DO THIS FIRST: ORIENTATION FOR GOLDEN FRIENDS /BOOT CAMP

DO THIS FIRST: ORIENTATION FOR GOLDEN FRIENDS /BOOT CAMP

▪  When your recruiter announces your arrival on the main group page & welcomes you by introducing you to your fellow group members, please feel free to comment below your recruiter by clicking “comment” directly under their comment…do NOT start a new post on the group wall.  We try to group all comments relative to the original post directly under that post.  In your comment, you may say how you found us or how we recruited you, what made you decide to join us.  Please give your Playdom ID name in your introduction so others will immediately recognize you.  After that, get busy working on your first assignment your recruiter gave you upon joining us.  General BetterNetter is serious about getting you thoroughly trained and graduated from Boot Camp & into our Golden Friends Group within 2 weeks!  (check back frequently to your commented post so you can see welcome comments that have been added by other group members, welcoming you.  This gives you a great feeling of “belonging”!!)

▪  EVERYTIME  you log onto play GoT, FIRST log in to Facebook and bring up Boot Camp or Golden Friends group page to check for current gold tournament info.  If there IS a current gold tourney, please come a.s.a.p. to play with the group.  If no gold that hour, bring up main group chat box , (Click on right side of your FB page our Group Name) Then click “chat with group”.  When finished viewing the regular group page, immediately click on GF Social Group Chat on the right side of your FB page.  Then also click “Chat with Group” to view our social chat box on the bottom of your FB page.  From there you can navigate wherever you want on FB while still staying connected to our group via the little chat boxes on the bottom of your FB page!

▪  Golden Friends Boot Camp has 2 group chat boxes as described above. The main Boot Camp group chat box is reserved for reporting guild checks at the top of every hour & for admin to set up the list of volunteers requesting to report for their guilds.  (as explained in detail in other document titled, “Gold And How We Find It”) The GF group chat room is also reserved for any questions you have for admin or problems that you need admin help with.  Please observe this courteous behavior & use the other social chat room for all other discussions.  Admins are always available for PM (Private messaging) if you ever have a problem with a particular person, personal computer problems OR issues with the game!  As part of your Boot Camp training, you will be required to participate in the hourly guild reporting so you are aware of it.  Please stop playing the game & report to the Boot Camp Main Group Chat box at 15 min before the hour for your guild assignments!  Once you graduate to our Golden Friends Group – guild reporting is optional but shows your team spirit & helps us stay united as a group.

▪   Our Social Chat box is just that!  It is a place where our members can get to know each other.  If chatting is your cup of tea, you will really enjoy our more colorful members of the group.  ANYONE is welcomed…there should be no “cliques” here.  Just like in real life, some people are more vocal chatting, and others more shy.  We have room for EVERYONE!  You are also free to PM (private message) those whom you really “hit it off” with, or want to discuss more delicate topics!

▪  Many of our members consider one of the 12 Zodiac guilds their “home” guild on Playdom.  Some consider Golden Friends their “home” guild.  No matter the case, here in this group we never vote which guild to visit to help win gold based on our personal “home” guilds.  We try to realistically look at the current scores in the gold tournament, watch guild feed chatter to see if an entire guild will jump to help one of the teams in a gold tourney & keep an eye on the forum posts for gold.  Once we have a good picture of the above, the admins will call for a group vote in the chat box.  We MUST stay united and jump as a group!  There have been rare cases of double gold tourneys, where admins have allowed a split jump, but that will be explained in another document.  Unity here creates our strength in numbers!!

▪  When playing the GoT game, try to always start your game playing by checking your messages on the game & send all your friends all the FREE gifts you can.  We hope that most of your friends either are fellow jumpers from our Golden Friends group or from your “home” guilds.  We really need to gift there the free gifts DAILY!  Most people are not doing this consistently & we can really support each other, strengthen our game playing, & help keep our energy up for tough gold tournament playing!  Try to get in the habit.  We recommend checking your friend’s list in the game frequently to maintain it.  If you need help doing this, please ask any admin.

▪  Please DO NOT asks for help from fellow Golden Friends or Boot Camp Members - when the tournament prize is NOT gold. We should not be affiliated with any one guild here, and asking other GF members to jump for a non-gold prize is not fair to them because if we have gold tourney right after they jump, they will be stuck in your guild & unable to jump for their gold. Many of our GF members only have one ID in GoT.  We must respect that.

▪  Please do not use the terms slaughter or slam-dunk. Let’s not glorify a loss or a win.

▪  There will be times when you face negativity, if you need to talk about this negativity don't name names…unless it's in a private conversation not on the group wall, group chat or social chat.
▪    We, as a group have a lot of power to change the direction a tournament takes. At least once a day as a team, we should help a guild, which is in 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th place on the leader board.  When this happens winning gold is not guaranteed, it just depends on how many of us are available at the time of the tourney to help sway the score our way.  If you don't win gold that round, we just take it all in stride & remember that we tried our best to do a good deed for a guild that rarely wins gold.  When we HAVE helped these teams win gold in the past, they are SO deeply thankful to us for our help that they voice their gratitude & welcome us back.  That feeling is just as good as earning gold!!!  :)