(edited by Thobek.1730)
Guild calendar
I’m part of a large guild (~400 members) but I have the biggest trouble with trying to organize a 10 man raid party. What I suggest is a calendar in the guild tab.
If Anet is bored of designing new things then just take what World of Warcraft has. Its so easy…
Have a calendar, let a captain (or through permissions) make an event with a signup. If you want to improve on what WoW has, give people the chance to define their preferred role for the raid. More options. UTC timings….
Currently with a social guild we need to use a third party website for this, which is obviously not the best way because your introducing another step which is easily overlooked. The more you put in-game the better. I’m sorry but people are lazy and need instant reassurance, going to a third party website does not feel like part of the game on a causal level.
I would like to hear from guild leaders on how they normally do this for small parties or if a calendar is a good idea, OR what what be preferable?
How do you plan on putting together a satisfactory schedule with a ten slot inbox and heavy mail spam suppression? Just transient in-game chat channel? Wasn’t the point of this finding a time for everyone to be available and online at the same time? Find a time to have everyone online so you can schedule a time for everyone to be online to play together?
You’d probably use email or a persistent chat server like IRC, Discord, Slack or even Teamspeak. Why doesn’t GW2 have a persistent, searchable chat history? Why not VoIP?
Because other applications do it far better, that’s why. Those other applications sole goal is to provide those features, to refine them into the services we love.
If you want team-management features in-game, I suggest looking for or writing an Overwolf plugin. Then you can have it display a Google Calendar or something and ArenaNet doesn’t have to spend a decade reaching feature parity.