Stammkneipe is a an european Castle Clash guild. The guild was founded in February 2013. We do not claim to be the best guild with the strongest players but guild wars is our passion. Moreover we support advanced newcomers and run a Lava Island 3 Boot Camp. The leadership is represented in the networks iOS Leaders Top 300, iOS Blacklist and iOS Recruitment.

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Christmas and New Year is GW and FF. Nobody will be kicked for missing those wars or the war in the middle of the week (24.12.2016-01.01.2017).
That time of year is for family. Most of us worked really hard twice a week and we all deserve a rest. Let’s relax a bit and begin the new year well recovered!

PS: Just in case some one is wondering: boss will take place of course.

Dear members,
Some things will change:

1. Line: we create a new group called ‚Guild Info‘. In the past I experienced that many guild-news got lost for some members. Thus, in this group the guild admins only post the most important stuff and updates. If u like to share ur opinion use the comment function but please don’t write messages. Membership in any other line group is voluntary. If you don’t like a lot of line traffic, I don’t mind if you leave all these groups. just make sure that you check regularly the Info group. (invite soon)
2. Boss3: I would like to get rid of this heavy hitter rule as soon as possible. If you aren’t a heavy hitter yet, please let me know. I am sure we can make it happen within the next weeks as everyone has now a pumpkin duke, right?
3. Guild wars: the bad news is that the pairing system has changed with last update and that’s the reason why we lost the last wars. now it takes into account both former results and might. This forces us to get more tanky and to reach a higher and better participation ratio. Unfortunately it is nowadays impossible to compensate low-scorers compared to their might and especially 0 points hit us really, really hard. If you think it sounds like way too much pressure for a stupid mobile game, please contact me or Holland.

New Boss fight time: 12:30 SVT, except Fortress-Feud days (11:50 SVT)

New boss fight time: 12:30 server time (beginning from March 27, 2016)

Next boss 4: April 2, 2016

Dear Members,

GOOD NEWS
this update is because we reached a milestone in the history of Stammkneipe. The guild has now enough credits to upgrade to the final level X - mission accomplished. In numbers: 3 upgrades within 5 months, 328.500 shards donated, soon home for 75 clashers. Quite clear: The reason why we grew up that fast, is that we have so many active members. Thank you all for your amazing support. We will upgrade the guild as soon as we feel ready to carry 5 more members.

Due to the new guild event ‚guild wars‘ (gw) some things change now: Never again weekly donations, but participation in gw is a must.
 
AMENDMENT OF THE GUILD RULES
- Donations:

1. There is no duty of payment.
2. Voluntary donations shall not be higher than 100 shards per week.

- Guild wars:

1. Participation in guild wars is compulsory. Members shall attack 5 times and design their defence-base appropriately during a guild war.
2. Members who miss 3 out of 5 guild wars may be expelled from the guild.

REASONS
Guild War is the new blood in a clasher’s veins and victories are critical to the survival of a guild: 10% of the gw-results are added as credits to the guild account. As long as we win gws, we do not need any of your shards to provide you with daily boss and flags. Thus, please only donate to complete daily quests. Voluntary donations shall not be more than 100 shards per week.

To make it as easy as possible for you to attack 5 times successfully we will post in our Line group easy targets you can raid quickly within 24 hours even if u do not have a lot of time on those days. That is why we encourage all members to join the group. Further, we have put the most important recommendations on our website (see tipps and tricks).

Expulsion of inactive members doesn't make it fun for anyone. Especially when old companionships fall apart, it is very sad. Unfortunately it is the only way to ensure the success of this community, as IGG do not allow members to apply individually for the upcoming war. We would like to emphasize that this is the only way to protect the guild as a whole. Please remember that every inactive player harms the guild in two ways: First, pairing depends on the might, which means that inactive clashers make it much harder for the rest to win due to the higher might opponents. Second, if your base is not set for defence it makes it easier for our opponents to win.
NB: We will warn you via Line if you are in danger - another good reason to get this app and check messages from time to time.

[Excursus: compared to other guilds we are very tolerant: most guilds have nowadays rules such as: twice no attacks and/or no defense: member will be expelled; in case members miss one war: sanction in form of 300-3000 shards.]

If you are kicked please remember it is only due to your activity during gws. We will welcome you back if you can commit to doing gws.

Cheers,
Aque, Holland, Matty, Flix

• Slight adjustmend of boss fight rules: Heavy hitters may only start after 2:50 minutes (at 27:10) or when the boss has less than 60 million (59.999.999) Healthpoints left, whichever comes first.
• Participation in Guild Wars is compulsory now. This also concerns your defense.
• Tipps for Guild Wars added in Tipps and Tricks Section.

Dear Members of Stammkneipe,

First, one personal annotion: The vast majority of our guild members is very active, donates on time without any complaints, takes part in guild life and supports each other. Thus, your leader is very, very happy, proud and really would like to thank you, as it saves a lot of time and effort.

Second, we present herewith two additional boss fight rules, a slightly changed donation-system for your benefit, a little guild upgrade and some notes on guild wars.

Best regards,

Flix, aQuEtIas, Holland and Kazu

AMENDMENT OF THE BOSS FIGHT RULES
Rules:
Rules 1.-4. remain unchanged.
5. In case one member breaches the rules 1.-3. negligently or knowingly and this breach affects substantially the results of the other participants, a sanction may be imposed in form of a fine between 100 and 1.000 shards and in form of a ban on at least 1 boss fight depending on the gravity of the infringement.

6. Every first sunday of the month boss 4 is challenged without any rules or restrictions.

Reasons:
Due to many fails the past months, we sadly consider the new sanction rule 5 to be necessary. This shall encourage members to be more careful during the boss fight. The new rule applies from January 27, 2016.
It primarily addresses the risk group, namely those who are not ‚heavy hitters‘ yet but already quite powerful.
To avoid fails in future we highly recommend to ‚non-heavies’ who have a Pumpkin Duke and/or Cupid: If you do not know how much damage you do (e.g. since you even slightly changed your setup), leave the boss after one minute and calculate. Even small changes can have a huge impact such as different crests or different second talents.
Once again, to get the maximum of honor badges, you only need 35 mio damage.  
Keep in mind that too much damage at the wrong time affects not only all other heavy hitters but also the smaller accounts who have to share 60 mio HP of the boss. Negligence and as well as lack of knowledge are no excuse. If you want to experiment, use the second half of the boss and not the first half. We hope that the new rule will never has to be used as sanctions conflicts fun and we still consider conversation as the best way to solve problems.

Finally, rule 6 just fixes the not regulated practise of the last months.


DONATIONS
As many of you guys have donated in the past much more than required, we slightly change our donation system. From now on you can stack your voluntary surplus and use it later. The reason is, that it is much more flexible and rewards those who donate a lot. The new system applies already since some weeks - many of you already have a nice financial cushion (see last row of the table in members section).
Example: member x donates 600 the first week. He then can use the surplus of 400 whenever he wants in future, as he will only be charged 200 in this first week.


GUILD-UPGRADE
We upgraded Riches (Flag) to Level IV which grants now 25 per cent Mana and Gold bonus on the total amounts obtained during raids.


NOTES ON UPCOMING GUILD WARS

We will provide you with some sort of guild strategy as soon as possible.

Till then, some general info:

1. Guild wars run Thursday and Sunday server time, for 24hr each.
2. You get 5 tries, however as long as you don't reach 50% you can pull out and try again without losing a turn, just like hero expeditions.
3. Heroes that die in guild war offense are dead on your hero base and cannot be used in guild war until they revive.
4. Guilds are matched with other similarly ranked guilds by might. I suspect the top groups will be fiercely competitive.
5. Points are awarded based on the combined might (you+target).
6. You receive (1+guild bonus)×points×0.3 fame at the END of the war. For a beginner at 10k might,  this is about 100 fame + bonus per war,  while a 180k might player gets about 700+bonus.
7. All guild members have the same selection of enemies to attack. Hence we should share tactics.
8. Defense only really matters for high might players as these are the preferred targets.

Dear Members of Stammkneipe,

GOOD NEWS
Yesterday we upgraded our guild - once again. We are very proud and happy! Thanks to your generous support we could do it way earlier than originally planned. When we decided to upgrade we were hoping to do it at the end of this year. However, as most of you guys have donated much more than demanded, we achieved our goal in only 6 weeks! We should mention many of you by name, of course, but special thanks go to Eugene, Pussy and Kaine who lately contributed insane amounts. Due to the upgrade we not only can do now boss 4 but also decrease the weekly amount of donations.

