This does not mean you won’t see us RPing with other guilds on WRA side because it would be awesome to do some collaboration with cross-faction and even fellow Alliance faction guilds and I understand your problems with that but that is why the Scarlet Reclamation does exist on WRA despite the main guild being on Moon Guard. We have existed as a guild at 3/11/2013, and thus, as a still active guild of over a decade long, I think it makes the most sense that people trying to join us who are willing to not join a server-specific guild (although that criteria could be met) would likely have an more well-rounded time because of the couple hundred members we’ve accumulated vs. the handful that we have gotten over time on WRA and other servers.
This is not an attempt at poaching or member farming. In fact, I think this could really grow the WRA roleplay scene on Alliance in a healthy way. By having a potential outlet of a very structured guild with rich and deep history, I think it encourages people who have forsaken the RP scene on Alliance side and not show it some love.
We will not be in Stormwind like many other guilds wasting away the day on Moon Guard. Instead, we will be out in the world in the Northlands from the Tirisfal Glades to the Western and Eastern Plaguelands and beyond, and that is why I think the transition to a cross-server guild would be easy because the chances of us being spotted at the Scarlet Monastery if we’re on WRA RPing instead of MG or whichever home server we’d be phased on will likely equally be slim to none.
I do see your points, though, and so I wouldn’t say it is mandatory by any means that a person who wants to join would have to join MG over WRA if that is their home server. We have a very active Discord and so much depth and history we’ve created with our characters that we have our own Wikia page we call our home!
With the people I’ve spoken to about RPing with us even though our original home is on Moon Guard, they have said that they didn’t even know if WRA had organized Alliance RP that was worthwhile so I have seen firsthand where this idea of cross-server roleplay could really blossom into something awesome if we allow it to happen and give it time. It would be pretty cool to roleplay with other Scarlet guilds over on WRA or MG or ED or wherever out in the Azeroth server universe they’re found on I imagine.
And I don’t see the harm necessarily in the cross-faction RP scene like this.
So perhaps my perspective is a bit difference, but to explain why I think this will be a success, here’s a couple of examples with links: for example, the Sunreavers are actively seeking out folks from MG on WRA who are on a traditionally dead Horde side. To me personally, seeing Silvermoon City not get the love it deserves drives me wild but there’s nothing I can do about it on the Alliance side. They are a longtime Horde side guild operating for well over a decade like the Scarlet Reclamation. They’ve always called WRA a home but I don’t think to myself that they’re trying to poach Horde members from MG on a dry Hordeside. I instead feel bad for them, and I’m glad there’s a very foundationally solid guild that will transition the hard to find good writers that don’t get the love an active WRA Horde side would be able to give them.
In the same situation, the Blackwater Company on MG is doing the same cross-faction RP and even cross-server RP now and it is very warm and receptive. [N-RP xServer] <The Blackwater Company> Is Now Hiring! (MG post)
[N-RP | xServer] <The Blackwater Company> Is Now Hiring! (WRA post)
I’m not trying to justify my actions just to wrap this up in a way that makes sense by saying because someone dug their hand into the cookie jar, I am justified to do the same. Rather what I’m trying to say is that I wholeheartedly believe this is going to be a phenomenal experience for everyone involved in growing some great character plots and storylines together and I can’t change how you think or view something, nor am I trying to, but just to explain why my perspective is how it is about this and that I respect how you are trying to show some love to your home server WRA especially for the Alliance who needs plenty more of it!
It might be interesting if we reached out to each other as well as fellow Scarlet factions and tried to do some inter-Scarlet RP such as purging heathens out in the Plaguelands or Glades. When we do events over on y’alls server, we could come over to WRA and phase over and if y’all came to do events with us y’all could phase with us. Think it would be a pretty cool “project”, you might say, in trying to reach out to all the active Scarlet guilds around to make that happen! Just let me know how you feel about all of it.