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 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?