GUILD SANCTIONS
Because of some boss fight fails during the last weeks followed by the claim of punishment and expulsion I would like to share one idea: Our guild does not have any kind of terms and conditions which determine fines or criteria for dismissal. On the one hand we are aware that other guilds have a system of sanctions, on the other hand we are convinced that the more rules we have the less a guild feels like an enjoyable community. However, be assured this does not mean that continuous misbehavior does not have any consequences. Those former members who were unwilling and disturbing trouble makers are not longer part of our guild. But I do hope you can understand that for those decisions a well balanced and individual evaluation of the circumstances, regular members might not know, is necessary. This process normally takes place behind the scenes but  we always take care of those challenges. Finally we really believe that dialog is the key and expulsion the ultimate ratio.

NEW GUILD-RULES
1. Boss fight
We will continue to do Boss 3 on a daily basis except Saturday, this will be our Boss 4 day. We do not have any strategy at the moment, which means that you are not bound to any rules so far. Let’s first see how we actually perform. As soon as we have enough information we will publish the new strategy on our website, of course.

2. Donations
We implement a new donation system. This system will also be related to your might as it already was. According to our calculation we only need 6.000 shards per week. The following system will apply from next Monday and is as low and as fair as possible at the moment. However this only works if everybody does his job. If it works, we even might decrease it again in 2016 by another 50 shards.

Members shall donate between Monday to Friday concerning their Might:

30.000 Might and more    200 shards per week
20.000-30.000 Might          150 shards per week
15.000-20.000 Might            50 shards per week
0-15.000 Might                        0 shards per week


We hope you all like this update!

Best regards

Flix, aQuEtIas, Holland and Kazu

Donations: The vast majority did a really great job with donations. Very special thanks are directed to kazuya-aoi, aQuEtlaS and holland2 who donated the most by far. We consider your amazing willigness to donate as a sign of agreement. Due to your support we soon will be able to upgrade the guild. However, we ask all the small accounts not to donate but to use their hard gathered shards for their heroes. We appreciate your readiness to help, but with regard to the guild ranking we think it is actually more important that your might rises.

New event: Every first sunday of the month the boss fight is without any rules or restrictions. Let's see who is the real Thor of our guild! reward: eternal glory. The first event will take place the 4.10.2015.

New logo: Furthermore we would like to thank kazuya-aoi for re-designing our guild logo.

Bossfight Results: Heavy hitters could try to reduce their damage on a voluntary basis, of course. Best would be that heavy hitters stay 3 minutes in fight. This would allow the weakest fighters to get more HB as the Boss fight would last more time. However this is a not a new rule, we already have more then enough of them.

Dear members of Stammkneipe,

as Apro and Canatchi, the former heads of our guild, are not active any more, the management has changed. The new leadership is conducted by Shrey (aQuEtlaS), Sander (Holland) and Felix (flixerus). We are not the fathers of this guild, this is Apro's and Cana's merit and we all still profit from this plant. However, our aim is to fill the gap of administration we have experienced over the last months and to face the challenges regular members might not really have noticed yet.

The main problem this guild has at the moment is the continous and rapid loss of shards. The reasons are various: Beside a bunsh of inactive members the general payment habit plays a crucial role as well. Nonetheless we need shards to upgrade the guild, to provide you with flags and to run the boss fight on a daily basis. Moreover we really would like to try the new boss - a really good reason to donate!
In other words: donation is not only meant for individual participation in boss fights. We have been experiencing that it is unfortunatly not sufficient that only the members fighting the boss donate 50 shards from time to time. If we all fail to get a surplus on shards, the guild will be bankrupt in a couple of months and we all have to find a new one. That is why we decided to change the donation system to make it more efficient, more flexible and more transparent for the good of all of us.

According to the calculation we made, every member has to pay 250 shards per week as long as the guild is that unstable. As soon as the new system functions well, we will reconsider the amount, as we don’t want to make unnecessary profit. Thus, financially weak accounts are free to donate only on a voluntary basis. We want you to grow as fast as possible.

The new donation rule applies the first time on Saturday the 26.09.2015 (see below). This should give you enough time to be prepared.

There is one important aspect we really would like to point out: We don't consider this guild as our property, but now we feel responsible to save the community as a whole. Kicking somebody is the last option we will only use if we are convinced that a member is unwilling to contribute but in the meantime profiting from the benefits of the guild. That is why we decided not to kick inactive members as long as we are not full - some of you demanded that in the past.

We do hope that you guys understand why we put such an effort in it, why we insist that much on donations and why we establish rules - our credo is still: the less rules we need the better.

Please support us. Let all of us help together, then we make it!

Second we have certain rules for the boss fight, as some of you already know (see below). Please read them carefully. It is decisive that everyone knows his role to get the best results for the group and for himself as well.

If you have any questions or ideas you would like to share feel free to contact us!