Guild Wars 2

I’ve got to get this out of the way:

We are a small guild and primarily focused on role play. I get that this hall is meant for your average uber large 100 man guild and might not be meant for us.

Pre-release I had the impression that I read about individual access levels to the Guild Halls, so I figured that my guild could make its hall into a hub for front line based role play.

That thought was quickly shattered when a guild-extern person left the party while roaming our newly-claimed guild hall and got immediately thrown out.

Is there really no guesting feature or an option to set access to your guild hall other than inviting people for the sole purpose to gain access? A guesting feature would allow a collection of small guilds to get a guild hall done without the need to merge into a bigger guild.

This is a really good idea. Fair to both small and large guilds.

You can get around this by doing what I did. Create a rank called guest with no permissions, and place it below your lowest rank. Make it your default new member rank. Now give all the members of your guild invite permissions.

You don’t have to represent a guild to walk in to its guild hall, and thus, that guest rank functions as a whitelist for letting people in to your hall