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So this morning I did a quick calc of what I plan to build for my guild hall. To build everything I want I will need 193 snowpiles. This is a whopping 19,300 snowflakes.
Now this is fine, I needed a lot of pumpkins for Halloween too, but I didn’t have to sell my bank to do it.
The guild hall I have is personal guild hall and I add people that I like and allow them allow to farm from it, scribe and use NPC’s etc. So quite rightly I don’t ask or expect them to contribute to my personal wants. I mainly use the guild hall to display my trophies as I like to record my achievements and to farm mats daily. Obviously when there is a new festival I love to decorate.
The cost of the snowflakes I need are around 298 gold, this cost could be the cost of purchasing or the opportunity costs, you chose which suit you.
Workings I have worked out that to buy 4 stacks of candycorn around Halloween would have roughly cost you just shy of a gold and to buy the same in snowflake it is around 15 gold. If you then take the 1000 of the candy corn and snowflakes you can buy 10 basic decorations to scribe with.
A basic pumpkin works out to be 38 silver and a basic snowpile is 1 gold 55 silver.
Any scribe will know that different recipes need a different number of basic decorations to make the end product. i.e the snowman needs 55 snowpiles.
| Item | Gold | Stack | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Candycorn | 0.0038 gold | 0.95 gold | 3.8 gold |
| Snowflake | 0.0155 gold | 3.875 gold | 15.5 gold |
| Item | Price per basic decoration |
|---|---|
| Pumpkin | 0.38 gold |
| Snowpile | 1.55 gold |
Guild halls are meant to be fun and so are festivals
I know what you’re thinking, a guild hall is meant to be for a guild, where all contribute. I get this, I understand and I embrace this with my main guild. But, I have run a guild in GW2 and helped another, and been members of a few.
From what I have seen and experienced it is quite a task to get contributions for guild hall stuff and it normally ends up being the same people putting in, I would imagine this is the same for other guilds.
I think the biggest problem is the lost opportunity costs of what people suffer if they donate. I would imagine people didn’t even think of the cost when dumping candycorn into the guild hall as it was so cheap - but with the snowflakes if people were to donate say just enough for 10 decorations they have lost out on 15g. I would say a lot of guilds are struggling to get people to donate as people would be unwilling to part with so much gold and chose to sell.
Conclusion Why not reduce the number of showflakes needed to buy a snowpile? Or just increase the amount of snowflakes that drop. Why can we harvest corn but not snowflakes? I think it would be good on ANet to try to even out the playing field a bit so different seasons decorations cost roughly the same, what do you think?
EDIT this isn't about me wanting 193 snowpiles and the cost, because at the end of the day if I want it il pay for it. This is about the huge difference in cost in the two festivals. Lunar near year is even more of a price difference as you use luck. :/
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