Guild for Live Suggestions

This post is based on what we figured out as me being the guild leader and well learning by jumping in the fire during CBT2.  =)

Clan Start

Someone who is going to be on a LOT at clan start should at least make the clan and set a couple others that will be rather regular to officer. Only the guild master and the officers can do invites. The clan master should also be someone who can get a lot of money quick as it is only the clan master that can donate funds to turn it into a guild. 

Change to Guild

I would do this quickly as well and at least try to have it so 30 fit by the time explorers can show up. I would not make huge sums of money by guild missions the first couple of days because if we want or need to change the Guild Master, it costs 50% of the funds the guild has and you cannot have anything in guild storage.

Final Guild Master Choice

This should probably be finalized no later than March 3rd the official start for anyone and as noted in the last note, before we get all crazy doing guild missions.

Requirements:

The guild master should be someone that is going to play regularly several times a week and can at least do check-ins on the days they can't. It has to be someone the majority trusts to do this.

The guild master is the ONLY ONE who can start ANY guild mission. Hence missions need to work around a guild master who can be around. The guild master does not actually have to participate. Let's say Neo wants to do a guild mission event at a certain time each week, the guild master has to at least be available to pop on and start it if he/she can't actually play. so there is a LOT of timing issues a guild master needs to be able to work out to help the guild.

Guild Missions

Once the guild master is definitely set, start making the money! At the start there are some rather fun gathering missions that really help build up the funds fast. Hence, why I say not to slam these through before the main guild master is set because 50% of the funds go poof switching a guild master. We did one mission that we had 2 hours to complete in 90 minutes and got nearly 400K.

Gathering Missions

The issue with gathering missions is that once a tree was gathered by any guildie, that tree cannot be harvested again for the mission. People should be in different areas so they don't wind up overlapping too much and waste time. It was actually fun because we were chatting it up on Vox while doing this and definitely getting a good laugh because I fell somehow and wound up trapping my horse in a cistern. HA! I climbed, horse did not. So, bottom line, SPREAD OUT for these. 

Easy tracking - guild missions show up as the top quest in your quest log on the right of the screen. Anyone can jump in any time it is running and try to gather where they are at. 

Conquest Missions

For higher levels and it is even suggested L50 or close for the characters. For one it is out near Calpheon and for us L20-22s everything was PURPLE - IE above our level and hard. So these will have to wait a bit, but will be fun to figure out when we get to them.

Conclusion

The clan should be started immediately to get the GSCH tag and at least grown in size as a guild with the master being someone who is willing and able to spend a lot of time working on this as one of their primary goals. No major funds should go in the guild through missions before the official guild master is set. The guild master must be someone wanting to play a lot and even pop in on days they can't play much. And only officers or guild master can do the invites for a clan or a guild.

See you all there March 1st!

we could make a poll with those in favor to lead or the officers.

im gonna be on pretty much everyday but it depends on work and since I'm from Europe I got always a different time table them u guys .

WOW! Very well put Bri!

When talking about guild gathering missions we learned that this can be done by several smaller low level members as most of the items are scattered throughout the world. So starting this day two or three might be a great idea. Also, when we completed the gathering missions it unlocked guild trading missions allowing our non-pvp'ers alot of stuff to do. 

You know to be honest there wasn't a lot of pvp. Now I know that at 45 the pvp unlocks and forces open conflict however if your not flagged for it there really is no reason why people would want to attack unless your in a guild war. The whole time i'm playing the game I was thinking.. " wow there is alot to do" Most of it was pve. So where people say this game is made strictly for pvp, I have to ask where they can get that info from as most of the game tries to teach you how to play and then allows for sandbox style pvp at the endgame when people are wanting more.

As far as strategy goes Bri said it best " THERE IS A LOT ". Not only can to coordinate your troops with map and in game based waypoints but you can use that for guild missions as well. If you were to put a sign up you can show your name and postion on the main map and that is a way to coordinate say calvary or other troops. With the sieges castle and nodes we will need to use those along with the other items we found. Guild leader can basicly teleport the members to him with a CD at a certain point in order to help defend points or strongholds.

I'm kind of rambling on at this point. However this is the game I was wanting ESO to be.

Yeah it might need to be someone that is on alot like a stay at home mom, or someone else. I know Sapheira will be doing alot of play from home so that might not be a bad idea. She'd make a good officer with her time.

Either way it will need to be someone that is dedicated to the game as it could be crippling if not.

I plan to be on a lot in the early weeks & my schedule is pretty flexible in that time (most of my grading and non-classroom work can be handled from home). I haven't been around long enough to take on guild master, but I'd be glad to get it started & then hand off leadership. I have access to the first day of headstart & should be able to make the money to upgrade on the first or second day.

I second Malthol, I can also grind up some to get the money. Either one of us can start it and I plan on taking that whole week off. However I don't want to be GM.. Officer I can do but GM will require more time than I can do. Someone else that maybe doesn't have as tight a schedule needs to run in. Personally I don't see an issue with us starting guild missions day one or two. If we burn up the four gathering and get the guild 1.6mil silver and then swap to another gm.. that still allows the guild to have 800k and thats enough to pay for taxes and for the daily contracts for a few days before we have to organize them again.

I Third Malthol to start it at least. I'll help out anyway I can. I'll be on more hours than I care to admit., but no desire to be a guild leader. I'm pretty much grand for anything else. I can't wait to start hosting events myself, as I've not liked the list two chapters and this is what I've been waiting for. This should have been out successor in my dream world.

» Edited on: 2016-02-22 09:11:38

Hey guys, What guild name are y'all going to have at launch? Due to the character limit we are unable to make "Harbingers of Light", so our first choice is "Harbingers" and second being "Lightbringers" depending on how fast we make that 30 foot run to the guild master. Anywho I just wanna know what tag we need to keep an eye out for :D

Hey Pooka, it is GSCH and not going by Gaiscioch at all in the game. I'm going to be lead after we get some things organized and in video format first.