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[2019] Guild Changes | April 2019


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GUILD CHANGES

When we first introduced guilds, it was to a small community built from groups of tight-knit friends. Guilds were a reflection of those more intimate groups at first, but as our game has grown some guilds have… overgrown. Once we are in the new world of One Dauntless (on PC, consoles and beyond), we will be bringing you new ways to interact with guilds. For this to scale, we will not only be capping guilds, but also making them free.
 

Starting today, we will be limiting guilds to 100 members, including the guild's leader.
 

This new limit will impact existing guilds in a few different ways.
 

If your guild has more than 100 members … you will not lose any existing members at this time, but you also won't be able to add new members until you drop back below the new 100-member cap.
 

If your guild has less than 100 members … you will be able to add new members until you reach the new cap.
 

Bringing Dauntless to new platforms means there are some new guidelines.
 

Because of this, we will be limiting guild names to 15 characters or less.
 

If your guild name is over 15 characters … you will have your guild name capped at the new 15-character limit.
 

Guilds that share the same name after the name cap will be assigned a number after their new name (e.g. CoolGuild1, CoolGuild2, CoolGuild3). If your guild name is automatically shortened and you're unhappy with the result, the leader of the guild can write to us at [email protected]. We're happy to work with you and help you find a new name.
 

We also have one more big change that we know everyone will enjoy:

CREATING A GUILD IS NOW FREE.

 

You heard us. Guilds are now free to make. Anyone who purchased a Guild Charter in the past or received one as part of another purchase (e.g. Founders Packs) will be granted 1,000 platinum. If you purchased multiple charters, you will receive 1,000 platinum per charter purchased. Had unused charter(s)? They will be removed, and you will receive 1000 platinum for each one.
 

What will happen to larger guilds in the future?
 

Guilds that exceed the 100 member limit will be automatically cut back at a later date. If your guild has already passed that limit, we suggest paring back now to get ready for the future. Not sure what to do with guild overflow? Have a friend or trusted guildmate create a guild that complements yours. Think:
 

Skarnfriends & Skraevfriends
Aetherwave & Aetherhop
Peanutbutter & Regularbutter
 

We are excited for the future of guilds. In the meantime, what are you planning to spend your new-found platinum on?
 

Thank you for reading, and as always clear skies.

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almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by TayDeuze

so basically current players get f**ked up and cheated out of stuff they bought again because you guys decided to transition to a new service and didnt negotiate well enough? sure, sounds fair. We only paid 10$ to create our guilds and build them up with the names we picked.

Hey! This decision came so that we can make more and more guild features in the future, and we need a cap so that guild social features can scale in the way we envision. You will keep your guild, and you will be receiving 1000 platinum as well :D

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by TreeRover

Sweet! Are there any plans for having in game bonuses for guilds? For example; you play/do dailies for your guild to get points and level it up, and at certain guild level milestones you'll have buffs like: get x% increase amount of $ from y, or earn x% increase to weapon/armorsmith exp, or something to do with the new mastery system. Either way, nice update to a otherwise niche system :)

Super cool ideas!! We are working on different ways to build up the social aspects of guilds, as well as connect them to in-game things like those that you mentioned. <3

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by narcoleptopus

O W O

I see where this is going, and I like. 😁💖

Excellent job handling the issue of retrofitting. 😊👌

Clear Skies and Happy Patching!

-A

<3

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by LoyTakian

Hi, I'm a leader of a really huge guild (900+ members) and that's a sad thing to read but I can't do nothing about it and that's ok. But Since I need to remove 90% of my members, I would love to have more information to decide who to kick out. Any additional information like "This person is offline for 5 days" or something like that would turn the things easier.

Totally! For your own knowledge, when we do end up pruning them back to 100 it will be done so by last logged in date. If you would like this info ahead of time to do the culling yourself, just let me know and I will get you that info.

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Tomdahan

if people want more than 100 in a guild, I think having a guild level, and gaining guild slots per level could be a cool idea, gives the guild a goal to keep playing and leveling it up to be able to have more players in it!

Totally! I love that idea. The reason we need to put a cap in is so that we have the ability to do cool things like this in the future!

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by LoyTakian

Yeah, I want this info. But we will need this type of information even after this, the 100 members limit will continue there so we will need this information to properly manage active members. If you implement it in the game itself will be perfect. (also better roles too)

Super good feedback, thank you!

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Bananassassin-BnnA-

Assuming this initial change is laying the groundwork for future improvement of the guild system I'm super down for this. Question though, if I want to request a guild name change can I e-mail now or should I wait until the change takes place? I'm just dropping the "The" from the guild name. :P

Yes, it's absolutely laying groundwork for the future! Also, you can feel free to email now, however the change will not be able to be addressed until after our game comes back online tomorrow.

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Wort3x

Whaaat ????? wtf we allready 1k people in our guild so what will the 900 others do?
OK well this officially Made the game suck...

So now ur limiting us on things so yea.. great...

Why does no game company listen to there players? ooo Yea MONEY FFS GUYS!!

