Spiral Knights - Guild Customisation

Guild Customisation

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Sat, 11/05/2011 - 03:25

Tprezzle

Every time I go into my guild hall, I notice that it is not only boring and with no customisable potential whatsoever, but completely empty. I appreciate that this may be a little different with larger guilds, but what is the point in having a useless room in which to converse when you could quite easily be doing more productive things elsewhere?

This seems to be a recurring source of irritation amongst guild members. I say that purchasable rooms, accessories (paintings, for example), portals to various locations, armouries (perhaps only for aesthetic value, as I can see that a functioning armoury would completely overhaul the current gameplay style), mini-games or mini-levels and NPCs should be implemented.

What does everybody else think on the matter?

Sat, 11/05/2011 - 05:59

Master-Of

A big statue of myself

A big statue of myself crushing a monster in the middle would be cool.

A board showing stats about achievements or various counters about guild members would be informative.

A pin board, on which people could leave messages for other guild members in general, without them being online, would be useful.

Are these ideas like super cool or what?

Sat, 11/05/2011 - 07:26

Soral

WOOP

This is one of my biggest gripes with the development of this game. This is a feature that has so much potential, and with each "what's in development" update, there has never once been a "Hey guys, we're working on some cool new stuff for guild halls, stay tuned!". All of this stuff like guild message boards, member stats, guild hall furniture and whatnot is so common sense and immediately functional that it's making me wonder why 7 months in we have things like arsenal stations and energy rezzing blasts being worked on instead of legit cool stuff for guild halls.

I wish OOO would at least let us know they're planning to do something with this in the near future or something. It feels like it's just sitting on the backburner.

Sat, 11/05/2011 - 07:40

West-Tex-Mex

I completely agree, the guild hall could be more than just a room where you and other guild members can go chat in private. It would be cool if you could customize the guild hall in the same way you can customize secret bases in Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. The guild hall should be more enjoyable to the guild.

Sat, 11/05/2011 - 10:49

Ghret

This has been asked for for so long

That it will eventually come out. You just need to wait.
Let me clarify what I think happens for every major update.
If it is a small one (with little/no coding or sprite creation) then they just spend some time on that and add it to the game.
However, it is something major (like the Shadow Lairs and such) then they need to: Get the Idea, Work on the Coding, Create the Sprites, Test it, Then add it to the game.

I think that Guild-Halls fall under the latter path. In short, Chances are that OOO are working on this, just wait. If anything, it going to come out at least a minimum of a month after the Arsenal/CE rez thing. OOO need to spread their updates out a bit in order to keep people playing. Imagine adding everything from the start of Spiral Knights to now, right at the beginning. All that would happen is that there would be a short-intensive mah-up of all of sorts of stuff... and then no-one would play anymore since there would be no more updates due to OOO being completely out of ideas.
It's better to just space out the content rather than smush it all together.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 03:37

Soral

WOOP

No one's arguing about the process required or the need to space out content.

The complaint (mine, at least) lies mostly with the fact that it should have been prioritized sooner since guild hall updates have been a pretty universal desire among the players for a while now, along with the fact that it could become such a functional and useful area of the game instead of the lifeless high school auditorium it is currently.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 08:22

Master-Of

So you think what you say has

So you think what you say has any effect on the priority... awkward.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 09:23

Krazyghost

@Desouler I like your ideas for a msg board and ranking board but i also like tprezzle's idea of having mini games where lets say you need like 100cr to craft the item you really want but if you spend the cE on a run you cant craft it you just head to the guild hall play minigames for a while and there you go. But the mini games should only give a little cR at a time so people dont spend the whole day there farming lol.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 09:34

Soral

WOOP

Desouler, what I think is simply that it would have been a more relevant thing to the game to work on than say, accessories. And it's something that more players than just myself have wanted, which is the entire point.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 16:08

Tprezzle

Camera Angles

Another cool thing would to be some new camera angles in the guild hall! Similar to Third-Person Shooter style.

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