Guild Wars 2

I’m in a max lvl guild. Our guild hall is in Lost precipice. I usually only go there to get the synthesizers. IMO it looks like an abandoned ruined city that the guild has moved in on… like refugees or nomads; not very cool.

We had a scavenger hunt in there recently and I realised a couple of things:
1: The GH is huge
2: The guild has spent a ton of resources there
3: It will always look abandoned and in ruins, regardless of the amount of resources that a guild invests in it.

I think it would be nice if we could turn the Guild Hall into an actual home for the guild.

1.Let us hire NPC workers/contractors to rebuild it properly and to our specifications.
2.Set-up player housing there. Plenty of space, the players who want housing could easily hire NPCs to build them there and then furnish it to their liking. Along with a garden and a picket fence of course. The housing placement could be under the control of a guild leader/manager, both to keep the housing orderly and so you can be neighbours with a buddy if you like <3.

Benefits to Anet:
The economy
1: New market for different types of stone: granite, marble etc. All of which could be mined and sold. Guild halls are already a massive gold sink. I can’t imagine any price being too high for a highly customized and unique guild hall with the feeling of home.

2. Gem store.
Although I think it would be critical to be able to furnish your house through in-game activities. Fancy gem store items would be a welcome addition also: a Jacuzzi perhaps ^^.

Anyway just a thought I felt like sharing.

Edit: In response to guild hall housing concerns: maybe an option to ‘move house’. By which I mean you could have your house in only one guild hall at a time but you would have the ability to switch it between guilds. It would have to be given the green light for placement by the alt guild managers though. That way if you leave a guild for any reason, you would have the ability to take your house with you in a manner of speaking.
While this would not be the perfect solution, it might work in a lot of cases.

It would be pretty fun if you could make a jacuzzi or lounge area where everyone switched to swimsuits like at Southsun. Also, if I could get more comfy furniture and a bed (or craft them) then I would totally buy PJs through the gemstore so I could laze around in there.

Yeah but think about how much you invested in your house only to be kicked/leaving a guild. That would suck.

Fremtid.3528:

Yeah but think about how much you invested in your house only to be kicked/leaving a guild. That would suck.

It happens, of course. I don’t think that’s a reason to stop adding to our ability to upgrade the hall.

Fremtid.3528:

Yeah but think about how much you invested in your house only to be kicked/leaving a guild. That would suck.

That’s the major issue with having the housing in the guild halls. I have no easy answer but maybe an option to ‘move house’. By which I mean you could have your house in only one guild hall at a time but you would have the ability to switch it between guilds. It would have to be given the green light for placement by the alt gild managers though. That way if you leave a guild for any reason, you would have the ability to take your house with you in a manner of speaking.

While this would not be the perfect solution, it might work in alot of cases.

Seems like housing would better fit in the home instances. You never get kicked out of there, so you would always have access.

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

Fremtid.3528:

Yeah but think about how much you invested in your house only to be kicked/leaving a guild. That would suck.

It happens, of course. I don’t think that’s a reason to stop adding to our ability to upgrade the hall.

I didn’t say we shouldn’t be able to upgrade the hall I only offered the opinion that private housing may not be the method in which we get to. I’m sure there are a plethora of buildings anet can come up with in which to add to the guild hall that doesn’t come with people leaving the game because they lost of a ton of cash (ingame or rl) when they invested in a guild house that they lost when a guild leader went on a fit and kicked everyone or some other circumstance. The thing is, no matter how close you think you are with your guild kitten happens and guilds drift apart, they die, and they break. How about building a nice expensive guild house in a guild where the leader gets huffy quits the game and deletes the guild? That wouldn’t hurt. And has never happened at all right?