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Re: Fun with Endgame! 
Remember to make your "late comer" policy complicated enough that you don't shaft people you actually need. For instance, there's a big difference between someone dragging their feet to come to something, and someone who logged on right after work to help out.
Last night, for instance, I logged 3 hrs into the Hakutaku run for my LS. Obviously, I'm some kind of horrible person here deserving of a kick from the ls. I've just spent 5 hrs in the sun dismantling stages/rigging downtown, then picked my 'rents up at the airport, spent 1/2 hr waiting on AAA to come help unlock my car door so I can drive them home, showered, and logged on. There were 3 runs left after I finally got there, and we were down to about 10-12 people at the time. However late I was, I was still needed and useful to the ls at this point. Did I ask first? You bet, I made sure they were doing more than one run and that they actually needed me there because it's about a 20 minute walk in, either way.
Never make your policies so simplistic that you shaft the people who come in late, because the way EGLS members like to leave early for the most BS of excuses, you need the late guys almost as much as you need the people you start with. Pro-rate points based on the time you were present, maybe give a bonus to people who can stay the entire run, whatever. But make sure that you don't try those "if you're more than 5 mins late you don't get anything" policies. These are the things that cause your longer farming events to be cut short due to lack of people. If you know you're going to be late, and all you get is a penalty or the shaft, most of us won't even bother to log on period.
My LS doesn't do points, and on SMN and WHM mains I need an Ohat like a lobotomy, the ability to join in and help/make fun of people was enough incentive to come. For others it might not be. Be careful that you don't set the standards for the LS too unreasonable.
Remember to make your "late comer" policy complicated enough that you don't shaft people you actually need. For instance, there's a big difference between someone dragging their feet to come to something, and someone who logged on right after work to help out.
Last night, for instance, I logged 3 hrs into the Hakutaku run for my LS. Obviously, I'm some kind of horrible person here deserving of a kick from the ls. I've just spent 5 hrs in the sun dismantling stages/rigging downtown, then picked my 'rents up at the airport, spent 1/2 hr waiting on AAA to come help unlock my car door so I can drive them home, showered, and logged on. There were 3 runs left after I finally got there, and we were down to about 10-12 people at the time. However late I was, I was still needed and useful to the ls at this point. Did I ask first? You bet, I made sure they were doing more than one run and that they actually needed me there because it's about a 20 minute walk in, either way.
Never make your policies so simplistic that you shaft the people who come in late, because the way EGLS members like to leave early for the most BS of excuses, you need the late guys almost as much as you need the people you start with. Pro-rate points based on the time you were present, maybe give a bonus to people who can stay the entire run, whatever. But make sure that you don't try those "if you're more than 5 mins late you don't get anything" policies. These are the things that cause your longer farming events to be cut short due to lack of people. If you know you're going to be late, and all you get is a penalty or the shaft, most of us won't even bother to log on period.
My LS doesn't do points, and on SMN and WHM mains I need an Ohat like a lobotomy, the ability to join in and help/make fun of people was enough incentive to come. For others it might not be. Be careful that you don't set the standards for the LS too unreasonable.
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