I’ve noticed now you can buy commendations (1k influence) for laurels as well as for gold and through the guild reward system. This makes me think anet intended to give small guilds other ways of getting influence to open missions. My question is has anyone tried helping a bigger guild on a mission to see if maybe the reward you get is some sort of commendation to help your guild build the influence to unlock them yourself? I personally run the game with a small group of friends and have not had the chance to check it out myself. If this isn’t the case maybe it is something for anet to look into implementing as it would make people more willing to help out while padding the currently ridiculous cost of researching missions for small guilds.