Spiral Knights - When Boredom strikes, a guild survey

When Boredom strikes, a guild survey

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Sat, 02/16/2013 - 23:20

Crossproduct

"Playing" with a guild-less 5* Vanguard 50k prestige knight who usually stands around AFK at the auction house. You tend to get a lot of unrequested guild invites. So since there's nothing better to do in SK, I went around and joined them all and recorded some basic stats for each of them.

Please note, some guilds actually talked to me before sending me an invite, and those guilds tended to have higher quality people. Here's the list, please excuse the formatting and lack of sorting. Anything in ( ) are random comments. Active means they had at least one person around when I joined (8-9 pm pacific time/arcade cycle time). Very active means they had a lot of people on for their size at the time I joined.

Guild name - # of members (not counting me) - list of GMs - Current Treasury - Upkeep
Hallow Warriors - 98 - mini-mastermind riuzake (active)
The Final Crusaders (in default, won't let me join)
Syndrome - 66 - Daandan Goddly Iseagreen - 10k - 25k
Ancient - 67 - Animalmills Limeninja Shawndiggins - 117k - 105k
Is A Vampire - 92 - Cocobe Lord-Patches - 64k - 82.5k (active)
Vets - 52 - Delterm Deestruction Edlen Micro-blast - 19k - 0 (active)
Army of Haven (in default, won't let me join)
Im With Stupid - 51 - Elixeroflife - 31k - 0
Los Antrax - 8 - Flams-and-Ash - 3k - 25k (in default but let me join)
Cursed Destroyers - 27 - Snarby-Lover-Me - 6k - 0
Spark (in default, won't let me join)
The Shadow Legion - 57 - Arkode Bizvader Eurynomus Lord-Zelus Shortnsparky Stubbynshort Zero-rez - 26k - 0 (has mist well blocked by Battle Stands, cute but they could use one of those restricted doors.)
The Anonymous - 198 - Doctormadra Mellansnorre myggan Sibbsan - 322k - 209k (active)
The Terminators - 242 - Rainsocket Drastar Gimpyo Isaak-Paul Jelbrezzul Juniora Leekcoco Ra-Ghoratreii Ratock Skycapp Theethan Wadcross - 1144k - 209k (active)
The Cursed Wanderers - 144 - Mariopartywiz Wandering-star Barbera Ssosme - 47k - 82.5k (very active)
Dusker Pack (in default, won't let me join)
Culprate - 36 - Gigaflame Kezwik Uzumakisnail - 16k - 13k
Wolver Masters - 29 - Phantom-hunter Supersayinjesus - 1k - 13k
Dudes - 9 - Da-coolest Rexfourseveneight killaboinine Lochinvar Nikolas-Sheckler Rampid-Beast Silverbulles - 6k - 0 (active)
Lightsworn - 63 - Fallen-Oath Metamare Psiblade Royal-Diviner Ryko Spikepk Vylonite - 6k - 12.5k
