Guild Halls??Follow

Lookee what I saw when I patched Test tonight...

http://eq2.allakhazam.com/sdetail.html?story=14276

/Rubs eyes in disbelief

This may be nice, and I definately loved the GH in EQ1. My only question is would this almost make 'betrayal' or 'race' a need to know? I havent been with my current guild for very long, but they are casual players and I enjoy their company, and I would hate to think that it would be a problem for me (through the commonlands is np) to get to.

I've yet to do my betrayal to Neriak, but that's because I dont see any benefit in doing so. Am I being racist? Lol.

So they are comming out in next few weeks now huh. Kool

Just not really happy with the prices, they are expensive as heck.
hope it'll go down abit

have no fear Stu. the guild halls, along with the amenities, are gonna cater primarily to the VERY large and/or VERY wealthy, and/or raiding guilds. I do not think that there will be much in the way of making the cities ghost towns because of that. also, 2 of the guild hall tiers are also in the cities themselves which will help keep the cities somewhat populated.

Unless/until clipboards get added as an amenity.

I'm not knockin' them..all I'm saying is that they have to be wary about giving people too much leeway in being able to compartmentalize their activities.

That's pretty much what I'm talking about. Crafting is just a single part of it though. Now imagine if you could add a banker, broker, fuel merchant, and mariner bells to your home. o_0 It'd be ridiculous..most folk would never have cause to enter the cities proper ever again except to hail the odd quest NPC every now and again.

Edited, Aug 21st 2008 3:47pm by Stugein

Yeah, of course. Naturally as the game evolves the focus of players, the hub zones and hangouts change. No, we're not all on the island anymore and no I wouldn't want us to return. The difference here is that in all previous instances we've moved forward together. We learned on the islands. Eventually the majority took to the streets of Freeport and Qeynos. As we got older we took to the seas with the TS and Nek docks being constant meeting points and havens for vendoring and mending. We built towers. Eventually we all invaded the docks at SS while exploring Maj`Dul and the surrounding areas. And so on it has gone, all of us moving with each other as a server community. As cheesy as it may sound; now instead of us all looking forward, facing what's to come together we run the risk of it being, "Ok everyone, go to your own little corners". There's something to be said for the world around you feeling alive that heightens the sense of community and in-game experience.

It's not guild halls I have a problem with per se...I'm more afraid of them creating a feeling of disconnection with the server community at-large. I'd feel the exact same way if, say for example everyone could have their own instance of EFP or QH.

Well of course not everyone on the server is working on the exact same thing simultaneously, but largely they congregated in the same area. Yeah, I may have just been getting my faction up with Maj`Dul while you were finishing your carpet quest and a raid was gathering to try Godking but we were all part of the vibe of the times. That sounds too hippy for words..ugh..but yeah. And even people not engaged at that level yet would drop in for discovery exp or to meet a crafter for an item exchange/commission or something.

And if your pal is in-guild it's fine because you'll see him in your hall, but what about outside of that? Seeing that guy who answered your question in the chat channel walking past as you go through town. A connection as part of a larger community. Newbs getting the wow factor of seeing Levelor McShinypants on his flaming warg with his glowy epic. The crowds at the brokers, the bustling streets. The feeling that these are actual cities and not just 3d representations of menus.



I don't see it as a move from the individual to the family, but rather a move from the neighborhood to the house. I think about my neighborhood and I think of cars going by, people waving, the Ice Cream man, the mail man, kids playing, neighbors having cookouts. With guild halls I fear us moving to a neighborhood where everyone stays in their homes, peering out through the curtains, only leaving when they need to do something and only having real interaction with (a) their guild and (b) their group at the moment. The guild hall becoming a center of societal life is exactly what irks me - rather than expand from "individual to family" you've self-segregated from server wide community down to guild.

I think of a brand new player coming off the island. Zoning into their racial neighborhood..nobody. Zoning into EFP or QH..nobody. A tumbleweed rolls by. We're contributing to the empty.