There is no middle ground between getting invited into a guild by friends or forum posts, and taking whatever random guild filled with idle players shows up on the front page. It gives a bad impression when people are solicited to join mostly dead guilds. Some stats to search by: Average PH level Number of members Average rank (though this is heavily gamed. I'm a much stronger player with an average rank of 17 than I was with an average rank of 280.) Average visits in the last week Rumbles per week Average days in piracy In fact, just presenting players with a set of guilds to choose from randomly selected from active guilds of various sizes with similar rank and PH would go a long way...
A guild filter would enable a better find ability for active players. I would like to see the options to make guilds "national / international" this would save us the trouble of redirecting many players due to language issues