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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7810

Chat channels in TOR are reset at every update unfortunately so we have to keep recreating them and every member will have to keep adding the channel at every update as far as I am aware.

The channels on STO were independent of the game using XMPP protocols so updates and the like had no effect. Indeed, not only are the channels maintained forever, cross faction and on every character they are also cross-game so all players of Cryptic Studios MMO’s can talk to each other in-game.

I’ll get a hi-rez logo together for you Zez and I’m currently working on the next version of the crawl which should be finished by next week. I have some re-wording to do and adding copyrights etc so we don’t get sued or taken down.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7809

Thanks for posting Zez. One thing I would encourage is that discussions that start on the forums flow on through the forums or else we get a disjointed view of what has been discussed. If you want to please briefly post your opinions on R3’s proposal as it will definitely help the conversation.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7808

Chat channels are in swtor they just aren’t cross faction

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7807

There’s nothing wrong with having ideas. Not every idea is taken up, but it’s important to say what you think.

Your comment disturbs me R3 because it has put you in the mindset of ‘well I’m not recruiting, so its no diff to me’. Experiences like that isolate your rather than make you want to get involved. This is never something that I would want anyone I’m associated with feeling, and I just want you to know that every opinion is of value to me.

Back to mergers, on Star Trek Online we had quite a lot of active members and when it started to decline the idea of mergers came up. I was against it because I felt that we would lose our identity, however like I said the balance between staying active and losing a part of your guild history is the hard choice. Which is why I say, if it can be done on our terms, then I am for it.

One of the more insightful features of Star Trek Online was Chat channels that crossed guilds and factions. you could create a chat channel that you could see cross-faction and on any of your characters. Using this function we created a multi-guild, guild for the purposes of teaming called Interfleet. This feature would have been a great help for SWTOR.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7806

R3 you’re wrong it didn’t get shot down and you weren’t told it wasn’t a good idea. I disagreed with the idea… to an extent and expreseed why.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7805

Thanks Plasma for being open minded to the idea, that’s a good sign. The idea got shot down immediately, without discussion… no weighing of the “pros” and “cons”
just told it wasn’t a good idea. And sense I’m not doing the recruiting, it makes no difference to me. It was just an idea that has worked well in the past, so
I felt I should throw it out there… ^_~

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7804

Just to clarify on this point:

Our standard playtime has been between 5pm to 12am (GMT+9.30 Adelaide) which is actually MY time-zone, however like I said if you are playing at a different time you are welcome to invite and build up a player-base for that time.

By standard playtime I mean that over the last 3.5 years the majority of our cross-guild activity has been between those times.

I just did a quick conversion on 8pm EST USA:

•2015-01-10 01:00 UTC (UTC)
•2015-01-10 03:00 Europe/Bucharest (EET)
•2015-01-10 01:00 Europe/London (GMT)
•2015-01-09 20:00 America/New York (EST)
•2015-01-09 17:00 America/Los Angeles (PST)
•2015-01-09 19:00 America/Mexico City (CST)
•2015-01-10 11:30 Australia/Adelaide (CST)
•2015-01-10 12:00 Australia/Sydney (EST)
•2015-01-10 12:00 Australia/Hobart (EST)
•2015-01-10 05:00 Europe/Moscow (MSK)
•2015-01-10 09:00 Asia/Hong Kong (HKT)
•2015-01-10 09:00 Asia/Kuala Lumpur (MYT)

This will work for me on USA Friday and Saturday as this is my AUS Saturday and Sunday.

I think as you say R3 its harder to merge when there is resources invested in the guild. For us there’s a lot of internet properties and in-game there are the StrongHolds. If this was suggested before the SH I would have been for it if we could keep our name etc, but I think it will be increasingly difficult as players pour more resources into their guilds.

We found this also in Star Trek Online after they introduced Fleet Starbases. The resources that went to the SB’s were so great and time-consuming that giving them up to do a merge was not an option. Unfortunately this killed many fleets.

I guess the choice is to merge and survive and lose resources or hold on and risk the guild declining. I think while there is a chance of growing through recruitment we should take that course for now. having said that if we find a guild willing to join under our terms then by all means we should be open to it.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7803

I logged in to post on the subject that Zez had already covered… /highfive

What I would like to add, hoping someone hasn’t already mentioned it,… recruiting, eww. Not something anyone enjoys, so what about this… I’m sure
there are other guilds in a similar position. Rather than look for individual players, lets look for another guild to join ours. I know it sounds risky,
but I’ve done it in the past and it has worked out great. This way you talk to a “guild master”, if he or she seems cool, chances are the “majority” of
new members would be cool. Sounds funny, but the biggest hiccup I’ve ran into with this… “guild name”. Now our guild name is tied into to much, so
of course, changing it is not an option… but sense it is a great name, I doubt we’d have trouble finding people willing to run with it. As far as
leadership goes, the way I worked out in the past, keep our leadership and offer their #1, a #2 seat, and let that person select a certain number
of upper management positions to fill with their members, so we all mesh together. Something to think about. To anyone who has done their fair share
of recruiting, this is a pretty sweet option.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7802

Heya,
Great initiative 🙂 I’ll help with recruiting myself …..
The times seems perfect to me …. and the way they are set, i think will cover most of our players from around the world. Plas, how does those proposed times looks for the Aus/Pacific area? Because if they are unconfortable, then we should also start recruiting for a 4th time frame, that would fit better with Aus/Pacific. Please advice.
See you in game for more discussion ….
All the best,
Kara

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7801

Thanks for the reply Plasma.

I have to somewhat disagree on the standard playtime thing, but just for the fact that in international guild such as ours there isn’t one specific playtime more like peak times, for example that that is a peak but so is 7pm-3am EST for us here in the US thus the suggested ops times. In terms of the ops times specificlly, my goal isto have times where we can have everyone no matter when they play have access to runs if it’s what they desire. I just can’t personally commit to lead and organize
times when i can’t be available like 8pm your time because thats when I’m at work, but i’m all for making it available and recruiting for it.

For advertising the only things i think i would like access to, if possible are our infinite loop logo on a transparent background and maybe a video file of the
“Infinite Crawl” I think that would be cool to start and end my streams with as a promotional tool.

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in reply to: 2015 Endgame Recruiting #7800

Hi Zez, thanks for posting about this.

I’ll just say a couple things about this and I’m sure Kara (Amy’doll) will have more to say.

Your welcome to invite new members at anytime, so don’t hesitate on that. As far as play-times go, the standing rule for all the GA guilds has been to be international, meaning if you are playing at a certain time and you are willing to invite new people and shepherd them in the initial stages of their membership then you have 100% right to do that.

Our standard playtime has been between 5pm to 12am (GMT+9.30 Adelaide) which is actually MY time-zone, however like I said if you are playing at a different time you are welcome to invite and build up a player-base for that time.

As far as advertising the guild I am happy to provide you with whatever material you need. Be it our official logo’s etc, access to our events system to book in recruitment events or access to our facebook etc, just tell me what you need and it will be done.

As far as concerns I don’t really have any as long as anything guild related you post outside of our official GA resources is respectful to the broader SWTOR community.

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in reply to: Mildly Interesting… #7798

Out of respect, mon cher R3 🙂

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in reply to: Mildly Interesting… #7796

Welcome to SWTOR the mature mmo lol

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in reply to: Kara/Amy offline period #7629

Have fun over Christmas 🙂 – See you when you get back.

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in reply to: GLOBAL PERM: Upload Your Screenshots (All Games) – Thread 3 #7596

Woo Guild Stronghold entrance and main hall Decorated 🙂

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