OsManiaC wrote: »

OK HOW I REACH MY GUILDIES? I cannot be online 7/24 everyday. How I can make an event so I prepare a video or screenshot or ANYTHING?

Manually mail everyone. If you are not prepared to use Addons / additional guild management options such as external sites this is the option available to you.

See, this is why Discord is used by so many guilds, and even required by others. As for add-ons; unless you’re on console (my condolences), there’s no reason to not use them. The developers provided the framework, so it is part of the vanilla game.

Danikat wrote: »

How do you normally get your guild members together for an event or activity? Why can't you use the same method here?

100% this.

Do you have a guild with a lot of members that don't participate in anything?
That's not really a guild then. That's just a user list.

Does your MOTD contain useful, up to date info? Or is it always the same old boring message? Because that's often why people don't read them.

Do you not have trusted members (aka officers) that are capable of spreading the word on your behalf? Put them on spreading the word. Being a successful GM isn't a one person show.

Discord is used all over the place. It's extremely portable (works on damn near everything). And allows offline communication. Get on it. Push members to be on it.

Could ESO bring some options into the GM's toolkit? You bet. Lots of room for improvement.
Is it a reason why you can't participate in this event? Absolutely not.

A lot of this comes down to the management style and culture of your guild. One of the guilds I am in uses the MOTD and updates it daily. Every time a new member joins we tell them that is how we share our schedule and how to get involved. We do use discord and Enjin but we spread alot of awareness through creating and understanding of how people can find out what is going on. Another thing you can do is to post announcements in Guild Chat at various points of the day or directly whispering people that are active. I know the later one can be a little nerve-racking for some people but I have had a lot of success with it.

But from my experience when it comes to guild wide communication it starts the moment you recruit a new person. Anybody can fill a rooster, the most challenging aspect of maintaining any guild is retention. It's something you need to do every time you recruit and its something you need to constantly work on. If people aren't invested or don't know the streams of communication, they will get bored and move on.

SgtNuttzmeg wrote: »

A lot of this comes down to the management style and culture of your guild. One of the guilds I am in uses the MOTD and updates it daily. Every time a new member joins we tell them that is how we share our schedule and how to get involved. We do use discord and Enjin but we spread alot of awareness through creating and understanding of how people can find out what is going on. Another thing you can do is to post announcements in Guild Chat at various points of the day or directly whispering people that are active. I know the later one can be a little nerve-racking for some people but I have had a lot of success with it.

But from my experience when it comes to guild wide communication it starts the moment you recruit a new person. Anybody can fill a rooster, the most challenging aspect of maintaining any guild is retention. It's something you need to do every time you recruit and its something you need to constantly work on. If people aren't invested or don't know the streams of communication, they will get bored and move on.

Yup. Being active, keeping active, and communicating with your active members keeps a guid alive. Don't do that, and it gets stale, boring, and people leave.

If your main method of communication is the MOTD, then let your guild know. Especially every new player. By posting it in guild chat when a new person joins, it reinforces the expectation that that's the location for important information.

SammiSakura wrote: »

TBF Os knows about that thread, but I think he is trying to make a point that there are no tools in the Vanilla game to do this stuff. WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO USE DISCORD TO REACH IN GAME GUILD MEMBERS

Agreed. But that's what we have right now.

supersonic_kitten wrote: »

I would like to point you in the direction of this comprehensive thread then - https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/548902/guildmaster-issues-and-the-change-in-the-system-that-socialbans-you-immediately/
Which has been ignored. Like many threads before it.

Yes. That does seem to happen with feedback unfortunately. But if threads like that won't change anything, theads like this won't either.

The other thing to keep in mind is every time a guild updates their MOTD members get a notification. Not every member will check these but a lot do.

My biggest recommendation would be to go to anybody you are friends with in the guild and talk to them. Be super enthusiastic. Tell them you want to do this. Make some reasonable goals about what level of commitment you need from them. If it is just a photo op preplan the venue. Allow them to help decorate it. Get them to give you suggestions. This contest is about representing the atmosphere of your guild. They want to know why your guild is fun. Show them what makes you unique. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to represent you.

Goregrinder wrote: »

supersonic_kitten wrote: »

So many people responding to this thread not even getting the point of the OP. Without Discord (that shouldn't even be part of the equation since it's a third party program) and the use of addons (which lately have been doing a great job of getting GMs socialbanned) a GM in ESO is pretty much left with guild chat where messages come and go and a measly MOTD box. The event thing just highlights how much of a cruel joke the GM kit is. And still the subject gets completely ignored by ZOS.

Sure, we can debate on if ESO should have better tools to manage guilds. Sure. But that doesn't solve OP's issue today. His issue is how can he contact his guildies? Many people have already laid out all of the options available to everyone who plays on PC. Whether or not he chooses to utilize any of said options is entirely up to him.

Whether third party addons should be an option is an entirely different debate. He has access to Discord and addons, they are all free to download and install. If he is against Discord and addons because of personal pride, then that is him restricting his own options on purpose, which is not anyone else's problem.

You know it's probably sarcasm right?

supersonic_kitten wrote: »

So many people responding to this thread not even getting the point of the OP. Without Discord (that shouldn't even be part of the equation since it's a third party program) and the use of addons (which lately have been doing a great job of getting GMs socialbanned) a GM in ESO is pretty much left with guild chat where messages come and go and a measly MOTD box. The event thing just highlights how much of a cruel joke the GM kit is. And still the subject gets completely ignored by ZOS.

That the case in any game I've played.
Before discord we used guild forum and Teamspeak.
Then mumble and forum.
Then Raid some with the base of discord.
Then, finally, discord was release and made the life of every guild easier.

I really don't see how game can release something like this with how much they have to do already with the short deadline they got. 100% it will be buggy and we'll still use discord and such.