Guild Wars 2

You know the Sharn’s Free Camp shipwreck? Well, there’s a boat mast that nearly goes up to the top of the boat, but not quite…. Why not have it go all the way to the top? Just cause… :P

But on a more serious note…
Please, let’s have alliances. Lots of benefits. I’m including sharing guild halls and alliance chat in this discussion as that’s what alliances meant in gw1. Oh, and also the possibility of an alliance currency.
1. More sizes of guilds can get more representation, which means they can get more influence.
2. Small guilds could then more easily participate in Guild Missions by being aligned with large guilds that have them.
3. Coordination is much easier with multiple guilds, particularly ones that you’re close with, with alliance chat. Example: Some people just PvP with us. Instead of having to rep our guild to ask us, they could simply go into alliance chat. Another example: Us small guilds don’t have five people and we really want to keep influence going as much as possible, right? So we just go into alliance chat and see if a total of five people between the two guilds are up for a dungeon. Much easier.
4. Building guilds can benefit from the Guild Halls and/or upgrades of larger guilds they’re aligned with (maybe not the upgrades, but it’s always cool to visit other guilds’ guild halls).

Possibilities:
1. This could make guild missions feasible for small guilds if there were an alliance currency that could be used to make them, also. And everyone in the alliance could do them, etc, etc.
2. Better recruitment for small guilds because they won’t feel so empty with alliance chat. More people will be on more often, no matter the smallness of the guilds in the alliance, which means more fun.
3. More guild loyalty. When you have to rep another guild to do x and a different guild to do y, you don’t feel so loyal. You can now primarily represent x, and represent x while talking in alliance chat, then if guild y is up for something, you can rep them if you like for their activity. But you can feel less disloyal when doing that as you’re in an alliance with that guild. And they also will have less issue with you if you still decide to rep guild x as communication would still be possible through alliance chat.