Aged Guilds.
StarGatherer
I was sitting, staring at my screen blankly Dazed frankly.And it occurred to me after the past birthday festivities that the guild I was left to Wallow in(Dont get me wrong, I am a content wallower) was quite old.Im sure there are some older guilds out there still thriving.Be nice to see that recognized in some manner.Perhaps an old fart emote or matador move with the cape.Ill go back to my hypnosis now.
Evilsod
I'm sure my guild leader would be happy ^^ He created the guild on 05/06/2005.
legion_rat
/signed for a guild birthday emote or other reward for being around so long.
Alot of guilds come and go, mines only a year or so. But there are a few that have been around for a long time. It would be nice to see them noticed.
~the rat~
Alot of guilds come and go, mines only a year or so. But there are a few that have been around for a long time. It would be nice to see them noticed.
~the rat~
yarddog
/signed our birthday May 07,2005 
Evilsod
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/signed our birthday May 07,2005
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JeniM
May is before June you american lol
dd/mm/yy it makes more sence
dd/mm/yy it makes more sence
tenshi_strife
yea this would be great i got the game a week after it was released and made guild 2 days after playing.... and i have stuck with it...
StarGatherer
Tenshi, you should have a mini storage chest that follows you around.Or whip your cape up like dracula emote.
tenshi_strife
LOL........ ok
Bazompora
I founded my guild the 25th of July 2005.
Almost 2 years and still alive, might deserve some kind of acknowledgement, as a way to show others your guild is a long-term stable one, persisting in its survival.
What about giving aged guilds a special feature for their cape, that makes it definitely stand out from the crowd (a bit in the vain of permanent gold and silver cape trims for tournament finalists)?
Almost 2 years and still alive, might deserve some kind of acknowledgement, as a way to show others your guild is a long-term stable one, persisting in its survival.
What about giving aged guilds a special feature for their cape, that makes it definitely stand out from the crowd (a bit in the vain of permanent gold and silver cape trims for tournament finalists)?
Tarun
Indeed. Trims for guilds that have been around for years would be an excellent feature.
No, it doesn't. That format is just as bad. The International Date Format is clearly the best there is.
The international format defined by ISO (IS0 8601) tries to address all these problems by defining a numerical date system as follows: YYYY-MM-DD where
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May is before June you american lol
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The international format defined by ISO (IS0 8601) tries to address all these problems by defining a numerical date system as follows: YYYY-MM-DD where
- YYYY is the year [all the digits, i.e. 2012]
- MM is the month [01 (January) to 12 (December)]
- DD is the day [01 to 31]
Bazompora
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YYYY-MM-DD
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But let's stay on topic, please.
There might be a couple of issues with trims:
- guilds with gold or silver trims might also be 2 years in age, so how would that combine?
- if the color of a trim can be chosen, then some might abuse it to fake tournament reward golden and silver trims;
- if the color of a trim cannot be chosen, it must be a color that matches with all other colors (outside the allready taken gold and silver, I cannot immediately think of a color that would match any cape, except for bronze, which would ressemble gold too much).
but what exactly?
cosyfiep
how about white border? or a tiny star on the border for each year in existance.
placebo overdose
ok i was thinking that if the guild is a year old it should get a dusty look and if the guild is 2 or more years old it should get a "ghostly" look so it is tranparent like eternal weps
dwchang
Giving Guilds the same trims as those found in GvG would be a bad idea. Guilds who compete at the top level would, frankly, be very angry to lose their uniqueness and leetness.
Now of course don't get me wrong, I do think it's an honor and accomplishment for a Guild to stay together for so long (mine has been around since launch in May'05 and it's not easy), but also having been a GvG Guild who has earned trims before through hard work and skill, I know that other GvG Guilds would get angry.
Many of them stating their opinion a bit more rudely than I am now :P.
As for some other type of reward that is unique. Sure that's a great idea.
Now of course don't get me wrong, I do think it's an honor and accomplishment for a Guild to stay together for so long (mine has been around since launch in May'05 and it's not easy), but also having been a GvG Guild who has earned trims before through hard work and skill, I know that other GvG Guilds would get angry.
