Suggestion: Create a "List of Guilds" tab

Suggestion: Create a "List of Guilds" tab

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Posted by: Nuunes.5046

Nuunes.5046

I’ve seen a lot of people sending in the map chat those big texts saying that their guild is looking for members, so, I was wondering if it couldn’t be possible to have a tab where you can post some information about your guild, like Region, language, content that they participate, 1 or 2 contact people (or even a “I’m interested” checkbox that the leader can see when they log in the other day), and a small text box so you can put a small discription about what your guild is all about and if there are requirements.

I dunno, just seems like it would make life easier for everyone. I could easily show a guild to a lot more people and people would be able to filter their interests to find the right guild for them.

Toughts? (Sorry if this has already been suggested, I really don’t use the forums all that much)
Have a good one people!

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

The only question I have is how this will reach new people, who might not know about that tab, but who might want a guild.

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Posted by: Crimson Clouds.4853

Crimson Clouds.4853

I like this idea very much!

I have a few concerns though… and perhaps a few improvements/suggestions?

If every recruiting guild in say, Europe opted in to this guild recruitment page, how would the names be ordered? How would it filter?

I could filter “PvX”, “English speaking” and perhaps a selection of which size of guild I’d like to join say “Medium” (about 200 players).. but still that would unlikely narrow my search by much. Out of the hundreds of guilds that appear, it would only be the first few that I’d inspect, which seems thoroughly unfair on the results further down. But what would determine the order of results? Alphabetical, currently most active/most players online, most recently recruited, random? All have their flaws.

The current benefit of people recruiting in map chat is that you are likely to find a guild that fits your needs: perhaps the guild is most active (and thus recruits most) during your normal play hours, or in the areas of game-play/maps you are most likely to play in. This is somewhat lost with a list of all guilds that is able to be accessed/used as recruitment all the time.

I think a better solution would be to have a new frame in the LFG window for “Guilds” with two sub-frames “Recruiting Guilds” and “Looking for Guilds”. This way there can be direct interraction with the recruiter and recruitee through party chat immediately and credentials for both can be displayed. It would be near identical to the other areas of LFG but with a few extra markers- of course the country flags for guild language, but also markers for mainly PvE/PvP/WvW guilds.

The problem with this idea is that multiple people from the same guild could spam up the “Recruiting Guilds” section, unless there was a way for the game to use guild information to only allow one person in that guild to recruit through LFG at a time. This immediately seems like it would make the system redundant, but I believe that one recruiter that has a method to broadcast everywhere immediately is better than 3 recruiters running around to different maps.

(edited by Crimson Clouds.4853)

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Posted by: Mirta.5029

Mirta.5029

WoW has an in-game guild finder tab and I think that it’s a great idea! It won’t replace the shouting though