was demoted from ex-member rank to clan friend.
In the background of all this, Robbie was continuing his forum work. By the end of 2008, the WG forums had become the best functioning clan forums in the Runescape clan world. GuardianScore was released as well as other major features. It was clear that WG would never switch forums again.

Early 2009

The early days of 2009 were somewhat weak days in comparison to the clan's noble history. To begin, 3v0lution_X, an ally of WG, was torn in a leadership rift, and soon collapsed, and out of it, two new clans were formed. The alliance was terminated. At this time, a new system of applications was created, in order to improve the flow of applications. The first weekend of the year saw WG attain rank #10 on the RAW list of top CWA clans, a big achievement indeed. There were two major victories in the early part of the year. A victory against CR, and a victory against RE. These two official RAW wins affirmed to everyone that WG had plenty of strength... but the clan was still lagging behind the rest of the clan world... who were now all competant in PVP. Awakening to this, WG immediately began taking steps to become more PVP-conscious. One of the early attempts to do this, was His Lordship's siding with The Titans clan, against Violent Resolution, who had angered much of the clan world by crashing fights and flaming. Lordship pleged WG to the cause of counter-crashing VR. This meant crashing VR's planned fight with DF. These two clans were the two strongest clans of the day, and going against either of them would be dangerous for WG. Ex-WG-Warlord Dalejamesw, now in DF, made many threats against WG, causing him to get banned. In the end, His Lordship conceded to the expressed wishes of his co-leaders, and abandoned the cause, but not before VR directed much anger toward WG. Mugger84, the warlord of the time, was instrumental in ceasing the hostilities. We will never know what would have happened if WG continued their plege to the Titans, but as a result of pulling out, WG lost an opportunity to dive deep into the realm of PVP... though admittedly we were saved from VR's vengeance.
As February came about, long-time member Gorgemaster was elected into the council. At this time, WG started stepping into PVP. His Lordship left for Vietnam, and the clan was placed in the hands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0. Randy, alongside Mugger84 and Arsenalfan32, saw to it that PVP was given more attention. WG, after so many years, abandoned the full-out war. It was now PKRI's. CWA would only be on occassion, with Megaraids becoming the feature event of the clan's weekend. His Lordship hoped intently, that the full-out war would make a comeback. Mid February came around, and all of a sudden, there grew a tension between the leaders and the clan members. The central figure in this saga was Mugger84, who found himself getting harrassed by several clan members, and fighting back. Events started to lack, as the leadership circle pushed for greater PVP activity. His Lordship, at this time, introduced new set raid times to be strictly adhered to. But it was too little. Too many members had become disgruntled with the clan's lack of progress. In the course of two days, the clan lost almost 20 members, who quit at the same time, including Mugger84, the warlord, who banned himself. It was afterward that the leadership found out that Mugger was a puppet for Dalejamesw, and had been leaking secure leadership information to Dalejamesw.
WG was left with a core of loyal members, upon which everything had to be rebuilt and improved. Counting his blessings, Lordship began work promptly. The council would remain lacking, considering the great betrayal of Mugger to his clan. Poor timing also saw Anatcrafter leave the council reasons due to lack of time to lead. His Lordship could no longer allow the council to maintain such a high turnover rate. Promotions into the council would be more difficult than ever.
Following the mass leavings, His Lordship renewed the clan server, and upgraded the clan website, working hard on recruitment. Kingrandy0 and Gorgemaster would together work on bringing the JaGeX cup to WG, and remind the clan that there was more to Wildguard than PVP. The clan had suffered big blows, but as this very history has shown, WG's resilience and ability to recover swiftly is its great strength.

By Quikdrawjoe on 23/03/2009

One thing I noticed off hand is you didn't mention the IRL alliance with DF though not sure if you want to include that or not. Interesting read since I didn't remember or know of all of it especially at the leadership level.

By His Lordship on 23/03/2009

It was a joke XD

By For Sooth on 23/03/2009

Wow, that was actually a good read.
Apparently I joined right after some hard times.
mugger..... mugger mugger mugger...... what a douche.

