I think we need more guild slots.

Minyassa

Here are some categories of guild slots I think a lot of people find themselves needing:

1. Trade guild
2. Spare trade guild for when the first trade guild has a kerfuffle and loses their trader
3. Social guild with a theme that suits one's life philosophy
4. Trial/dungeon/general endgame serious progression guild
5. PvP guild
6. RP guild
7. Your own guild that you aren't going to do anything with but you love the name you thought of and can't bear to see it go to waste (or worse yet, see someone else use it)
8. Your dear friend's guild that you know will stay tiny but you need to join it to support them
9. Empty slot in case a super well-known popular guild suddenly wants you to join them for whatever reason and you'd kick yourself if you couldn't but you can't really spare a slot

So...at least two more would be nice, but I don't think 10 would be entirely absurd either. It's a social game, we're here to make friends, so we could always use more room to run with our friends' friends.

Juhasow

I would want more slots on friends list also. Like 200.

idk

Nope. Not needed. Pretty sure someone that would be in that many guilds would be a waste of space in most of them.

redlink1979

Guild slots are fine as they are.

Besides that, the majority of guilds doesn't dedicate to one activity exclusively.

FierceSam

The current limit of 5 is annoying.

I’m not sure what the purpose of the current 5 guild limit is. Is it to restrict the amount of chat traffic? To force me to really want to be in these particular guilds? Or, most likely, because somewhere in the past someone at ZOS thought 5 was an unimaginably large number of guilds for someone else to be a member of? Like IBM thinking that one day the world market would extend to 6 computers.

And why the maximum of 500 members? Chat? Some weird backstage guild thing that falls apart after this number is reached? The maximum number some ZOSser thought a Guild Master could cope with?

Guild should be improved. They add a massive extra dimension to players. However, having seen the carnage ZOS was able to wreak on its own servers by simply introducing a Guild Finder and increasing server load with a whole bunch of guild finding queries, I would be loathe to push for having more individual guild slots.

Is it a good idea? Yes

Could ZOS implement it without crashing the game? No chance

Grianasteri

Minyassa wrote: »

Here are some categories of guild slots I think a lot of people find themselves needing:

1. Trade guild
2. Spare trade guild for when the first trade guild has a kerfuffle and loses their trader
3. Social guild with a theme that suits one's life philosophy
4. Trial/dungeon/general endgame serious progression guild
5. PvP guild
6. RP guild
7. Your own guild that you aren't going to do anything with but you love the name you thought of and can't bear to see it go to waste (or worse yet, see someone else use it)
8. Your dear friend's guild that you know will stay tiny but you need to join it to support them
9. Empty slot in case a super well-known popular guild suddenly wants you to join them for whatever reason and you'd kick yourself if you couldn't but you can't really spare a slot

So...at least two more would be nice, but I don't think 10 would be entirely absurd either. It's a social game, we're here to make friends, so we could always use more room to run with our friends' friends.

This 100% ^

I have my own guild with just a few close, real life friends. Its great, we all get to use the extra guild bank slots as personal storage
I am in a trials/progression guild.
I am in two social guilds that run a bit of everything and have really nice, supportive folks in them.
I am in a trading guild that almost always makes sure there is a trader (or it used to, not so much recently so its on a shoogly peg with regards to my membership).

I should not have to leave one of these guilds to go and try another out, or even another few out. Its hardly a game breaking aspect of the game, or a priority, but it would be nice to have the guild slots increased...

Heck if ZOS really want, they could give extra guild slots to ESO+ subs, that would be a nice reward for what remains a pretty expensive subscription.

jecks33

agree, at least 2 more guild slots would be great

TheGreatBlackBear

More guild slots would be nice but I'd also like to see more guilds use Band or discord or something else when possible. For example if you're just in a guild to run a trial twice a week and then you never do anything else with them that's a waste imo.

phileunderx2

Yes to more guild slots!!!!

ghastley

How many of those "groupings of friends" actually need any in-game support as a guild. Trader, and shared bank do, but most social grouping can be done via discord or other external means.

And does the game perhaps need to split "guild" into more than one item? Should the trading guild be a different thing than a trial team?

Neoauspex

I want 4 less guild slots and a global auction house with IOS/Android companion app.

Katahdin

Agree. A couple more would be awesome.

