A New Way for Guilds to Recruit

One of Guild Wars' strongest points is playing with other people, especially the ones in your guild. I would have little motivation to play at all if it weren't for the interaction with guildmates. As it stands now it is more difficult than it needs to be to recruit, who really wants to spend hours district hopping spamming chat lanes? How many people would still be playing today if they knew they could easily find a good guild? With any video game out there today, people will quit if they get frustrated or bored. Without any improvement to the ways recruiting is done, then the full potential of Guild Wars as a social game will slowly stagnate as people know that finding a good guild is pretty much impossible with the current methods.

My idea would be to implement a sort of bulletin board or npc where guild leaders could post a recruiting message, similar to what the search party panel does now, except it would stay up there for a few days and not disappear when he signs off. It could be in the major towns and Isle of Balthazar. It would state the guild name, their objective (PvE, PvP, Faction Farming, or whatever), a little blurb about who they are what they are looking for. If someone searching the panel finds one that interests them, they can send a request to join that would show up somewhere on that guild's window so that the leader or officers can contact them and allow them to join.

Feel free to share any other ideas and whether you feel this is a legitimate element of the game that needs an update.

You'd end up with a very very large list of guilds... If searching for them doesn't become a very big bother then I guess it'd be alright.

Also, maybe it could show a couple of statistics about the guild? Like if the guild is Luxon/Kurzick and maybe how many members/officers the guild has.

I have never had a bad guild, All my guilds I've been in I have been invited by friends from the guild and the guilds have just been great.

How to make a guild:
Get about 5 friends to start
Then recruit more friends

Your guild is expanding.

Do some PvE pugs. You can really tell who's a dumbass and who isn't.

Spam recruiters are all a pain in the ass, and I make it a point to slap them on my ignore list..I've gone so far as to make my own one man guild to prevent people from whispering to me with an invite.

Not to mention that recruiting random people is generally a retarted act that will only lead to someone being kicked, or someone becmoning an officer and booting everyone else.

Do it the way you make friends in real life, assuming you've done that before.
Get to know people, play with them more and more, then invite them.
That's about as good as you're going to get.

They've already got Party Search, no spam required.

The other thing, is how many people do you really need in a guild?
How many people can be in 1 party, that's your answer.

I see alot of people spamming 80+ members, WTF, that's a selling point?
80 Random dumbasses, just what I need.

If people took the time and built Guilds the way they should, and on the criteria they should, there'd be alot more people interested in joining any given guild.

I saw a guy the other night, advertising he wanted to join a guild, stated his work shift, and similar information. I'm willing to bet that the guild he ends up with is lucky.

Forums are about as good as you're going to get to do for recruiting purposes. You can list all requirements(shift/TS, vent whatever all that).
You're not going to get off the shelf noobs nearly as often.
You're probably not going to get people that have a hard time and got to lvl 20 almost by accident, those people generally don't bother to look anything up, instead insist on learning everything IN the game.


/unsigned Because a forum is pretty much what he's talking about, and well....that's where he's at. It would take a bunch of useless coding that 99% of us wouldn't use.