Some notes about Guilds/Groups

[Knightmare]

Hello all. Just wanted to post some general information about guilds (by "guilds" I generically mean any organized groups, regardless of what you term yourselves). In order to be recognized as an official guild on our server you will need to provide basic information to the Guild Moderator and Admins here: fs12.formsite.com/Shattered_Souls/form878640979/index.html?883674730

First off, guilds may be based upon just about anything the founder can think of. The only restrictions that I have are groups who's sole purpose is to destroy other guilds and/or attack other player characters, and I prefer groups who reasonablly fit into the Forgotten Realms setting.

Guild leaders have the right to restrict membership to their own guild in any way that they wish.

Each guild will be allowed a "guildhall," basically their main base of operations. I am allowing each guild to create their own hall, this can be anything from a simple small building to a cave system or a glade in the woods. My restrictions on this (at the start of your guild) are the following: 1.) You may use only CEP or Shattered Souls haks for placeables and tilesets; 2.) The size must be no more than 6x6 tiles and not more than two floors plus a basement (these will be allowed to be increased in size later on, after appropriate time, membership size, money invested and "fame" increase, any of this done in the Demo version will be allowed to carry over to the "live" PW server when it goes up); 3.) Any special scripting on the areas must be preapproved (actually there is no need to put in any scripting, Admins will handle that if needed); 4.) Do not place any merchants, healers or items within, again Admins will handle that; 5.) Do not place any creatures/monsters within, if you wish to see certain things in your guildhall (ie. guardian golems), please send your request to me along with a reasonable description of why they would be there.

Guild interaction will (hopefully) be one of the driving forces behind the storyline. While there are multiple PW-wide plotlines, it wll be up to the individual guilds and players as to how much they interact with it. But be forwarned that the PW-wide plotlines will continue their own progress and you may find it directly conflicts or coincides with certain guild plans.

Each guild will be allowed to advertise in the public section of the forums (one thread per Guild please) in order to 1.) gather more members, and 2.) advertise their "specialty" in hopes another player or guild will hire them for whatever purpose - all deals like this are between the players themselves and neither DMs nor Admins will enforce any "contracts." Though in some cases there may be in-game ways to enforce these through RPing.

Each guild will also be given their own private section of the forums, accessable only by the guild members themselves, Admins and Global Moderators, the Guild Moderator and Official DMs. These sections are for any private guild discussion you wish to have. Guild leaders will be made moderators of their own sections. Unfortunately, I can not give guild leaders the ability to alter their forum section layout (not without allowing them to access other private sections), so if you need something changed - such as new boards created - let me know and I'll be happy to make the changes. Also, I will add other moderators to private sections at the sole request of the guild leader.

Each guild will have unique items that mark them as a specific guild member. These can be anything from a "token" to "uniforms" and guilds are encouraged to create their own - especially uniforms if you want them. Again, for uniforms, please use only CEP or Shattered Souls haks in their creation.

[Grey]

as in only CEP or the haks? or also the preset tilesets for nwn? ill get back to you about the guild.

[Knightmare]

Grey said:

as in only CEP or the haks? or also the preset tilesets for nwn? ill get back to you about the guild.

Sorry, yes, feel free to use the basic NWN tilesets. To clear it up, if you are going to use a hak, please only use CEP or a SS hak. That goes for placeables and uniforms as well.

[Grey]

and is there a limit for the size of the basements? 2x2?

[Knightmare]

Grey said:

and is there a limit for the size of the basements? 2x2?

Hmm *thinks for a minute* no there is not, just the general 6x6 limit.

[Knightmare]

This was posted recently by Ima in a different (Guild specific) section of these forums. Just thought I'd re-post it here for others to read as well:

imadufus said:

I was working on this guild stuff a few weeks back, but then had to switch to something a bit more urgent. It is about half done.

The guild vaults are fully functional (though due to a current discussion with Knightmare on how to handle Inn storage, I will probably have to change it a little).

I also have a "registry" placeable that lists all of the current guild members, giving some basic information for each (character level, guild rank, player name, the area the player is in if online or otherwise OFFLINE). For most guild members this will be it, but the idea is that for guild leaders they will be able to do some stuff in here as well (such as changing the characters guild rank). That is what still needs to be done for this.

Then there is a guild bulletin board. This again has all the basic functionality working. It doesn't currently support private messages, and I am unsure as to whether it should or not (could seriously blow-out the storage requirements, and lag the game).

In addition each guild will have a sorting table (which is done), as well as some basic library placeables (which is partly done). Some guilds will also have additional resources (such as facilities to scribe scrolls or perform research, or maybe a crafting forge or what-not), but most of this still needs to be done. And of course all guilds will have some beds the members can use.

In terms of the guild tokens, this is what I had just started on when I switched to the other job. For most members it probably isn't really even needed (since the information is stored in the players database file), but for guild leaders they need to be able to target players to perform tasks on them (such as changing their guild rank). They also need to be able to bring up a basic guild-options menu where they can set some preferences for their guild (such as whether it is considered private or public, and what things each guild rank is allowed to do, and maybe even edit the list of rank titles). Since there are still some decisions that need to be made about the best way to do some of these things, that is why the guild token specifications are not yet laid-out.

Then there is the issue of guild portals. We will probably want to support some form of this, but there is still debate as to what form they should take. There is also the issue of whether guild members should be able to teleport (for free) to other guild members, such as to form parties after logging on. Or maybe we want to allow you to teleport to all players? This still all needs to be sorted out before I can implement it.


Anyway, I hope that gives you some idea of what is going on in this area. We are working on it (though not right now), but it is not the simplest of stuff (mostly due to persistency issues). In the meantime there are a few guild halls already in the mod, though they are pretty much bare areas. As Knightmare said, until the guild leaders tokens and such are finished, you will have to get a guild token from a DM who knows you are a member of the guild.