MMO Guilds

1. Purpose of Guilds
2. Guild Types
3. How To Join An Existing Guild
4. How To Leave Current Guild
5. How To Create a New Guild
6. Inviting Players To Your Guild
7. Kicking Players From Guild
8. Building Guild Monument
9. Sacrifices
10. Upgrading The Monument
11. Heraldry
12. Claims/Lands
13. Roles And Rules In The Guild
14. Standings/Diplomacy

PURPOSE OF GUILDS

GUILD TYPES

• It is solely a guild leader’s prerogative to initiate and complete Guild monument construction. Same with an upgrade process.
• One guild leader(guild)  can have only one guild monument
• Country to Order transformation caused by monument destruction will wipe all standing and claim rules configured earlier. Same rule applies to Country to Band degrade (less than 10 players left in a guild)
• Vassal guild type loses its ability to manage standings with other guild and inherits standing from its overlord guild

HOW TO JOIN AN EXISTING GUILD

• Yes - Accept invitation
• No - Decline
• Ignore - Decline and update game settings with 'Ignore guild invitations' flag

• Close window = No

 

HOW TO LEAVE CURRENT GUILD

 

 

HOW TO CREATE A NEW GUILD

 

INVITING PLAYERS TO YOUR GUILD

INVITING DIRECTLY INSIDE GAME CLIENT

 

KICKING PLAYERS FROM GUILD

BUILDING GUILD MONUMENT

• Be a leader
• 10+ guild members
• Start construction on any tiles except ones below
• Metal Ore
• Snow
• Swamp
• Crops
• 124 tiles away from other monuments. Level 1 monument minimal radius + Level 4 monument maximum radius which is 100 tiles + 2 tiles buffer zone. [to delete?] Dup article
• Error message: "God does not allow you to claim these lands!"
• 102 tiles away from server border
• Error message: "God does not allow you to claim these lands!"
• Guild monument can be built in a personal claim area only if you have permission "Can build" and do not violate rules above

 

SACRIFICES

UPGRADING THE MONUMENT

 

Take a note that materials requirements and their rarity will be increased with a monument level
Here is a summary table with benefits per monument level. Values in the table below are provided in 'tiles' which a default squares in LiF

Monument level	Minimum radius	Maxiumum radius	Influence radius*	Maximum support points stock
1	20	35	35	100 000
2	35	60	60	300 000
3	60	85	150	700 000
4	85	100	250	1 000 000

* Not yet implemented

Guild monument level two and higher will be displayed on a global map visible to all other players.

HERALDRY

Heraldry becomes available to a guild with a monument level 2 or higher. Only Guild Leader can apply or change heraldry. You own unique heraldry will make it very easy to identify your allies from a long distance, but be prepared that your foes will also see you from a distance
Heraldry creation or changу process are both initiated from a Guild management window opened by Guild claim

Click on a Heraldry button and new window will open for you. 3 layers available for you and they are applied from a bottom to top: Fill type, Symbol #1, Symbol #2. Symbols are optional elements. Here is an example describing layers.

You can play with symbols, their color or size and layout or simply click on a Random button. A generator will only use background and Symbol #1 slots. Couple more options are available on cog button.

Either you create your heraldry manually or with a random generator, it has to be unique server-wide. Heraldry applies on almost all shield in the game and on a special item - Tabard which occupies it's own slot on your character equipment screen.

It's worth to mention that if you kill your someone with a tabard on it, loot his corpse and reuse its tabard - Your guild heraldry will be applied. No spy games here :)
Features which are currently in development

• The cooldown on a heraldry change. We are planning to set timer for 2 days, but this is still a subject of discussion
• Heraldry functionality available via web, from guild management page
• More in-game objects with heraldry on it. We are looking forward to implementing walls, flags and other construction which will inherit your guild heraldry
• Option to turn on or off heraldry visualization
• Preview option to check how new heraldry will look like on a character without triggering change cooldown

CLAIMS/LANDS

Claims are radial areas around you monument providing protection from a midnight decay and offering additional options for guild management to configure permissions. There are two types of a guild claim areas with a separate set of rules and permissions

 

• Town claim. A permanent radius of 20 tiles
• City claim. Zero value radius for a fresh new monument and grows together with upgrade progress bar and monument level.

Depending on a diplomacy state you will see other players' claims in a different color. Neutral lands for example

• War - Red
• Neutral - Yellow
• Ally - Blue
• Own lands - Green

Pay attention to these colors as if you cross Neutral lands border, Claim owners will be able to use "Trespassers!" ability, mark you as a criminal for a short time and kill without Karma loss. An additional message about border crossing will appear in a system chat informing you of potential danger. While you are located on an enemy (Red) claim you can be killed without any consequences to karma even without using "Trespassers!" ability.

ROLES AND RULES IN THE GUILD

Roles and rules management is available from a web and from an internal browser (Guild option in the main menu). Rules are configured separately for Town and Realm claims. You can't copy rule sets from a Town claim to a Realm and vice versa, only manual management.

 

Town claim will be used in this article to show available options, but Realm can be configured in an absolutely same way. No different or additional restrictions here.
The basic entity you will see at a Claim access rights management page is Guild role. There are 7 default roles available

• Count / Countess aka Guild Leader
• Viscount / Viscountess
• Baron / Baroness
• Knight / Dame
• Reeve
• Peasant
• Recruit

In addition to guild roles, you can configure access right for these entities

• Character. For example, you would like to show you perfect castle to a candidate for your guild membership without risk to him
• At the moment we have a temporary function to revoke permissions provided to character:
• Press “Red cross” symbol
• Note that dotted selection appears
• Press Apply

• Guild
• Standing type

Do not forget to "Apply" changes made in permission table as there is no indication for pending ones

Here is the table with available permission levels

Icon	Name	Description
	Can Enter	Safe passage to a claim. You won't be able to use "Trespassers!" ability There is one important exception here - Players with this permission will be able to use Trading posts. No need to assign them "Can use" permissions
	Can build and terraform	Can construct unmovable and movable objects "Artisan" and "Dig" abilities can be used. They are both under terraform set
	Can make personal claim*	Allow players to claim personal lands inside guild ones
	Can use objects	Permission to operate any objects inside claim area. Starting from Open/Close doors and ending with monument management or sacrificial windows (depending on role in guild)
	Can destroy objects	Movable objects can be destroyed by damaging them without this permission e.g. no need to grant it in order to allow skill leveling on a training dummy. This is about Authority → Destroy ability

*We have 3 different permission sets which can overlaps. They a configured from more strong to weak. This means that if an object is located on a tile with all 3 active permissions, the strongest one will be applied.
 

STANDINGS/DIPLOMACY

 

• War - Red
• Neutral - Yellow
• Neutral and 'Can use' permission - Blue
• Ally - Blue
• Own lands - Green