Stonewaller wrote
As someone who holds a pile of buildings as well as several million resources on behalf of a guild I for one would be glad of some sort of system that made things 'safer' for everyone, and reduced the 'paperwork' keeping track of everything so I can differentiate between my own piles and the mountains belonging to the guild. A conservative estimate of the value of the buildings I hold for the guild is a little short of 9 million gold coins, this seems wrong on so many levels and cannot be sensible. It might be a self created problem but please note it was around 10 million at the end of the christmas event, so its not as if we hang onto things needlessly forever, we have a large turnover.
If you are in a large successful guild running many guild events it is completely necessary to store stuff somewhere. You have to accumulate in advance, you cannot for example run a lottery with many prizes for many members if you do not have the prizes in advance. You cannot have bits and pieces held by x y and z. or suddenly go out and buy 10 advanced deerstalkers on trade.
If you are in a guild with a large number of members covering many time zones and lots of high level players who like to help but prefer that help to be given out centrally so its fair on everyone you cannot really have bits and pieces stored here and there.
Okay so perhaps this is a 'first world' problem it is possible to manage without, we manage, it isnt necessary, but sorry sparkz but it IS needed. Guilds are a big part of the game, trading is a big part of the game, building an economy is a big part of the game. Guilds are encouraged and some sort of structuring to help them function would be good ... It is about FAR FAR more than just protecting resources, and its not all about trust, I recently lost internet, a friend got suspended,real life jumps in when unexpected.
Far too many eggs in one basket- maybe a problem of our own making, but BB Please help me before I am crushed by them all metaphorically if not physically.