Old school game clan/guild leader with questions

Guilds are pretty basic right now as you've pointed out. Hopefully they get some kind of perks or other form of attention in the future.
I think there are long-term plans to have PvP tournaments with both individual and guild ladders.

Thanks for the post. I'm hoping I can do as much as possible to help the whole guild thing in this game, whether the developers make improvements or not. I hate to sound like I'm bragging, which I'm not. I just know a great deal about game guilds and clans. I just need to learn about guilds in this game. Another question I have, for anyone in a larger guild, is how to you prevent mass theft of items in a member tab without locking it out to members and have Officer only tab withdrawals? I want to have a lot of stuff readily available to members but I would hate to see a whole tab cleaned out by someone as they rage-quit the guild.

Never heard of you. Maybe you weren't that popular in Diablo 1 or 2?

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FusionReactor wrote:

Wow, you're all so friendly and nice, unlike Blizzard players, who are mean and evil both on the forums and in the game. I'm going to like posting here. Glad to know there are some big guilds around already. That restored some faith for me. I had no idea the limit was 250. In WoW, it was 1000 and I kept it close to that consistently, so 250 shouldn't be a problem. How many guild stash tabs is the max? I can't find that anywhere on the net, on any Exile sites. In WoW, my guild had 8 but the items only took up once space each, so I hope there is a high tab limit. Anyway, thanks for helping, guys. I really want to get as much info as I can before I start up.

Yeah, dude, honestly the blizzard forums are a sack of living shit.

League of legends is the only game MORE toxic than current blizzard games.

I like it here too.

It's for the more mature gamers, both in age and actual maturation.

Conan, you have no idea what I put up with in World of Warcraft. I had a guild of at or close to 1000 toons consistently for about two years. We were, by far, the most successful guild on the server. We had over 470 level 90's, over 500 maxed out professions, over 600K worth of stuff in our 8 tab guild bank, not counting the other approximately 900K worth of stuff spread over a massive storage system on two accounts, 10-12k gold cash flow per week, and more. For 9 months I put up with a tremendous amount of in game harassment by a very large amount of players who were jealous or upset that one of their guildies left and joined my guild and I finally threw in the towel over it. Blizzard sucks. They didn't do a thing to stop it.

I think you're going to find the mood here quite different than WoW. PoE is far less dependent on group activity. We currently have only one encounter that solo players are for the most part locked out of.

Even within a group of players, most goals are individual ones.

I think what you're looking for, and should look into, are the private leagues coming soon.

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aldorus wrote:

It might improve in time - lets say with a guild vs. guild arenas or some "guild perks" as introduced in Cataclysm WoW.

I really disagree with "guild perks" of the kind that WoW had added them.

They not only killed off small "just friends" guilds and fostered large, anonymous mass guilds, but also led to all sorts of nasty social side effects like whisper spamming and channel spamming (we already see this here). Above all else, it pretty much made not being a guild a severe handicap.

As many things that WoW came up with, this best stays in WoW and doesn't taint other games.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

I think you're going to find the mood here quite different than WoW. PoE is far less dependent on group activity. We currently have only one encounter that solo players are for the most part locked out of.

Even within a group of players, most goals are individual ones.

I think what you're looking for, and should look into, are the private leagues coming soon.

I already do find it to be a much more mature crowd here. I also find this game to be most awesome so far. I'm very harsh when critiquing an MMORPG. This one gets two thumbs up by me. This is definitely the next game I sink my teeth into really well. Then, it's guild time. I promise I'll make a really good one ;-)

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Mivo wrote:

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aldorus wrote:

It might improve in time - lets say with a guild vs. guild arenas or some "guild perks" as introduced in Cataclysm WoW.

I really disagree with "guild perks" of the kind that WoW had added them.

They not only killed off small "just friends" guilds and fostered large, anonymous mass guilds, but also led to all sorts of nasty social side effects like whisper spamming and channel spamming (we already see this here). Above all else, it pretty much made not being a guild a severe handicap.

As many things that WoW came up with, this best stays in WoW and doesn't taint other games.

I would have to agree that the guild perk system promoted larger guilds and even made it hard for budding new guilds to make it in the competition. I would suggest to the developers, that if any "perk" is given for being in a guild it would simply be a % experience bonus. To prevent anyone from exploiting the fact that you can just make a guild for your character and get the bonus have a minimum member limit of in order to receive the bonus. It would promote being in a guild, but at the same time won't shut out newer or less prominent guilds. The reason why my guild flourished like it did in WoW is because I always thought that the "perks" guilds should have depends on how much the guild does, on it's own, for players, to benefit them while they level and gear out in end game.

If you're a clan leader from D2 you will feel right at home here. It's pretty much the same except you have an option to use a guild stash.