Global Event Server

[Rufus]

Guilds are not teams for events.

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Guilds are not teams for events.

Who says they can't be? I think forming your guild into a team is a good way to unify your guild.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Who says they can't be? I think forming your guild into a team is a good way to unify your guild.

Then you haven't got a clue what these guilds have always been and are trying to change them into something that they are not.

[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Rufus

Then you haven't got a clue what these guilds have always been and are trying to change them into something that they are not.

Then you won't mind explaining how team events for guilds is so evil?

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Then you won't mind explaining how team events for guilds is so evil?

Originally Posted by Rufus

That's pretty much how I feel about the situation too, I just didn't know how to word it. Guilds are focused around the servers that they're derived from, and the global elasticity allows players to freely wear their tag and represent their guild on other servers, meaning that they're not just a part of a local system.

Guilds are community based groups, and activities that 'serious' guilds take part in such as recruiting, reputation building, and participation cannot be promoted through a server that is not community based. On a server like this, guilds are going to be forced to recruit based upon players skill on the games server in order to have a competitive edge, rather than their home servers and it really devalues the purpose. Even then, I am skeptical as to if guilds would actually actively participate in a server like this too, because after the initial hype it is probably going to turn into what the game server has where you have to get people to log on in order to promote some form of rivalry.

I think that a server of this type would be good for global events, but not for guilds because their home events already probably offer similar features. It should be the home servers that are employing content for guilds to participate in, because when it is all dedicated to one events server it becomes contrived activities, and guilds degrade into team building rather than communities. There just isn't enough for guilds to do on the local servers and the communities they are based in, and there is not enough provided to give that kind of purpose, but something like this isn't going to promote that.

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[Tigairius]

Originally Posted by Rufus

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Well, guilds are not forced to participate in the server. If you don't want your guild to participate, then don't go there. In fact, I could probably make it to where only the leader of the guild can sign up the guild on the server.

[Rufus]

Originally Posted by Tigairius

Well, guilds are not forced to participate in the server. If you don't want your guild to participate, then don't go there. In fact, I could probably make it to where only the leader of the guild can sign up the guild on the server.

Have you even thought about the repercussions of doing something like this?