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It's time to raise the guild members limit.
jaotut
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Guild were restricted to 150 members (unless they already had more) right before the release of Stronghold in mod 6. No many people liked that idea, but there were also some good reasons as they didn't want larger guilds to dominate and having more people wanting to join only those big guilds.
Let's face it, whether it's this game or another, players come and go, active players may become less active. Although it is up to the management of the guild to remove those inactive players to free up slots, it won't be fair to remove someone who hasn't logged on for a few weeks but has contributed heaps to the guild coffer. I'm sure even cryptic wish to get some old players back, as they sometimes send these players free gifts after they haven't been on for a while. How would they feel if they find themselves removed from their guild when they return?
Now that we're reaching towards the end of mod 6, there are many reasons to increase this size limit to maintain the healthiness of the game.
I think the members limit should get increase by about 20 at the start of every new module. Even if they made it a purchase in the zen market, or for AD in game. If they want the game to grow, then first they need to allow existing guilds to grow.
Let's face it, whether it's this game or another, players come and go, active players may become less active. Although it is up to the management of the guild to remove those inactive players to free up slots, it won't be fair to remove someone who hasn't logged on for a few weeks but has contributed heaps to the guild coffer. I'm sure even cryptic wish to get some old players back, as they sometimes send these players free gifts after they haven't been on for a while. How would they feel if they find themselves removed from their guild when they return?
Now that we're reaching towards the end of mod 6, there are many reasons to increase this size limit to maintain the healthiness of the game.
- Players will be more inclined to stay if they always see a lot of guild members online.
- Stronghold progression gets more and more ridiculous at the amount needed for each upgrade, most players would have exhausted most of their resources donating to the coffer. With previous modules, players are willing to grind non stop for a month or so to get all their boons, but at least they can see the end of the road. The end of the road for Stronghold just seems further and further away, with each step takes more effort than the previous. This progression will slow down to a halt if there are less and less active people working on it since you can't even realistically pay for it like other campaigns.
- New players will have less chances of joining a large guild, they will probably have to settle into a small-medium guild that will never catch up the other guilds. If you have a friend that you want to invite to your guild, but if it's full, then it's too bad.
I think the members limit should get increase by about 20 at the start of every new module. Even if they made it a purchase in the zen market, or for AD in game. If they want the game to grow, then first they need to allow existing guilds to grow.
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If you have 150 accounts that are active at least every other day you are not having trouble gathering resources.
As a member of a small guild of 20 active players, we already work our asses off and are at least 5x slower than large guilds - still working for GH6. An increase of the max would drain our numbers even more.
I understand your pain to kick old valued members (and envy you for your problems
Then let people decide how important it is. Heck, you could even make it a SH building.
Tavern: Increases Account limit by 15, character limit by 50 for each rank. 10 Ranks. Fits on a support plot.
Is 150 a good #? Ya I dont think its a bad one per se. ?You could make it 200 I guess, I dont believe we have enough ACTUAL active players in neverwinter PC side to make it much more then that.. if you made it 500.. your taking probably 10% of actual active players in one pool all together.
I mean those players who actually participate in strongholds at this current time. There isnt as many as you would think.
I mean if you think about it, if you can actually have 150 active members, then donating isn't too bad. The problem is keeping 150 active members. People come and go and most aren't nice enough to let anyone know that they're quitting the game or just taking time off so you're stuck with going through the roster every day/week/month and kicking inactives then recruiting to fill those slots.
But if you really think about it, if all 150 members are active and donate 1k ads a day then thats 150K ad a day to your coffer and that's not even counting members that have an alt or multiple alts in the guild or those that might want to donate more then 1k. And hell, 1k ad is nothing to earn a day, simply do 1 run of normal ToS and that takes all of maybe 10 minutes at best unless you have a really really really bad team.
As for the other resources, well that's up to the members to grind for them or not.
To me it just sounds like you need to bite the bullet and start kicking your inactives no matter what they've done for the guild. I had this very same argument with my guild leader when they announced the limit and we finally settled on 60 days inactive and you're booted. If one cant be bothered to log in one time in 60 days they most likely aren't coming back.
In theory, we could have the problem now (we probably do as SH loading is getting slower and slower). If the guild is bigger, this problem will be common.
They are way.. WAY to stubborn on this.