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Creating a Guild
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To create a guild, it’s relatively straight forward, provided you have enough money. You must go to the Guild Registrar to register your new guild, you must also create the cape, which will represent your guild, then if want, you can then purchase your guild hall (not mandatory for the guild itself, but necessary for GvG (Guild versus Guild) battles). The latter is the most expensive element, as it will cost you 20k.
That is the easy part.
Once the guild is created, you have to actively recruit members. In my opinion, this is the hardest part and it requires lots of work and effort. To start with, you’re gonna probably try to recruit amongst your acquaintances and friends, and unless you have lots of friends, it won’t be enough, for example, to build a GvG group (you need at least 8 players). So you will probably need to advertise randomly for recruits. However, not all recruits are ideal guild members and some might not fit in. By using that method, you will have in your guild members who can be very nice, or altogether the opposite.
A guild includes a simple hierarchy:
- A leader who has the full powers of recruiting, promoting, demoting, etc.
- A few officers, who have restricted powers. They can recruit members, promote them as officers, etc.
- Non-ranked members.
I have been an officer in two guilds and I can tell you, it’s a lot of work trying to recruit new members. And it is for that reason that I don’t want to create my own guild.
You have to deal with lots of weird people, and you never know how those new recruits turn out. Here is a sample of the questions I had while recruiting people:
Potential member (PM): Can I become an officer?
Me (M): Not right away, you have to demonstrate your capability.
PM: OK, good bye then.
PM: Can you give me money?
M: No, a guild is not a place to beg.
PM: Good bye.
After becoming a member:
- Oh, that cape looks gay, I quit!
I just hate when people use that expression, as if being gay is lame…
- Can I have money?
See above.
And this one is probably my favourite. The member is designated by LM:
LM: Can I become an officer? It’s been already 3 months that I have been in that guild and the leader promised me that I will be promoted.
Me: I don’t know. As the guild leader is not online, I would suggest you wait until he’s back.
LM: Please, promote me!! I love power and I wanna have some. I have been officer in all the guilds I have been!
Me: Why did you leave them then?
LM: Because I wanted to have more and more power! Please, promote me!
Me (starting to get annoyed): No, you wait for the guild leader.
LM: Please, I am so fascinated by power! But don’t worry, I do respect power…
Me: I cannot promote you without the guild leader’s consent. Wait for him.
LM: OK then.
And he left.
I was pretty pissed off because of his attitude. I don’t like it when people beg non-stop, and to be honest, I really don’t have any clue what he was talking about. You have a sort of power when you are in a guild, but it has nothing to do with real one. People tend to forget that it is a virtual world, and they sometimes confuse everything.
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Being part of a guild (Part II)
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In one of my previous posts, I mentioned that I was going to leave my guild. The main reason for which was that none of the other guild members were ever online when I was playing. I left that guild about two weeks ago. It didn’t take a long time before I got an invitation to join another guild. That one inducts new members only after playing with them beforehand. They screen people that way, to see if their attitudes and way of playing would fit to the guild style. I must admit that the guild members are very nice and quite helpful. This guild has everything: guild hall, cape, dedicated website, team speaker, and plenty of active guild members. Its size is ideal to me: not too big, but not too small. The members are young adults, which is nice as some kids really have a behavioral problem. So, it seems that all the ingredients are gathered for me to be happy in this guild!
The reality is a bit different… The guild members have known each other for quite a while now and seem to get along very well with each other.. I have the greatest difficulty to integrate in the group. I have the feeling I am an outsider.
Moreover, there is something else that bothers me.
I did several quests and missions to help ‘guildies’. It’s nice to play with players who won’t quit the party. But, the guild members (i.e. people who are not the guild leader or officers) have to follow the instructions given by the person of the highest rank in the team. So the leader will tell you what build to use, the spells and skills set, which target has to be killed first, the strategy to follow... He will also arrange the team members in a certain fashion. I don’t know how it sounds to you, but to me, this is just too much. I might very well be resistant to authority (has been proven before :-P), or just picky, but whatever the reason is, I don’t feel at my place in that guild, and I don’t have much fun when playing with them. So again, I might be searching for a new guild soon. Will I ever find the right one?
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