Surviving Surreal

Surviving Surreal
A Newcomer's Guide to Crazy Town!

Welcome

So you've joined Surreal? Welcome! We're so glad you've joined us! This practical guide will help you learn everything you need to know about Surreal.

Contents

1. Exploring Your New World
   
2. Activity Points
   
3. Ranking Up
   
4. Activity Policy
   
5. Rejoining Policy
   
6. Clan Celebrations
   
7. Newsletter
   
8. Contributing to the Clan
   

Exploring Your New World

This simple guide will help you find your way around Surreal's forums. 

First, we hope that you'll introduce yourself. Tell us about your likes and dislikes, your hobbies, your weird cat, or your extra leg! We like to know our new clan members and even our old ones! You can post an introduction here.

Click here to find our list of rules, clan expectations, and rank structure. You'll also find a link to our discord voice chat channel.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or complaints, please don't hesitate to reach out to the staff. We are a family here, and we will happily help you however we can.

@Downfall
@Lady Spyra
@JeliBelski
@Loric
@Neeson

You can check out a complete list of Surreal members here.

Activity Points

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Basic Information:

Activity points form the basis for our ranking system here in Surreal. Each month, we host a variety of events in skilling, combat, minigames, silly events, and competitions. There is something for everyone! No events are mandatory. Have a competitive streak? Join our next competition! Skilling not really your thing? Go for our combat events! We want everyone here to enjoy their time.

Here's an explanation of the different things you can do in Surreal that award activity points:

Events:

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An event that lasts a duration of under 30 minutes is worth 20 points
An event that lasts a duration of 30 minutes is worth 40 points (Except the capping event which is worth 20 points)
An event that lasts a duration of 45 minutes is worth 60 points.
PvM or Dungeoneering events usually are set to last a duration of one hour, so these events are worth 80 points.
If there's a full clan chat attendance, points get doubled!

You can find the current events in your HUB (top right) or in the event forum. Since we have members all over the world, we want to hold events at times people can attend. We want to cater to our members whenever possible, so please don't hesitate to speak up if you feel that you're missing out on a lot of events, or even if there's certain events you would like to see.

Skill Week Championship:

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Every other week we run a skilling competition (SWC for short). Any skill within Runescape could be the skill of the week (excluding invention). One week, a member vote determines the skill, and the next week, the Magic Hat of Doom chooses our skill randomly. A tracker records all of the XP you gain during the week and shows where you stand against other competitors.

Each competition runs from reset on Monday to the following Monday (Sunday night for American timezones). Shortly after a skill week ends, we'll post a new voting poll (if it's the week that members choose the skill). Whether the skill is chosen by members or the Magic Hat, we'll announce the skill four hours before the competition starts.

All active members that have gained activity points in the last 60 days are automatically enrolled; no signing up necessary!

If you enjoy challenging yourself, feel free to try to beat the SWC Records during the relevant SWC skill.

You can gain activity points in SWC in various ways! To find out how, and to read up on SWC in general, please click here.

Capping at the Citadel:

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Those who have public RuneMetrics profiles will be awarded 30 points for their Resource Cap Rewards. We have a system checking every hour for Resource Caps, and if you're eligible, you don't have to do anything! Your points should show up in the HUB shortly after the entry is found in RuneMetrics.

Please do note that you do not need to pay for RuneMetrics to have a public profile. Go to Account at the top right of RuneScape.com, and once you log in, you'll find your privacy settings at the bottom for RuneMetrics. This feature will not work without a public profile. If you don't want to put it on public, you will need to post the screenshot of your resource cap here every time you cap.

Forum Posting:

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You will receive 20 points for making 10 posts on the forum. This is unstackable; this means that you will need to be awarded points for your current 10 posts first in order for your next 10 posts to count towards another 20 points all over again. Post checks are run every 6 hours.

You can check the upper left side of your HUB for the progress bar:

Ranking Up

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Your HUB displays how many activity points you've gotten and how close you are to your next rank.

Thanks to a dedicated staff team and our clever forum software, you don't need to worry about your rank at all! Our automated system checks activity points once every 30 minutes; if you've reached the next rank, your forum rank will be updated. All staff members receive a message as well, so the next time a staff member is on, we'll update your clan chat rank to reflect your new status.

If you ever think there might be a problem with your activity points, please let a member of staff know--@Downfall or @Lady Spyra are the activity points pros.

Activity Policy

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It's pretty easy to remain in Surreal. Just gain any amount of activity points within a 90 day period (at all times). 

Going on vacation? Hit a busy time of life? We're all human, and we understand that sometimes real life gets in the way of Runescape. If you know you're going to be away for an extended period of time, please let us know in our absence forum so we can set you as inactive. It's very important to post your absences! Real life always takes priority.


Automatic purging happens to those who don't gain any activity points for 90 consecutive days -in addition to- no absence posted.

Members who are removed for inactivity are welcome to reapply as normal.

Rejoining Policy

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We welcome past members to return home to us, whether you leave or whether you have been removed for inactivity.

If you return within 30 days your activity points will start where they left off. If it has been more than 30 days, your activity points will be reset to 0 (excluding if an absence has been posted).

Click here to view the fully detailed post about rejoining Surreal.

Clan Celebrations

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Have you reached a cool accomplishment--200m xp, 99 or a skill pet--but not many people were online to celebrate with you? If your RuneMetrics log is set to 'public', it will appear in our Surreal Stream on the upper right side of our forums! Alternatively, you can post your accomplishment in our Surrealians In the News thread. 

Surreal Revealed: Newsletter

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Around the beginning of the month, the Surreal Staff provides a newsletter, Surreal Revealed, to let you know what's going on in the clan and what you can look forward to. You'll find it in the "most recent posts" on the side of the forums. In case you missed it, or you want to look at past issues, you can check them all out here.

Contributing to the Clan

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You don't have to be Staff to be an active contributor to the clan. Have a great idea? Reach out and tell us! We love hearing new ideas from clan members! Want to do some recruiting? You can do that too! Just be extremely mindful of who you're bringing into Surreal, and always remember, in any and all cases, quality over quantity.