Please can we have Guild Recruitment In-Game

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Posted by: Lady Elyssa.2469

Lady Elyssa.2469

I posted this suggestion over on reddit yesterday and seems the ideas were well received.

I think it is high time that guilds could advertise in-game without the need to spam chat channels or have to go off to 3rd party websites.

Here are some suggestions to be going on with:

  • Every City to have a Guild Recruitment Office where people could view guilds that are actively recruiting, see how many members they have, how old the guild is, which game modes they cover (PvE, sPvP, WvW, Raids, Dungeons, Fractals, RP, etc), timezone, language, along with a brief guild recruitment message, % rep, requirements and a little picture of the guild logo.
  • The Guild Recruitment office would also make it easier to contact guilds in-game based on external sources like the various guild recruitment channels that don’t require people to contact specific people in -game or to find out a guild is no longer recruiting and hadn’t removed or updated their post.
  • Guild Recruitment could be set to only be “active” for a set period, after which it would need to be reactivated. This would stop dead / inactive guilds blocking up the recruitment lists as well as assure people that a guild is genuinely active.
    When players look at Guild Recruitment they will also be able to choose which servers guilds to view (for easy switching to a guild on another server) in addition to being able to contact the guild with any further questions.
  • Guilds would have a access to a new Guild Recruiter NPC who would frequent their hall and allow guilds to toggle their recruitment status to active / inactive as well as provide a short recruitment message.
  • Guilds would also require their own mailbox (separate from regular in-game mails) to respond to member enquiries and to be able to accept or decline membership.
    The Guild Mailbox could also be used to send a message to everyone in the guild for Event Reminders, Policy changes, etc.
  • The Guild Mailbox would only be usable for those ranks with the correct privileges.
    Guilds could also have some form of reward badge added to their recruitment post if they have achieved specific goals (e.g. age of guild in years , server loyalty, pvp tournament winners, etc). Special award badges could also be given to guild efforts within the community. A couple of examples might be for the GW2 Community organisers, The Asura News Network, etc.
  • Add a report option for Guilds that might want to abuse this system.

Redditors added the following suggestions:

  • Concern with trolls / spam for guild applications, perhaps this could be limited to X guild applications per day per account, recommended 5.
  • Having a Guild Crier in the Cities and LA to help make new people aware of guild recruitment that could also “shout” some text from the currently recruiting guilds for that particular server.
  • Having a Guild Calendar for Guild Events.
  • Some were in favour of a dedicated recruitment channel, that can be toggled off as per the other chat channels but is automatically switched on for new players. For those repping a guild the recruitment tab would no longer be visible unless manually reselected or not repping.

It would be good to hear any other suggestions that that people might like to add.

(edited by Lady Elyssa.2469)

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Posted by: Zoltar MacRoth.7146

Zoltar MacRoth.7146

I’m very much in favour of anything that will cut down on the guild recruitment spam in chat. My suggestion is just putting a section in LFG for guilds, which seems less intrusive and easier to implement. Just my 2c.

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Posted by: Zephyra.4709

Zephyra.4709

I’m in favor of alternate methods of in-game recruiting.

I’m thinking of a layout somewhat like the BLTC; another key added to the bar of UI buttons up the too where you could possibly choose options similar to PvE or WvW guild… Size of guild you’re looking for, what server it’s on and active timezone etc.

Something to really buckle down on the hassle of finding the right guild seeing as forums could lead to outdated info as someone stated.

It would be nice to choose all the options you want, under reasonable circumstances and have an array of guilds show up entailing details when you click on them.

Other games probably already have this feature implements – it’s time gw2 should have a system in place as well to benefit the community and any new comers alike.

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Posted by: Torzini.1523

Torzini.1523

I very much support having the functionality for in-game guild advertisement without the need to spam map chat. In addition to making it easier/less spammy for guilds to recruit, it would also make it phenomenally easier for people (like recently me) to find guilds suiting their criteria without having to bugger off to places like google and Reddit.

I have seen this type of feature in many other MMOs, and I feel like it would be quite a nice QOL addition.

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Posted by: Griffin.5379

Griffin.5379

Depending on how much resources they ANet would invest in that, it could be anything from another tag in the “friends”/“loocking for groups”/… window where you simply can add a guild name and a short text for advertisment,
all the way to a full “profile” with text and numbers, banners, etc. whatever you want to publish

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Posted by: Shivan.9438

Shivan.9438

Guild Wars 1 had a great chat system, too bad they Anet won’t use anything from GW1 to make GW2 better.

GW1 had a tab for public, party, say, map and guild. Each channel could be unticked if you didn’t want to be bothered.

Simply add tabs for every channel and add a channel for guild recruitment. Alternatively, in World of Warcraft you could send a message to the GM of a guild who had his or her guild listed in the search for members. GM’s could set in a description what they offered and players could filter and search by keyword.

All of this could have been done in the beginning and easily done now with the mega-server system allowing people from different servers join the same guild.

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Posted by: Griffin.5379

Griffin.5379

Guild Wars 1 had a great chat system, too bad they Anet won’t use anything from GW1 to make GW2 better.

GW1 had a tab for public, party, say, map and guild. Each channel could be unticked if you didn’t want to be bothered.

Simply add tabs for every channel and add a channel for guild recruitment.

OMG the devs responded to your idea and made a completely customizable chat-window. you can make your own taps and choose what is shown, you can select a channel by click or commands too.
And all that was added just now … no wait, it was there all along.

There is could be a guild recruitment chat thought, probably easy to implements.

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Posted by: Inculpatus cedo.9234

Inculpatus cedo.9234

Guild Wars 1 had a great chat system, too bad they Anet won’t use anything from GW1 to make GW2 better.

GW1 had a tab for public, party, say, map and guild. Each channel could be unticked if you didn’t want to be bothered.

Simply add tabs for every channel and add a channel for guild recruitment. Alternatively, in World of Warcraft you could send a message to the GM of a guild who had his or her guild listed in the search for members. GM’s could set in a description what they offered and players could filter and search by keyword.

All of this could have been done in the beginning and easily done now with the mega-server system allowing people from different servers join the same guild.

They have the same, or rather, better chat sysytem. Thank goodness they didn’t bring the same bank storage system over from GW1. Or the same dye system. Or the same jump system. Etc., etc. Lol.

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Posted by: Shivan.9438

Shivan.9438

Guild Wars 1 had a great chat system, too bad they Anet won’t use anything from GW1 to make GW2 better.

GW1 had a tab for public, party, say, map and guild. Each channel could be unticked if you didn’t want to be bothered.

Simply add tabs for every channel and add a channel for guild recruitment.

OMG the devs responded to your idea and made a completely customizable chat-window. you can make your own taps and choose what is shown, you can select a channel by click or commands too.
And all that was added just now … no wait, it was there all along.

There is could be a guild recruitment chat thought, probably easy to implements.

OMG too bad tabs bug out sometimes when you make new ones like whisper tabs not alerting you, or not even working at all when the ones that came default in GW1 worked perfectly.