Guild Wars 2

Lack of a better term, so you’re have to excuse the play on GW1 vocabulary.

Anyway, what I’m finding with guilds, is that they are all big, and all have a lot of active members, but only about 15-20% of the members of any guild are representing. That doesn’t really help find groups to do things unless you send the other 80% whispers.

So, what I’m thinking about, is a special chat channel that will announce something to all of the members of all of the guilds you are a part of, whether they are representing or not. Would make finding groups infinitely easier, or whatever else.

Maybe only allow certain ranks of guild members to use it, so that not everyone is spamming it all the time.

I was also thinking on the lines of this.

1. Considering your idea – Broadcasting
I don’t think it’s reasonable for anyone who is not representing but are in one of your guilds to receive this ‘broadcast’. It may be the case where they don’t really want to deal with that guild and stopped representing for a break.

I don’t think it should be a separate chat channel but built within the chat. Such that you have an option to toggle it on and off. E.g what you can do to emotes and combat stats. So if someone is spamming then you can just turn it off. Or alternatively, have a ‘block broadcaster temporary’ option by right-clicking their name.

2. An alternative idea – Listening
This would be to have an option to open guild chat from all the guilds you belong to. So that you can hear everything from all four guilds for example. This can be switched on and off or automatically turned on when you switch your status to ‘LFG’. This way it’s like being in all four guilds at the same time.

“How do you who’s talking from which guild?” – When you have this “Listening” function on, whenever anyone from the guilds you a representing speaks, they have their guild tag appended to their name, so you know exactly who’s speaking. If too many guilds are speaking and it confuses you, you can filter which guilds to “listen” to.

HOWEVER, you can only represent a single guild AND you can only speak to the guild you are representing. This way, if you have conversations with a guildie who wants to party up, it won’t look like half a conversation to other guilds you aren’t representing. So pming that person would be ideal or changing your representation.

3. A mix of both the two ideas above.
People can broadcast as mentioned above.
People can listen as mentioned above.
Whenever a guildie sets themselves to “LFG”, they can also see any broadcasting from any of the guild they are belong to regardless to who they are representing.

4. They should bring back alliances and alliance chat

Culwenimos.1594:

I was also thinking on the lines of this.

1. Considering your idea – Broadcasting
I don’t think it’s reasonable for anyone who is not representing but are in one of your guilds to receive this ‘broadcast’. It may be the case where they don’t really want to deal with that guild and stopped representing for a break.

Then what’s the point?

If someone joins a guild, then that is their prerogative. Members of a guild are part of a guild. If they “don’t want to hear it”, then leave the guild, or turn off Guild Broadcast (or whatever). The whole being part of multiple guilds but not really part of guilds thing is kind of dumb.

I was excited about the whole being part of multiple guilds thing. But it turns out, all it does is artificially inflate roster size, as 80% of guild members have nothing to do with your guild despite being active.

Actually, yeh they could just turn it off.

I think multiple guilds is still good for the guild member as they can represent a guild that has more people online. And plus they can join specific orientated guilds joining a) a guild that has all their old friends in, b) a dungeon-specialist guild c) pvp specialist d) wvw specialist guild.

I’d rather have this system than the last one even if it does inflate roster size. It just needs a better way of communication.

Culwenimos.1594:

I think multiple guilds is still good for the guild member as they can represent a guild that has more people online. And plus they can join specific orientated guilds joining a) a guild that has all their old friends in, b) a dungeon-specialist guild c) pvp specialist d) wvw specialist guild.

But being part of multiple guilds doesn’t really work out that well.

I was part of a guild with IRL friends (before they all quit playing). If I joined another guild, and represented that guild to find people for a dungeon or whatnot, I’d miss everything that my IRL friends were talking about in guild chat. I guess I could just represent, do some LFG spam, then go back to my friend’s guild…but then if everyone was doing that, nobody would be there to see the LFG spam.

Yes, it is good in concept, but kind of flawed in implementation. If you aren’t representing a guild, you may as well not be in that guild as your name on the roster spot is irrelevant to both you and the people in that guild. Some way of communicating with people not representing is the most obvious way of getting past that barrier.

I’m just tossing my idea into the hat, as I think it would address the main issue (finding groups) without filling your screen with clutter from showing guild chat from all guilds. The main point of guilds is to do stuff together anyway, and you can do that while representing or not. If you don’t want to do stuff with a guild, why are you part of it anyway?

I do admit there would likely need to be restrictions for it though.

Something like one message every minute or something to keep people from “chatting” in it. As well as possibly a permissions thing within the guild, so that if someone has a tendency to spam it, the guild leader can just take away their rights (or not give it to everyone in the guild to being with).