In several recent discussions it seems like the BYOND staff have been wanting to make guilds a more integrated, less ignored feature. Though it seems like your goal is to promote the major front-page guilds, and not the random player-owned ones... Here's a few suggestions that may or may not be viable to help in this situation:
1. Make what guilds a player is in readable though an in-game list and/or params. Maybe something like GetMedals() that GetsGuilds() a player is in. And could be used in the reverse, to find all the members in a particular guild for us in-game.
2. As I've mentioned before (and there was once one on the site somewhere I believe) a list of all guilds and how many members/games they have could provide some friendly competition between guild leaders to get more members. It could also allow for much easier guild searching/sorting/joining by users if the page was setup appropriately.
3. Featured Guilds. Just like featured games, guilds could be featured based on how active they are and what type of material they supposedly offer.
4. Have a global-guild announcement section. Something that would allow guild-leaders to announce prominent guild events to the entire BYOND community.
5. Instead of ONLY having the 5 main guilds, allow the most populated, or most active guild to also be listed on the front-page
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 Apr 19 2009, 1:53 am
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Apr 19 2009, 2:08 am
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Demon_F0rce
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They all seem like okay ideas, but number 4 isn't that appealing. I mean, there's always going to be a noob who has some money to buy a membership who wants to spam on it.
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Demon_F0rce wrote:
They all seem like okay ideas, but number 4 isn't that appealing. I mean, there's always going to be a noob who has some money to buy a membership who wants to spam on it. True. They could have a requirement where you must have 100+ guild members to use it or something. | |
Falacy wrote:
(...)could be used in the reverse, to find all the members in a particular guild for us in-game. Though there is no built-in procedure for that (yet), I'd say that there is something easy enough. world.Export("http://www.byond.com/members/[guildname]?command=view_guild_members") | |
Falacy wrote:
5. Instead of ONLY having the 5 main guilds, allow the most populated, or most active guild to also be listed on the front-page That'd be BYOND Anime, which would do nothing to help remove the stigma that Anima has on the community. | |