Guild Wars 2

My colleague and I were having a discussion earlier this evening, about various topics, when I stumbled upon the thought of guild airships. I know all you bookahs want guild halls, but here me out. Would it not be more efficient for guilds to have giant, customizable airships to hold for meetings, events and/or even fast travel to other zones? I hope those of you that can read concur with my assessment that an airship base would be far more superior than a lame old fortress, stuck on the ground.

I know our GM wants an airship guild hall more than any other kind of guild housing.

+1, Must haveee
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Totally agree on that subject.
And moving it foward to a GvG concept, air battle, housing at least 2 ships , each ship must defend and destroy guildvessel core held at base, ship could be upgraded on a similar fashion to WvW upgrades:
-increase crew size
-increase core hp
-upgrade turrets/siege
- crew morale boons
etc

Could also put new achievements / bonus events
- Destroy opponent’s firepower
- Hold the deck

Very easy and short answer. The concept is awesome, but no.
I think that Anet should be ashamed off not having guildhalls. They should have been implemented one year ago. To make it up they should in my personal opinion do this as soon as possible. I think it would be easy to use an existing instance (e.g. home instances) for this purpose.

1: The Technique exist. GW2 is build on a heavy modified gw1 engine. You can’t tell me they modified it so far that the possibility for guildhalls is gone. So using an existing skin means this can be done in 2 weeks time.
2: What bout representing? If this is an issue give every member access. but lock the merchants inside (just like it is right now with certain merchants like the banker)

So I like this, but they should first just bring us the halls asap.

A guild airship would be great for PvE. Say you want to move everyone to one zone without getting separated into different overflows; get into your guild airship and your guild leader simply takes you all to that zone en-sync.

mercury ranique.2170:

Very easy and short answer. The concept is awesome, but no.
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1: The Technique exist. GW2 is build on a heavy modified gw1 engine. You can’t tell me they modified it so far that the possibility for guildhalls is gone. So using an existing skin means this can be done in 2 weeks time.

How do you know that something of such magnitude could be accomplished, and be as intuitive as the developers want, in such a short period of time? What concrete statistics do you have to base this assumption upon?

mercury ranique.2170:

2: What bout representing? If this is an issue give every member access. but lock the merchants inside (just like it is right now with certain merchants like the banker)

So I like this, but they should first just bring us the halls asap.

Having both (guild halls and guild airships) would be unnecessarily redundant, in my opinion.

I think it’s a great concept as is, and I hope to see it.

Vertuno.3465:

Totally agree on that subject.
And moving it foward to a GvG concept, air battle, housing at least 2 ships , each ship must defend and destroy guildvessel core held at base, ship could be upgraded on a similar fashion to WvW upgrades:
-increase crew size
-increase core hp
-upgrade turrets/siege
- crew morale boons
etc

Could also put new achievements / bonus events
- Destroy opponent’s firepower
- Hold the deck

Was thinking about this few month ago, would be so epic to see that. On the other hand a castle would be cool, too. With siege weapons etc.

No matter what I want GvG

i wold love to have a choice to pick one or the other, a air ship or a fort on a flying island with engines, that wold be epic, to be able to pick one of them, and then customize the looks of it, but if there was only one choice to be made, i wold go with a air ship. but i want to have a choice, and by picking one, there is no turning back.