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Gameplay => Guilds Forum => Topic started by: Evanchild on August 11, 2003, 09:39:35 pm

Title: Start a guild.
Post by: Evanchild on August 11, 2003, 09:39:35 pm
I am looking to start a fairly peaceful guild but to wage war if provoked. a fairly public area. to trade openly and such.  post here if you would be willing to join, or help out.
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Post by: Tepsu on August 11, 2003, 09:46:34 pm
Hmm, mebbe you should provide more info about your guild, name, charter, rules, etc.
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Post by: Evanchild on August 11, 2003, 09:54:02 pm
name: tba
rules: dont be a moron, thiefs are ok. just a trading guild and fairly diverse
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Post by: Monketh on August 12, 2003, 03:31:35 am
Hmm... A little on the Sparse side Evan.  What\'s the full name?
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Post by: Evanchild on August 12, 2003, 03:33:16 am
paste eating gnomes sounds good
or trading gnomes. hopefully we could be the largest trade central in all of ps.
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Post by: Monketh on August 12, 2003, 03:49:07 am
Well there\'s already a trade \"Association\" .  And that association kinda wants to be recgonized as the premier trading group/place in PS.  You\'re free to make this guild, but I see it as a business, not a guild.
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Post by: Drilixer on August 12, 2003, 05:06:42 am
ok - Evanchild - if this is not a joke you need to work on your roleplaying skills.  part of creating a guild is bringing it to life and at the moment your guild is very much dead.
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Post by: Evanchild on August 12, 2003, 07:28:24 am
meh. it was kind of hoping for possible members to come and suggest things.
Title: Black Order Guild ...
Post by: Annah on August 12, 2003, 08:53:25 am
Hiya ...
 Evanchild, maybe you want to make a good joke. Creating a guild is really not so simple ... and then you willl have to take care of it ... to lead it.
 Sure, no one can tell you not creating a guild. It\'s only that you won\'t have many chances with it ... I think you\'ve got the point.
 And about your ideas ... go play some CounterStrike ;P ...
 If you will think how many of us created our guilds ... think I\'ve created the guild 2 years ago ... when there were only 2 guilds ...

 Annah - Black Order King
 \"Live by the sword ... Die by the sword!\"
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Post by: Evanchild on August 12, 2003, 06:29:35 pm
riight. appearantly nobody is gonna give me input that i care about. i\'ll just start my little website all alone then.
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Post by: Monketh on August 12, 2003, 06:50:45 pm
A lot of planning and discussion goes into making a guild.
Ask yourself,
Is there a need for this guild, or are there already established guilds in this category?
What is the goal of your guild?
Are there people interested in your ideas?
What matierials will you need? (webpage forum etc...)
How will you need to use, or obtain theese matierials?
And lastly,
Is it worth it?  Guild making and running requires a lot of work.

When you have answered theese questions correctly, you will be able to start a sucessful guild.

Good Luck,
Monketh :)


Edit:Btw, if you are actually serious check out http://www.guildware.net , it\'s a worthwhile project.
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Post by: Evanchild on August 12, 2003, 10:30:43 pm
have forums and an irc server ooo ooo burn
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Post by: Drilixer on August 13, 2003, 12:07:58 am
Evanchild we arnt trying to discourage you from creating a guilg - just from creating a disorganized one that will become inactive within a month - get organized - maybe invite your friends to help - and then come back here with a stronger base.
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 01:12:34 am
right now im looking for people interested in a trading guild before i commit.
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Post by: Monketh on August 13, 2003, 01:14:37 am
Agreed.  Did you know there are over 400 guilds?  How many are active out of those?  Less than one quarter of those are operational active guilds.  So please, think it over before creating a guild, and prepare.

[Edit: Meant to accompany Dril\'s post, but I was too slow.]

Edit:Not you evanchild, whole guilds can decay and go inactive after only a month.
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 01:44:30 am
im acrive. and as long as planeshift keeps coming i will to.
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Post by: DevotedEternal on August 13, 2003, 05:20:53 am
this may constitute a flame, and may get deleted... but take it from me, my guild is in pain... and a tremendous amount of planning, work, and forethought went into my guild. Imagine if i just decided to randomly start a guild w/o much planning... it would be disasterous. My advice: join a guild - you seem like someone who could do well in a guild but not as a leader... you simply arent (as far as i can tell, atleast) open minded enough. i say this only because youve rejected any constructive input anyone has given you. however, if you do decide to start your own guild, good luck to you. End of completely disorganized rant number 73462.

- Devoted
Leader of The Forsaken Ones
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 05:36:31 am
now that everyone said i can\'t do it i have to now :)  
i think i got it all together now
the guild will accept any profession. more towards constructive professions, builder smithy forger... anything to do with making things are wanted more than strong weapon wielding heathens. the guild will protect it\'s ground but never to attack.  It is a merchantism guild. to make things others can\'t for a price of resources or other items.
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Post by: zabeal on August 13, 2003, 07:07:21 am
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now that everyone said i can\'t do it i have to now :)  

Thats the spirit! Go ahead, do whatever you want to do, if your guild ends up folding in two days, it won\'t kill you.
A suggestion for you name- pick something in the Strongbad style of taking a cool souning word, and spelling it wierd, like limozeen!
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 07:14:55 am
trading gnomez
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Post by: zabeal on August 13, 2003, 07:29:34 am
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trading gnomez

Hmmm, lets see here, it might be too acurate since you are actually going to be trading, but the blatent fact that there are gnomes in PS more than makes up for it!
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 07:41:01 am
lol i didn\'t know that. i am open for suggestions since it is nto an official guild yet.
Title: Black Order Guild
Post by: Annah on August 13, 2003, 01:28:21 pm
Hi Devoted ...
 Good to see you back on these realms :)
 Can we say that in this moment the Forsaken Ones are back?
 I hopes so ...
 
 Annah - Black Order King!
 \"Live by the sword .. Die by the sword!\"
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Post by: Evanchild on August 13, 2003, 06:32:32 pm
idon\'t knowwhat that had to do with anything...
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Post by: Wolfmane on August 14, 2003, 10:55:16 am
Well evanchild I\'ll give you this much, you sure have staying power! With all the criticism and advice to think it over before you continue you are still at it whilst most would have given up long ago.

What you have going for your idea is that there is not, to my knowledge - sorry if i step on any toes, a merchant or artisan guild. Sure there is a merchants association but the idea is exactly NOT to be a guild but an association that recognises established merchant, tavern owners etc by giving them a seal of approval if they meet certain criteria. It is aimed at individual players not Guilds. My advice is that you make it either a
trying to incorporate both is too much and too  wide. A merchants guild would have members that set-up (at least intend to in-game when Crystal Blue comes out) shop all over the realm of Yliakum and work together as traders with each other.
An Artisan guild would be a collection of players who make weapons, jewelery, wagons etc. and they could  be situated in one place which would probably give some strength in unity.

Whichever one you choose go with one of them only. The advice by most given here is well intended, you should be aware of the fact that getting a guild up-and-running is no mean feat but it can be done with good ideas, initiative and drive. My advice is go for it, if it fails you can always join an existing guild.

I am sorry that some inconsiderate people are using your thread for their own personal messages to other guilds! X(  Most ppl in this forum respect other ppl\'s threads and use PM\'s for private messages, here\'s to hoping that we all will do so soon.