Good News - Bad News - Depending on your views

[DM_Kim]

Bad News (Depending on your Views):

I have been honored with the Task of being NS4's offical DM Guild Mistress. You now have 1 DM you can turn to to have all your Guild questioned answered, problems fixed, etc.. Should I not be able to answer or fix your problem, I will research and find out where to get that information, or fix then get back to you.

Good News:
It has been discussed/suggested by both staff and some guild members that to enhance Guild Game play/membership that we will offer with the release of 1.69 a new service to Guilds. Your suggestions on this are also invited as we prepare top 1.69.

The idea offered is, Standard Guild Uniforms, unique to each guild in appearance. Guild colors will remain the same unless special requests are submitted to change it with 1.69, the current Guild Uniform Color NPC are very much in play.
Here's how the uniform will work. Once 1.69 is released I will meet with Guilds over time an with your help, design a standard Uniform. 1 Robe for Dexers, 1 Robe for Casters, 1 set each for Light - Medium and Heavy Armor, Helmet, Cloak, Shield. We're hoping that 1.69 will provide enough of a variety to do this.
All custom Guild Gear will be set so it can not be traded, dropped or sold. That DM Interaction will be needed to change or remove it. Once a Guild Member reaches level 40 and has all the Gear they need for that character. As a reward, a Guild meeting will be held with a small ceremony (or not, will be up to you guys) held where their current gear will be swapped out for the "Guild Uniform".
The process works fully like this, using fighters as an example:
Most fighters carry 3 types of armor and shields on them. I will inspect their gear and then go make the Guild Uniform that will have exactly the same stats as their current gear. After which the meeting and swap out. So when your ready You best make sure that you have exactly what you plan on using. You will need Helm, Cloak, Armor and shield if you use one for the swap. This swap will only happen once per player, only when they reach level 40.

This is our way as Staff to say thank you for enhancing the server with your game play. I also invite your questions, comments etc.. to this thread so this can be made better if you all choose to have this done.

[cRaZy8or5e]

Sounds kind of neat, but being a former military person who hates, HATES uniformity I'm totally against it. Is there something in 1.69 that allows for shields to be colored? Then you could maybe have a standard shield insignia or coloring or pattern. However, personally I like it that we can do our own color combos, and wear gear that is uniform in color but not in style.

Besides it sounds like a lot of work too.

And its decidedly very, very, very bad that you are the guild mistress since you're obviously biased towards short stumpy sentients. I won't call them people

Who are the rest of us "normal" people going to go crying to when you're mean to our guildies!!!!

[Bargeld]

Nifty concept overall, can't wait to see it play out.

One thought I had while reading the uniform description... if the uniform is not droppable etc, then what happens during raid time when a toon has no gold and is killed. Normally the killer would receive one of the victim's items. This has only happened to me once, and I got my item back, so I know it isn't common. Just a thought

[Nyeleni]

Well you don't have to swap, you still can wear your old stuff. Besides the choices at the moment arent that huge. We look uniformly anyways. I'm all for it .

As for ideas I will think about it. But a neat guild flag would be nice. Although I don't know if we will get them in 1.69. CEP has them...

[DM_Kim]

1.69 is very similar to CEP so far and the extended tile set that Bioware has. Now to mention a mess of bug fixes and gives devs much more power a mess of stuff they couldn't get at before because of the game engine.

As far as losing a piece of "Guild" gear to pvp, the finder would have to contact a DM to have it returned to the proper owner as they would not be allowed to wear it. This aspect will be brought up later on. As the concept take more shape and Guilds are consulted.

My duties with the Guild will extend to assisting any Guild or Guilds that wish to hold events or RP out a story of their own making. Assisting, if requested, in settling disputes. DM's will always be at arms length and won't interfere, unless core rules are broken and fall within our mandate to act.

This uniform idea is a means of both reward of achievement and to simulate membership. Still you Guild's call to have them or not.

[Blystos Re]

We'll discuss at our next guild meeting; we should have plenty of time to decide whether we want this option or not as it wouldn't be put in until 1.69 is released.

Thanks for the update Kim...my sincerest condolences.

[Amoenotep]

if something is flagged no drop it can't be removed from your inventory unless by a dm...and even then it gets tricky. so there would be no chance of losing it in any battle. unless something funny happens.


also keep in mind that something like this could be a sort of "reward" within your guild also and no be a necessity to be in the guild.

[mgrjebbo]

Non-Disarmable weapon?

[Valhor]

Non-Disarmable weapon?

narf.

[Amoenotep]

you could be disarmed..but it would never leave your inventory.....and weapons weren't on the list

[mgrjebbo]

You noticed that did you....darn

[Trogdorbob]

AAAAAh crap... DCN is down and not a guild anymore. What am I todo now when I get back on for the occasional playing?

[Amoenotep]

alot of the former dcn are now DD.....lol

[Alkapwn]

Really!!!?!?!
lol

BTW: Is the good news of this thread still going to be implemented?
If so I'll get right to work on the Uniforms. It may be alot of work for Kim. We have plenty of 40's now in DD.
Do i get to customize them totally? including colors,helm style,shield style,Weapon effect,armor pieces ,cloak style, etc..?

[DM_Kim]

Thanks for the reminder. I would be more than happy to begin the "Guild Uniform" program for all guilds. I'll meet with each guild to see how formal they would like to do things, uniform appearance and to explain further.

Fire me a PM when your ready to arrange a meeting.