08-30-2016, 10:19 PM
Good to get a dev post, as always 
Don't have much to say except about...you guessed it...guild building stuff. I hate it. I like the system the way it is, and if you want to change it, fine. Maybe it'll be better, maybe it won't (much like certain new UI elements that are hard on the eyes and not at all easy to read at a glance) but change isn't the end of the world. The problem with what's been proposed is that it's going to kill a lot of existing guilds. Take my guild for example, we've ground and clawed our way up into the top 100 without monitoring invites. We're strictly a public guild that helps out new players and likes to chat (in game chat btw) whenever people are around. What happens to our current members when our cap is reset? We can't invite them all, or explain what happened. What about the metric buttload of stone that'll go out into the ether because we've been suffused with players who become inactive. This is a big problem for us since we're public only. What about all of those members we've helped raise who've been headhunted by top-tier guilds? So those top tier guilds get stone right out of our buildings?
I'm sure you'll figure something out Ray, I've got faith in you to do right by us in the end. As a fellow dev, were I in your shoes, I'd probably push back this guild rehaul idea until you've figured out all the other things we're excited about that you've been pushing back over and over. I know figuring out the guild stuff is a key part of the systems planning that should be finished before the new features go live, but I really think that it needs more time than you'd be able to give it without holding out on new features that are sorely needed.
Don't have much to say except about...you guessed it...guild building stuff. I hate it. I like the system the way it is, and if you want to change it, fine. Maybe it'll be better, maybe it won't (much like certain new UI elements that are hard on the eyes and not at all easy to read at a glance) but change isn't the end of the world. The problem with what's been proposed is that it's going to kill a lot of existing guilds. Take my guild for example, we've ground and clawed our way up into the top 100 without monitoring invites. We're strictly a public guild that helps out new players and likes to chat (in game chat btw) whenever people are around. What happens to our current members when our cap is reset? We can't invite them all, or explain what happened. What about the metric buttload of stone that'll go out into the ether because we've been suffused with players who become inactive. This is a big problem for us since we're public only. What about all of those members we've helped raise who've been headhunted by top-tier guilds? So those top tier guilds get stone right out of our buildings?
I'm sure you'll figure something out Ray, I've got faith in you to do right by us in the end. As a fellow dev, were I in your shoes, I'd probably push back this guild rehaul idea until you've figured out all the other things we're excited about that you've been pushing back over and over. I know figuring out the guild stuff is a key part of the systems planning that should be finished before the new features go live, but I really think that it needs more time than you'd be able to give it without holding out on new features that are sorely needed.