bringing back competitive sparring would be fun..

I say no as well. Why fix something that apparently has been "imporoved" already. Dont fix it for us if this is the resolution, it will make guilds worse.
Everyone who said another server will kill player activeness in guilds is right. It will, I know ive lost people to other servers easily, hmmm, those suck ones i think. theres 2.
This needs to be incorporated into the servers, geeze, make it mandatory for the server, i dunno. In '99 when i started, there was 1 server with around 430-550 every time i got on, player count is around the same, maybe 20-50 lower, depending on the night and time. Just sayin.

Soooo, is this a yay or nay? It'd be a decent start for 'new things on Graal'. Some may say this is not a good idea to improve global guilds, but honestly, what else is being done for guilds? Nothing. How often is it that a project for the community is worked on by a 'global'? Rare/Never (No offense). I say scratch the pointless poll and go for it, something new needs to happen on Graal a.s.a.p, other than client improvements. >.>

as a person who is active in guilds, i voted for yes, but i have my doubts.

i was actually trying to make a server like this one for a couple years, never got anyone to think it was a good idea past the "i'll play it when it's up" type crap.

this can work out to be a good idea, if it's done correctly. the objective has to be not to make guilds move onto a new home server, but to give guilds a protected place away from their home servers in which to compete against one another in an unbiased no-lag environment, which can be done through a dedicated "guild" server; the server can be closed and opened depending on when events were being hosted - when nothing was going on, it'd be expected that the server would have 0 players on it, as everyone would be on their home servers.

the way i envisioned the server running was something like, a very small overworld which contained only a sparring complex and an underground guild wars complex. PKing can be done on the overworld, which would be a massive PK zone for wasting time, or perhaps an area for any type of PK war could be done directly on the overworld. sparring tournaments and leagues could take place in the sparring complex, which isn't hard to create at all; guild sparring isn't all that complicated to make happen if the scripts and the right people are on. the guild wars complex would obviously host a type of guild war system who's goal was to make everything equal (as graal has always been about everyone having the same amount of hearts, sword power, shield power, etc. at least for classic-type servers), except for the skill of the guild members. i know i've talked to some people about a certain type of system, and they've all said i had an awesomely worked out system, but i'm not gonna post it because i doubt it would be used or considered to be used.

the fact of the matter is, the people crying over losing players aren't thinking about this type of server in the right way: i'd love to have a closed off server in which me and my guild could battle out some other guild both in a fair guild war system and in sparring.

but, that said, i somehow doubt any of this is actually going to have any fruition, especially from some of the posts i've been reading from people who i hardly ever even see on graal, much less who are in guilds or care about guilds.

Well, a lot of people express concerns about the idea, so I have a feeling if I pursued it I would have a hard time finding developmental help.

Lol? Those were the people who liked the idea.

which is exactly why it won't ever happen. it's very disappointing.

i have ideas for running/managing the events on it, though i can't physically make anything (worthwhile)

what happened to graal's "elite" teams of developers? i'm sure creating a small guild's event server could be a priority for the GST and what-not?

Voted Other:

By reading all these posts, I feel half yes/no. :(

what GST?

oh, right, they dissolved that into PWA or something didn't they. well, i mean the global staff that are supposed to get their positions from being awesome and competent developers, as well as people who get things done on a timely basis when given a project - such as this one could be

I quite like this idea :).

just for an update, whats the current mind set you have for this idea Tig? i hope it isn't a definite no-go ):?

Any updates on this, or was this just a tease?

It wasn't a tease, it was just an idea, and as I said here, I don't think it's worth pursuing because too many people seemed to not like the idea (so it would be harder to complete the project).