Bulletin Board

cyberzomby

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

Netherlands

The Heroics

N/Me

Is there a bulletin Board in the guild hall, and if not, what would you guys think about it.
In the game Never Winter Nights this was also used when entering a server. Think it would be nice to put up news for youre guild. Because than you dont have to log on into the guild forum. Some members dont do that sort of stuff

mostro

mostro

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2005

Me/E

This is probably be better asked at the Q&A forum, but the guild leader and officers can put in a motd and it will be displayed when members log in to the game.

Ferelle

Ferelle

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2005

Colorado - US

Imperial Fist

R/E

I don't really feel it's a needed feature. The MOTD seems fine to me.

Really though, if guild a member can't be bothered to atleast check their
guild's forum for important information, why be there?

Just how I see it.

TheRealDecoy

TheRealDecoy

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

The Bay Area, CA

The Cornerstone

Mo/Me

I think that in-game guild support could use a little more love. Sure, it might not be crucial, but since when has a game been simply about fufilling the minimum reqirements. I remember earlier on in developement there were a lot of ideas that people speculated about regarding guild features, and I wouldn't be suprised if there are a few nice features we have yet to see.

Lamaros

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

Australia

I think things like this are great ideas. You only have to look at some OLD MUDs and the clan/guild facilities that provide to see just how much better ingame guild support can get.

It's really a wonder as to why these things aren't common.

Zfactor

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

NYC

Freelance

Mo/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Ferelle
I don't really feel it's a needed feature. The MOTD seems fine to me.

Really though, if guild a member can't be bothered to atleast check their
guild's forum for important information, why be there?

Just how I see it.
That is based on the assumption that the guid has a dedicated website. If it were just a bunch of friends who want to play exclusively with eachother, then a bulletin board would be quite advantageous. I think it would be cool if they added a feature like this (if one does not exist)

Lamaros

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2005

Australia

It's not even that. Guild members, on the whole, don't check forums nearly as often as they log in to the game. Having played in a large number of games with different guilds, with ingame forums, no forums, out of game forums, and so forth I have found that the ones that were frequented the most often were those that existed in game and could be acessed easily at any time (and even then you'd find some people wouldn't check them as often as you might like... some people don't like to read).

Having a user-friendly guild board provided in game would be very useful for guild communication.

cyberzomby

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2005

Netherlands

The Heroics

N/Me

Yes thats what i thought as well.
Didnt knew about the login message to.
But i thought well, the dedicated players are playing all the time, so they can check new messages all that easily. And indeed there were a lot of guild ideas that were going to be implemented but im not sure what is so special and cool about youre guild hall and guild stuff