Its your guild. You can do whatever you want.

Personally if one of my guild leaders said pay 1k or your out I would just leave.

You may end up losing a lot of your members.

Seems like a fairly common practice on trade guilds to keep up the traders. I've seen numerous ones that do some kind of weekly required donation into a trader fund.

Yep I would leave. Now if they wanted to do some kind of raffle for 500g a ticket then yeah but you need to be able to trust who is running raffle.

Personally I think ZoS ruined this whole guild thing with the way it is setup. Also the AH system is worse system I ever seen. ZoS made the game look great but failed on 70% on the rest of the game.

We pay 1.5k a week to sell item in are guild if you don't you cant sell.
I not the leader but I like the idea it help out the guild to get the good places so you can sell fast.
They do tons of raffle too.

I was invited to a guild which requested a bank deposit of 500 gold daily. This came after losing a bid to open a store (I think, or trading, can't remember).

I accepted the invite to be polite, but after the player left the screen, I left.

When I hear horror stories of players/owners clearing out bank items and leaving guild members hanging, I'm not all too comfortable depositing any money into a guild.

Now, if I'm given responsibility where I'm more than a gold farmer, I'll gladly contribute part of the 200,000+ gold I have in my personal bank, but I sure won't just give it away on someone's word.

It would be good if the gm could just adjust the house cut. All members could see what it was set at obviously.

Mighty_oakk wrote: »

On ps4 the market is dropping quickly as items become alot less rare.

Same on XBOX. The price of dwemer motifs dropped about 66% across the world over the course of about 10 days, give or take (anecdotally, of course). A vast majority of players got to the point where they could start collecting them, but those people also couldn't actually use them, so they all flooded the market.

I'd rather pay 1,000 gold or whatever a week as an investment than deal with anyone who uses "raffle" because it somehow sounds more justifiable than "lottery."

i appreciate all the insight from you guys ^_^

If you're going to make people force to pay to stay in the guild, lots of people are going to leave.

I love the idea of a raffle, though it'll be difficult to pull off.

Perhaps you could do the prize draw on a livestream?

personally I would not and will never "donate" money to a guild simply so a GM can bid an insane amount for a guild vendor ... its the guild bidding system that is stupidly inflated by stupid GMs overbidding. Serves no purpose other than removing currency from the in-game economy.

Just my overly opinionated opinion.

Of the 4 trading guilds I am in, only one asks for voluntary donations, if it is compulsory I leave as will many others. Two others run very active raffles for a large boost to guild funds in addition to the commissions on guild store sales.

I would leave. My guild does a raffle and makes plenty of money. Membership dues? Not a chance.

The trade guild I'm in, and others that I know of/was in that have prime Guild Traders (Rawl) all charge a weekly fee, or at least a weekly sales minium. It's not unreasonable to go with one or the other. To hire a guild trader costs millions, even hundreds of millions, of gold (in good spots). Which cannot be funded by the GM alone.

If you sell 'x' amount of items that makes the guild 'x' amount of money that week you do not have to pay. If you do not make 'x' amount of money for the guild that week you may pay the weekly fee or risk being kicked. I actually like that rule. It makes it so everyone in the guild is at least semi-active. Which makes for a great Guild Store.

mtwiggz wrote: »

The trade guild I'm in, and others that I know of/was in that have prime Guild Traders (Rawl) all charge a weekly fee, or at least a weekly sales minium.

two totally different things .. I am totally in support of trading guild members having to prove ongoing sales activity to a minimal level