Running a Large Guild

[cmeche]

All depends which way you want to go.
If you want the guild to grow(and raid), going to have to "give out" some good reasons to join your guild...gold, repair bill, perks.
I see alot of people jumping ship by just hearing about the leadership change....good or bad.

Any insight on the cost of ownership? I see guilds for sale all the time but not sure what a "casual" lvl 25 guild sales for. Great acquisition for a boxer!

[Apps]

Great question cmeche. I want to know too.

[Tsumi]

You appointed raid leaders, let them figure it out. I mean, you have no intention of raiding and you're just using the guild for perks and the bank, why impose all sorts of plans for an established guild when you aren't even going to be an active part of it? Maybe there's a 1000 people in the guild because they don't want to be bothered with structured raiding and srs wow bzns.

I agree with what Khatovar said. The raid leaders should do just that, assemble a raid team and lead them. Provide them the tools via guild leadership controls to do their jobs and let them raid. They should be able to handle recruiting and developing new raiders if need be.

I've been in huge non raiding casual guilds in the past and you will find that most of the people in those type of guilds are there for the perks and the freedom to do whatever they want when they want. If they end up wanting to raid they can speak to the raid leaders and figure out what they need to do to raid. Otherwise they will just keep on doing what they always have been doing.

I would love to get leadership of a high level guild just for perks as well!

[Alemi]

I mean, you have no intention of raiding and you're just using the guild for perks and the bank, why impose all sorts of plans for an established guild when you aren't even going to be an active part of it?

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You're not going to be doing it, why are you going to tell others how to set up their raids and what addons they have to use? What if they just want to use loot council, or /roll for it. Who are you to tell them how they should raid?

You're the guild leader. That and a buck will get you something off the dollar menu at McDonalds.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well its not as easy as it seems the first sale was disaster. Guy sold me a guild for 275K (level25 but fewer members) then next day I asked what to do with the junk in the bank and he said give it to him. As we clearing out the bank some other member reports us for "guild bank theft" my guy gets 24 hour banned. I come back and guy that reported us is Guild Leader. I fire off to CS that they cost me 275,000 gold, they spend 2 hours getting me all the money back and banning the guy that sold me the guild (for "guild distruction").

On this one, armed with better knowledge, this guy never let anyone have bank access. Gave me guild for 250K (plus I going to pay some guy 20K also). I made it so no one could even see what was in the guild bank. Didn't do anything for a day or two. Put up a MOTD that I'm the new GM, will rename the guild and if anyone had monies in guild bank or items I would refund. Things still smooth.

250K is a lot but a level 25 guild is a lot also, those perks are really really going to cut my leveling time. That level 21 perk summon all raid or group members (and it works for each character you have) is a boxers dream. Just have some low level alts whereever you want to go and bang all yur guys are there.

He offered it for 160K by the way but I told him I would pay 250K to make the deal go faster, it was just to perfect with 1000 members and the big fact he never let anyone have bank access.


Thanks for the list of addons, I guess Ill look more into the in game stuffs and forget about a web site.


My advise is if you buy a guild, have one account the GM, have another account (best not on the same bn account) with a low level character clear the bank, that way if the low level gets banned your main is still GM. Or just prohibit deposits and let everyone have access to the items and gold and say that they have 2 weeks to get whatever they want.

[Tonuss]

250k for a level 25 guild sounds like a bargain to me. Especially with that many characters. If a decent percentage of the characters are active the guild bank could make a lot gold from the 10% generated from looting mobs and from completing some of the weekly guild challenges.

[Sajuuk]

Loot systems are terrible.

[Ashley]

DKP lol.

I ain't used DKP since vanilla.

[Zub]

if you aren't going to raid yourself, don't impose your raiding rules. Heck, don't even make suggestions.
Appoint a couple leaders here and there, and let them do the work. Otherwise, you'll just make all the bad decisions.

1000 members, don't change ANYTHING.
As said before, since you're getting everything you want from the guild (perks, and free gold from members activity) why fix somethign that ain't broke?
Just keep advertising yourself as an open level 25 levelling guild, and you'll see a constant flow of lowbies joining, and hibies leaving, with a small core of hi leveles sticking there because they now know each other and do stuff together.

I guess now that you're in a level 25 guild, you're going to level REALLY quick aren't you. particularly if you take a new (3rd?) RAF. *giggles*

[MiRai]

hibies

I applaud you, sir. I couldn't figure that one out at first.