Good leader now

Pahlehvahn

Had a problem, its fixed now

ers101284b14_ESO

Kick them and recruit. All the guilds I have been in have a 7 day inactivity policy. If you have been inactive for 7 days without letting the guild leader know you are going to be inactive you get kicked and replaced. It is not hard to find new players.

Jagath

125 players may seem like a lot but you also have to look at when they were online last. Establish an activity requirement and stick to it. Having events, a website, ts3 server, and active recruiting is pretty much a must for most guilds. Being a guild leader is a lot of work if you want a successful guild. Have you defined what type of guild you want? i.e trade, RP, PVE, dungeons, or a mix of those. Having a guild identity will help you recruit the right people that will be happy there and hopefully active. Good Luck......

Zorrashi

Most of the guilds I know have a 10-day inactivity policy, where they kick and recruit on a daily/weekly basis in order to keep their numbers up. But things like raffles, events, grouping, even PvP rallies can help convince players to come online more often for fun.

SteveCampsOut

That depends. Are you trying to be a casual or an elite guild? My Casual EU guild doesn't have a kick policy and the few active members suffer no harm from the inactives still being in the guild, in fact, if it weren't for the inactives we wouldn't have our store and Guild Trader Kiosk!

xMovingTarget

Yea, you could try doing some events in your guild. Helps alot. Other than that, just recruite again.

I also keep some inactives for store etc @SteveCampsOut . Currently around 30 active member is enough to fulfill all needs in ESO.

Medakon

I have only 2 guilds in eso wich I'm officer / GM of. Reason I use 2 guilds is because one has main focus on pve content and one have main focus on trading. If you running a pve/pvp guild you shouldnt really have to kick inactive players since they may come back in 1-2months and most of these are your friends. Try to always recrute more people for your pve/pvp guild if there is alot of inactivity.

But if you are running a trade guild you wanna set a limit of days for how long people can stay offline without talking to you. Like myself I own a trading guild wich happen to be one of the most sucessfull trading guild on EU-megaserver because it is so active and have 500/500 members with 95% of the member with less than 3days offline. Reason behinde the sucess? It is because it says in the guild message that inacivte people get removed if they don't play for 10days unless they mail me / write a note about it. Then they got 30days on logging in again since thats when there items expire from the guild store. If I have to kick them they are all welcome to come back to the guild once they log on again.

Am I a bad person for kicking inactive players from the trading guild? No, because if I don't remove inactive players everyone think I'm a bad person for not managing the guild at start flamming me.

Keep in mind that to be a guildmaster require alot of effort, atleast if you are running a trading guild since you have to log into the game every single day and remove inactive players and bid on trader once a week. So if your not planing to stick around for eso a while, I woulndt recomend starting one

Divad Zarn

Medakon wrote: »

I have only 2 guilds in eso wich I'm officer / GM of. Reason I use 2 guilds is because one has main focus on pve content and one have main focus on trading. If you running a pve/pvp guild you shouldnt really have to kick inactive players since they may come back in 1-2months and most of these are your friends. Try to always recrute more people for your pve/pvp guild if there is alot of inactivity.

But if you are running a trade guild you wanna set a limit of days for how long people can stay offline without talking to you. Like myself I own a trading guild wich happen to be one of the most sucessfull trading guild on EU-megaserver because it is so active and have 500/500 members with 95% of the member with less than 3days offline. Reason behinde the sucess? It is because it says in the guild message that inacivte people get removed if they don't play for 10days unless they mail me / write a note about it. Then they got 30days on logging in again since thats when there items expire from the guild store. If I have to kick them they are all welcome to come back to the guild once they log on again.

Am I a bad person for kicking inactive players from the trading guild? No, because if I don't remove inactive players everyone think I'm a bad person for not managing the guild at start flamming me.

