Nice ideas, and good job on the pictures. I wouldn't mind having some more features added to guilds overall, let alone the guildhalls.

As far as guildhalls go, the first thing I'd like to see is some more personalization. Things such as floor/wall textures, logos, and even statues, can make things a lot more visually entertaining. (Maybe some sort of system similar to that of Animal Crossing's housing one?) Though, if you ask me, with the current state of the guildhall it seems like they've already been planning something.

It'd be cool to have a guild-only arena, with a leader-board so people can know which guild has the best warriors and which warriors are best in a guild.

Maybe guilds could spend outrageous amounts of money for once-a-day benefits for its members like a free/random material or +2 health on their next dungeon run.

It would make things much understandable why to invest for a guild. Because I think the price is ridiculous to invest in a guild as of now, by just having a guild name under your name and a empty lot. If one of my friends wants to start a guild/clan, he could just create a guild/clan by creating a free website then advertising in the game to other players from there.

This concept idea would really persuade people to spend game money for a guild! ;D Great idea, dude! I like it!

I agree, having these options would be nice. Particularly since player housing seems like a big thing, the left passage could go to your own little room. They'd have to add furnishing items to find/craft though, but I'm all for that. Or maybe you can get a pet critter from the Clockwork. I'd get a Kat. >3

I also approve of the idea of guild gates. Too many people complain about the public gates being screwed over by random dumps from people selling all their stuff, so this way you could have a guild only gate that the guild could power up their own way. For sanity's sake, it should take a lot less minerals to get one going (100 people maximum couldn't fill out a couple hundred thousand minerals in a timely fashion), but conversely should probably only remain active for a day or something.

Hey, if we're gonna have guilds with customizability, why not take a step toward the RTS and have guild-to-guild battles? It'd add a lot of epicness to the whole guild idea, and just because we're all Knights doesn't mean we can't have a few friendly rivalries. Furthermore, with the communal guild chest, you could expend the funds on defensive structures as well as personalization. I can just imagine a big chunk-o-Clockwork cycling up to a guildhall and slamming into it with a rival guild standing on it as a boarding party sort of event! That'd be amazing. The big thing to focus on in that case would be balancing it so that the big guilds can't establish a monopoly over the smaller ones. For instance, having some sort of agreement between guild leaders before a boarding event can be initiated. After all, we're all in the Spiral Order!

I would really appreciate an ability to purchase guild hall items or obtain them from defeating foes (with a possibility of random loot) and place said items into the Guild Hall. The mechanism of placing them could be easy copy and paste like picking up statues and placing them on buttons (in some realms). I fully-support this idea.

On a slightly unrelated note, Guild Alliances would be invaluable.

The last time PvP was around, it was kept isolated to the special PvP arena. This would just be individual guildhall PvP arenas.

I doubt PvP is going to be added wholesale across game. And though I'm not fond of PvP, as long as it doesn't interrupt how I play, people are welcome to duel with each other. :)

(Edited because I forgot that tryst usually means something else. However, I have known couples who love each other and still like dueling to the death in MMORPGs.)

PvP is for everyone to try and kill Magnus before he gets to the core and kills us all.

I absolutely agree, Deathbreak. I'm most intrigued with the communal fund idea made earlier, and with my ideas contributed here I'm kind of making it head-canon.

Guild treasury and incentives for things to buy for the hall are a must, as well as some sort of message board/ notice system that all members and see and be a part of when they're not online.

Would be cool to also be able to deposit your minerals into a guild bank, and then they can be distributed by an officer or leader with money going to the guild. A small pvp arena or something where chosen members fight and other people can watch would be rad, or even add this for the public as a for funsies fight club.

I dunno, customization and maybe little minigames would be cool to increase the social aspect.

Yeah, some decors could be like:
- Birds
- Music Boombox
- News Board
- STUFF
- Player Stats Board (This should be in my character profile no matter what, anyway! I want to my combat stats (Killstreaks, Kills/Deaths, revives, etc.) besides how long I played in the game!)

As for the Arena, there should be an option where the 2 combatants get to bet each others stuff! So there has to be a debate who gets what, go to the arena and fight it out!

