Guild store

[Kingalfred]

+1

[Domminator]

great idea

[Dawntay]

+1

[ChelleCade]

+1 from me Sounds good.

[LothianZA]

This is a very good idea to help with the management of resources within a guild +1 from me.

[PELIAS]

-1 I think this idea is interesting but will predominantly be abused. Sounds to me like resource laundering. A way to feed multi accounts under the guise of helping out. It will be harder to track and prove who's cheating as resources will be passing through many accounts on a daily basis. There is no need to store excess somewhere else when the star menu is capable of storing any amount of goods.

Also, I think personal guild problems could arise from such an idea.

If new players need a hand then fair enough, send trades just like what we do now. No need to fix what already works.

UPDATE: I have looked at other comments on other posts and it just seems strange that the majority of the people that like this idea have been members for many years but have very few forum posts. That suggests one thing to me and the main reason why I think having a guild store is a bad idea.

[DreySA]

A Guild Bank! Many MMO's have this, and can be managed quite well.

[vigabrand]

i collected resources for event weeks before it started.
so that you or others cannot Afford is just, a bad excuse.

And maybe the guild would need to have a certain number of active players before being granted permission to create such an account.

Merged

Please, not more limits on the size of a guild. The gq system is bad enuff already! I just want to chat with a few friends, if i'm forced into a huge guild by yet more conditions I may as well chat in global!

[FlamingDeli]

Hi,

I wanted to try to attempt to revive this suggestion as in the past when I have looked at it I thought .. nah .. don't see the point. All that changed over the last couple of weeks though and I now feel that not only would a guild bank be desirable to the game .. but infact its essential.

My guild has 100 members. We have a lot of high levels. Many of us are resource and buildings rich. Members regularly donate resources/buildings etc to the guild store to use as the officer team sees fit. Over the last year the guild has amassed a sizable collection of buildings to be used for competitions, lotteries etc .. at the latest count we have close to 400 buildings and millions of resources - and that doesnt count all that have already been given away. Currently all is logged by one officer and they look after it. It works fine. There isn't a problem. YET.

If something were to happen with that one officer that prevented them being able to either access the game .. or they were to have a hissy fit and leave the guild all those resources would be lost. Thats too much responsibility for one member. Equally to spread it across different officers - would make administering it a logisitcal nightmare - who had what - etc.

Take some examples ...

1) If they died (sorry to be morbid) - noone else would be able to access their account - as we can't share that information with others (for understandable reasons) - anyone who did .. and logged in to it would flag up as having more than one account on the same ISP and as a result both accounts would be banned.

2) If they left the guild - they could steal from all the rest of the members - not cool.

3) If they got banned for something - that's BB punishing the whole guild membership - also not fair.

If as has been suggested earlier in this thread the guild set up an extra account for officers to access to store stuff .. thats breaching the rules and all of them could be banned. Equally having one account in the guild as a guild mule even if it was allowed .. would have to remain inactive .. affecting GQ completion.

This would mean the only method that could work would be to have a guild bank feature added to the game as there is in many other community based games. I have already spoken to other guild leaders on Northisle and on other servers and there seems to be strong support for this facility amongst large guilds in particular.

It could be:-

It has to be a special building such as the guild house, and could be upgraded to increase its storage capacity.
All members to have the ability to deposit items in it.
Guild leader could have amongst admin tasks the ability to set who can change guild bank settings - either just the guild leader to decide who can withdraw from it .. or officers too or even whole guild.
Some resources could be set as free for all - anyone can take any amount (stone/planks) Some resources could be limited and locked unless a member has been allocated an amount to take. It might seem like a lot of work .. but compared to the admin already involved with one person having it all .. its not more effort at all. And with the admin tools and succession list already within guild tools the beginnings of a way to solve this issue already appear to be in game.

So please BB reconsider this and how to attempt to incorporate some sort of solution to this potential problem.

Thanks

great idea

[Amiarah]

I´m gonna +1 this guildbank thing.
It should come with a history too. And a way to add or remove each and every person in the guild´s access to it.
I´m a bit hesitant to donate stuff to a 50-60+ level player, I´d rather it went to a lowbie. But that´s something each guild has to come up with.
A guild bank is a must and it would definately help a lot.