Guild Wars 2

The problem: Players constantly spam map chat with guild advertisements.

The solution: In the Contacts and LFG panel, add a new tab called “Looking for Guild [BETA]”. The tab contains three sections: filter, list and info.

The filter section is where you check/uncheck features you want a guild to have (PvE, PvP, WvW and/or RP oriented) and enter other optional requirements such as minimum number of members, home world, etc.

When you’re done, you click the “Search” button. The list section is where the search results are displayed. It shows the emblem, name, influence, members online/total, and other potentially relevant information.

Clicking on a guild in the list will display additional details in the info section, such as a guild description containing all the stuff they would normally advertise in map chat.

Guild members with appropriate permissions can toggle the listing, and modify the advertisement’s options and description accordingly.

Simple and efficient for recruiters and recruits alike. What do you think?

This would be a good idea imo. I’ve seen this in Tera and imo it works.

I would add that they should initially, upon opening of the UI, show guilds who’s home world the player is in. So if you’re looking for a guild, and your on Sea of Sorrows, it would show guilds that have the home world option set to Sea of Sorrows first. From there, you could adjust the filters to w.e one pleases and have a check box that says “Show Home World Guilds First”

Edit: I still believe that Guild spam would be a thing though, but this option is a very good one none the less.

This is a good idea, pretty much how Rift does it if I remember correctly. Though I’d restate “The Problem” as “It’s very hard to find the right guild(s) in this game.”

Map chat recruitment is obviously not the way to go, and the existing Looking For forum here is guaranteed to have very low signal to noise by the way it’s designed. To repeat a suggestion from a while back – that forum needs to be split into two or four forums: either “[NA] Looking For” and “[EU] Looking For”, or “[NA] LFGuild”, “[EU] LFGuild”, “[NA] Guild Recruitment”, and “[EU] Guild Recruitment”. Combining both megaservers in the same forum just leads to endless bumping, with the majority of posts being completely irrelevant to any given reader.

I was eventually able to find a suitable guild, but it took an external site of dubious completeness and accuracy to do so. The extremely limited (forum) or non-existent (in-game) tools Anet provides were of absolutely no help, which is uniquely bad among the MMOs I’ve played…

P.S. I would also like to suggest that there be a Suggestions forum for stuff like this! Pretty sure this is going to sink like a rock in the GW2 Discussions forum.

The real question is why isnt such an option already in the game…

It won’t stop the map spam, but would be a welcome addition ^^

Yip nice idea and not all that uncommon to have a guild recruitment/search tool, but one issue will still remain.
Those same desperado spammer guilds will still map hop and continuously post their map pollution.

Best thing to do is just report for spamming and then /block them if it’s causing too much hassle for you.

Bloodstealer.5978:

Those same desperado spammer guilds will still map hop and continuously post their map pollution.

that’s actually the way that I got the most permanent and friendly members. It seems that people prefer finding in game guilds, in game, rather than going to this website to then be sent to a different website, to then try and catch the recruiters themselves.

Worblehat.8697:

Map chat recruitment is obviously not the way to go, and the existing Looking For forum here is guaranteed to have very low signal to noise by the way it’s designed. To repeat a suggestion from a while back – that forum needs to be split into two or four forums: […].

The idea is to give players an in-game tool to search for/advertise a guild.

Maybe more players would visit the forums if they had some sort of button or interactive bulletin boards in-game that would bring up the Guild Wars 2 forums using the Coherent browser (AKA the technology used for the Black Lion Trading Company panels). But that’s an idea for another time.