By Randy on 23/03/2009

1. Me and Anat arent in there
2. Spelling: and the clan was placed in the kands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0

Lolz, nice though

By Mickey on 23/03/2009

I thought Dale was only General council? And you left Rob, the warlord, out :S

By Tnuac on 23/03/2009

Wow, didn't know that much had happened. Surprise about dalejamesw and mugger84.

Ah well, we're on the up now, let's keep it up (y) Play it like the old times

By His Lordship on 23/03/2009

Fixed most of the spelling errors on the website version.
Can't be fucked editing the forum version.
Thanks for alerting me to the Mickey.

Randy, when did you and Anat get elected in?
And what are Rob's dates?

By Tmal34 on 23/03/2009

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

By His Lordship on 23/03/2009

Tmal I'm going to have to edit your list for dramatic effect.

ABMANJU
ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

By Eregion2 on 23/03/2009

Um... it appears that nobody can do anything right unless you're holding their hand after reading that. If there's a leadership issue, whoever is in charge gets blamed for it unless it's you, then it's something that just inexplicably happened for no apparent reason.

I had thirty seconds to right this so sorry if it's a bit harsh, no time to spare for revisions.

By His Lordship on 23/03/2009

Ok fair point.
I do write quite biased and I'll admit that.
Offer an alternative history and I'll take it into full consideration.

By Ranma344 on 23/03/2009

I don't get a mention for flaming the hell out of EVERYONE? lol

By Colinwarrior on 23/03/2009

You forgot the part where I was the greatest member of all time tbh.

By Karlfischer on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (His Lordship @ March 23, 2009 05:41 pm)

Ok fair point.
I do write quite biased and I'll admit that.
Offer an alternative history and I'll take it into full consideration.

Yeah, it is a little biased of course, but overall it is a very good history. I think it is actually a fairly accurate statement to say that much of the time the clan succeeds because you are holding our collective hand, especially when you have people as undependable as Mugger, Dale, or Robert to work with. The obvious exception is Abs, who you do give credit to as keeping the clan going quite strong, even though we did run out of steam near the end of CWPL.

One thing that might deserve greater attention to is the divisions we had between skillers vs. fighters, and then emeritus vs. actives. However, it will be quite hard to divulge this part of our history without having some kind of bias.

By George on 23/03/2009

Woooo mentioned in WG history for evermore, for ever remembered

By Indivi2you on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (Kingrandy0 @ March 23, 2009 11:48 am)

1. Me and Anat arent in there
2. Spelling: and the clan was placed in the kands of the second-in-charge, Kingrandy0

Lolz, nice though

Anat and I*

How ironic...

Lol

I realized now that 2008 was a very hectic year.

By Back to Own on 23/03/2009

No matter how good the history is written, nothing can ever truly represent the good times with friends

Looks good to me.

By DZ on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Only problem I see is "Several council members (explicitly Robertw56 and Darkzero101) had already posted two weeks notice and were on their way out", it should be Tmal and I, Rob left like a month after we did. It's in the Mid 2008 part.

By Zemus3654 on 23/03/2009

read it all, looks good

By Jayson on 23/03/2009

good read

By JC on 23/03/2009

And I left like a month after Rob lol

If I recall correctly Dale posted his 2 weeks not long after mine.

By George on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm)

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Everyone else was good??
Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger...
But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!!

By Nick on 23/03/2009

"On top of all this, the clan lost its warlord, Dalejamesw, who left for DF. he was, at the time, the most loved member in the clan."

I never knew that Dale was the warlord. I don't know if you edited this on the WG site. Also capitalize the 'h' in "he".

By Rexibit0 on 23/03/2009

2008 was a very eventful year.

One thing, you might start removing wg.com in place of the actual domain name. Wg.com doesn't point to this site and it could confuse people. I know it did me when someone said it in IRC about where the site was to a new applicant and I was.

By DZ on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (Gorgemaster @ March 23, 2009 09:55 pm)

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm)

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Everyone else was good??
Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger...
But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!!

Dale was still cool back then. But yes you are right about DZ + JC!

