Spiral Knights - Suggestion: Guild lookup feature.

Suggestion: Guild lookup feature.

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Thu, 05/26/2011 - 19:21

Ardomich

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I've been thinking about starting a guild recently and as a result of doing research about Spiral Knights guilds I learned that there's no guild look up feature in game or on the wiki. It would be very helpful to have an up-to-date list of all the guilds in game, primarily for the purposes of choosing a name (since there's no pvp or gvg features... yet.) Obviously the game will tell you if the guild name you wish to use is chosen, however, what it won't tell you is if another guild has practically the same name or the same name with the exception of a single letter, etc. This certainly isn't an imperative feature to have in the game, however, it seems to be both an obvious and intuitive feature to add. Here's to keeping up the good work, cheers.

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Oh and here's a slight after thought: It would also be helpful to be able to see how many players a guild has and who the leader is, etc. if such a feature were to be implemented.

Thu, 05/26/2011 - 21:17

Madadder

-snip- you know what screw it

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you know what screw it

tag a big "refuse to agree" to this because we will not agree and will only shake my head in disappointment if implemented in SK's current condition

Thu, 05/26/2011 - 19:30

Ardomich

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@monkeyman135 Well actually,

@monkeyman135
Well actually, since all of the information I suggested for this feature is already stored on the server as it is, it doesn't seem like it would be all that hard to implement. All it would require would be another menu or option in the social tab. I'm guessing that all of the data is stored in arrays (each guild would have it's own array to store all of the individual data for that guild and all the guilds would be contained in a larger array), although it's been a while since I took comp. sci., so my Java is a bit rusty. Now I'd like to just throw out there that if you're going to chime in on this suggestion give constructive criticism rather than just blamming my post arbitrarily.

Thu, 05/26/2011 - 21:16

Madadder

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Thu, 05/26/2011 - 20:36

Ardomich

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@monkeyman135 First of all,

@monkeyman135
First of all, this is a suggestion. This is not an order. The developers can choose to work on this or not, I'm just putting it out there as an idea for them to think on. Second of all, you didn't provide good criticism. You simply said "seems a bit hard to do and i see no real purpose to it". If you're going to provide constructive criticism you should address the claims that you make. Take "seems a bit hard to do" for instance. It's the first clause in your sentence and it expresses the idea that you believe my suggestion would be too hard for the developers to handle. This could be interpreted as being too complicated for the developers to figure out or perhaps too much work for them to fit into their schedules, however, you don't clarify on this point and I can think of plenty of other interpretations for "seems a bit hard to do". If it were actually hard to do you could provide some evidence to support it, rather than the using the speculative "seems". In the second clause you said "i see no real purpose to it" despite the fact that I listed the purpose of guild naming. So you neither addressed my claim or backed up your own. Perhaps by "hard criticism" you meant "overly ambiguous and broad statement". Now please stop posting on this thread, unless you plan to further explain your original "criticism".

Thu, 05/26/2011 - 21:07

Madadder

who says that was any attempt

who says that was any attempt at constructive criticism? that was me throwing my 2 cents in i don't feel obligated to do anything more than state my opinion you get up in arms simply because another has a different opinion

my aren't we jumping the gun with your wall of text... fine, i personally think the developers time is wasted adding this because having a compendium of guild names adds absolutely nothing to this game. You have yet state ANYTHING beneficial for this. it amounts little more than an extravagance for the curious only to be neglected soon after following more rants to OOO

"Obviously the game will tell you if the guild name you wish to use is chosen, however, what it won't tell you is if another guild has practically the same name or the same name with the exception of a single letter," assuming the guild system prevents duplicate names the system will simply tell you, there isn't a need to search for it.

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Suggestion: Guild lookup feature.