LOM s future

[Kodoss]

Greetings fellow officers,

i write this, to discuss with you, where our guild wants to go in the future.
As originally planned, everyone in the guild made their first steps in game and i think all of us achieved Novice status or close to it in one of their chosen profession.

Most of us did earn enough faction points to join the Empire and has some dead Rebels on their Kill list.

We should now think about where to go from here.
Recruiting people into the guild is harder than i thought.
If you are not recruiting for one of the bigger guilds (TIO,SG, OSF etc), it is hard to get people join you.
It is unlikely harder for small guilds to play their role in the conflict.
There is nothing in the game mechanics like subguilding to another guild like it was in SB.

If we want to have an Impact in the GCW, we have to do something that people lead to us.
I am not sure how to accomplish it, i thought about something similar like "subbing" to a bigger guild, but still holding our individuality.
This way we can play a more active role in the GCW,
participate in the monthly stories, go on big raids and get other guilds and people in general to know us.
Once we have spread our name, it will be much easier to lead interested individuals to our guild.

I just want to know if you all like the idea or what we could do, to be more involved .
At the moment , i feel a bit like "not moving".


/Salute


Lt. Col. Kodoss

[Max Liao (Callandryn)]

This is the THIRD %^%$# time tha I am making this post. Hopefully my internet doesn't crap out on me again ...

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You are correct, we aren't moving ...

I for one am all about being in the story of the game. In fact, that should be our FIRST priority over such things as 'leveling' and making money.

I don't like the idea of subbing only because most folks don't join the sub-guild, they join the main guild. I think we can do this while keeping our autonomy. BUt it will take a team effort.

We ALL ... that's every last one of us ... need to recruit. This means grouping with people we don't know and hanging out with them. I think for a temporary basis, it should be incumbent upon us to make more of an effort to group with others than with ourselves ... only temporarily. Better yet ... group with others AND ourselves.

This also means that we need to TALK to other people. SWG has a wonderful communications system via the in-game e-mail. Let's make use of it.

So, when you logon make an effort to meet someone new. Judge them and if you think they could be LoM material, then invite them to visit our webpage and message board. We can always weed them out through the recruitment process.

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Qualitynet said they are going to be coming over to my place sometime this week to check the lines. They say there shouldn't be any problems, but in the last week the longest I have been able to stay connected while at home has been a hour ... and it's usually much shorter.

[Azurewyrm66 (Allandhra)]

If we want to have an Impact in the GCW, we have to do something that leads people to us.

I have to agree with this statement; we have to do something that makes our presence known. Yesterday, after returning to Naboo and wandering the outskirts of Keren in search of a new wardrobe I came across two player controlled areas, one of which was quite substantial, with player housing, guild headquarters, resource extractors, energy collectors, factories, and vendors. Also, while in Theed there was an individual, acting as a town crier, announcing what was in essence a "military" parade by Sturmgrenadier. We need to do something similar. Perhaps, instead of "subbing" ourselves maybe what we could do is market ourselves as providing a service, ie mercenary company, or since there are so many of us scout types as a surveying/exploration company. But I think a first step, besides recruitment, is to create for ourselves a physical presence in the game world, and then to decide what we want to do as a guild.