Guild Houses - Page 4

Fibs · 02-18-2008, 06:20 PM

Not to ruin anyones fun or expectations here, but... I vaguely remember a dev stating that the guild halls will be available to city guilds only.

LFG · 02-18-2008, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Fibs

Not to ruin anyones fun or expectations here, but... I vaguely remember a dev stating that the guild halls will be available to city guilds only.

I'm sorry, but that would be unacceptable, and there'd be no reason to exclude Exile.

Laodaron · 02-18-2008, 07:35 PM

Except they're exile, and therefore supposed to be without on a regular basis. Exiles should not be included in Guild Hall fun because they chose a life of exile, a life without amenities.

LFG · 02-18-2008, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Laodaron

Except they're exile, and therefore supposed to be without on a regular basis. Exiles should not be included in Guild Hall fun because they chose a life of exile, a life without amenities.

We are Spartans!

Seriously, though, the guild halls aren't even going to be in cities - the concept art they showed at FF had them in places like off the water in Butcherblock. There would be no reason, role playing or otherwise, to exclude Exiled guilds on PVP servers. This doesn't involve loot.

Laodaron · 02-18-2008, 08:11 PM

If its going to be somewhere out in the world, sure, let Exiles in. But if its city based, then no.

LFG · 02-18-2008, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Laodaron

If its going to be somewhere out in the world, sure, let Exiles in. But if its city based, then no.

I agree with that - but the public concept art I saw at FF had all the guild houses outside the cities.

Laodaron · 02-18-2008, 08:20 PM

Then yeah.
And now that I think about it, that makes sense.

Almost all guilds are numerous faction based. It wouldn't even be reasonable to have guild halls in the cities. They would have to be outside somewhere.

Johnathon · 02-18-2008, 08:28 PM

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i second the training room.
even if it's just a bunch of training walls like the one in KJ at the tabernacle of pain.

could be fun to have a war room to plan encounter strategies. have loadable zone maps and placeable icons or objects to allow raid leaders to plan strategy. probably mostly fluff, but it would be interesting to play around with. could be useful for teaching encounters to new members too.

of course they'd have to be player housing style halls to allow people to decorate however they want.

allow players to use their call bind to their guild hall.

Allow the strats to be recorded and played in sync with a live audio stream..

So leet strats then ;)

Prof · 02-18-2008, 08:31 PM

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Also would love a locker room where people could find someone's locker and put shit in there for them instead of mailing it - hopefully it'd also let you put lore items in there if the person doesn't have one.

This must be included.
In the middle of the night I would visit the pet store. The next day they would discover their locker is full... of cats!

I would also like to see a bathroom in the guild halls as I have yet to find one anywhere in Norrath, and it is getting hard to hold it in.

All the obvious goodies have been covered it looks like.

Perhaps a set of mannequins in the vestibule that display the most recently acquired (not discovered) loot for each archtype. Another set in the trophy room where discoveries can be displayed.

A bar with free booze... auto consumed when you take it.

Perhaps archtype or class themed rooms with unique art/furniture displays though I can't think of a practical purpose for them. A dank basement sorcerer's workshop with all the fixings would be fun to have though.

Unlimited supplies of no-zone snowballs.

Secret passageways are a definate must. With pictures whose eyes you can peer through.

Would be fun if you could set traps in rooms for others to "find" (thinking back to old commador64 Spy vs. Spy). Powder kegs, spikes in the floor, anvils in the ceiling, moppets in cabinets... nothing lethal, just a suprise. Could have them set so that only your intended target can trip them even.

Nothing I expect, but would all be fun to have.

Fibs · 02-18-2008, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by LFG

We are Spartans!

Seriously, though, the guild halls aren't even going to be in cities - the concept art they showed at FF had them in places like off the water in Butcherblock. There would be no reason, role playing or otherwise, to exclude Exiled guilds on PVP servers. This doesn't involve loot.

My apologies, I remembered wrong. It wasn't stated by a developer on the forums (at least not that I know), but by someone who attended last year's Fan Faire. Apparently, the guild halls are supposed to be gifts from your city leader for long and unyielding service. Quoting:

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* Guild Halls are now being actively worked on with completion sometime after Kunark ... say first Quarter of 2008

* Guild Halls would be islands placed just offshore from Antonica and the Commonlands. They would be instances so I imagine they will work similar to how apartments work, you click on something and enter your guilds own hall.

* Exile based guilds in PvP server would not have guild hall ... concern is that Exile guilds on PvP already get the best of everything ... no desire to give them even more of everything.

* Guild Halls will be HUGE ... bigger than deathfist citadell huge. Courtyard ... over 40 rooms can be unlocked and purchased. There will be two initial themes of look and feel. One very stately and following the style of Qeynos architechure. The other would be more foreboding gothic look.

* As your guild levels you can get more rooms (I imagine like how you get more bank slots in guild bank) and your guild can choose what that room will function as ... ideas include ... Guild Vault ... Mender ... Brokers ... Crafting Supply Merhcants ... Binding Rooms to call to ... rally points to launch to raids to ... the devs want folks to post ideas for rooms on the forums since they have a ton of rooms to fill

* There is customization to a degree for the halls ... banners ... statues ... your guild crest (from the cloak) on things ... etc.

* Will probably be able to get your first guild hall at guild level 10.

Well, there is always the possibility they might change their mind...