I think that veterans or above in guilds should be able to buy furniture and other stuff like maybe you can buy vendors to buy stuff from inside your guildhall, maybe couches and televisions, because at the moment guildhalls are pretty dull and boring. It would also be fun if there was an arena there that cost no money and maybe a bomb network thingy arena. There should also be different types of guildhalls, because at the moment ALL guildhalls look the same. There should be different... areas, lets call them. For example poison areas, maybe cursed areas, and all have different landscape and background, and in the arenas there are different types of monsters. There should be 3 types of arena battle: Player v.s Player v.s Environment (monsters), player vs player,and player v.s environment. This would make guildhalls a lot less boring, probably even fun and unique!
funny i JUST had the same idea. its nice to see other people would like this as well. i thought about the whole buyable merchants thing. well i was thinking that these shops could be unlocked through Expansions of the guild. basically an expansion is just spending CE to make your hall even bigger and unlock shops and things. however how would we get the items we want from shops? maybe each player will see the inventory differently. such as a person on Tier 2 an 3* armor will not have as much available as a Tier 3 and 5* armor would.
about locations i think you could choose an area at first and have the option later to change the area if you wanted. with a fee of course.
furniture....well i think you should elaborate on that. hw would we get them? would they be found in the new Lockboxes? prize wheels? bought from a vendor? crafted? i was thinking crafting would work based on your "level". in other words the farther you get down into clockworks beat bosses and get better stuff the more you can craft. however the idea f like banners or simple fun little decorations to make the Hall look less balnd sounds cool.
i dont think an Arena would work since they make you go through the clockworks just to get to one. not to mention the fact they made looping bannable. so a free arena would just make it FAR to easy to get crowns in which case prices of things would absolutely SKYROCKET. if you want player vs player then do Lockdown in pvp.you want to fight AI monsters go to clockworks.
i dont like the idea of only veterans and above getting into this because alot of newbies just buy CE right off the bat. meaning they could very easily make a guild and "expand" it (from my previous idea)
yes this idea sounds great right now because like you said guild halls are very boring and seem to only have the purpose of spnding CE and meeting a few new people. the only thing that you have in a guild hall is an alchemy machine :/
my hope is that if this idea does get implemented then they wont make everything crazily overpriced with CE. making it only available to people with a gold-lined wallet :/