Salamandra - 45 - Fukasaku Fuzy-cute Star-Dan Ti-ny - 21k - 25k (active, offered to make me gm for 300 ce...)
Minotaurs (in default, won't let me join)
Vana Slayer - 5 - Fryshoker - 41k - 38k
Guildtron - 86 - Destructo-Mondo Fegatron - 15k - 12.5k
Earthbound - 26 - aznlife - 34k - 6.5k
Dark Team - 40 - Meguster Vovv - 117k - 37.5k (active)
Impact - 58 - Luckylee Activeunique Botibob Goliathaa Pieispie Polygonz Spartasfury - 14k - 12.5k (active)
The Crimson White - 98 - Hacsaw Killerlai Sagethelolzer Vandheerlorde Wilkinson-soul Wilkinson-warrior - 51k - 60k
DarkSpiral - (Guild is full) (Guild is in Default)
Silent Nights - 8 - Filezone Laurcl - 13k - 12.5k
The Horror Guild - 6 - Blackdye Sirmarchboy - 25k - 0
Heavenly knights - 79 - Pkmn-Knight-Gx Red-Rose-Knight Setinity Superman-Warrior - 11k - 6.5k
Shadow Guards - 80 - Captain-Sk Crossflaming Heavenwar - 27k - 6.25k (active)
Riders of Darkness - 65 - Larsonwillow Sr-Fists - 73k - 25k (active)
O G K - 47 - Jnizzy Yojnizzy - 433k - 82.5k (active)
Spirit Hood - 7 - Cyberfakt - 5k - 43.75k
Void Warriors - 108 - Exelius Velestial - 44k - 38k (active)
Alumni - 20 - Kittykittyboomboom Londacris Raise-Your-Weapon - 18k - 13k (active)
Altosk - 168 - Darth-Atreus Gilz Theonlu - 184k - 284.5k (active)
Starlight Dynasty - 32 - Chibigokuu Cyberthunder Cometblazer - 18k - 0 (very active)
Reign Of Fire - 88 - Deteriorated Kamen-Rider-Faiz PedroPolo Theoncomingfire - 7k - 209k (active)
Paranoida - 93 - Lokix-Draco Iamtheghost Jadranko Znox - 132k - 60k (active)
Shadows - 13 - Dragonswolf Ggkn Shokman Snakematusniper - 6k - 12.5k
Templarknights - 97 - Akki-Kitsune Lol-You-Died Templar-Knight Templarknight Valesta - 5k - 37.5k (active)
Hunters of Hell - 17 - Hott-Guy Oldmendes Racermation - 12k - 12.5k
The Forerunners - 65 - Robotnator Blazenar Luigirulzz Max-Stack Suddennight - 137k - 105k (very active, friendly)
Insanity-Reapers (in default, won't let me join)
Finalway - 117 - Golden-Jessy Hylda Mimickia Quakeman - 102k - 130.75k
Disciples of Awesome - 52 - Walfalcon - 17k - 0
Ashes Will Rise - 95 - Excomiter - 9k - 13k
Jedi Master - 217 - Galfrmmoon Chickenuggetz Darthbrian Ortsiv Princesslida - 1181k - 60k (very active, friendly, excellent name)
Time Lords - 95 - Baals Natts - 86k - 25.5k (active, name would have been cooler if it was just Time Lord)
Dauntless - 125 - Dark-Juggernaught Pwigy Minimetaknight Seerattan - 129k - 105k (active, but has an annoying gm, I won't name them but they know who they are)
Guild name - # of members (not counting me) - list of GMs - Current Treasury - Upkeep

