Hello, Trevenni here!  While I'm not part of the seed crew, I have been doing my bit with interacting with you and others around, and I therefore have a few things I'll put out there for you - take or leave as you like.

- firstly, there is a guild which exists like the one you're planning, and you've already had a lot of interaction with them.  Order of the Dragonblades is a neutral, all-race guild which is fighting kitin, goo, and occasionally does other things.  They're all IC quite often if not all the time.  I have pointed the Dragonblades people toward you and yours for rp interactivity, and a few of them did express to me they didn't quite comprehend why you all wished to start a guild which sounds almost exactly like their own when joining their already established guild may serve the same purpose.  I didn't honestly have an answer for them so maybe you could clarify; why start a brand new guild when there's an established guild which is doing everything you all wish to do?   It isn't a criticism, just a thought.  For my part, my character is not neutral - though she does follow Ma-Duk and his belief systems and shall hold that loyalty, she's not a fanatic and isn't going to go out on holy crusades - hence I didn't join the Dragonblades from the outset, and if the guild is neutral to the point of dismissive of either Karavan or Kami, I doubt my character will join, or she may be part of a different faction - however as most may have noticed by now, being in a guild or not being in one isn't an issue, as most players will drop everything they're doing and come running to help someone in need.

- second bit; if you do start a guild, depending on which loyalties you want to swing toward (Kami, Karavan, neutral) the guild leader must have appropriate "fame" points before forming up; it seems guild fame is based off the founder's own fame.  So, if you want to go Karavan-cult, the guild leader should have the required 50+ points before ever starting the guild, otherwise the guild itself will have to grind long and hard to get the requisite points.

There are some things I'd like to rp out as far as the guild aspect goes for my own part, so I'll leave these tidbits here for people to ponder, and hopefully I'll have a moment or three to breathe and see everyone ingame.

Last edited by Trevenni (2006-10-15 13:34:10)

Well, as I understood it, the Order of the Dragonblades, which indeed does excellent RP is about helping other homins, and about individuals doing their thing. We would be about fighting the goo and the Kitin. While we are very much alike, I think there will be some differences that will emerge in the RP'ing. I also think we will lean more towards the Kami at length, neutral or not. But that is for us to RP of course.

The real reason to make our own guild, OOC-wise though, are several. First off, the Dragonblades are the only guild I've met that does RP on a whole. THere are a few others I hear, but I believe overall gameplay would be heightened, if we had several bigger RP guilds interacting with each other. If all join the same guild, there are some aspects of gameplay that gets diminished. Alliances, disagreements, cooperation between guilds, different agendas, RP tensions and affections between members of the two guilds, all of this. One more RP guild would liven things up.

Secondly, as Oluf says, originally we were a unit, coming from the game Seed. We picked up a fair few other great RP'ers of course, and sooner or later we will be at such a size that the original Seed players are in the minority. That's fine, but I think there is a general consensus to have the freedom to do our own thing, and to be a distinct unit.

Thirdly, making your own guild with the people you've come to know at the camp, IC makes sense. A new beginning, new, inexperienced homins trying to make their mark in the world. It's mostly more fun to create your own than join something existing, especially if you are a big group who wants to cooperate. There are many challenges in this, also RP-wise, and it would be completely our own to form and grow. We will RP the rules, the policies, everything ourselves, and we will feel a greater atttraction to the members we have, as all started out the same place IC.

Those are the reasons I personally see for not joining another guild. If I came into the game alone, I would without a doubt have joined the dragonblades, impressed by their level of RP.

Last edited by Darkhawk (2006-10-15 14:52:45)

I'd just like to quickly point out that Darkhawk's humorous comments about the Matis guild are entirely inaccurate and we'll be making our own introductory thread in due time.

Hehe yes, and that's part of the interesting RP we can have while forming 'our guild. Personally I think that if we start our own, we can watch this grow and RP it, which presents another dimension you do not get by joining something existing. We can also hopefully spice of the RP experience of the existing RP guilds. Well, that would be my own major reason I believe for being a part of creating a new guild. To build up something and RP doing so, while we interact with the other guilds.

It's not as such about having the Seed players be together ingame, because we are together here and we are RP'ing no matter what. I expect we could have many guilds, and we could have 'members' in many existing guilds too, if they wanted. What is important in that regard, is our desire to have ourselves transform into a gathering of RP'ers who stick together while exploring different games. That is a worthy goal, bringing together RP'ers from all kinds of games, bound by this website/forum and their desire to RP with others. It's my hope this will happen as we attract RP'ers to us. This is not to be a closed community for ex. Seed players and then 'the others'. But, I digress.

Seems we have different reasons for wanting to create our own guild, but we're united in creating it

Last edited by Darkhawk (2006-10-15 17:29:05)