Guild Wars 2

The Path Finder.3197:

• What if, Guild leaders have the ability to tick a box allowing or disallowing members to multi Guild?

I have been a guild leader since head start and I have only 1 rule in my guild : 100% guild rep. I’ve tried having it free for all, partial rep and so on, and it just doesn’t work if you want to have even a mildly cohesive guild. I don’t have a big guild (by choice) and I’m lucky to have a bunch of loyal members that get on, but it took a lot of work and frustration to get it there. It’s still a constant struggle to keep it that way and I’ve cursed Anet many times over the unnecessary difficulties they’ve presented us with.

I’ve always hated the way the guild representation works in gw2’s multi guild system. It is really bad in my view and creates a lot of needless animosity as well as work for the guild leaders. I hate the fact members who are in my guild but not representing my guild, are still showing in the guild roster, but with that awful grayish/green oval icon that indicates non-representation that I and all my members can see.

They just dumped this half-baked, unintuitive, multi-guild system on us and shook their hands off it and left us, the guild leaders, to have to deal with the consequences on a daily basis. The representation system creates conflict and mistrust among both sides and it all could have been easily avoided.To be frank, I’m tired of having to explain this convoluted, loyalty system to new players that want to join my guild and you can see, they just can’t grasp the concept. It’s so alien to them and I don’t blame them.

What your are suggesting in your OP would be to too much work to implement imo.

A much simpler solution, I suggested years ago btw, but ofc anything to do with guilds falls on deaf ears around here, would be (as you may have guessed) to completely remove the representation system.

With the rep system out of the way, people can be in multiple guilds if they like, but can only be in one at any given time and only be seen in that guild they’re in for the day or w/ever. Any activities they do whilst in that guild, such as guild missions, would benefit only that guild, thus eliminating any conflict etc.

When they log in each day, they have their list of guilds and can choose which guild they wish to spend their day or however long with. What this would mean is, if a member is in a different guild to mine, I don’t see them on my guild roster, nor do they see my guild or have access to anything in my guild.

This would imo save us guild leaders a lot of management problems, animosity toward members not repping the guild and it would save members a lot of discomfort too, while having freedom of choice which guild they wish to be in without being forced into anything.

After all these years, my opinion on this matter has not changed and I’ll keep trying to push for this change as long as I’m still around.

I think it’s a fine solution for a guild creator to be able to create an “exclusive” guild where the members are not able to join other guilds. There should be a very obvious automatic, notification in multiple places: when you join, in the guild panel, & in the guild notes. And a guild should have to be that way from the beginning – no changing the guild after the fact because a lot of people might have contributed to the guild who don’t agree with it going exclusive.

That being said, Anet might not want to do it simply because it could be a point of contention that they don’t want to deal with. Which I would also understand.

Dawdler.8521:

Tiger Ashante.1792:

A much simpler solution, I suggested years ago btw, but ofc anything to do with guilds falls on deaf ears around here, would be (as you may have guessed) to completely remove the representation system.

With the rep system out of the way, people can be in multiple guilds if they like, but can only be in one at any given time and only be seen in that guild they’re in for the day or w/ever. Any activities they do whilst in that guild, such as guild missions, would benefit only that guild, thus eliminating any conflict etc.

When they log in each day, they have their list of guilds and can choose which guild they wish to spend their day or however long with. What this would mean is, if a member is in a different guild to mine, I don’t see them on my guild roster, nor do they see my guild or have access to anything in my guild.

This would imo save us guild leaders a lot of management problems, animosity toward members not repping the guild and it would save members a lot of discomfort too, while having freedom of choice which guild they wish to be in without being forced into anything.

This meaningless change would imply that the person who joined the 100% rep 100% loyalty guild isnt 100% repping or 100% loyal.

So whats the point?

You’re suggesting a solution for a problem you have created by making a guild rule you want your guildmates to be able to break.

Your first sentence doesn’t make sense.

Are you are guild leader? I think the OP asked ppl to state their position in a guild and most of the posters here haven’t done so.

You either haven’t read my post or fully understood what I was saying. The point is, I want Anet to get rid of the rep system full stop. lf the representation was removed and members could be only in one guild at a time and only visible to that guild, as I suggested, there would be no need for the 100% rep rule would it? I’m suggesting Anet removes this redundant system and stop these arguments once and for all.

I know there’s a lot of people out there that would hate my proposal as it would mean they could not raid 5 guild halls each day, only the one they’re in, but that’s a big part of my point as well. I resent that members who have not contributed a cent toward my guild hall rebuild to just use and abuse my hard work, while not even bothering to rep my guild. And as a guild leader, I’ve seen this happen too many times.