Hey, I am really sorry to hear you're upset. I know that it feels bad to get capped on a thing that was not capped previously. I do want to tell you that these changes are going in so that we can do things in the future (such as level up for expanding guild size). Things like that cannot get implemented unless we put in a cap.

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Drylen

Hello, I'm the leader of the xFRx guild containing 500+ members like Draxg0n said it earlier.

WE HAVE LOT OF QUESTION AND PLEASE DONT IGNORE IT.

Huge guilds will suffer from this update. In my case the guild channel was pretty active and very cool with 500 members.. it's really sad to lose this..

1) After a moment (maybe 2 weeks later) will you just delete guilds with 100+ members  ? :( Btw we did a huge work of recruitment. Do you plan some rewards for us ?

Reduce to 100 member will be a hard thing.

2) Will we have tools ingame for determinate which people is able to stay like last connection and if he's online or not ?

3) Will you do a system of alliances like Dofus to regroup multiples guilds and have an alliance channel (/a) & (/g) ?

4) Guilds will have more roles ? Like a role which can invite and kick ?

5) Can i'll change ingame the guild name and tag when I want ?

6) What about dont changes guilds and create a 2nd crew system ?

7) Or just dont put a limit and make quests & rewards adaptables to the number of members ??

1) After a moment (maybe 2 weeks later) will you just delete guilds with 100+ members ? :( Btw we did a huge work of recruitment. Do you plan some rewards for us ?

I know that this feels bad right now, but in order to make more and more cool guild features, we need to have a cap. We are not deleting guilds. Once we have more guild features, we will be removing players from guilds that are above 100 by weighting who logged in last. This way, your most active players will remain in the guild. If you prefer to remove people manually, you can do that if you wish.

2) Will we have tools ingame for determinate which people is able to stay like last connection and if he's online or not ?

When we do update guild features in the future, we will remove people from guilds based on who logged in last. This way, you will keep the people who played most recently. If you prefer to do it manually I totally understand that, and can get you a spreadsheet of your latest active players if you like.

3) Will you do a system of alliances like Dofus to regroup multiples guilds and have an alliance channel (/a) & (/g) ?

Totally love this idea, and that's definitely something that may come as we add more and more functionality to guilds.

4) Guilds will have more roles ? Like a role which can invite and kick ?

Same as above, I am into this and think it will come when we add more features to the guild system.

5) Can i'll change ingame the guild name and tag when I want ?

You can change your guild name by writing into [email protected]

6) What about dont changes guilds and create a 2nd crew system ?

The guild capping is rolling out now, and will be live when the patch goes out. Your players will remain in your guild (unless you remove them / they leave) until we roll out more guild features.

7) Or just dont put a limit and make quests & rewards adaptables to the number of members ??

In the future (once we roll out more guild features) there is totally the posibility that we will have rewards in the form of expanded guild slots. For things like this to scale, we had to cap guilds so that everyone starts at the same amount.

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by nawtyhell

Is there going to be a way to search for guilds? or to apply for guilds?

I love that idea!!

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Draxg0n

Honnestly, I think this is a bad idea. I explain:
-They are many guilds that are beyond 100 members, for example, in my french guild, we are 500+, and for the most famous guilds like Carry Me, it's 1000+. This change will just split the community in different groups and it isn't, in my opinion, really constructive.
-It's better to give guilds some bonuses (in a way like masteries, with objectives that all players can fill), and with this kind of idea, it's totally normal that number is strength. So one guild of 1000 members working on boosting this guild is way much more enjoyable than 10 groups of 100 members working on 10 different groups, creating useless rivalities between those groups who were in the same entity.

For the good point, yes, making guilds free is fine.

Hey! For context, one of the things we would love to add is a way to complete challenges as a guild, with the reward being more slots for more people to join. This only works if every guild has a cap.

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by madlarocha

glad to read these words, GUILD CHANGES <3

<3

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Wort3x

Well then why even have a cap ? Just sounds like your caping because you can... why not implement just add more stuff for the guild tabb like the leader able to make titles in the guild and even make guild hunts ? why not put ur time and effort in to this instead you are makeing things worse for your community , why not make polls and ask us on your login cilent ? there is so many other thinks u could have done instead..

But if it is not that you are aiming for then yea sure destroy the guilds i guess...

We decided to put in the cap ahead of the features going in so that guild leaders could choose who to keep in their guild if they wish. If we did not do this cap ahead of the features, we would have removed players from guilds with no warning, which we did not want to do.

More features, like the ones you mentioned, will be going into the game in the future. We needed everyone to be at a 100 cap so that we can have cool rewards like "do x challenge with your guild for more invite slots".

Hope that makes sense!

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by Evreck

When will we see the 1000 platinum back from Founders packs? I had hoped it would be added right away, but I don't have it.

Hey!! If you relog, it should be there now <3

almost 6 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by taggerungDC

Are guilds cross platform? Like can a PS4 player join a PC guild or something like that?

Yes, everything is cross platform!

over 5 years ago - /u/bunheadwhat - Direct link

Originally posted by BbqChickenTing

I know this is 4months old, but I'm new to the game and I'm glad theres this kind of relationship between the devs and players, makes me see a long future ahead for the game

We love talking to you, too!!!

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