Guild Wars 2

Does GW2 have a way to view all online players in your region or on your server? If so, where can I find it?

No, it doesn’t.

Sadface for obvious reasons

Hm. This begs the question…aside from having friends who already play, how are large guilds formed? Just organically? Interesting. Thanks for the help, Ten.

Large guilds generally come from another game where the guild was already established and just add other players they meet along the way.

TheUnNamedHero.4167:

Large guilds generally come from another game where the guild was already established and just add other players they meet along the way.

This is currently the case yes. but that doesn’t mean that in time you can’t get a good large guild running.
Just know there is no easy quick way of doing so. but there are some ways.
1: understand it takes a lot of time and time investments to start and lead a guild succesfully, being a good leader that listens to his members needs is essential.
2: make sure you provide something that is unique but also very general appealing.
3: be very happy if you grow 5 active members/month (and don’t count those that leaves within a few days after joining)

On that note, I wouldn’t object to a guild advertisement chat channel – let’s face it, right now people just yell in map chat – that way they wouldn’t clutter map chat, and activating that channel in chat means you’re either advertising a guild or looking for one, and if you’re doing neither you can simply untick that channel from your chat tab. Win-win for all.

Back on topic, a “/who” command to list players in the current region would be useful, excluding those players who’ve set their presence to offline (invisible) for whatever reason – I might not care about MY privacy but I should respect others’ wishes for it.

@mkeiichi: I think that advertising in chat is the worsed way of trying to build a guild. You are wasting your own time and are annoying others. Better imo is it to just play the game, and socialise to find friends in the game (specially those without guildtags, but not exclusivly).

I would agree to have a more structured way to advertise and recruit but I’m more thinking in line of a bulletin board in the major hubs (main towns, outposts like e.g. Fort trinity or the WvW spawning area and dungeon entrances). Guilds can operate from the guildroster what the advertising line is, and on wich boards they want to advertise (it’s a free service, but advertisement can be further pimped with influence). When someone reads you text and wants to join he can do from the board. the officers with recruitment rights in the guild will all get ‘!’ in their guild icon in the top left and when they press ‘g’ a message pops over it with a single click to recruit button, a pm-button or a decline button. as soon as an officer clicks one of those buttons, the message goes away for all officers (to prevent one officers pm-ing and the other already inviting).