Post by Azherae on 2021-05-17 06:16:14
Seconding what the previous two posters, and anyone else from the thread who spoke within that vein, has said. While there's obviously a place for measuring success vs. other guilds, I feel we'd all benefit from being able to see metrics of things like 'change since previous week' in a huge number of categories that the game will probably track anyway.
If this were also available as a general thing in the Guild Freehold, to solo players, they could walk in, check what the guild is broadly up to, what they are about, etc, and decide if they want to join, or, as noted... not join, but use the Guild's current focus as a guide for their own decisions on how to help, oppose, or even if they are a traveler looking for an area run by a guild whose values align with their own, without wanting to commit to actually joining it and taking up a slot (perhaps they don't play often).
It would help immersion and RP players too, since they would be able to 'imagine the story of the Guild' without having to find a recruitment thread or such, which smaller guilds are less likely to have. Could be even more interesting if members of other non-Allied guilds specifically could not see this information, or if the Guild members or officers could decide if to let someone in to see the stats, or decide to close off the 'Guild Archives' room to anyone but themselves.
Also some sort of Guild Bulletin Board that is also either 'left open' or 'closed' that members can use to leave one or two persistent messages for others who aren't online, without needing to use external messaging apps of any kind. If this gets connected to the game's planned external app, even better. This is also technically a way to measure success in a different way, because players can outright tell each other what they think of recent outcomes, in small messages, and this can be very encouraging in lots of ways that leads to players being able to measure success.
Just log on, go into Guild Hall, check the stats if it is a 'rollover' day, check the Board for anything anyone's left, if it isn't.
If this were also available as a general thing in the Guild Freehold, to solo players, they could walk in, check what the guild is broadly up to, what they are about, etc, and decide if they want to join, or, as noted... not join, but use the Guild's current focus as a guide for their own decisions on how to help, oppose, or even if they are a traveler looking for an area run by a guild whose values align with their own, without wanting to commit to actually joining it and taking up a slot (perhaps they don't play often).
It would help immersion and RP players too, since they would be able to 'imagine the story of the Guild' without having to find a recruitment thread or such, which smaller guilds are less likely to have. Could be even more interesting if members of other non-Allied guilds specifically could not see this information, or if the Guild members or officers could decide if to let someone in to see the stats, or decide to close off the 'Guild Archives' room to anyone but themselves.
Also some sort of Guild Bulletin Board that is also either 'left open' or 'closed' that members can use to leave one or two persistent messages for others who aren't online, without needing to use external messaging apps of any kind. If this gets connected to the game's planned external app, even better. This is also technically a way to measure success in a different way, because players can outright tell each other what they think of recent outcomes, in small messages, and this can be very encouraging in lots of ways that leads to players being able to measure success.
Just log on, go into Guild Hall, check the stats if it is a 'rollover' day, check the Board for anything anyone's left, if it isn't.