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New Guild: Which one do you think I should choose?
arena25
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I'm currently torn between 3 names for a guild I plan to make in the future. But of course, I support democracy and the "majority rules" idea, so I want to ask you what you think the guild name should be. Here are the three guild names, and their reason and significance to me:
Guild Name 1: Team Allies
This guild name I pulled from two different sources. The "Allies" part is a nod to my old World of Warcraft arena team called the Allies. The Allies played only 3 games before my mother made me quit the team and World of Warcraft and the team was disbanded (I still hadn't figured out Internet privacy, since I was 5 years old at the time, hence why mother was concerned). The "Team" part of it is a nod to the Twilight series, which has grown massively popular all of a sudden at my high school. So, there is a Team Bella, Team Edwards, and Team Jacob. Assuming this is the final name (depending on poll results), Team Allies will join the fight, with the goal of getting Bella, Jacob, and Edwards to get along.
Guild Name 2: Tornado Lightning
The lightning part pays homage to an incident I had while on the football team.
On a Monday night, the guys were passing around footballs when the so-called "open field" was called off by the coach due to cloud-to-cloud lightning and threatening clouds getting close. However, some of the guys ignored the signs and continued passing the ball around. They did see one cloud-to-ground lightning, but it was so far off that the guys ignored it and continued. I stayed behind, but moved down the hill and off the practice field so that I had a lesser chance of getting struck (because higher ground = higher chance of lightning strike). Well, I happened to turn around and literally 100 meters from where I was a bright flash occurred, followed by a loud BOOM! At that point, the guys were not taking any more chances. They raced off the field. I sprinted immediately for the locker room. After we all got into the locker room, we decided on a hashtag: #DodgingDeath. The tornado part pays homage to the fact I live in Tornado Alley.
Guild Name 3: Lovers of War
This guild name is really an inside joke. Back when I was in elementary school, there was this boy in my class who loves to get into trouble. Well, one time, my class was asked to write a book for a "Young Writers" contest the school was putting on. The boy ended up writing a "Boys vs. Girls" story where boys and girls are on a field which plays host to a never-ending battle where each person tries to make as many people of the opposite sex fall in love with him/her by shooting specially made bullets before he gets hit and falls in love him/herself. He then showed an example where a young boy managed to make 3 separate girls fall in love with him before a girl made him fall in love with her.
Well, every parent and teacher was horrified when they saw the book, but every kid laughed so hard after reading it. Even I laughed. I mean, the sheer creativity shown in the book deserves at least some kudos. And while every kid voted it "Book of the Night", the school revoked the award.
However, when they suspended the kid for 2 days, the very next day only half of the kids showed up to school. On what should've been the boy's second day of suspension, the administration repealed the suspension and gave the award to him. This guild name is paying homage to the boy and his sheer creativity and knack for troublemaking.
So, which one do you think I should choose?
Edited by arena25 on May 31, 2015 12:38AM Guild Name 1: Team Allies
This guild name I pulled from two different sources. The "Allies" part is a nod to my old World of Warcraft arena team called the Allies. The Allies played only 3 games before my mother made me quit the team and World of Warcraft and the team was disbanded (I still hadn't figured out Internet privacy, since I was 5 years old at the time, hence why mother was concerned). The "Team" part of it is a nod to the Twilight series, which has grown massively popular all of a sudden at my high school. So, there is a Team Bella, Team Edwards, and Team Jacob. Assuming this is the final name (depending on poll results), Team Allies will join the fight, with the goal of getting Bella, Jacob, and Edwards to get along.
Guild Name 2: Tornado Lightning
The lightning part pays homage to an incident I had while on the football team.
On a Monday night, the guys were passing around footballs when the so-called "open field" was called off by the coach due to cloud-to-cloud lightning and threatening clouds getting close. However, some of the guys ignored the signs and continued passing the ball around. They did see one cloud-to-ground lightning, but it was so far off that the guys ignored it and continued. I stayed behind, but moved down the hill and off the practice field so that I had a lesser chance of getting struck (because higher ground = higher chance of lightning strike). Well, I happened to turn around and literally 100 meters from where I was a bright flash occurred, followed by a loud BOOM! At that point, the guys were not taking any more chances. They raced off the field. I sprinted immediately for the locker room. After we all got into the locker room, we decided on a hashtag: #DodgingDeath. The tornado part pays homage to the fact I live in Tornado Alley.