Yeah, more snipes sounds like a good plan. There should definitely be snipes in the guildhall.

When I read "in guild hall houses with personal message boards" I couldn't help imagining a stack of those enormous gears in the background up close to the platform, with each outside face of the gears' teeth having a typical sci-fi sliding door on it.

After all, the guildhalls seem quite separate from Haven, so it's reasonable they have they own chunk of Clockworks under it, and therefore there would be gears just below the landmass holding the structure up. Just saying..

I made a couple of suggestions in another thread before I saw this one:

"To make it more appealing, I think there should be a small "training area" which includes the ability to fight your guild mates, or fight dummy mobs that doesn't give loot.

Expanding more on this idea, each guild hall instance will have an NPC, sort of a guild hall quartermaster, that will give you options to enter an arena-like area and spawn X waves of dummy mobs with various options, like element type, difficulty, etc.

You can even use this to eventually have guild versus guild PvP matches with different game modes like CTF, team deathmatch, or whatever. I think it'd be really awesome. I've seen this done in other games like Tales of Pirates, and it worked out really well."

Honestly, the guilds right now are incredibly drab and depressing. Why would I want to go someplace to be with friends to hang out and chat, if we're just going to be in a place that makes me want to look for my own off switch?

To add on to the suggestion for an aesthetic update to the actual guild hall, I advise to offer a choice of locales that would alter the scenery of the guildhalls, based upon the individual stages available in the game. For instance, someone might want a guildhall that looks like it's in that furnace place, another may want one in the style of the haunted mansion, or perhaps someone wants it in the style of the city slum place with the midget mobsters..

Perhaps even put the monsters from the stages into the guild hall, even if there can be no interaction. Or, better yet, place little childish mock ups or doll versions of the monsters one would see, just for the fun of it.

I also suggest putting in an ability to choose the music, and also putting in a secretary NPC of sorts.

Hey guys, this is pretty much a reeeeeaaal genereal comment about the guildhalls, YES I AGREE AS WELL WITH MANY OF THE NEAT IDEAS ABOUT FIXING UP THE GUILDS. LETS MAKE IT WORTH GETTING A GUILD.

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maybe if you could have a guild traning center where you could spawn enemys to practice als imagine having furniture or decor so it wasnt so baren an maybe having like a private buy and sell vendor in each one so its only between the guild

These are real good ideas for the guild hall. The bulletin board idea was the best to me. It was pretty cool how you were able to put it in the picture. The pictures would be perfect blueprints for the creators of the game to use so they can make the ideas come true. Anyways good job!

As of right now the Guild Hall is completely empty and open to suggestions, which I like as anything is possible right now. That being said, the two first things I would want to have implemented are a Guild Treasury, and furniture items.

The guild I'm in is full of friendly people who are in the upper levels of the game and share with each other a lot, thus having a place to put all their excess items (materials, recipes, etc.) would be a great thing to have. Here's my very rough visual representation of how I'd have it:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/825/guildtreasury.png/

~Since you're in a guild you get the privilege of having your own private bank account which no one else but you has access to. This same bank account would be connected to a Haven bank whenever the devs decide to implement that (i know they will eventually), that way the guild hall could have a bank shortcut.
~The Guild Treasury section would work sort of like a free bin, you throw stuff in and anybodies allowed to take it. Accessibility of the treasury could be toggled by the Guild Master, meaning, they could choose if they want the treasury to act as a free bin or if they want to give access to only certain trusted members of the guild (probably high ranking guild members).

The next thing for implementation would be furniture items. This would be similar to how you can customize your crew hall in puzzle pirates. This would work great as a crown, energy, or mat sink depending on how the furniture items are obtained, as every guild would want to personalize their quarters. Guild hall themes could also be implemented, these would change the color (floor, walls, etc.) and atmosphere (background) of the entire hall and would be another good way for guilds to make themselves unique.

PS: These are all very rough ideas and are completely open to constructive criticism. If you have something that would make these ideas work better than please speak your mind, I'm sure the devs would love to hear it.

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