I hope that people read this in its entirety I believe that these ideas would greatly help guilds and the people inside of them. This could change a lot of the perception of guilds as they stand now. I think these ideas may bring a sense of community to guilds that we have not seen in this game yet.
1)Last Represented – When ever a player has logged into the game and was represented your guild take a date stamp. I know I have seen people throwing around a last logged in date stamp but I would like to know that and when the last time they represented your guild
2)Influence earned – keeping track the amount of influence earned by player would be an easy way to find out how vested someone is into your guild. This would be way more beneficial to use over knowing what crafting level they are.
3)Guild MOTD – Have a place where guild leaders can make a message that will be automatically sent to people when they log on. Some people forget to check. The message would be from the guild that they last were representing before they logged off.
4)Mass messaging – Have a way to send out a message to all players in the guild no matter if they are representing or not. It takes to much time to whisper people to tell them information that they may want to know. This should only be sent to players that are online at the time the message was sent.
5)Guild Alliances – Time to face that guilds are growing bigger than planned and they need an easier way to communicate we need either a way to increase the guild size way larger than 500 or make a way for associated guilds to pass information to each other through chat. Having to tell a member in your associated guild to pass the info to their guild mates is redundant.
6)Auto Ranking System – Keep in mind the guild leader has the ability to control what each rank has access to. You set parameters around ranks like consecutive days representing your guild, total influenced earned, and I would like to be able to tie in achievement points as well. We could track dungeon runs, World Boss Kills, and WvW captures ect. If people hit the criteria for the new rank let the system automatically do it for them. This would give people a sense of guild progression and something to work toward.
7) Viewable Guild Ranks – Read before you jump to conclusions
We all see guild members in orange now how about take that a step further and make it so we can see what rank they are above their head as well. Keep in mind you would only see this if you are in the same guild. The icon that the guild leader assigns the rank make it show up next to their name. Similar to the emblem that people get when they get 100% world completion.
8)Long Term Guild Missions – Make guild missions where your guild gets a very nice reward for completing it. This would inspire guilds to do more things with each other. For example have two separate long term missions one for PvE and another for WvW. An example of a PvE would be kill “X” amount of a particular monster, Do “X” amount of dungeon runs from a Particular Dungeon, or Kill “X” amount of world bosses. In WvW you could have Kill “X” amount of Dolyaks, capture “X” amount of camps, Have “X” amount of people finish the Sanctum. Make the rewards great so guild will set aside times to get these things done! obviously the more people you can get together the faster these things would get done.
9) Guild Levels – Have guilds rank up via influence and merits. Ranks do nothing but enable the guild to unlock new cosmetic items that they can provide to their guild members.
10)Make Earning Influence Worth something to the player – If they add this along with guild levels you could take the influence that you have earned with that guild and buy cosmetic items from the guild. This would make players want to be more proactive and out doing things rather than chatting in LA.
Thanks for Reading please comment let me know if I’m going crazy!
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