ForzaRammer

Neoauspex wrote: »

I want 4 less guild slots and a global auction house with IOS/Android companion app.

do you want to play the game on ur phone too? XD

Kiralyn2000

I think we need less guild slots, and smaller guilds. So they actually mean something as a group of friends & companions who you know & support. Rather than faceless hordes that you only belong to for your own personal interests.

darthgummibear_ESO

Man people are spoiled. This is the only game I've ever played that lets you be in more than one guild, let alone five.

CaffeinatedMayhem

I've rarely had 5 guilds at once, and never felt I needed more. 1 trade guild (losing a weeks sales will not kill you), 1 social guild, 1 srs PVE guild, 1 PvP guild, 1 slot free.

Neoauspex

ForzaRammer wrote: »

Neoauspex wrote: »

I want 4 less guild slots and a global auction house with IOS/Android companion app.

do you want to play the game on ur phone too? XD

No, I just want to shop on my phone. I get limited actual game time so I want to spend all of that time killing people and none of it running from trader to trader.

Veles

Yes. Guilds need more space. We r already have clans with more then 1500 people. I know at least 6 communities who has same problem because of 500 limit. We r rdy to pay for these slots. Or at least give us union cross guild chat.

FelixTheCatt

Take mine I got no use for guilds. 😄

Loves_guars

I could use one more.

Ysbriel

They should give us at least one or two more guild slots

Garpley

I agree. I have been juggling a lot lately and would like to be able to join more guilds for dedicated areas of ESO.

mocap

yes, 10 guild slots pls. I want free(king) 500 storage space till event ends

Dusk_Coven

Instead of more guilds (which could potentially result in a lot more guild store slots), they could instead allow private chat channels. In this way you could have multiple guilds "merged" by members participating in the same channel. This is something that SWTOR has and people have made, for example, a channel for recruiting people for raids ("operations").

Or they could do what NWO does and allow guilds to be part of an alliance, and that alliance has an "alliance" channel where you can talk to all the linked guilds.

Cirantille

Yes please

5 is too less

richo262

A spare trade guild in case your current one loses their trader? No. Sure you can have multiple trade guilds, but the finite amount of guilds you can have encourages you to stay dedicated to them. If your guild trader loses a bid, you lose with it. It encourages you to engage with the guild, participate in raffles, put your best gear on that guild store. The idea that, 'oh well, they lost their trader, i'll just jump to the next one' is not ideal.

The rest of the guilds you just listed, the finite nature of your selection is part of what gives them value. You have to choose one over another.

ZOS also doesn't want people to make a bunch of guilds for the free bank space.

WoppaBoem

We need more, 1 or 2 more please. Would make it a lot better because leaving guilds is not nice. You need to keep burning bridges to move to other things. I am PVP focussed and council of a large PVP guild with 2 guilds and I am in 2 trader guilds result I only have 1 guild slot for something nice or different than my own PVP guild and traders. This is not social enough.

Please give us 1 or 2 more. Thank you.

BansheeVT

In my opinion 5 guilds are enough. There are enough trading guilds who also offer social and PvE stuff (just like my own) or PvP, roleplay, whatever. You don't need 5 trading or 5 PvE guilds and most guilds do different kinds of stuff. There are already enough inactive members that are busy with their other 1-4 guilds, I don't need to be someones 10th choice. I'd rather promote a more active guildchat, people organizing trials, dungeons, PvP and social events in my guild than them having 1 guild for each aspect of the game.

peacenote

darthgummibear_ESO wrote: »

Man people are spoiled. This is the only game I've ever played that lets you be in more than one guild, let alone five.

Well, ESO has always had this option so that the game and community has evolved to rely on the multi-guild construct. In its infancy I can see having this attitude about ESO but now it's kind of necessary, especially with the ongoing issues with Group Finder.

I wouldn't mind seeing one or two more slots. Some of those categories resonate for me, although for trading guilds I think having two just makes sense for more data and two different markets to sell in (I don't jump around). I would add to that raid guilds that have faded away a bit from raiding but now have all your friends, so you need a new raiding guild but don't want to leave the guild your friends are in.

There is no friends channel such that you can ping all your friends at once about doing an activity like you can in a guild chat, so that's the value/ difference there.

The alliance channel is a good idea, I think, as another option, but only for certain use cases.

AbysmalGhul

More slots = more discord servers= :'(

Karmen

1 guild slot is enough and should be better for the game than 5...