2023 Budget and Fees Revision

2023 Budget and Fees Revision

Dear Club Members,

The Board was called into an Emergency Meeting on January 3rd, 2023. The purpose of this meeting was to address the feedback, comments, concerns, and discourse about the increase in dues and ticket prices after the December budget meeting; the minutes of that meeting can be read here.

Our community has not been shy about voicing their concerns and opinions, it never has been. We have felt the last few months that we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. One side are the rising costs of running the club and making sure our game is fun, safe, and flourishing. On the other we have ensuring the game is accessible to people and costs are not prohibitive.

The club has been aware of the need to raise our dues and event fees for a long time, the conversation coming up many times over the last few years. It has, however, been made perfectly clear that people were shocked by the amount of increase regardless of their understanding of the necessity. 

On behalf of myself and the Board, I would like to sincerely apologize for the sudden bucket of cold water that was seemingly dropped on peoples heads. Money is a particularly sensitive and key issue, one that needs to be treated with grace and dignity, especially in the current state of the universe. 

We have been working hard finding ways to bridge the gap between rising costs and accessibility. During this meeting, it was proposed and passed that we utilize a tiered ticket system. 

Effective January 3rd, 2023 the price for dues, event fees, and season passes are as follows:

Dues

  • Probationary Membership - $30

    • Members with less than 2 years of membership

    • Returning Inactive Members who have not been an active member in at least 3 years

  • Veteran Membership - $40

    • At least 2 years consecutive membership

Event Tickets

  • LARP Contributor (A)

    • Regular Event: $35

    • T1 Season Pass: $315

    • T2 Season Pass: $415

    • This ticket comes with a 4 hour NPC shift requirement which will be awarded with NPC XP.

    • Ticket holders may complete an optional extra 2 hours of NPC time to get the full NPC XP.

    • Shift time agreements can be made with the Game Master Staff

    • Basic event XP is awarded with a valid sign-out.

  • Key Contributor (B)

    • Regular Event: $45

    • T1 Season Pass: $405

    • T2 Season Pass: $505

    • This ticket comes with no NPC shift requirements.

    • Ticket holders may complete optional NPC time to get NPC XP.

    • Basic event XP is awarded with a valid sign-out.

  • Sustaining Contributor (C)

    • Regular Event: $60

    • T1 Season Pass: $540

    • T2 Season Pass: $640

    • This ticket comes with no NPC shift requirements.

    • Full event and max NPC XP is awarded with a valid sign-out.

  • Role Play Only Event (RPOE) - $25 per event

  • Day Pass  - $20

    • A single day ticket to attend one day of a regular event, this is not limited to any specific day of the event. Role Play Only Events do not count as a standard event and are not included in this ticket.

You can read more about each ticket and event costs here.

We deeply appreciate all those who reached out to us to offer solutions. 

Things may not yet be ideal, but so long as we continue to work together and create constructive solutions we might get pretty darn close. 

Have a happy new year,
-Aaron
Secretary 

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