Guild Name 3: Lovers of War
This guild name is really an inside joke. Back when I was in elementary school, there was this boy in my class who loves to get into trouble. Well, one time, my class was asked to write a book for a "Young Writers" contest the school was putting on. The boy ended up writing a "Boys vs. Girls" story where boys and girls are on a field which plays host to a never-ending battle where each person tries to make as many people of the opposite sex fall in love with him/her by shooting specially made bullets before he gets hit and falls in love him/herself. He then showed an example where a young boy managed to make 3 separate girls fall in love with him before a girl made him fall in love with her.
Well, every parent and teacher was horrified when they saw the book, but every kid laughed so hard after reading it. Even I laughed. I mean, the sheer creativity shown in the book deserves at least some kudos. And while every kid voted it "Book of the Night", the school revoked the award.
However, when they suspended the kid for 2 days, the very next day only half of the kids showed up to school. On what should've been the boy's second day of suspension, the administration repealed the suspension and gave the award to him. This guild name is paying homage to the boy and his sheer creativity and knack for troublemaking.
So, which one do you think I should choose?
If you can't handle the heat...stay out of the kitchen!
New Guild: Which one do you think I should choose? 25 votes
Team Allies
4%
1 vote
Tornado Lightning
12%
3 votes
Lovers of War
20%
5 votes
I don't have a preference/All Three Equally Good
0%
0 votes
I like two of them (explain below)
0%
0 votes
Do not care/Casual Observer
36%
9 votes
Arena25, are you insane?
28%
7 votes
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arena25✭✭✭✭✭Man, I cannot believe lots of people would not care.Edited by arena25 on May 31, 2015 1:21AMIf you can't handle the heat...stay out of the kitchen!0
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arena25✭✭✭✭✭So, 12 hours in...I'm assuming I screwed up somewhere.If you can't handle the heat...stay out of the kitchen!0
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Vulsahdaal✭✭✭✭✭Even with your explanations, I dont really understand these names..
Why try to make a name from past incidents that had nothing to do with ESO? You may connect to it personally, but for a guild shouldnt it be something all members can connect to?
Maybe something from the lore, or at least something from the time period?
I mean I can understand someone who had a long established with many members guild in a different mmorpg game wanting to keep the same name, to attract the members of that guild over, but in this case it doesnt sound like that applies..
I just think that maybe better names might be something that players recognize, perhaps from a faction, or an area/city in Tamriel..something along these lines..but thats just my opinion on it..
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lsneakl✭✭✭All the names are equally bad, sorry but just honest feedback.
Why?
Well they sound like you just picked random words. I understand you have a backstory but unless you only have real friends in your guild no one will likely care.
Pick something to do with in game. Do you want your guild named after some experience I had when I was younger?0 -
snackrat✭✭✭Those guild names only have meaning to you personally. To everyone else, they look like a randomised captcha. Having a guild name recognisable as a 'brand' is more important than looking at it every now and then and thinking "yeah, that was inspired by a thing I saw that one time".
Overall I think all three are rather lacklustre tbh, but if any would work it would be Lovers of War (especially if the guild is for PvP).
Two other important things, as I have seen guilds fall many times:
[1] The guild needs a purpose. So far all you're making are inside references. What is the guild for? Why should anyone join it? Why should anyone stay? The worst guilds are 'social/levelling' guilds, because PvP, PvE, RP, and trade guilds all allow for levelling and socialisation within them, and are also generally better followers of point 2:
[2] You need to maintain an active presence within the guild. Even if you're not playing, log in every few days (as the least!) to answer mails, maintain the guildbank, check ranks, allow people to ask questions or provide insight. When you can, have enough officers that someone with permissions, or answers to questions, is online most of everyday. Not just any officers, but trusted ones (to be effective they must have knowledge and permissions, which you don't want in the wrong hands.) These officers will come in handy if something happens that makes you unable to log in.
If you don't handle those, your name won't matter. The guild won't be dead, it will be stillborn - it has no reason for people to join (1) and has no reason for people to stay (2). They're obviously not the only components to making a guild great, but they seem to be the biggest parts people overlook.
Honestly I wish that making a guild were made a little more difficult (higher level required, minimum /played, or a gold fee) to reduce the amount of guilds made 'because I can'. If you have a real passion and goal for a guild, its worth jumping through a couple hoops.Edited by snackrat on May 31, 2015 2:43PM0 -
arena25✭✭✭✭✭Alright, less than 36 hours in...I screwed up miserably. Mods, please close this thread, before I shame myself further.If you can't handle the heat...stay out of the kitchen!0
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✭✭✭✭I don't like any of those names, have you considered something that fits in with TES lore?GM - Ghost Sea Trading Co - NA PC
Epona was a Romano-Celtic goddess dating back to around 1800 to 2000 years before computer games were invented.0
