What can we do with guilds?
As of now, guild features are quite primitive, but to have a meaningful discussion, we must first understand what we have already and see mechanics that can be improved/suggest new ones:
##Existing Guild Features
Guild Chat
- You can currently send messages exclusively visible to your guild. The text is highlighted green to differentiate from normal text [white] and PM’s [blue].
Guildies on mini-map visible
- Guild members on your mini-map are highlighted green, to differentiate from normal players [yellow] and enemies [red].
Guild Hall
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A private area for your guild to hang-out in. Most practicably used for dungeon opening to prevent lurkers.
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Upgradeable with fame. Purely aesthetic in nature, upgrades do not increase guild capacity, guild abilities etc.
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Guild Board: A public message board. Can include hyperlinks (which will prompt browser to open) and can be used to display guild rules.
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Fame contributed visible. Will reset when a player leaves/gets kicked from guild.
No teleport cool-down between guildies
If you leave your server, possibly for a trade, and come back, there is a [insert number] second teleport cool-down with the exception being teleport to guilds.
Ranks
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Currently, the ranks are as follows: Founder > Leader > Officer > Member > Initiate
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The hierarchy is superficial, the only power being the ability to promote/demote/kick players with a lower rank than you. Some RealmEye features are granted to Founders/Leaders.
##Proposed Additions
This section will be left ambiguous, and further discussion may generate more ideas,
Guild Hall Customization
Been suggested a lot, but I see no reason not to implement it because it can also be monetized.
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Effect tiles: You know the moving tiles in sprite world, quicksand, madlab pools etc? It would be awesome, if we could buy them by the tile for gold.
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Cost: 200 guild gold/tile
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Description: Soulbound, can only be used in guild hall. When used, will transform the tile that you are standing on into the effect tile. Effective when the next time you enter.
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Concerns: Killing guildmates, trolling spawn points etc. We could restrict them to non-damaging tiles.
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Guild Pet: Wouldn’t it be cool if you could buy a guild pet? Effectively, they would just be reusing existing enemies in game, but docile.
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Cost: 200/lowland enemies, 400/midland, 500/highland, 600/godland, 1000/dungeon etc.
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Description: The pets would have the invulnerable status effect at all times so it can’t die. It would also have all damaging projectiles removed, so it can’t kill you.
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Concerns: Glitches happening where people die. Though people used to love those spawning events in the guild hall, that’s why I suggested this. There should also be a cap (tier 1 guild hall => 0 pets, maxed guild hall => 2 pets)
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Ornamental Obstacles: Things like trees, rocks, statues; that sort of stuffs. Could have seasonal ones too
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Cost: Varied
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Description: When consumed, the obstacle will appear on the tile you are standing on. For example, click on the Christmas tree item and it’ll spawn a Christmas tree the next time you enter the guild hall.
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Concerns: Trolling (putting obstacles in spawn area, blocking off guild board) but there can be a restriction on where obstacles can/can’t be placed. There can be an interface designed for removing them.
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Guild Mural: A nice way of integrating the draw tool into the game, the guild founder can assign an ‘artist’ who can access the mural.
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Cost: 1000 gold/(8x8 mural), 2000 gold/(16x16 mural). 5000 guild fame every time you change the picture.
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Description: It will literally be the draw tool, and the mural will be displayed at the far end of the guild hall.
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Concerns: Drawing dongs etc. But I mean, if your guild is really into that stuff then… Also if the artist trolls and uses all the fame, but there can be a cap (only one picture change per day?)
Guild Arena
Costs guild fame per run (or guild gold), and could reward keys that can only be opened in the guild hall. They will appear in a gift chest for the guild, only accessible Leaders/Founders.
Guild Vault
Simple to implement, just make them cost gold to buy. I’m sure guilds would love having those, maybe add a room to the side as the vault room.
Guild Member of the Month
Only visible to the player, but the Founder can assign a ‘member of the month/week’ and that player will see their rank highlighted.
Anyways, sorry for the mess but I just wanted to spam some ideas out there.