Many of them stating their opinion a bit more rudely than I am now :P.
As for some other type of reward that is unique. Sure that's a great idea.
Bazompora
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Giving Guilds the same trims as those found in GvG would be a bad idea.
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Thought is going however on how to imply a cape feat without creating confusion with the allready existant trims.
The Hand Of Death
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I founded my guild the 25th of July 2005.
Almost 2 years and still alive, might deserve some kind of acknowledgement, as a way to show others your guild is a long-term stable one, persisting in its survival. What about giving aged guilds a special feature for their cape, that makes it definitely stand out from the crowd (a bit in the vain of permanent gold and silver cape trims for tournament finalists)? |
Curse You
My guild was apparently created 06/09/2005 (I just look at my guild leader's join date). I wouldn't mind if our guild got some recognition of its age.
Bazompora
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Make old guild capes flourescent, that ought to get it noticed :P.
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tenshi_strife
yea i agree but gvgers might get pissed cause our capes would cooler than theres lol
Bazompora
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yea i agree but gvgers might get pissed cause our capes would cooler than theres lol
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What do you think ... maybe this should be turned into a poll or petition?
lyra_song
^_^ I like it!
tenshi_strife
good point bazo lol sure
Bazompora
Still ... options should be discussed first.
Maybe someone has got other great ideas.
Maybe someone has got other great ideas.
Skuld
Having a year old guild is comparable to winning a GvG tourny?
I can get hold of a bunch of dead accounts with leadership of 2 year old guilds with ease...
I can get hold of a bunch of dead accounts with leadership of 2 year old guilds with ease...
vergerefosh
sounds like a good idea, old guild I was in before making my own has been around for quite some time
Medion
Agreed with Skuld here, it's way to easy finding old accounts which own old guilds. I can even imagine people making a guild with an inactive account just to sell for ~100K a year later.
Keeping an active and stable community for over a year is very hard, won't disagree there, but it's too easy to 'abuse' the system.
I certainly wouldn't want a lumiscent cape though... way too ugly
Keeping an active and stable community for over a year is very hard, won't disagree there, but it's too easy to 'abuse' the system.
I certainly wouldn't want a lumiscent cape though... way too ugly
Bazompora
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Having a year old guild is comparable to winning a GvG tourny?
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I can get hold of a bunch of dead accounts with leadership of 2 year old guilds with ease...
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I suggest the following solution: as guilds that bring in new leadership are not really "stable", I suggest to only reward guilds, that have a leader that has been part of the guild for a year or more. As for account trading, that's a violation of the user agreement terms.
Skuld
What if it hasn't been alive for years? The system wouldn't differenciate.
Why should this sort of thing be given out any way? Nothing else gets anything like this.
Why should this sort of thing be given out any way? Nothing else gets anything like this.
lyra_song
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What if it hasn't been alive for years? The system wouldn't differenciate.
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Bazompora
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Why should this sort of thing be given out any way?
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Nothing else gets anything like this.
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The system would definitely be able to get info such as member trends, join/parts, player activity, growth/downsizing, etc just based on statistical records of players and cross referencing it with the guild, youd be able to paint a decent picture of what a living guild is vs a dead guild.
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Age
I would like this and mine is a beta guild created in Feb.19 2005.They could give us some sort of trim not the same as PvP guild have then maybe I won't have many leavers in it.
Bazompora
To summarize, these are the interesting suggestions that have been made so far:
- emote: matador move with cape
- emote: whip up cape like Dracula
- cape: colored trim
- cape: transparant
- cape: luminescent
tenshi_strife
another idea i got from another forum is a npc, kinda like a mini pet but not mini, that wanders around your hall. there could be many like koss, or rurik, or even dwayana or the other gods. i think that would be cool, and would not bother the gvg guilds at all.
william1975
nice idea, seems like there may be difficulties in implementation though.
NPC may be a good idea though. I suppose there could be a requirment of the same officers/leader in the guild over a given time, say 4 officers one leader being there the whole time.
NPC may be a good idea though. I suppose there could be a requirment of the same officers/leader in the guild over a given time, say 4 officers one leader being there the whole time.