Far be it for me to tell anyone how to operate, but it seems there are tons of people jumping on the TOR bandwagon in recent months and what’s the first thing they do? OK, you’re right, it’s probably ignoring 20,000 posts on the subject at the official forum and asking how to get into beta.
But what’s the second thing they do?
That’s right — they decide to form a guild!
Now, seriously, if this is you… stop for a moment. Take a look at the tons and tons and tons and tons of guilds already out there in the official TOR community. There’s a guild for this, and a guild for that. A guild for people from ‘insert country name here’, a guild for ‘insert SWG server name here’ and probably one for people who play naked standing on their head if you really look hard enough.
So do you really think, as you decide to set up a guild, that you have something new and different to this mix? If so, go for it. Make a guild. Look for members. Try your hardest. But if you don’t have something new, consider the value in finding other people who were thinking of starting a guild and banding together in one, decent guild, rather than 10 guilds with two or three members each.
The value in having a guild of even 10-20 members, rather than a guild of two or three members which is constantly fighting other small guilds for each and every recruit is so obvious I really don’t need to go on about it… do I? That said, there are people who will ignore this and think they know better and that ‘some guy’ on the Internet couldn’t possibly provide good advice, and that’s fine — you can ultimately do what you want and it doesn’t matter to me in any way, shape or form.
Enjoy yourselves out there!
I wish some more people would simply join a guild that already exists rather than trying to create a guild. I saw someone advertising their guild on ToR forums the other day where all it was was the guild name, and about one sentence that instructed people to go to their website (which their website link was broken) and to enroll in the guild. It’s really sad that people rush into this just to have their own guild. At least put some thought into it and provide some information on the guild other than the name and a website that doesn’t even work…
Quite right. Some people have NO IDEA about creating guilds. The other day on the TOR forums, this guy simply spammed the walls of anyone with bounty hunter-esque avatars, asking them if they wanted to start a Mando guild. I looked up his profile — he doesn’t even have a single post on the TOR forums. So I wrote on his wall, um thanks for spamming me, but I actually run one of the oldest Mando guilds in this community! Meanwhile, however, other people were saying they’d join his guild… and all he was was a spammer with no posts to his name! Some people are mentally deficient, I swear…
I know a person IRL who hits every bad point on your list there, I met him in school, From there he got me hooked on the WoW train, but he always had ambisions that me and him should quit our guilds and make a new one, a better one in his mind, but at this point i was already doing T5 raids ((pre-wotlk)and pre-boss nerfage) but he only wanted to do this due to his lack of dps, This was mostly down to a lack of skill and gear. so yes most noobs wish to start a new guild so they become the boss and they get first choice for raiding, but the sad matter is….. a guild formed from a noob like this wont even see the front door of a raid…