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 00:17

Luguiru

I wonder how many of the guilds with default halls which you were not able to join were hoping to find new members to pay their bills, sent invites to random people anyway, and never even discussed the invitation with whoever is unfortunate enough to receive the spam. I also wonder what happens when two snakes learn how to sing duettes but that is a silly experiment for another day.

If you want to clean up these lists try using unordered lists:

<ul>

<li>{guild name}<ul>
<li>{# of members}</li>
<li>{list of GMs}</li>
<li>{current treasury}</li>
<li>{upkeep}</li>
</ul></li>

<li>{next guild stuff}</li>

At the end of the lists end with a </ul> to close the very top tag. This comes out to look like this:

{guild name}
- {# of members}
- {list of GMs}
- {current treasury}
- {upkeep}
{next guild stuff}

Now how fun was that? I bet it was a ball. Or two. Or two getting kicked. You know, like a couple soccer balls sitting in the grass innocently until someone runs up and punts one while the other shrieks in ball related horror as its younger brother is now trapped on the other side of a fence or something. Why did you do it? That ball had a family. What will its parents say? What would you say at the funeral? That you thought it would be fun? Was it worth it? Did you get your sick kicks out of it?

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 03:50

Eclaium

"Playing" with a guild-less

"Playing" with a guild-less 5* Vanguard 50k prestige knight who usually stands around AFK at the auction house. You tend to get a lot of unrequested guild invites.

It exactly is me. What a coincidence.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 06:10

Raisinfist

You haven't joined them all...

Tectonic is a big, pretty famous, guild, owned by Ron-Star. He'd let anyone in. It's pretty big, too.
There's my own guild, the White Lotus Society. Tiny, insignificant, run pretty much by me alone
A fair amount of the largest guilds that exist aren't on there.

Fair point, you've done a LOT more research than anyone else in SK to my knowledge, but if you're OCD like some people, you'll have to say: Gotta join them all!

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 06:23

Crossproduct

Of course the established

Of course the established guilds aren't there, they don't go throwing invites around randomly.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 07:36

Dmatter

oh, huh my guilds there.

oh, huh my guilds there. Now I kinda wonder what all the guilds stats are.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 07:40

Dragneel-Wiki

Ok, but...

Doesn't this violate the privacy of guilds? It is not like I am against any kind of researches...

Did you even ask for their permission to post these stats?

Probably not...

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 08:24

Njthug

Pretty cool for sure ya most guilds dont share their stats openly only a few do =0

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 08:30

Dragneel-Wiki

Like EoS <3 ?

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 10:40

Njthug

@Dragneel --- We usually have a semi-updated list of the players in Eos we list all the players with their current rank. As far as our money goes well we can share that information, but we rather not since well no need to show our financial statements lol. As for activity we are usually active Monday - Thursday the weekends not so much since most of us are going out enjoying a game called real-life. We tend to usually have more people on Mumble than Sk. Example last night we had 10 online Sk, but 16 on mumble.

Sun, 02/17/2013 - 17:17

#10

Sketman

Those guilds with 1k in the

Those guilds with 1k in the bank and 9001k in upkeep

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:48

#11

Laylla

free hugs!

@NJsl.. - Thursday the weekends not so much Whaaat? what about drunk talking? And hangover talking in the morning when we go back home? Oh yes, you never remember them ...
@Cross: I appreciate your private small "battle" started against the massive guild invitations spam in haven. What about some basic stats about unrequested frieds requests? (Idk what's privacy)

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:58

#12

Quakeman

FINALWAY - 128 members -

FINALWAY - 128 members - quakeman / thisbum / grandunknown / goldenjessy / mimic - 200k - 131k

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 18:16

#13

Dragonuity

Have you tried "Hamsters"

Have you tried "Hamsters" yet? We have 159k upkeep and we always hover around 140 members.
Our guildhall is open to public, if you wanna take a look at it.
We kick inactive players who don't play for a 3 weeks or more, and regulate our community with only mature, well-mannered players.
We're big in FSC, 30 minute vana runs. Some of us (like me) are making an appearance in Lockdown. Occasionally, we do shadow lairs, in which we split the price fairly. Guild masters are: "Sess-san" and "Sanctionx" Check us out!

Mon, 02/18/2013 - 18:18

#14

Dragonuity

Have you thought of making a

Have you thought of making a list of all the public guld halls?

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 16:56

#15

Crossproduct

One thing that's always

One thing that's always bugged me, is how do almost guilds differentiate themselves from each other? They all claim to be the following:
-Does Vana, and other boss runs all the time.
-Occassionally do Shadow lairs
-Full of nice and friendly people who are "cool" and like to "chill out"
-Play lockdown sometimes.

Am I missing anything? Isn't this the generic recruiting message of almost every guild?

Though to be honest, it's really not their fault, the way 3 rings designed things, there isn't much opportunity for differentiation as it is.

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 18:59

#16

Talaos

On that note

As far as I know, my guild does not really promote anything. We just want people to play with. That was really my personal goal to begin with. Log on, find people for a PUG and have a blast.

And just to update your list, our Guild has over 1 million crowns banked right now. :P

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