Guild Wars 2

Hey there, I am actually out of the game, hoping for a change making it more fun to play GW2 again.

Actually I like playing in a Guild, also I love the changes you will bring together with the guild halls, but as I am the kind of guy that rather plays intense a week long with a 1-2 month pause between, I actually have low chance to find a guild. Same goes for most regular players, that spend a rather low amount of time in the game. There is a limit to the amount of players a guild can have (at least it was like that the last time I played) and so more active (and effective) a guild is, so less it wants players in it that do nothing for the guils through being barely online or absence over long durations. This results in many small guilds, that will work out for some time and then vanishing (My old guild is dead, at least it tried migrating to another guild to stay alive, but all three bigger guilds OK with accepting us also vanshed after all…). In other words, even if you support small guilds more, for many players it is highly problematic to find a long time guild.

My idea here is to grant guilds far bigger memberships and devide the guild into an alliance (different to gw1 not multiple guilds but multiple sections that count to the same guild with the same benefits and also maybe a possibility to be in multiple sections.

Of course there must be a leading section, but the guild can create (for a price) many undersections to bring order to your guild, which section a player is put to can only be decided through member of the leading section. Now the guild can name the umdersection, for example a beginner section, a pro section, a wvw section, a fractal section, also each section should have a own chat. Especially for players like me this would be great, they could make a absence section where they put me during my absence, put me in PvE-Section, put me NOT into Beginners Section, like this they have the needed information about me even of noone remembers me. Also if you klick a member certain info like which professions + level you have should be also an advantage.

To get to the topic title, to give certain rules to sections like members of this section transfer 10% of gained gold to the guild seem a rather worthy idea (at least better than guilds that want a membership payment that they only can spend by playing a needed amount of time). I actually am not a fan of memberships for pay but I know from GW1, that a certain payment is a possible way to regulate your absence players so the guild has a way to benefit from them

BTW, it would be great if you could write notes in your friend list, so you can better remember why someone was a friend (problemantic after a long time absence)

[Edit] the original topic title was Guild-Membership for pay, only fitting to a small part of this suggestion and explaining the first reply.

No to having to pay for membership into a guild or into a guild alliance. And definitely not half of what I get. Not everyone plays the trading post or farms with the intent of getting large amounts of gold. Some days, I only get a few silver because I don’t care about how fast I amass gold. But I sure don’t want to be forced to give up half of what I earn to a guild. Even if the guild was the perfect fit for me. And there should not be a title related to that. All that title would say is “I’m so rich I can afford to give away half of what I make each day.”

Guilds currently effectively get paid by you earning Influence for them during normal play while representing them. That influence then gets converted into upgrades and other Guild produced consumables (e.g. Guild Missions and booster Flags).

From my perspective Guild Banks and Stashes/Troves are for storage of donations that may help fellow guild members. Donations should be completely optional and I feel no guild should impose limitations such as you must meet a certain Influence quota over a specified period or even enforce donation requirements.

I kind of get the idea of recognising guild members who contribute heavily to a guild in some way and being able to have tools in the guild configuration to reward them accordingly but arguably that is handled to a large degree by the Guild Roster and promotion.

The thing about rules and payment for members is only a small and rather meaningless part of the suggestion…

This is about a system to increase the number of guild members by adding sections to not loose the overview.

A Beginner Section for starters, bad players and players with rather Ineffective playstyle would open a big guild with mostly pros for such playerds (there might be many small beginner guilds, but these are often not so great and it will take some search to find a good one)

Also a absence section would be a great help for players playing not very often, after all without such a section these have near to zero chance to become regular members of a good guild