Guild Improvements ~~ PLEASE

IF YOU'RE TOO LAZY TO READ IT ALL, SKIP TO THE NEXT RED LINE!

Oh my GOD, do I love this game! Just quit a few other MMO's just so I could dedicate my efforts to this awesome one. I was in no way disappointed with anything -- The races, the classes, the training, the movement, the graphics, the controls, the customization, the economy (On Heaven's Tear at least), the quests, the environments, the -- OH you get the point!! Every game I play, I make my guild Lawlocaust, I've been making that guild on games for about 4 years now and I always invite all my friends. It's always the first thing I aim to do in a new game, so I can organize my friends and make chatting far easier. Earlier this day I finally reached level 20, and had plenty more than 100k to spare. I made my way to Archosaur and immediately purchased my guild. My FIRST disappoint was to find out that Lawlocaust, which is ten letters, is one letter too long for this particular game. Nine letter cap? I was dumbfounded, BUT alas I was more than capable to compensate. Admittedly, it is the first game I've ever played that I've had to shorten the guild name, but me and my friends have often referred to it as Lawlo for short, and so that is the name I chose. Right! Problem adverted!

Only to be met with many disappointments once entering the guild screen. First thing I noticed was the lack of controls. There was invite, boot, promote, and demote and that was pretty much it. Alas, this wasn't the first game I've played where guildmasters were practically a power member, so this again was not too much of a downer. Next, I noticed that the guild motto section had scroll buttons on the far right. Well, this led me to assume I would be able to put in a short intro for new members or something. When I went to change it, I saw not a cap of 500 characters. Not a cap of 250 characters. I saw a cap of 50. *Sigh* Again, not a problem. Instead of writing an intro for our new members, I was simply going to post our literal motto, we've been saying it in our guild for four years -- "We put the laugh in slaughter!" -- (At this point of the post, I'd like to point out to most of the readers who are probably offended by both my guild name and motto that A holocaust ((not THE Holocaust)) is any great destruction through the use of fire) but when I finished typing it in, it told me it could not be changed because of unacceptable characters. I figured it was the exclaimatory mark, so I wrote it out again without one. But it wouldn't accept it again. As it turns out, SPACES are unacceptable characters. I can't even put spaces in my guild motto?

THIS IS THE SECOND LINE OF RED, YOU LAZY READERS.

So in short, here's a list of improvements I would really like to see:

+More guildmaster powers
+The ability to change the name of ranks (Executor, etc)
+More than 4 characters for a title
+More than 50 characters for a guild motto (Ideally at least 250)
+SPACES and punctuation allowed in guild mottos PLEASE if nothing else at least that b:cry
+A faster update rate for the guild screen (the member levels stay the same for a very long time)
+The option to mark a guild member on the world map
+A fullfledged guild MENU instead of screen (i.e., when you press G it will open the guild intro page, which has tabs near the top for sections like guild info, guild members, etc)

I could probably even keep going. But those are really simple requests, I'd like to think, except for the last one which would just be nice and practical. I appreciate the effort the developers have put into the guild system, allowing for the owning of territories and whatnot. But for the guilds that aim more for being just a community, this game seriously lacks the resources to support those guilds.

Alas, failure to add these features would never make me leave this great game. But the addition of them would make it that much better.

People who agree with me:

Hyboria - Sanctuary wrote: »

Everything above needs to be implemented, why did they make half a guild system then just say **** it?

Rock on with this thread!

ariel1 wrote: »

Yes, i agree with all that has been said, please do not stop til u get what we want.

Kaidara - Sanctuary wrote: »

I agree with all of your ideas. Factions really need an update to them, not this half **** system.

Some_guy - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Yes, the OP is correct. I have spoken.

Kusaku - Lost City wrote: »

I agree definatly seeing that i am 1 of 2 guild leaders for the Redline guild (we share ^^)
The guild motto is so annoying and it looks so cheap and tacky its almost better to not have 1

I WOULD SO LOVE TO CHANGE NAMES OF EXECUTER AND MARSHAL AND STUFF

and the titles are just to danm short full stop

Dimiter - Lost City wrote: »

I totally agree with the author and his suggestions.

Metraze - Sanctuary wrote: »

And yes, completely agree with original post.

Meat__shield - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I agree

Darknin - Lost City wrote: »

The guild screen does suck. I would like to see everything implemented that you statedb:victory

WindGaurdian - Sanctuary wrote: »

I also agree. b:victory

Angelle - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I'd love to see a lot of these be implemented as it'll help run guilds a lot smoother, or rather easier.

MajorRaze - Heavens Tear wrote: »

yup. that'd be great

DeadlyBYT - Sanctuary wrote: »

yeah i totally agree.

ZxSummoner - Sanctuary wrote: »

Rawr, I agree

Aelric - Lost City wrote: »

i like this idea would be helpful and awesome... doesnt seem like it would take much work to do

Arissu - Heavens Tear wrote: »

As a Faction leader I can do nothing more than agree totaly with the matters suggested both in the original post and in some the the added suggestions followed.
You have both myself and my Factions support behind this matter.
Good luck.

Fleuri - Sanctuary wrote: »

I agree that the improvements that were suggested in the original post here would be nice.

aaddron wrote: »

Totally agree with the original post these would be great additions to the game.