NitF!25/Attendance

Nitf!-25man Attendance Summary

RAIDING ATTENDANCE PERCENTAGE

Not in the Face! will be incorporating the R.A.P.™ or Raiding Attendance Percentage™ system to encourage attendance and to manage the choices for those that are requested to standby for the evening. The purpose of this system is to maximize our efficiency by encouraging regular attendance but also to allow for people to miss occasional days without seriously hampering the progress of the raid. It also eliminates the differentiation of 'main' and 'fill-in' members. All members on the roster are on 'mains'.

Everyone in the raid will have their own percentage of raid attendance based off of the amount of days they were eligible to raid. These percentages are viewable above. At this time there are no benefits to maintaining a high percentage other than the prestige associated with being a dedicated member of the raid. The system is also unique in that it allows for flexibility in rewarding those that are placed on standby as well as penalize those who cancel last minute, creating a strain on finding replacements 10 minutes before raid time.

Standby Status

Standbys will be determined on a day by day basis. If it is determined that as a result of an overfull roster, officers may relegate certain individuals to be placed on standby status. It is fully expected that those who are placed on standby, are available to be contacted by the raid leader in the event that the person is needed to fill in. If the standby is not able to fill in when called, it will count as a day missed. Whether or not the standby is called in, they will receive credit for not only the day raided, but an extra day as compensation, thereby earning a day and a improving their Raiding Attendance Percentage™ as a result. This also applies to those that choose to voluntarily sit out due to an overfull roster for the day. Please note that standbys are only standbys for the day, not the lockout period. Meaning that if you miss day 1, attendance standards are expected for day 2.

If no suitable volunteers wish to standby then the officers will relegate individuals to standby status by order of attendance percentage, first considering those with the lowest Raiding Attendance Percentage™. This decision may be mitigated by the current needs of the raid for the evening and is subject to officer discretion.

Declines

We all have lives outside of raid time. This is something that NitF! has always encouraged by capping our raid days to 2 nights a week. As such it is acceptable to decline for raids due to personal reasons from time to time. Days missed count as such. A day missed. Notice is always preffered and those that decline with less than 24 hours to raid start will be penalized as if they had missed 2 days of raid. This may sounds harsh at first but easily nullifiable by being placed on standby for a night.

Summary

So in conclusion percentage points function as follows:

Attended - 1 Day Credit
Standby - 2 Days Credit
Standby and absent if called - 1 Day Debit
Declined - 1 Day Debit
Declined within 24 hours of Raid - 2 Days Debit

All of these changes are new but I hope you find them to be the fairest way to reward attendance and minimize the impact that poor attendance has on the progression and efficiency of the raid as a whole. This system serves to maximize the experience of those that attend with rewards of successful raiding by maintaining a steady and regular roster.