They didnât, but common consensus is that youâll have to walk up and touch it to get the buff for a period of time.
Imma talk to the Hubs and get his input.
I definitely do prefer guilds that donât punish you for not being hardcore. âMust play 6 hrs a dayâ âmust participate in at least 5 weekly eventsâ âblahblahblah rules,â with the punishment of being kicked.
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Hi Crete-
What differentiates you from all the other guilds?
Iâve seen alot of guilds come and go. As a former guild leader myself, I used to think it it was bad guild management. But upon closer inspection at some of the larger guilds, I realize there really arenât alot of activities that truly encourages collaboration in this game. As such, everyone just kinda solos and does their own thing and resorts to text chats. Basically, itâs a solo MMO.
Iâm interpreting the new guild buffs as mechanics but not really new content unto itself. As such, I donât see a need to run a guild and recruit players since the activities themselves will still be the same. Do you see something different? Or is the guild simply a place for us to collect our âbuffsâ?
PS- Really genuine question and not meant to be hostile in any way.
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infiniti def my style
love it wish you luck
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For those that donât know, that shape is called a âMoebius Stripâ =P
Nothing from what I see, other than the no requirements or rules thing.
I can Imagine the Guild buff strength may be based on guild member numbers, or possibly Prestige of the City the Machine is placed in. Or maybe none of that, and itâs the same for each guild, depending on what you feed the machine.
Either way, we will have it covered. Just trying to share the wealth of the upcoming update, that way no players feel like they are locked out of a game feature.
A promise I can make, is that however the buff is calculated, we will make sure it is maximized as fast as possible. No matter the cost of time or coin. So anyone who wants to come along is free to hop on!
And so starts the meta of joining guilds for the wrong reason.
Noble, but I wish this wasnât a problem that needed a solution in the 1st place
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Hey Crete the link says invite is invalid or expired
Thatâs a really great thought and echoes how I feel. I think this was what I was getting at with my question about how Crete (and others) intended to differentiate. But sadly, it feels like the devs want to head into a different direction 
Btw, not sure if limiting to one guild has the intended impact you want because everyone has alts that specialize. So a miner alt can go to a guild with a miner buff and a hunter alt can go to a hunter guild,etcâŚ
My intent with the limitation of one guild is to try to force people to pick, they can either be in a guild that gives a bonus, along side everyone else as well as Monkeys and Muppets who they may or may not dislike having to see spewing off nonsense in guild chat⌠or they can be in a guild that contains people they want to play with. I think, most people if forced to pick one, will pick the guild that contains people they want to do stuff with, not the guild that contains obnoxious people.
It is also to create the situation where the guild leader can see if someone was in that guild for the right reason or not, if that person then picks to leave for a âbuffâ guild later on because they are not allowed to be in both. some one who is hopping from guild to guild, is alot less likely to be joining for the right reasons.
My solution would have the most impact if joining a guild was per account and not per character. that would show where someones loyally, if any, really is at. but I also understand that can create other problems, if for example, someone wants to play on an alt to get away from the eyes and drama of the guild.
weird, i changed it, try it now. It should be set to never expire
Itâs working now
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Great input and thoughts, but severely off topic.
If you donât want to join, It is surely one of the infinite choices available to you. If you have issues or worries about the upcoming Guild system, this is not the topic for it. I would point you toward the Suggestion section. Iâm just rolling with what the information Iâve been given, and trying to make the best of it. Hopefully some other people feel the same! =D
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Great idea!
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You mention the purpose of the guild to be about guild buffs.
Me mention how I feel about the guild buffs and how it is obviously impacting stuff. Your guild being a direct result of the impact. and a good example of the exact thing I predicted might happen in the post I gave a link to.
In my book this not off topic. It would be off topic if you had not mentioned/suggested your prime motive to be about guild buffs.
As for what to look for in a guild, or what one has to offer, as of right now thereâs not much. Itâs hard to promise anything bc what if that ends up being impossible? We donât even know what the buff is.
This is just a baby step.
This is WS seeing if we can play nice together and what we might want after getting used to this step.
As of right now itâs mostly a way for ppl to connect with each other, which is something I wanted.
I enjoy talking to the ppl Iâve met and friended. But I donât like staying in one place and I imagine they donât either. Iâd love to be able to sit comfortably in my base and talk to ppl who arenât even on the same planet as me. Huge benefit right there.
Getting an early jump is also a good way of starting quality guilds instead of 200 3-person guilds scattered around.
When we start figuring out what guilds have to offer and what they could potentionally offer, Iâm sure weâll see more specialty guilds.
Me, Iâm looking at casual. Husband was a high ranking officer in a popular WoW guild and it was like a second job and although he had fun, it also caused so many problems. And bc he still had fun he was blind to those problems until it got really, really bad.
Crete, even though you were light on the rules, I would still suggest adding common civil behavior rules. Like âdonât be bringing your drama llama in.â
Might get kinda craycray otherwise. 
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Ya. I had thought about adding something like that. In Infinity City, we have no build rules, but it is commonly known that we will help each other out as best we can when we can. Like giving free road mats, or unplotting a plot needed by someone. That idea would carry over to the Guild. If there is a MotD feature, it was going to say something to that effect. Or a recommended Guild Guidelines sign near the buff.
Most people in the city know my mannerism, and the âno rulesâ goes both ways⌠if someone is causing trouble in chat, there are no rules barring me from giving them the boot! =D
@debstep of course! You could join both!!! =P
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Iâm intentionally being a nitpicky annoying jerk lol, but if there were no rules then it shouldnât matter what anyone says or doesâŚ
Listen⌠this is NOT a grey area.
If you come into the Guild chat and start trashing the guild âThis guild sucks, and I hate everyone in itâ and asking everyone who chats âWhy are you even in this guild, you should uninstall the game. Cause your builds are bad. And you are stupidâ
That type of stuff defies the laws of basic human decency. And that kind of nonsense wonât be mucking up my chat.
âAct like a decent humanâ is not a rule. âDonât spam bot the guild chatâ is not a rule. Do you see what I am saying here? We have a âBuild anything you want!â mentality in Infinity City. If someone built a huge phallus in the middle of town, I would suggest they take it down. Same idea.
Have you seen what people do to each other? online and IRL?
Anything can be a rule. Look in any ToS or other document that describes how people should behave to each other and 1/2 of it is stuff that should be common sense. shouldnât need saying but obviously isnât
Some of the cultural diversity âclassesâ that some of us are forced to go to are even more painfully obvious, but yet it still seems to be a problem in the work place.
âHave common senseâ can be a rule if you choose it to be.
âAct like a decent humanâ can be a rule if you choose it to be.
When you say something like no rules at all, then that is what you are saying, people can do whatever to each other. and people WILL take that at face value.
So if you want people to behave. I would suggest putting at least the basic rule. Inless you donât mind people coming in and giving you a hard time just for the fact.
If someone is the type of person that sees âNo rulesâ and decides that is a free ticket to act like an animal, they will have bigger problems in life than getting booted from a guild.
Follow the Boundless CoC, and community guidelines and youâll be fine! =D
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