For over 6 months now our community guild has had a queue of between 15-30 players waiting to join the guild at any given time, and that's with a 30 day offline policy which I think is quite reasonable in a social guild. 97.6% of the guild were online in the last 30days, 93.6% in the last 2 weeks, 89.6% in the last week, 81% were online in the last 24 hours. This is before the purge for the week which would remove 3 people.

I've been using 50 slots in my friends list to keep track of the users who have signed up for the guild on our website but apart from making another guild would an increase to the limit help to progress our guild further; I think it might definitely. Just wondering what the downsides would be for others and what their opinion on it is; or even if it is possible.

I'm just not sure what else apart from an increase to the limit could help with the growth once a community reaches a certain point they're going to need more space however well you micro-manage the existing space.

They are either actively taking part in the signup events on the website, joining for pledges/dungeons/farming/impromptu raids on different days depending on when their raiding/pvp guilds are organizing their own events. Depending on the night between 12-25 will signup for an event out of the 120-200 online so around 10%. We're a social community though with no requirements to join, only rule is the 30 day offline limit.

At the moment if we have 10 members who are over the 30 day social guild offline limi, 4 of them will be purged, 4 of them have notes explaining a long afk, and 2 of them are so old school you dont really want to kick them but will eventually. Then there are the 20-50 members between the 24hours-29days offline period. Also add the Guildmaster and 4-8 leaders. Now it's only 430 spaces. At peak times you can expect between 120-200 of these members online at any given point depending. But they're all in 5 Guilds so they Raid/PvP/Friend Groups on different days so getting enough of them to your social guilds raids still requires at least this amount depending on the day.

Raising the limit would allow community guilds to run larger events, multiple full raid groups for PvP or 2-3 Raid groups for PvE. It might even allow the kind of activity needed for 24-player or 32-player PvE content to be viable with community runs *nudge*. I'm sure some very active Guilds are already doing this however the limit raise might make this occur more often.

For players it's access to a wider playerbase for to be able to do more content that they might not have found a group, advice or support for otherwise. Perhaps more people would join Guilds in general if it were easier to get in, I'm sure the leaders are well versed at recruiting by now, which might help grow the wider community.

For Guildmasters, I think the type of people who run the larger guilds are usually pretty good at micro managing community rosters already to be able to handle (or delegate) the extra admin that would come with the increase to the member limit. It might even create less admin for some GMs who are struggling with the limit at the moment. Having the space to continue your community even further.

For ZOS, surely the more chance people are socializing, getting to know each other, making their own guilds, being able to better find groups & items and enjoying the game is better for them from a monetary perspective.

1.While it could flip which are the stronger guilds, the top trading guild will still have many of the same accounts. Top guilds want tap sales people.
2. Good social guilds do not need 500 to begin with. 500 active players in one guild will not know each other.
3. A good raiding guild can run multiple teams with a mere 200 members. A good raiding guild would not have 500 member to begin with as it becomes to much to manage. Quality over quantity.

The comments below that OP attributes to being benefits of raiding the guild membership cap occur very well with the 500 cap., If these are not happening in your current PvX guild there is something wrong with the guild and how it is managed..

All Guilds/Communities reaching their current limit could grow further.
LFG/LFM/WTB/WTS/WTT chat would increase.
More people getting into Group content is better for ZOS accounting department.

Of course, as it is now, many guilds are at or near the 500 cap. However, outside of actively managed trading guilds, much of those 500 members are not actually active and many more are not truly active with that guild.

So, no reason to raise the cap. At least none provided in this thread.