Hello, Guild Wars 2 community! My name is Miles and i’m from Russia. First of all, i want to apologise for my bad english further in the text. Now to the topic.
I have this idea in my head for a pretty long time already, but only now i decided to share it with the community. Anyway, i’ve been playing GW2 for almost a year now, witnessed Guild Missions update, new awesome locations like Bazaar of the Four Winds, but since then alot of time passed and there were no further guild updates or anything like that. Now i hear almost every day people wants new guild features, new locations, etc, etc. I started to think – what Anet could possibly add to the guilds and/or Tyria? Firts thought – guild halls, but everyone knows that Anet already have this planned, and lets face it – it’s probably not big enough for a good guilds update. And then i thought about “Guild City”.
Imagine this – Zhaitan defeated, alot of lands lies in ruins, but the other elder dragons didn’t showed up yet. What could united races, orders and guilds of Tyria do, before dragons attack again? We can rebuild what we’ve lost!
Add new location – for example, some small village, destroyed by Zhaitans forces. This small village, in time, will become a big city, where guilds have guild houses, traders, new events, npc’s, activities, etc. But if we want this village turn into the awesome city – we need to put alot of time, effort, guild merits, gold and guild influence in it.
Here’s the example:
Stage 1: location added into the game with event “Clear the village of the remaining risen forces”, all players and guilds go there, wiping all undeads. It can be a big and hard chain of events with some cool new world boss at the end.
Stage 2: all risens are dead (again) and players got new task – collect resources to rebuild main infrastructure of the village. Special npc appeare in the village, who accept donations with any kinds of wood, ores, gold and even karma. That should be a big amount of resources needed to complete this stage, so players wont finish it in one day (we’re building a city after all, remember?). After this stage is complete – the main thing is begin: land claiming.
Stage 3: every guild can claim a piece of land around the village for a certain amount of gold, merits and guild influence ( big enough amount, so 1-2 person guilds couldnt claim all the free lands). After your guild claimed the land – you can build guild house on that land. Now your guild work together, gathering resources for a new awesome guild house. Again – big amount of resources, we dont want to finish our home in 1 day. On this stage some new events can be added – defend the village from bandits, protect your guild caravans with resources from raiders and stuff like that. Stage 3 ends when, let’s say, 10 guilds finish their guild houses (and it will take alot of time).
Stage 4: first guilds are settled in our beatiful village and the place is growing fast, new buildings appear, travelers from all over the Tyria come here to look (and maybe stay) at newly-formed “Guld City”. New merchants appear in the city, guild banks and traders, even Black Lion opened their doors here! On this stage more events will appear – city is growing, but for now is poorly defended, and that will attract more dangerous people and even monsters. Main focus to the guilds now will be – reinforce the city. Eliminate threats around the city, protect travelers, gather resources to build a wall around our settlement. In time – our city will be surrounded with wooden walls, that we will be able to upgrade ( with the help of all guilds, of course) to stone walls. And who knows, maybe even Lions Arch will send some Lionguards to help defend the city.
