Dex Guild Council
Posts : 29 Join date : 2008-06-29 Age : 46 Location : Accrington, UK
| Subject: Guild Decay Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:29 am | |
| MadFloyd Developer Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 255 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A quick response:
- We do owe you guys a dev diary explaining some of the mechanics. We intended to do this by launch of Update 5 and we're seriously behind. My apologies.
- Guilds under 25 members will get a small guild size bonus. It scales. A 24 person guild doesn't get the same bonus that a 6 person guild does. (not a direct quote bit confirmed by Eladrin in same thread)
- Guild decay is based on number of accounts. Players, not characters.
- It was our original intention to only use the # of active accounts, but it wasn't implemented that way unfortunately. It proved to be a lot more difficult than we thought. I hope we can change this (for all the obvious reasons), but the truth is we simply don't know at this point and cannot promise anything.
- A large drop in decay occurred because of a bug. We've tweaked the rates to mitigate this until we issue a patch.
- We have a LOT of tweaking to do. Getting the balance on this isn't easy. As such we won't be releasing actual numbers (because they're going to keep changing for the forseeable future), but that doesn't mean we can't make the mechanics more transparent.
- The mechanics for small guilds aren't working correctly at the moment. Small guilds should be progressing much faster than we're seeing now. This will be addressed in a patch.
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Tam Admin
Posts : 70 Join date : 2008-08-21 Age : 43 Location : Notts, UK
| Subject: Re: Guild Decay Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:40 am | |
| Is that 25 accounts or characters?
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Tam Admin
Posts : 70 Join date : 2008-08-21 Age : 43 Location : Notts, UK
| Subject: Re: Guild Decay Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:47 pm | |
| Just been reading on forums that the fewer accounts in the guild the more bonus you get, reading some are now getting 100% bonus and even 600% - fair enuff the second was from a 2 man guild lol, but perhaps we really need to sort out who's who in the guild and boot the dead wood, those that don't even play in the guild anymore, an extra 20%+ has gotta be worth it! | |
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Larran Guild Council
Posts : 34 Join date : 2008-06-28 Age : 60 Location : Fareham, Hampshire
| Subject: Re: Guild Decay Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:02 pm | |
| You have some nominations?
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Tam Admin
Posts : 70 Join date : 2008-08-21 Age : 43 Location : Notts, UK
| Subject: Re: Guild Decay Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:39 pm | |
| Just make sure we know who all the toons belong to, and if we dont know then we say 'cheerio its been a blast' Think I can only think of 14 active members anyway, but theres a few names on guild list that I haven't a clue who they belong to. Those are the ones I mean Unless you have any nominations | |
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Nevar Knight of the UA
Posts : 25 Join date : 2008-06-29 Location : Birmingham
| Subject: Re: Guild Decay Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:04 am | |
| I put forward any with Flex in the name as he is always DEAD wood (only joshing Shaun) | |
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