By Eregion2 on 23/03/2009

QUOTE (His Lordship)

Ok fair point.
I do write quite biased and I'll admit that.
Offer an alternative history and I'll take it into full consideration.

Thanks for knowing what I meant, after reading all of it I literally just had seconds to reply before running for the bus. And as for the alternative history, I'd be happy to, right after I get access to Level 1-4.

I'll even do interviews! Eregion2, Investigative Reporter: The True Story of the Wilderness Guardians.

By God Reports on 24/03/2009

I like the history, very well put together. It also speaks the pure truth rather than other clans that lie.

By VEPHYSAURAS on 24/03/2009

Its really interesting since I was there for most of that. Feels difference when its more abstract I guess.

By Tmal34 on 24/03/2009

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 06:29 pm)

QUOTE (Gorgemaster @ March 23, 2009 09:55 pm)

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm)

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Everyone else was good??
Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger...
But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!!

Dale was still cool back then. But yes you are right about DZ + JC!

Wow dude, SMD.

By Abmanju on 24/03/2009

Lol Elias, bias indeed xD, but can't blame ya, it's a good summary of what happened over those good & bad times, good work# *Claps*

I remembered a few instances while reading it, like it happened yesterday.

~Abs

By George on 24/03/2009

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 11:29 pm)

QUOTE (Gorgemaster @ March 23, 2009 09:55 pm)

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm)

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Everyone else was good??
Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger...
But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!!

Dale was still cool back then. But yes you are right about DZ + JC!

Dale was never cool.
He always took the piss out of me, bullied me... council would never listen and neither would the members because they all worshipped him as a God.
He made me life hell, him leaving was fun.

By Pazenon on 24/03/2009

Good work, doesn't feel that long ago to me lol.

By rachellove9 on 24/03/2009

QUOTE (Gorgemaster @ March 24, 2009 01:46 pm)

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 11:29 pm)

QUOTE (Gorgemaster @ March 23, 2009 09:55 pm)

QUOTE (Darkzero101 @ March 23, 2009 08:54 pm)

QUOTE (Tmal34 @ March 23, 2009 05:02 pm)

You didn't mention the epic fail of a council in summer 2008.

ROBERTW56
DARKZERO101
DALEJAMESW
THEEVILDEAD2
TMAL34

The only fail of that council were you and Rob. Everyone else was good!

Everyone else was good??
Dale is the biggest fgt this clan has ever seen.... him and Mugger...
But yah- DZ + Evil F T W !!!

Dale was still cool back then. But yes you are right about DZ + JC!

Somehow I can relate to you saying this about Dale. I saw it many times in IRC.

Muggers was always at me in a very similar way and disliked me. I struggled to get along with him and only you know some of that from the stuff I showed you. That signature was from months of forum pm and IRC pm fights I had with him about other clan members. I was truly sorry I brought it to the attention of the clan with the signature. But I never changed my view on his bias leadership style. I got in so much trouble and my friends turned on me over it, but where are those same people now?

You didn't mention that you got rid of the sectors. I think that was a key factor in some of the fighting between members. It was also why Robert ended up leaving from warlord imo. He didn't like the skillers at the time.

Not to include in the history but things that came to mind were:

1. Simons return and leaving yet again from the clan.
2. William and Rick Hamm having it out on the forum when William attacked me.
3. My two best friends Vephyrus and Dieyou joining the clan with me.
4. Stevepants and Lacy breaking up after she tells us her story of who she is.
5. Glenn becomes the most loved leader of all time more than Dale. <33
(He can't even come close to how the clan feels about Glenn. IMO)
6. I believe Muggers planned on getting rid of Rick Hamm and can't proove it yet.
7. I thought about all the times I wanted to quit but your all my family.

By Mmangler on 24/03/2009

It is said and correctly so that the victors write history. I found this to be an interesting read and when I have some more time I will read the history before 2008. I seem to have joined WG at an interesting time.

By Sirxxxsml94 on 11/05/2009

O_o wtf I posted? Lagg.

By Olivier1o1 on 11/05/2009

I love PvP. My favorite thing to do in runescape.

By Back to Own on 11/05/2009

FGTS

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