Personal Banking Guilds

HI I’m making this post to share what I’ve sorted out this week and also to elicit tips from other players.

I finally got around to making a guild book and a guild to band all of my alts together. I know guilds are seen as a multi-player mechanism so I think some number of players won’t bother to explore the mechanics for personal use, but with the multiple characters per account the guild offers a lot of utility to a solo player.

Setup:

Each character can be in more than one guild so for most of my characters, the personal guild is secondary.

I went to each of my beacons that isn’t aligned with another guild,and I assigned control of it to my personal guild. Once the beacon is guild controlled, it can be set to send footfall directly to the guild bank. I’m not sure if my stored coins made it so collect your footfall first.

I also assigned most of my alts full permissions to the Guild Executive level. My two most played are directors but this doesn’t seem important.

Benefits:

Any of my alts can now send their coffer coins, or any coins collected from any shop stand or basket sale directly to the guild bank from wherever they’re standing at the time. No more trips to the request basket for deposits.

Any of my alts can log in, and from any build where I’ve placed a book, send funds to any other alt. No more trips to the request basket and back through untold portals to get some coin to grab that deal. You just swap to an alt near a book, and send coins.

Once the beacon is guild controlled, my original settings are removed but all of my alts seem to have full permissions. I haven’t tried but I’ll need to see if there’s a way to limit this actually. I like to block my miner from breaking some of my builds :grin: Mostly this is great.

Once a beacon is guild controlled and set to send footfall to the guild, any one of my alts can walk up to it and send the coins directly to the shared bank.

I’m able to easily see my total prestige and also basic information for each of my beacons, no matter which character I’m on.

I get to take control of the “Settlement Name” field of my beacons no matter what settlement they may be attached to.

Things to learn:

Detailed permissions breakdown (how to stop my miner from breaking blocks).

I’m not 100% sure whether “Add this beacon to my list” is a feature of the guild or a separate update. It’s very nice though, especially since one character owns my main base.

So anyways if you haven’t started a guild for use between your alts, it certainly seems worth it. Is anyone aware of any benefits, or significant drawbacks I’m missing so far?

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I’m using this same setup. If you create an administrative alt you can just brick them into the wall with a guild book and a torch. Now you can access the guild UI to send money or assign permissions whenever you need.

But you can’t name yours Paypal and make him the color of money, because I already did that.

Alts are stupid blah blah blah etc

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ROFL and tenchars

Reminds me of Dwarf Fortress.

I’d always brick up discovered vampires inside an office and give 'em administrative duties. :slight_smile:

This is a great idea! I have a shared basket too but i had all my alts in the same place. I just started a 2nd build so this will become handy very soon

It’s been in the game for quite a while. At least a year. Pretty sure I could do that when I first started playing

Yep, it’s been there for as long as I can remember. If you have fueling permissions to the beacon you can add it to your list, doesn’t matter if it’s from a guild, friend or alt.

It must be the new menu layout that brought it to my attention.

Either way I was happy to find it.

But you can’t set the beacon as a destination :smiley: Just, why…

Well, you can craft a location token, use the token, and there you go.

It’s a couple extra steps than setting it as destination directly, but same effect really. It’s such a minor inconvenience that I wouldn’t want the devs wasting time on that anyway :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeah it’s really minor and I personally don’t need it anymore, only when I was starting out did it bother me. The dev time to enable the button should be 5 minutes, ok depends on the implementation but by judging how the other element behave and have been changed it should be a simple condition change.

I just went to use it, and learned this.

How silly why else would I add someone else’s beacon to my beacons list?

To be notified when it’s running out of fuel so you can refuel it when the owner isn’t currently playing. :stuck_out_tongue:

This only works if your settlement is a solo settlement, once you have others who want to align to the same guild this doesn’t seem all that wise :slight_smile: