Posted by Thallen

I don't see why it's necessary to promote social guilds in any way at all when realistically all they do is take away from actual gameplay

Because all you're meant to do on graal is tower or spar right?
How dare people want to have a guild so that socializing in game is easier than running over the place and not using guild chat.
Shouldn't be promoted but they aren't taking away from gameplay because classic is an open world non story game, not a story-line game.  

Posted by UU

How dare people want to have a guild so that socializing in game is easier than running over the place and not using guild chat.

And they can do it, so what are you rambling about?  

It would help new players who want to make their guild known, if you read what i said the list would work like this.
If you are on the top 50 for SEASONAL active or popular guilds, you CANT APPEAR on weekly and daily. therefore the weekly and daily active guilds would be all new unknown guilds that are trying to get active.
and i said fine, don't catagorize the guilds. just make guilds in general. People just enjoy ****ting on ideas because they can't relate. its funny how the people who don't care either 1. aren't guild leaders or 2. own a guild thats already successful  

so you want a "guild popularity leaderboard" that ranks guilds that have been clicked on the most
... ?  

Posted by Thallen

so you want a "guild popularity leaderboard" that ranks guilds that have been clicked on the most
... ?

yea or some other general search that shows hundreds of active guilds that are looking for members  

or you could look at the screen and see what guilds exist by looking at peoples guild tags with your eyes  

Posted by qes

False, the 'Other' section would be guilds that aim to do both. but overtime its obvious the most successful guilds stress ONE field. US, only known for spar. Alumni, only known for spar, Chain of memories, only known for tower, Guild B only known for PK. Your talking about the minority, most guilds stick to doing one thing. If a guild wants to be known for doing two things he would go under the "other" category that I made...
I already explained that.

Even if the staff do find a way to merge things, this is not useless at all its the opposite. right now if I want to find a guild OR if i want to recruit people i have to physically find people.
With this, the most popular 50 guilds for the day/week/season can advertise their guild. its a better way of finding the type of ACTIVE guild you are looking for, and the most clicked on guilds are most likely also the most popular. The idea is far from useless. Clash of clans has something like this

I would say 90% of the guilds on classic are social guilds, guilds for people who sit around and talk all day and do nothing. Popularity of social guilds would be the most active ones obviously.
This has nothing to do with which one is better, it has to do with finding an active guild that suites you, OR advertising your guild and being able to make a better guild.

Still would be useless as there wouldn't really be types of guilds , if the systems do indeed merge I'm pretty sure guilds will aim at doing everything that will get them points. I think this will be majority of successful guilds. And in pretty sure they will have some sort of leaderboard to define the successful ones

There's no way to define popularity , popularity is mostly opinion based and can be extremely bias at times. Popularity usually comes from people opinions and thoughts on certain guilds. I think defining popular social guilds and arrange them in order of 50 ( which would also always be shifting i presume ) will be too hard and pointless to do.  

I like the idea of having categories for guilds, however it would be difficult to find a way that they could be in a leaderboard. Social guilds would not really have a way to be measured besides playercount and player activity.  

Is this what you mean?

1. Manage Guild
2. Select categories (ex: you picked spar)
3. Player1 searches for guilds and selects a filter whereas it'll show up only sparring guilds

Shows up that way since you selected spar as a category for your guild.  

Posted by Bryan*

Is this what you mean?

1. Manage Guild
2. Select categories (ex: you picked spar)
3. Player1 searches for guilds and selects a filter whereas it'll show up only sparring guilds

Shows up that way since you selected spar as a category for your guild.

yea my idea wasn't set in stone. I'm down for any changes i just think we need a way to find active guilds or even better active aimed towards what we like.  

Posted by qes

yea my idea wasn't set in stone. I'm down for any changes i just think we need a way to find active guilds or even better active aimed towards what we like.

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So basically this. You want to have a guild search filter implemented so it's a lot easier to discover old or newer guilds. Then tweak it so leader of guilds select the category their guild best fits and the player searches using the filters provided

Or like this for example in CoC:

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yes! i just feel like its too hard to find a good active guild especially because there aren't that many. i think there would be more if they had some type of advanced search  

Being able to specify, advertise and filter a guild's primary interests (e.g. Forts, Sparring, RP, Social) is something we've already been considering in the new system.  

Posted by fp4

Being able to specify, advertise and filter a guild's primary interests (e.g. Forts, Sparring, RP, Social) is something we've already been considering in the new system.

I'm assuming there will be an option for "Mixed" interests too?