New guild halls - more than just for noobs

LFG · 08-05-2007, 06:57 PM

One of the things that was talked about in the "future of EQ2" panel discussion at Fan Faire was the introduction of new guild halls.

The guild halls will be massive, and zones in themselves.

You will start by obtaining a basic guild hall with not a lot of features.

But then you will be able to grow your guild hall with various "rooms", each of which can have a unique feature. One of the features discussed as a possibility was binding rooms - where guildmembers can bind and then gate to.

So basically, the new guild halls are intended not to be just a bunch of useless cutesy stuff with decorations, but to have actual features that will be useful to players and guilds, and your guild will be able to buy or earn these features in the form of "rooms" as your guild progresses.

What SoE is looking for is suggestions on what other rooms they can add to these guild halls. The guild halls are designed to be able to grow to up to 40+ rooms.

What features/rooms would you like to see made available in these guild halls?

Snark · 08-05-2007, 07:10 PM

I think there should be a room where applicants can see what the guild is looking for.

I think there should be a room where someone has to meet with a recruiter to get guilded.

I think there should be a large meeting hall for guilds who care about that sort of thing.

There should be a room where all members of the guild can display goods for sale and put them up on the broker. People wanting to buy at discount would have to visit the guild hall.

There should be a room or two for pets.

There should be a guild history room where people can type up and display something for people to read.

Maybe a room displaying raiding accomplishments, not sure how this is possible though.

I doubt my guild will take advantage of these features but I do know this is important to a lot of people and has been for a long time so its good to get it out of the way.

Calbiyum · 08-05-2007, 07:13 PM

There should be a trophy wall and have it that when your guild kills something the Trophy is placed in the guild hall.
I know my idea is worse than Snark's ideas but I just thought that might be cool.

LFG · 08-05-2007, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Snark

Maybe a room displaying raiding accomplishments, not sure how this is possible though.

Man, it would be cool as hell to get a "trophy", like a mounted mob head or something, for a X4 gamewide or serverwide first wouldn't it? And then those could be mounted in a trophy room.

Raina · 08-05-2007, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Snark

Maybe a room displaying raiding accomplishments, not sure how this is possible though.

Named encounters drop a plaque or something saying who killed it and when or it would drop something the guild could have made into a plaque. Taxidermy would be the new tradeskill :P Dragon head on the wall.

Could have a more exotic trophy/plaque for a server first and then a general one for those who kill it after, that way not just the first guilds to do it get trophies.

Calbiyum · 08-05-2007, 07:15 PM

Oh he already said my idea lol

Snark · 08-05-2007, 07:16 PM

I guess they could do Artifact trophies off each epicx4 mob in EoF. They could be scaled down replicas with cool particle effects. Maybe if they could program it, if you examined it could show the name of everyone on the raid as well. I like that idea.

Aerin · 08-05-2007, 07:34 PM

I like that idea, for each guild you could have a trophy room with small replicas of the x4's that they have killed. This would also serve as a tool for potential applicants to really see what a guild has achieved in the raiding game and a nice walk down memory lane for the guildies.

Something I liked in Asheron's Call 2 guild halls were the training dummies that you could practice on. Have different versions of training dummies from straw through to something solid like vanguard plate or something with HP rising with each version.

This would be good to test spell/ca cast orders etc or even just to hang around and compete with guildies to see who can burn them down first etc.

Broker, Banker, crafting stations, mender, call skill (like call of queynos/overlord), bell out to TS & Nek etc are all obvious choices but they should be made available at varying guild levels with only the lvl 80 guilds having everything. You don't want to make the cities empty by making all of their features available to absolutely everybody in guild instances.

Azeda · 08-05-2007, 10:39 PM

A stable for mounts would be cool.
I love the trophy room ideas stated above.
The broker, crafting area, banker areas are a must.
Expanded guild vaults. I would like to see this more specialized. Like maybe a special vault for gear, one for potions, one for poisons, one for crafting supplies, etc ...
An alter room that looks like a cathedral where you could place altars.
I like the idea of a training room.
Maybe a bar/gaming room for socializing.
Oh ... a pig racing track (village of shin style) ... yes for gambling with guildies ... hehehe

razieh · 08-05-2007, 11:06 PM

A CARD DUELING ROOM WITH COOL HOLOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATIONS OF THE CARDS FIGHTING THAT IS ALL!

EDIT: On second thought I also want a room filled with life size chess pieces to play chess with. There needs to be more things to do in game out side or heroic instances/ raid instances there isn't anything like the docks in DoF any more no common ground to go. Any way for these not to be instanced maybe a ridiculous amount of plat like 2k plat to buy or something? Also FUCK YOU SNARKS for running Hoshiminases inn room with all your stupid pets definitely no pet rooms!!