Ok i'm in the mood and i'll have a chit chat with you about this.
1.) I changed my mind about the Epic, i didn't like them form the begining just cuz they were a sub guild of TheEmpire. They changed my opinion of them and i can say that your words about them have a lot to do with that.
2.) I don't know how your guild stands now but i'm on the Venice server since 0 day (day one) and my guild too. And here you go, here is where you say you kicked some of the botters in the guild, i was refering on that in my earlier post.
We have kicked a few botters
If you don't beleive me just check up under your recruitment your second post has this line in it

3.) Again i don't know how long are you playing on Venice but i know theEmpire. When i joined the server i was in the dh in 3 days time(lvl 22). Non of the previous empire members weren't anywhere to be seen, and then form no where there is a guild theEmpire with half a guild 4x players allmost all in hotan, if you don't beleive me that they had botters check for the ban list, there are a few members which were banned. Here you go, a few of them:
[Venice]
blocked forever - CrazyCAt / 1mp / IceGoddes / CrazyRaider / arabiansoul / SpecialGUY / Vinney
Not sure about CrazyCAt but i think he was there to, correct me if i'm wrong.
Anyway there is more but i was too lazy to search for it. Said enough
About the Art_of_War, i'm not gonna trash much about them cuz i don't wanna have _SunTzu_ on my ass again and we are friends, but today a guy joined my guild and the first question he asked is: do you have any problems with the AoW, they are bullys

and here is another link you can read a bit. Oh and what do you know, he was in the Epic guild but got kicked cuz he was a low lvl

well he's 50 now.
http://www.silkroadforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=10881
And yea i had a few problems with them, but long time ago they were in my union.
4.) I didn't say your message was about recruiting strong guilds, what i ment is that legit guilds are searching for some high lvl guilds to protect them, i know cuz i tryed myself

. I didn't meant Epic with this, i was aiming on lower lvl guilds. Epic is indeed strong guild now.
5.) Last but not least

you can't say that your union is not all about high lvls guild recruitment. After 1 and a half month away from sro i came online to start playing again, and first thing i did was recruiting, suntzu msged me, saying hi and bla bla bla

he told me that he's in a union with you guys and the Empire, he said something that he is leading bot guilds AoW and the Empire, dunno how, and i wasn't interested in that. Well 2 days later we were talkin about something and i was interested what were the preferences to join your union, i was curious. First thing he asked me was how many players over 55++ , well i only have one korrey, now 61 me myself, i'm now 52, so my answer was 1, well i guess you know what was his answer, than he said that i should just join my high lvls to his guild, cuz everything is allready made, we know who's the strongest and the biggest etc etc..., i really don't like being in a union with that kinda of a thinking, i'm all that and you should be kissing my feat

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Well i think i proved my words, don't you?

Again i don' have anything against you or Epic, your ok guy and so is the guild your in, but Epic is the Empires subguild, TheEmpire is on bad reputation. I said it once and i'll say it again i would never say something without proves, you have them everything i said was true, but things can change on better i hope.
And i do like your idea, and if it will work you have my support.
(sorry buth my spelling, i'm a bit tired allready)
Cya in game.