Guild Wars 2

Just throwing this out there, but it would be cool to have a type of Guild Scheduler for Guild Members who may have on and off work/school/gaming schedules.

As an example, I’m a contract worker and can sometimes be looking at a working schedule that would take me away from gaming for a couple of months at a time.

A “Guild Scheduler” of a sort would allow a member to list their current status of gaming frequency/availability. This would not only help guild leaders coordinate PvE/PvP/WvW Guild nights or events but would also act as a visual reminder that a member is temporarily too occupied in real life to contribute to the game and not just gone, never to return dur to work/exams/vacation/etc.

Ideally, there would be a field/calendar where they could list what dates they would be occupied for and possible or approximate dates of returning to the action.

Thoughts?

Eh, that could probably get cluttered really fast with lots of guildies, especially if it shows names. Perhaps it just gives totals for time periods? Something like if you look at Tuesday night for example, it says 30 people expected to be online.

Minor derailment here, but bear with me: Wouldn’t it be easier to have a calendar where members (with the req’d permissions ofc) can post a date/time for an event and people check off a box saying Will Attend/Maybe/Can’t Attend?

Either way, anything to help with coordinating guild events is a nice addition. There are still many (basic) features that have been asked for since day 1 and still received little attention, so don’t hold your breath.

I could see something like this… person with permissions send out an “invite” to everyone, kind of the way Microsoft Outlook does, each person Accept/decline. GL could set the reminders, up to 4 and how many people will be attending.

Example:
15 minutes until {event name} – 40 people attending.
1 hour until {event name} – 32 people attending.
4 hours until {event name} – 20 people attending.
8 hours until {event name} – 8 people attending.

All it takes is 1 line to show up so spam wouldn’t be too bad.

That would be much more streamlined for sure. I guess I was also just thinking about the potential of being kicked from a guild because too much time has gone by and guild leaders potentially thinking that you might have just stopped playing.

I suppose it could be easy enough to set a user defined status in your social tab that sticks even when you’re offline so that anybody on your friends list can see what’s up and what your expected date of return is.

The event invite is a good idea for organization (although, thanks to Facebook, I cringe inwardly at the thought…)

No breath being held, that’s for sure. Just wanted to throw it out there and hopefully the right eyes see it sometime.