Claiming/Challenging for Packs
1. When challenging for a pack, characters must meet the minimum requirements of 400 gems and 100 posts in total and be at least 1 year old. They must have existed on the site for at least the last two months without being set inactive, and have posted at least 20 times in the last month, spread out over the entire month in a pattern of five posts per week. Like alpha activity requirements in general, some leeway will be given for weeks where the requirement was not met, but you MUST make up the difference in other weeks to come to the proper total at the end of the month prior to the claim or challenge. Please be prepared to show proof of this when challenging, claiming, or creating a pack.
2. When claiming a disbanded pack, characters must meet the minimum requirements of 400 gems and 100 posts in total and be at least 1 year old. They must have existed on the site for at least the last two months without being set inactive. There is no prior post activity requirement for claiming an abandoned pack.
3. The purchase for the challenge/claim must be posted in the Gemstone store before the challenge/claim will be valid.
4. Challenging for or claiming a pack with the intention of passing it to a character who does not meet the minimum requirements is not allowed and will be grounds for immediately invalidating the claim or challenge. The alpha must remain primary alpha and the pack must remain in their possession for at least 2 ooc months before the pack may be passed to another character, regardless of whether that occurs through IC interactions or through failing activity checks.
5. Characters challenging for, claiming, or creating a pack must not already be members of another pack - if they are, they must receive permission to leave the pack before they can post a challenge/claim.
6. Whether challenging for or claiming a pack, the new pack information must be edited into the pack’s thread within 1 OOC week of the official changeover or the pack will be dissolved and put back up for claim.
7. Please see the guidebook page Fight Types for for more specific rules about Pack Challenges and Pack Claims.