Hi all, so here's where we're at and apologies for taking longer than we anticipated to inform everyone:

The survey was very handy, thanks to all that contributed. Lets go through some of the key results and what changes come from them.

First off, the majority of people said they wanted to raid 3 times a week.
http://img.duffry.com/Number%20of%20raids.png

This is in line with the comments made in the thread that started the conversation but the vast majority of people signing up for raids have averaged between 3.5 and 4 signings as available for the last two expansions.

However, since there is a reduction in the total number of signings on any given raid, then culling one raid from the roster does reduce the options for people and concentrates signups of those that remain. This is a reduction in the flexibility of the guild and so if the number of signings per raid rise again the it will probably be worth reinstating a 4 day raid week. Thus allowing those that want to raid 3 days to choose which one to drop.

So that begs the question, which day to drop?
There's a fairly linear drop off in the number of people who said they are 'Always' available to raid per day. Sunday comes in last of the current days listed.
http://img.duffry.com/RankedAlwaysAvailable.png

In the end the decision was made to drop Sunday because it was the least favourable day and historically the most likely to be cancelled due to sign offs.
The new raid schedule will be Wednesday, Friday and Tuesday

We also wanted to look at raid start/finish times and generally the overall duration. The data for this was fairly hard to illustrate but here's a series of charts that with a little fuzzing of the eyes shows what's going on (or you could click on them to see a larger version). Pale green means people would start earlier or finish later. Grey indicates starting later or finishing earlier. Those that answered "Whatever" Duff marked to the end of the scale.


Generally, there was a mix of people that want to finish earlier and while there are some that want to start earlier too there are more that do not. It was felt that an earlier start would exclude people completely at times (unable to get back from work, kiss kids etc.) We also felt that as we have dropped a day, reducing raid times in addition to that was just too much of a loss. 
As such the raid start and end times shall remain the same 2100 to 0000 ST

The Officer Team discussed and analysed this data and we also had to take into consideration that the current way we raid just wasn't working for alot of raiders anymore. We felt collectively that this was the fairest change to implement for everyone.

Raid Ninja will be updated at some point over the next couple of weeks in readiness for sign ups for ToS.

Edit-duff: fixed image formats

Last edited by duffry (2017-05-21 00:17:34)