Guild ranks

Gangrene Beard · Oct 29, 2014

The Fish Eyed Pirate said: ↑

I didn't know you where able to type so fast you can write a message every 32 minutes. I mean your a captain here but, i have to say thats impressive!
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Barbozia · Oct 29, 2014

Anyone can drop out or stop playing PP. Ranks should be maintained either by vote, pirate rank, contribution to the perks, chat activity, or a combination of them.
The guild is not just requirement for getting perks, it is a social channel, we meet and talk to other people. The people actually using the guild should be the ones runnig it, not someone that just created the guild to get benefits from it.

We had and abscent captain, I took the lead and created a new one. All the active members followed me. But it would have been easier to just boot the captain.

Barbozia · Oct 29, 2014

Barbozia said: ↑

Anyone can drop out or stop playing PP. Ranks should be maintained either by vote, pirate rank, contribution to the perks, chat activity, or a combination of them.
The guild is not just requirement for getting perks, it is a social channel, we meet and talk to other people. The people actually using the guild should be the ones runnig it, not someone that just created the guild to get benefits from it.

We had and abscent captain, I took the lead and created a new one. All the active members followed me. But it would have been easier to just boot the captain.
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I HAVE DREAM... POWER TO THE PEOPLE or cabin boys...

Gangrene Beard · Oct 29, 2014

Barbozia said: ↑

I HAVE DREAM... POWER TO THE PEOPLE or cabin boys...
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Mutiny!

The Fish Eyed Pirate · Oct 29, 2014

I disagree @Barbozia the ranks should be maintaned, yes it sucks to have an absent captain. But I advise everybody to find an active guild that is build to last, a guild that has a purpose, a goal. That makes the members more committed, so there is less change to fail in any way

Elementary student · Nov 16, 2014

You have no idea those crazy insane sanitation engineers (toilet floor cleaners cabin lads) crazy about promotion!

Kelani · Nov 16, 2014

Oh, but I do. I have plenty of them in my guild who love to nag me about it, and bonus: A lot of my cabin boys are lady pirates. They are NOT happy about being called boys.

Gangrene Beard · Nov 20, 2014

Bump for these improvements

Bear · Nov 20, 2014

Hopefully they will come in December.

Wepwaet · Dec 1, 2014

Kelani said: ↑

Here's my take on what guilds need.

I agree with extra ranks, even if their only purpose is to reward people who actually make the guild fun/better. Some other common ranks are: Sailing Master, Boatswain, Master Gunner, Mate (1st and 2nd, on multi-mate ships) ABS (able-bodied sailor), Powder Monkey and Swab/Swabbie*

*Please change cabin boy to this or something else. My female pirates DO NOT like being called cabin boys. (or cabin-anything else starting with B)

Ideally, each Captain should be able to assign permissions to each rank as he sees fit. Where one captain may want Crew to kick/promote/accept/reject, another may not. If that's not an option, I recommend these permissions:

Captain: Everything, obviously.
First Mate: Everything, including MOTD edit, but can't promote a first mate, demote a first mate, or kick other first mates.
Quartermaster: Can promote/demote/accept/kick up to crew rank.
Crew: Can accept/reject new members, and kick cabin boys, if enabled by captain (alternatively, set up a voting system, where kicking a cabin boy takes a consensus of 3-4 crew. This would let crew get rid of someone spamming chat, but decrease abuse of the kick feature)
Cabin Boys: They get to sit there and look cute (and suck up to the higher ranks).

Many problems can be avoided by not allowing anyone to promote/demote/kick anyone of an equal rank, i.e. Crew should not be able to promote to Crew, or demote to Cabin Boy.

In the actual guild mechanics, there've been plenty of features suggested, but these are my favorites. Most desperately needed is at the top.

1. Last active date for each pirate in the Guild Roster
2. Tell who is doing any promoting/demoting/kicking in chat, and in the Guild Notifications, in case someone spams to get the evidence off the chat log.
3. Ability for Captain/First Mate to send a notification to all members, shown when they sign on. "ex: "please stop by chat to discuss our strategy"
4. First Mate has ability to edit MOTD
5. Chat history needs to be longer. I think it's 32 messages now? Make it more like 75-100. That way people can see what chaos happened overnight.
6. Make it so people can only request to join a guild every 10-20 minutes. When they send requests to dozens of guilds, it doesn't give the guild time to respond. Only the last request is active, so you have a lot of people stopping what they're doing accept someone, and it doesn't work. Alternatively, make it so if a person applies to another guild, the previous notification goes away, or shows a red X, or something.
7. Add a tiny Visit icon next to each member's name in chat. Clicking visits their town.
8. When you tap a member's name in chat, it pastes their name in the message box.
9. When viewing towns from the Guild Roster, Return should take you back to the Roster, not your town.
10. Ability to invite a player to your guild, or contact them if they're accidentally kicked for some reason.
11. On the Guild Roster, show each member's join date. This would be helpful for knowing who's stuck around the longest, and also for people who promote by seniority.

The last ones are bold because they're trivial features that are very helpful, and I REALLY WANT them.

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edit2: added #11
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I agree with all of this.

.Lord M€G/\T|2ON. · Dec 17, 2014

Bear said: ↑

Hopefully they will come in December.
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Nothing has been said if it will be in dec. update yet?

Bear · Dec 1, 2014

actually Chris said the guild improvements would be on hold till the december update

MorganFlint · Dec 17, 2014

Yes, please create a way to know a member's last active date!

Bear · Dec 17, 2014

So no quarter master this update?

Gangrene Beard · Dec 19, 2014

Bear said: ↑

So no quarter master this update?
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Yeah....I was kinda looking forward to that. maybe next month

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Elementary student Powder Monkey

Kelani Commodore

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