Keep in mind that to be a guildmaster require alot of effort, atleast if you are running a trading guild since you have to log into the game every single day and remove inactive players and bid on trader once a week. So if your not planing to stick around for eso a while, I woulndt recomend starting one

Seems like Winch copied my discipline rules for trading before u wasn't playing Meda jk, also you forgot to add, that GM doesn't receive any money from trading guild (as many expecting when creating trading guild, like want to become rich), so @Pahlehvahn if you want successful trading guild and expect to become rich with it, forget it till you keep your reputation clear

xMovingTarget

Divad always buys argonian girls + skooma from guild money. and he doesnt share =(

Hmm, i am GM or officer in every guild i am in. Just not in yours meda =( cry out loud. Kidding, i dont care :P

Medakon

Divad Zarn wrote: »

Seems like Winch copied my discipline rules for trading before u wasn't playing Meda jk, also you forgot to add, that GM doesn't receive any money from trading guild (as many expecting when creating trading guild, like want to become rich), so @Pahlehvahn if you want successful trading guild and expect to become rich with it, forget it till you keep your reputation clear

Haha yeah true, I think I donated a total of 1,5mil to the guild at one point when the times were hard and had to pay for trader. And I never withdraw any gold from the guild bank unless I really have to, if I do then I donate all the gold back a few days later + 25% extra. So I'm actually losing lots of money from owning a trading guild!

Reason to not take gold from the guild? Then people will start giving your guild bad reputation and leave, wich will end up that ur guild become very inactive and all your best costumers will leave. Your goal is to get 500 loyal members in your trading guild wich is active and sell loot only in your guild

Why did I create a trading guild in the firstplace if I lose money on it? Because there was no other active trading guild on my faction, so I decided to create a multi faction guild wich opened a trading link between all 3 factions. Now I don't have any problems with selling items anymore so it was all worth it

Medakon

xMovingTarget wrote: »

Divad always buys argonian girls + skooma from guild money. and he doesnt share =(

Hmm, i am GM or officer in every guild i am in. Just not in yours meda =( cry out loud. Kidding, i dont care :P

I can give u a little promotion once server is up since you donate alot of gold

Divad Zarn

Medakon wrote: »

Divad Zarn wrote: »

Seems like Winch copied my discipline rules for trading before u wasn't playing Meda jk, also you forgot to add, that GM doesn't receive any money from trading guild (as many expecting when creating trading guild, like want to become rich), so @Pahlehvahn if you want successful trading guild and expect to become rich with it, forget it till you keep your reputation clear

Haha yeah true, I think I donated a total of 1,5mil to the guild at one point when the times were hard and had to pay for trader. And I never withdraw any gold from the guild bank unless I really have to, if I do then I donate all the gold back a few days later + 25% extra. So I'm actually losing lots of money from owning a trading guild!

Reason to not take gold from the guild? Then people will start giving your guild bad reputation and leave, wich will end up that ur guild become very inactive and all your best costumers will leave. Your goal is to get 500 loyal members in your trading guild wich is active and sell loot only in your guild

Why did I create a trading guild in the firstplace if I lose money on it? Because there was no other active trading guild on my faction, so I decided to create a multi faction guild wich opened a trading link between all 3 factions. Now I don't have any problems with selling items anymore so it was all worth it

True, i spent about 1.2-1.3mil for guild when it was just starting and reason of creating was same too but i keep guild on 99% converted from covenant players.. So.. @xMovingTarget burn argonians!

Woolenthreads

No, it's just that ESO isn't really setup in a reasonable way for Guilds and I'm pretty certain many of us, the players, are bad guild members too .

Rhavein

Well, for starters i think ESO guild system is not so good

However you can do several things. First, you can set inactivity limit and let members know. No bad feelings. They may re-join however there is no point keeping members which are offline for 3 months. Also, you can recruit more by advertising in here also other websites (like reddit or other ESO fan sites). Writing in game also an option but dont do it like huge paragraph. Keep it simple. Having a website and/or TS very good to begin with. You can socialize with the members you have and that will create bonds between.

In this game, i think being a GM required a lot more effort/tolerance than other games. So, dont give up!

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Breg_Magol

Pahlehvahn wrote: »

.. what should I do to make sure my guild is more active??

Pray to the gods that ESO finds the right combination to stop players from leaving ... in time.

Pahlehvahn

Nvm mind much better now , we around 25 people on at 170. and its not the most active time of the day so I am happy